Mathematical Biology seminar: "Localized Patterns in Bulk-Membrane Coupled Models "
Daniel Gomez (University of British Columbia)
Turing instabilities in reaction diffusion systems describe potential mechanisms for pattern formation in qualitative models of microbiological processes. A recent direction of research has been to…
Mathematical Biology seminar: "PDE Models of Multilevel Selection: The Evolution of Cooperation and the Shadow of Individual Selection"
Daniel Cooney (Princeton University)
Here we consider a game theoretic model of multilevel selection in which individuals compete based on their payoff and groups also compete based on the average payoff of group members. Our focus is on the…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene at charge neutrality: interactions and disorder"
Alex Thomson (California Institute of Technology)
Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the ‘magic angle’ 1.1º generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample…
Mathematical Biology seminar: "Analysis of Moving Interfaces in Incompressible Flows"
Eduardo Garcia-Juarez (University of Pennsylvania)
Interfaces that evolve with a fluid flow abound in nature and engineering. They are subject to intense research in many different fields, from meteorology to medical sciences or the…
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Exploring beyond the Standard Model with Lattice QCD"
Amy Nicholson (University of North Carolina)
While the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been enormously successful in describing the world around us, there still remain many important and unanswered questions requiring…
Mathematical Biology seminar: "Communicating by touch"
HyunJoong Kim (University of Utah)
During development, cells figure out their location and fate through morphogen concentration gradients. The most commonly accepted mechanism for morphogen gradient formation is diffusion from a local source combined…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Fractons: From Theory to Realizations
Michael Pretko (University of Colorado)
Fractons are an exotic type of quasiparticle which have emerged as a new frontier for condensed matter physics, with potential applications to quantum information storage. The defining feature of these particles is…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Symmetry indicators for topological materials"
Adrian Po (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Topological materials are characterized by robust physical signatures, like anomalous surface states, that are derived from the topological distinction between their ground states and those of their…
Astronomy seminar: "Merging Supermassive Black Hole Binaries"
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries are inevitably produced during galaxy formation, but observational evidence for them remains elusive. I will discuss the coupled dynamics of a SMBH binary…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "Deep Learning, Quantum Information, and the LHC as a Gluon Factory"
Ben Nachman (LBNL)
Jets produced from high-energy quarks and gluons are ubiquitous at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These objects can be used to study emergent quantum properties of the strong force as well as search for new…