Math-Bio seminar: "Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe"
Iain Mathieson (Harvard University)
The arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago necessitated adaptation to new environments, pathogens, diets, and social organizations. While indirect evidence of adaptation can be detected in patterns of…
High Energy Theory Seminar: "Matter Transitions and Heterotic/F-theory duality"
Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech)
We explore a novel type of transition in certain 6D and 4D Heterotic/F-theory dual pairs, in which the matter content of the theory changes while the gauge group and other parts of the spectrum remain invariant. Such…
Dissertation Defense: "Searching for Dark Matter with Single Phase Liquid Argon"
Thomas Caldwell (UPenn)
Women in Physics Public Lecture Pt. 2: "Discovery and Diversity on the Frontier of Physics: My Fifty Year Journey in Carbon Science"
Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)
Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at MIT, will give the inaugural public lecture of our Women in Physics group. A leader in promoting women in science as well…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Physical Aspects of Spindle Assembly"
Dan Needleman (Harvard)
The spindle is a complex assembly of microtubules, motors, and other associated proteins, which segregates chromosomes during cell division. In metaphase, the spindle exists in a steady-state with a constant flux of…
Astro Seminar: "Constraining Gravity through CMB Lensing and Galaxy Velocities"
Anthony Pullen (Carnegie Mellon)
We discuss recent work exploring the use of CMB lensing to probe E_G, the ratio between curvature and velocity perturbations. This quantity is distinct for various gravity models, breaking the degeneracy in current…
Women in Physics Public Lecture Pt.1: "Science, Scholarship and Snacks"
Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)
Join the Nano/Bio Interface Center for an afternoon of talks highlighting recent and ongoing nano-scale research presented by:
Math-Bio seminar: "Learning how antibodies are drafted and revised"
Erick Matsen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Antibodies must recognize a great diversity of antigens to protect us from infectious disease. The binding properties of antibodies are determined by the sequences of their corresponding B cell receptors (BCRs).…
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Topological semimetals and chiral transport in inversion asymmetric systems"
Shuichi Murakami, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
The Z2 topological insulators (TIs) are topological phases under time-reversal symmetry. In 2007, we theoretically proposed a universal phase diagram describing a phase transition between 3D…
Special Seminar: "Illuminating biology a the nanoscale with single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy"
Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University and 2015 Recipient of the NBIC Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology
Reception to follow.