Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "The 'Who Ordered That' Collider"
Nathaniel Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara)
In this talk, I’ll survey some of the major open questions in particle physics and make the case that they can best be addressed by a qualitatively new type of particle accelerator: a high-energy muon…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design"
Francesco Zamponi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
Rough (energy, or free energy, or fitness) landscapes are ubiquitous in disordered systems, from material science to biology. These landscapes feature a multitude of local…
High Energy Theory seminar: "TBA"
Florent Baume (University of Hamburg)
Annual Strings and Geometry conference at Penn
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The conference is co-chaired by Mirjam Cvetic and Jonathan Heckman. It will center on topics in high energy theoretical physics and its intersection with geometry. The conference will take place in…
High Energy Theory seminar: "Type IIB flux compactifications with h^{1,1}=0"
Timm Wrase (Lehigh University)
After reviewing a few concepts of the swampland program, I revisit type IIB flux compactifications that are mirror dual to type IIA on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds.…
Astrophysics seminar: "TBA"
Catherine Zucker (Space Telescope Science Institute)
High Energy Theory seminar: "TBA"
Valerio De Luca (University of Pennsylvania)
High Energy Joint Theory/Experiment seminar: "TBA"
Maxim Pospelov (University of Minnesota)
High Energy Theory seminar: "TBA"
Jonah Kudler-Flam (Princeton University)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Light from Dark Matter through Cosmic History"
Tracy Slatyer (MIT)
84% of the matter in the universe is "dark", presently invisible to us except through its gravitational interactions. However, even tiny interactions between dark and visible matter could have striking…