High Energy Experiment Seminar: Track-triggering at CMS for the High-Luminosity LHC
Louise Skinnari (Northeastern University)
The high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled for 2025-2027, will significantly increase the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC collisions. The resulting large proton-proton…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Exploiting the Singh Center’s Nanoscale Characterization Facility in Condensed Matter Research"
Eric Stach (University of Pennsylvania)
Over the past several years, there have been significant investments in instrumentation for electron and ion microscopy in the Singh Center. I spoke to this group in the Fall of 2017, outlining what were then ‘plans…
Astronomy Seminar: Assembly bias of cosmic neutral hydrogen with neural networks and symbolic regression
Jay Wadekar (NYU)
Hydrodynamic simulations have a huge computational cost (~10 million CPU hours for 0.001 Gpc^3 volume), and cannot therefore be directly used in predictions for upcoming cosmological surveys which…
Mathematical Biology seminar: "Multiscale inference and modeling of cell fate via single-cell data"
Qing Nie (University of California, Irvine)
Cells make fate decisions in response to dynamic environmental and pathological stimuli as well as cell-to-cell communications. Recent technological breakthroughs have enabled to gather data…
Thesis Defense: “Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter Models from the Structure of Milky-Way-Mass Galaxies and the Dynamics of the Solar Neighborhood”
Davis Varghese (University of Pennsylvania)
Committee Members: Robyn Sanderson (Advisor), Gary Bernstein, Mariangela Bernardi, Mark Devlin, Josh Klein
Chair (for Defense): Mariangela…
Thesis Defense: “An Experimental and Computational Study of Pattern Formation in Insect Cuticle and a Novel Administration of a Sensemaking Instrument in Physics Education"
Stephen Hackler (University of Pennsylvania)
High Energy Experiment Seminar: Searching for the Supersymmetric Partner to the Top Quark at ATLAS: Don't Stop Believin'
Stephanie Majewski (University of Oregon)
The discovery of the stop — the Supersymmetric partner of the top quark — is a key goal of the ATLAS physics program enabled by the Large Hadron Collider. I will review the status of the search for direct…