Condensed Matter Seminar: Optics at the Extreme

Professor Nader Enghetta, University of Pennsylvania
- A4

Recent development in condensed matter physics and nanoscience has made it possible to tailor materials with unusual parameters and characteristics.  In my group, we have been exploring light-matter interaction in…



Astronomy Seminar: " Cosmic Rays, Solar Forcing and 20th Century Climate Change"

Nir J. Shaviv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and IAS Princeton)
- DRL A6



Physics Club Seminar

Phil Nelson, Biophysics
DRL 3W2



Dissertation Defense: "The Optical Properties of Spiky Gold Nanoshells"

Simon Hastings, UPenn
- University of Pennsylvania
Chemistry building
Lynch auditorium



Condensed Matter Seminar: "Shaping Colloidal Assembly"

Professor Greg van Anders, University of Michigan
- A4

Advances in synthesis techniques have produced colloids and nanoparticles in a diverse array of shapes that can be assembled into bulk structures. That bulk structure is strongly affected by particle shape in idealized…



Department Colloquium: Exploring the Dawn of the First Galaxies with PAPER and HERA

James Aguirre, UPenn
- A8

Between the surface of last scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and and the first detected galaxies at around 500 million years later lies a vast swath of unexplored history.  We know that the…



Physics and Astronomy Postponed Exams

- DRL, Room A4