Thesis Defense: “Rheology of Marine Sponges and Magnetoviscoelastic Solids"
Emile Kraus (University of Pennsylvania)
High Energy Physics Experimental seminar: "First results in search of an excess of electron neutrino interactions from MicroBooNE"
Chao Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
The MicroBooNE experiment was designed primarily to explore the nature of the previously observed low-energy excess in electron neutrino candidates in the MiniBooNE experiment located in the Booster…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Postpandemic Tool for Quantum Materials (and vice-versa)"
Ken Burch, Boston College
Raman scattering, invented at the end of the last pandemic, can provide a wealth of information on the fractional, magnetic, lattice and charge excitations at the heart of quantum materials and devices.…
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar: Exploring the universe with gravitational waves
Valeri Vardanyan (IPMU Tokyo)
In this talk, I will present recent results about gravitational wave cosmology. I will argue that the spatial clustering of gravitational wave sources, when cross-correlated with galaxy catalogues,…
Thesis Defense: "Structure, Dynamics, and Elasticity in Amorphous Systems"
Sean Ridout, University of Pennsylvania
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "A case for integrating solar geoengineering into climate policy"
David Keith (Harvard University)
I will first review the science and technology of solar geoengineering, addressing the following Q’s: how effective could it be in reducing climate risks? What new risks does it entail? What is uncertain…
Thesis Defense: "Continuing the Search for Nothing: Invisible Higgs Boson Decays and High Luminosity Upgrades at the ATLAS Detector"
Benjamin Rosser, University of Pennsylvania
HET Seminar: An Introduction to the Lattice-Continuum Correspondence
Djordje Radicevic (Brandeis)
I will describe a simple and explicit way to construct continuum quantum field theories out of finite, nonperturbatively well defined lattice theories. This formalizes decades of intuition, leads to new…