Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Development of high precision 4D-trackers for future experiments
Artur Apresyan (FNAL)
I will present recent progress towards the development of 4D-trackers with high granularity in position in time. As future colliders move to higher energy collisions, with increased particle occupancy, the need…
Penn Science Café: There is No One Way To Teach Math
Penn Science Café
Robin Penmantle (Speaker) & Bill Ashmanskas (Moderator)
Get ready for a lively, interactive Science Café with Penn math professor Robin Pemantle and Penn physics senior lecturer Bill Ashmanskas, both members of Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation’…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Gravitational waves with astrometry in the Gaia era
Deyan Mihaylov (Case Western Reserve University)
Gravitational waves have a periodic effect on the apparent positions of stars on the sky. This effect can be quantified and ultra-precise astrometric measurements (like the ones from Gaia)…
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Quantum Control of Quantum Materials
Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)
Coherently engineering quantum states with light is a key frontier in the control of quantum materials. Over the last two decades, ultrafast lasers have revealed a variety of emergent topological, magnetic, and…
Colloquium: Discoveries with the JWST, and what comes next
John C. Mather (NASA) Physics Nobel 2006
The JWST, with its 6.5 m hexagonal mirror and its 4 infrared instruments, has yielded remarkable surprises. The first galaxies are brighter and hotter than expected, and they aren’t round, but are elongated…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Comments on the density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology
Finn Larsen (UMichigan)
I discuss work in progress on obtaining a reasonable density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology. I will do so by comparing aspects of the Hilbert space of closed universes in JT gravity…
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Far-from-Equilibrium Statistical Physics: Information and Response in Living Matter
Zhiyue Lu (UNC)
Statistical mechanics, first developed for equilibrium systems, stands as one of physics' greatest triumphs. Living systems, however, operate far from equilibrium, processing information and…
CANCELLED: Astrophysics Seminar: FRB science results from CHIME
Kendrick Smith (Perimeter)
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered, poorly understood class of transient event, and understanding their origin has become a central problem in astrophysics. I will present FRB science results…