Astronomy Seminar: " Cosmic Rays, Solar Forcing and 20th Century Climate Change"
Nir J. Shaviv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and IAS Princeton)
Physics Club Seminar
Phil Nelson, Biophysics
Dissertation Defense: "The Optical Properties of Spiky Gold Nanoshells"
Simon Hastings, UPenn
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Shaping Colloidal Assembly"
Professor Greg van Anders, University of Michigan
Advances in synthesis techniques have produced colloids and nanoparticles in a diverse array of shapes that can be assembled into bulk structures. That bulk structure is strongly affected by particle shape in idealized…
Department Colloquium: Exploring the Dawn of the First Galaxies with PAPER and HERA
James Aguirre, UPenn
Between the surface of last scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and and the first detected galaxies at around 500 million years later lies a vast swath of unexplored history. We know that the…
Dissertation Defense for Zhengqing (John) Qi
"Correlating Atomic Structure and Transport in Single-Nanometer Scale Graphene Devices"
EFRIFEST: Workshop on Foldable, Buildable, & Responsive Materials from the Micro scale to the Building scale
In-Suk Choi (KIST), Maria-Paz Gutierrez (UC Berkeley), George Hart, Eleni Katifori, Dan Luo (Cornell), Spencer Magleby (BYU), Paul McEuen (Cornell), Jenny Sabin (Cornell), Skylar Tibbits (MIT), Shu Yang (UPenn)
We are pleased to open registration for our Workshop on Foldable, Buildable, & Responsive Materials from the micro scale to the building scale to take place at the University of…