Annual Diversity Seminar Website Event: "Cultivating Equity-Focused Institutional Change in University STEM Departments"

Gina Quan (San José State University)
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Discipline-based education research has made great strides in understanding how to foster more equitable and effective teaching in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, there still has…



DIP Annual Diversity Seminar

Dr. Gina Quan (San José State University)
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Our speaker will be Dr. Gina Quan (https://ginaquan.com/). Title & abstract will be announced closer to the date. 



Astronomy Seminar: The First Flight of SPIDER: A view to the dawn of time from above the clouds

Jeffrey Filippini (University of Illinois)
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Inflation is thought to have seeded the cosmos with a hum of primordial gravitational waves - unique messengers from the universe's earliest moments. If present, these should have left a unique "B-…



Thesis Defense: “Low-dimensional material device for atomic defect engineering, ionic and molecular transport"

Priyanka Jothi Thiruraman (University of Pennsylvania)
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High Energy Theory Seminar: Illuminating the Early Universe with Dark Matter Minihalos

Adrienne Erickcek (UNC)
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As remnants of the earliest stages of structure formation, the smallest dark matter halos provide a unique probe of the evolution of the Universe prior to the onset of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN…



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Non-thermal pathways to quantum matter "

Martin Claassen (University of Pennsylvania)
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Quantum materials host a wide range of phenomena that challenge our physical understanding while offering intriguing possibilities for next-generation technologies. A promising direction towards…



Mathematical Biology seminar: "Spinning helices, heaving panels, and waving tails: the role of flexibility in propulsion"

Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)
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The observed gait of a swimmer arises from the interplay of internal force generation, the passive elastic properties of its body, and environmental features such as fluid viscosity, boundaries, and…



High Energy Theory Seminar: Entanglement entropies of equilibrated pure states and the origin of replica wormholes

Shreya Vardhan (MIT)
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I will explain an approximation method that gives a simple universal expression for the Renyi entropies of an equilibrated pure state in a chaotic quantum many-body system. This expression is…



Astronomy Seminar: Speculating on the origin and future of FRBs

Liam Connor (Caltech)
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration transients whose precise origins remain a mystery. A subset of FRBs is known to repeat; a subset of those appears to repeat in periodic activity windows.…



Mathematical Biology seminar: "Some PDEs in Evolution of Dispersal"

Adrian Lam (Ohio State University)
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In the first part of the talk, we discuss the multi-species competition in a spatial domain, particularly the result of A. Hastings and some recent progress on the conjecture by Dockery…