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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 "…
High Energy seminar: New Standard Model constructions and insights into mirror symmetry from resolution-independent structure in Calabi-Yau fourfolds
Wati Taylor (MIT)
Recent work with Jefferson and Turner suggests that the intersection form on the "vertical" part of middle cohomology of a singular elliptic Calabi-Yau fourfold is independent of resolution. …