High Energy Theory Seminar: (TBA)
Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis)
Joint Mathematics & Physics Seminar: 6D SCFTs and Group Theory
Tom Rudelius (IAS)
Certain classes of superconformal field theories in six dimensions (6D SCFTs) are in one-to-one correspondence with certain classes of group homomorphisms. In this talk, we will see that this correspondence allows…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Jamming of non-circular and deformable particles"
Mark Shattuck (City University of New York)
We study mechanically stable packings of deformable and rigid 2D circulo-polygons using computer simulations. A 2D circulo-polygon is a particle shape formed by the collection of all points equidistant from the edge…
Astro Seminar: "Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: from Weighing the Giants to LSST"
Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook)
Surveys of galaxy clusters provide a sensitive probe of cosmology by measuring the evolution of the halo mass function. However, already current cluster surveys are systematically limited by uncertainties in the…
Physics Department Colloquium: Eye patches: The Evolution of Novel Soft Matter
Alison Sweeney (U of Penn)
Life on Earth constitutes the most sophisticated iterations in the known universe of what physicists classify as soft matter. Research in my group focuses on learning the physical rules of soft matter self-assembly…
HET & HEE Joint Seminar: "Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition"
Clay Cordova, (IAS Princeton)
Local energy conditions are the key hypothesis in many classical results in general relativity. In quantum theory, these local energy conditions are invalidated due to quantum fluctuations. Nevertheless a weaker…
Dissertation Defense: "Electronic Properties of Grain Boundaries in Single Layer Graphene"
Madeleine Phillips (UPenn)
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Advanced Electron Microscopy Approaches for Condensed Matter Research"
Eric Stach (University of Pennsylvania)
In the next year, the Singh Nanotechnology Center will install two new scanning transmission electron microscopes that will bring Penn’s capabilities in atomic scale materials characterization to a world leading…
SPRING 2017: PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY POSTPONED EXAMS
ALL EXAMS ARE FROM 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.
Examinations that are postponed because of conflicts with other examinations, or because more than two examinations are scheduled…