Condensed Matter Seminar: Light-induced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Chemo-responsive Gels
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
A remarkable feature of certain biological organisms is their ability to alter their shape and functionality in response to environmental cues. Polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are…
Astronomy Seminar: TBD
Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State)
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Ferromagnetism, Tactoids, and Smectic Correlations in Colloidal Liquid Crystal Suspensions of Inorganic Nanosheets”
Noel Clark (University of Colorado Boulder)
Condensed Matter Seminar: Frustrated Filaments and Crystalline Caps: Defect Patterns in Flexible Assemblies
Professor Greg Grason, UMass Amherst
In this talk I will discuss recent theoretical results on the optimal structure of two related, geometrically frustrated systems of soft matter: 1) condensed and twisted bundles of chiral filaments; and 2)…
Astronomy Seminar: "The Complex Interplay between Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution from z~0-6"
Desika Narayanan (Haverford)
Building a comprehensive picture for the evolution of galaxies from early times through present epoch requires understanding a huge dynamic range of physical processes. With observations ranging from detections of…
Academic Career Conference Non-faculty Careers in Higher Education for PhDs Event
Melanie Adley, Ph.D. - Associate Director, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania
Ian Petrie, Ph.D. - Senior Associate…
Department Colloquium: New Paradigm for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Pavel Fileviez Perez, Max Planck Institute
Topology Workshop: Identifying Order in Complex Systems
1:30 - 2:30p Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania, Network Topology and Strategic
3:00 - 4:00p Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Leiden, Topological Mechanical Metamaterials
4:30 - 5:30p Shmuel…
Teaching Careers in Independent Schools Penn Event
Dana Okeson Weeks, Head of School, Germantown Friends (Villanova MA in Philosophy) · Donna S.