Department Colloquium: "Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics"
Professor Charles Kane (Univ of Penn)
Over the past several years, our understanding of topological electronic phases of matter has advanced dramatically.
Advances in Biomedical Optics Seminar: "Laser Doppler Methods in the Health Sciences: from Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy to Optical Coherence Tomography"
Professor David Boas (Harvard Med)
Please join in on this Seminar.
*Pizza will be made available*
Condensed Matter Seminar: Light-induced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Chemo-responsive Gels
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
A remarkable feature of certain biological organisms is their ability to alter their shape and functionality in response to environmental cues. Polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are…
Astronomy Seminar: TBD
Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State)
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Ferromagnetism, Tactoids, and Smectic Correlations in Colloidal Liquid Crystal Suspensions of Inorganic Nanosheets”
Noel Clark (University of Colorado Boulder)
Condensed Matter Seminar: Frustrated Filaments and Crystalline Caps: Defect Patterns in Flexible Assemblies
Professor Greg Grason, UMass Amherst
In this talk I will discuss recent theoretical results on the optimal structure of two related, geometrically frustrated systems of soft matter: 1) condensed and twisted bundles of chiral filaments; and 2)…
Astronomy Seminar: "The Complex Interplay between Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution from z~0-6"
Desika Narayanan (Haverford)
Building a comprehensive picture for the evolution of galaxies from early times through present epoch requires understanding a huge dynamic range of physical processes. With observations ranging from detections of…
Academic Career Conference Non-faculty Careers in Higher Education for PhDs Event
Melanie Adley, Ph.D. - Associate Director, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania
Ian Petrie, Ph.D. - Senior Associate…