Department Colloquium
Speakers: Robyn Sanderson, Liang Wu, Bo Zhen, University of Pennsylvania
Robyn Sanderson: "What can a billion Milky Way stars tell us about dark matter?"
Liang Wu: "Therahertz studies on symmetry and topology in quantum materials"
Bo Zhen: "Topological photonics on the nano…
TODAY'S SEMINAR IS CANCELED Condensed Matter Seminar: "Let it rip: In vivo biomechanics studies of Hydra regeneration from tissue spheres"
Eva-Marie Shoetz Collins, Swarthmore College
TODAY'S SEMINAR IS CANCELED
Astronomy seminar: "Stellar Forensics with the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe"
Maryam Modjaz, New York University
Supernovae (SNe) and Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are exploding stars and constitute the most powerful explosions in the universe. Since they are visible over large cosmological distances, release elements…
High Energy Theory Seminar: "Pulling the Holographic Boundary into the Bulk"
Yasunori Nomura, University of California Berkeley
Special High Energy Theory Seminar: "Primordial black holes as dark matter"
Alex Kusenko, UCLA
I will discuss new and rather generic scenarios for production of black holes in the early universe. In some mass range, such black holes can account for all dark matter. Primordial black holes can also…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "Anomaly of Dancing Reactor Antineutrinos"
Soo-Bong Kim, Seoul National University
The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Learning force fields from stochastic trajectories"
Pierre Ronceray, Princeton University
From nanometer-scale proteins to micron-scale colloidal particles, particles in biological and soft matter systems undergo Brownian dynamics: their deterministic motion due to the forces competes with the random…
Astronomy seminar: "Two instruments to start the new decade: HERA for 21cm cosmology and SPARCS to Monitor M-Dwarf flares affecting exoplanets"
Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State University
Two new kinds of instruments are coming of age at the end of this decade: low frequency radio telescopes and cubesats, both being used to probe questions of our cosmic origin and the nature of exoplanets. The…
High Energy Theory Seminar: "Entanglement in gauge theories and gravity"
Jennifer Lin, IAS, Princeton University
In this talk I'll explain why an analogy between entanglement entropy in an emergent gauge theory and in AdS/CFT suggests that the entropy of a black hole may be related to a natural measure on the gauge group in the…