Astro Seminar: "The Unique Links Between Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Transiting Hot Jupiters"

Thomas Beatty (Penn State)

There are currently twelve known transiting brown dwarfs, nine of which orbit single main-sequence stars. These systems give us one of the only ways in which we may directly measure the masses and radii brown dwarfs…

Why Light Matters

From smart lighting, mobile connectivity and underwater communications, to aviation, defense and security, the countless applications of light have revolutionized society.

Explore some of the newest ways in…

Math-Bio Seminar: "Estimating the unseen variants in human populations provides a roadmap for precision medicine"

James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT

What can we learn from 60,000 genome sequences? I will describe how we are leveraging the largest collection of human exomes to model the landscape of harmful genetic variations in healthy individuals. I will also…

High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Cliff Burgess (McMaster)

ABO Seminars: "TBA"

Regine Choe (University of Rochester)

Condensed Matter Seminar: "Clogging and anti-clogging in biological networks"

Marcus Roper (UCLA)

Clogging, or congestion, is usually assumed to be the enemy of efficient transport, and a lot of energy is expended by human engineers to eliminate or tame clogging in transport networks -- whether they carry…

Astro Seminar: "The Challenge of Predicting the Clustering of Matter in the Era of High-Precision Cosmology"

Pier Stefano Corasaniti (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)

In the future a new generation of galaxy surveys will probe the cosmic distribution of matter across an unprecedented range of scales and redshifts potentially shedding new light on the nature of the invisible…

Math-Bio seminar: "The Evolution of Distributed Sensing and Collective Computation in Animal Populations"

George Hagstrom, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Many animal groups exhibit rapid, coordinated collective motion. Yet, the evolutionary forces that cause such collective responses to evolve are poorly understood. Here we develop analytical methods and evolutionary…

Dissertation Defense: "A Structural Perspective on Disordered Solids"

Sam Schoenholz (UPenn)

Department Colloquium: "Challenges for Cosmology on Galaxy Scales"

Benoit Famaey (Strasbourg Observatory)

While there is indisputable observational evidence for a new degree of freedom behaving as a collisionless fluid of particles on large scales, i.e. dark matter, there is no such solid evidence on galaxy scales. On…