Seminars

Upcoming Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Low energy structure of spiral spin liquid -- momentum vortices and connection to smectic & rank-2 U(1) gauge theory"

Han Yan (Rice University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

Spiral spin liquids are a class of spin liquids that feature a ring degeneracy of its ground states. Over the years, a concrete physical picture of its spin liquid nature has not been established,…



Primakoff Lecture

Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)
- See Zoom link below


Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

Ibraham Cissé (Caltech)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4 - Plus see Zoom link below


Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

Pablo Jarillo-Herrera (MIT)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4 - Plus see Zoom link below


Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4 - Plus see Zoom link below

Past Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Investigating order parameter dynamics and control in quantum materials using terahertz spectroscopy"

Richard Averitt (UC San Diego)
- See Zoom link below

Dynamics and control of quantum materials using light has emerged as a frontier research area.  There are numerous possibilities to investigate including photoinduced metastability, creating…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Designer quantum materials for new sensing paradigms"

Shengxi Huang , Penn State
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4 - also see Zoom link below

Emerging quantum materials, such as novel two-dimensional (2D) materials and topologically nontrivial materials, have gained increasing…



High Energy seminar: "Far forward neutrino detectors at the high luminosity LHC"

Dr. Milind Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4C2

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is  a cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider during the High Luminosity…



DIP x PSPDG Workshop: Science Policy for Physicists!

- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

Diversity and Inclusion in Physics at Penn (DIP) is hosting the Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group (PSPDG) for a specially curated workshop, Science Policy for Physicists on…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Information bottleneck approaches to representation learning"

David Schwab (CUNY)
- See Zoom link below

Extracting relevant information from data is crucial for all forms of learning. The information bottleneck (IB) method formalizes this, offering a mathematically precise and conceptually appealing…