Astro Seminar: "Cross Correlations with CMB Secondaries: Constraining Cosmological Parameters and Cluster Astrophysics"
Nicholas Battaglia (Princeton)
High resolution CMB experiments, such as ACT, SPT, and the Planck satellite are making precision measurements of the secondary anisotropies caused by the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from galaxy clusters.…
Special Energy Cluster Seminar: "Quantum physics to address global energy challenges"
Michael Biercuk, University of Sydney
Quantum physics research is providing surprising new avenues to solve longstanding challenges in energy - from lossy power distribution systems to inefficient large-scale fertilizer production. In this talk…
CTL Departmental Workshop
Philip T. Gressman (UPenn, Math)
Topic discussion on "Designing Your Own Course"
Graduate Students of Math, AMCS and other related departments are highly recommended to join in. This counts toward the CTL teaching certificate.
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Condensed Matter seminar: "Network-based computational tools for the investigation of meso-scale structure in soft materials"
Danielle Bassett, University of Pennsylvania
Soft materials can display heterogeneous physical structure at the meso-scale, which can constrain mechanical stability and acoustic transmission. The need to understand such bulk properties motivates the development of…
Astro Seminar: "Simulating the Effect of Massive Neutrinos on Large Scale Structure"
Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins)
The massive neutrino background makes up a component of the dark matter, and as such affects the growth of large-scale structure, such as galaxy clusters. This affords us an opportunity to measure the neutrino mass…
Special Energy Cluster Seminar: "Single-Molecule Sensors using Carbon Nanotube Electronics"
Delphine Bouilly, Columbia
In many biological and optically-active materials, fundamental energy and charge transfer mechanisms occur at the molecular level. Individual molecules, however, are challenging to observe directly due to their…
Department Colloquium: "The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging and Time-Resolving a Black Hole"
Shep Doeleman (MIT) Hosted by James Aguirre
A convergence of high bandwidth radio instrumentation and Global mm and submm wavelength facilities are enabling assembly of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT): a short-wavelength Very Long Baseline Interferometry
*Special Seminar*:"Control of Nanoparticle Self-assemblies using Distorted Liquid Crystals”
Emmanuelle Lacaze (Institut de Nano-Sciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Directed assembly of nanoparticles is a promising alternative for original nanoparticle organizations. New kinds of optical properties are expected when semi-conductive or metallic nanoparticles are concerned. …