HET Seminar: "Effective Geometry, Complexity, and Universality"
Adam Brown (Stanford)
This talk will be based on arXiv:2111.12700 and arXiv:2112.0572.
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Phase Separation Inside Cells "
Ned Wingreen (Princeton University)
Biologists have recently come to appreciate that eukaryotic cells are home to a multiplicity of non-membrane bound compartments, many of which form and dissolve as needed for the cell to function.…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Explore topological physics and optical computing in synthetic dimensions"
Shanhui Fan (Stanford University)
The physics of a photonic structure is commonly described in terms of its apparent geometric dimensionality. On the other hand, with the concept of synthetic dimension, it is in…
Astronomy Seminar: "21-cm Cosmology at a Crossroads"
Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv/IAS)
Radio waves from high redshift are expected to show a rich signal due to the 21-cm line of intergalactic hydrogen. After years of theoretical…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Mechano-chemical models of active migration and organoid morphogenesis"
Edouard Hannezo (IST Austria)
There is increasing evidence that both mechanical and biochemical signals play important roles in morphogenesis and collective cell migration. The development of complex organisms, in particular, has been…
Astronomy Seminar: Simulating Early Structure and Galaxy Formation - The THESAN Project
Mark Vogelsberger (MIT)
Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have evolved significantly over the last decade. In my talk I will describe recent efforts to model the …
Primakoff Lecture: "The Entropy of Hawking Radiation"
Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study)
Black holes are interesting spacetime configurations predicted by general relativity. When quantum mechanics is taken into account, black holes are found to emit thermal radiation, called "Hawking…