Professional Development Seminar Series: "Bridging the Gap: Transitioning Academic Research to Commercial Value"

Samuel Khamis, Ph.D., Former Physics and Astronomy Graduate

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar "A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at =0.4 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars"

Paul Schechter, MIT

Department Colloquium: "Gauge theories, strings and gravity"

Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study

Gauge theories, such as the one describing strong interactions, contain string-like excitations. String theory describes the quantum dynamics of strings and it reduces to gravity at long distances. The simplest…

Dissertation Defense for Stephanie Feldman Majkut "Mechanical development and functional mechanosensitivity during early cardiogenesis."

High Energy Theory Seminar: "Price for a NEC-violation"

Alex Vikman (CERN and Stanford)

High Energy Theory Seminar: "Density perturbations in Hybrid Inflation: a free field theory time-delay approach"

Evangelos Sfakianakis (MIT)

Condensed Matter Seminar: "Responsive Materials by Buckling of Soft Elastic Sheets"

Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

Soft elastic solids placed under compressive stress can undergo a variety of geometry-dependent mechanical shape instabilities, providing opportunities for tailoring the structure and properties of stimuli-responsive…

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar "Characterization of Exoplanetary Atmospheres and Interiors"

Nikku Madhusudham, Yale University

Special NBIC Seminar

Robert Hołyst, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

"BIOLOGISTICS : mobility of ligands, proteins and plasmids in cytoplasm of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells"

Condensed Matter Seminar: "The Physics of Electron-Conducting Microbial Nanowires"

Mark Tuominen , University of Massachusetts

This talk will discuss the experimental investigations of “natural organic metals” -- nanowires produced from amino acids by a common soil bacteria, Geobacter sulfurreducens. These protein nanofilaments, pili, extend…