Astro Seminar: "The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)"
David Chuss (Villanova)
The LCDM model of cosmology has been successful in describing the universe’s energy content and evolution with six parameters; however, the observed geometric flatness of the universe, its near homogeneity, and the…
Math-Bio seminar: "Assessing the relationship of ancient samples to modern populations and to each other"
Joshua Schraiber, Temple University
When ancient samples are sequenced, one of the first questions asked is how those samples relate to modern populations and to each other. Commonly, this is assessed using methods such as Structure or Admixture,…
Math-Bio seminar: "Bayesian inference of evolutionary divergence with genomic data under diverse demographic models"
Yujin Chung, Temple University
In the study of diverging populations and species, a common goal is to disentangle the conflicting signals of prolonged genetic drift (elevating divergence) and gene exchange (removing it). In this talk, I present a…
High Energy Seminar: "TBA"
Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
Department Colloquium:"The Maps Inside Your Head"
Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn) hosted by: Joe Kroll
How do our brains make sense of a complex and unpredictable world? In this talk, I will discuss a physicist's approach to the neural topography of information processing in the brain. First I will review the brain's…
Astro Seminar: "The New Ly-alpha Power Spectrum Measurements and constraints on WDM"
Vid Irsic (University of Washington)
With the X-Shooter XQ-100 Legacy survey, 100 QSO measurements at intermediate resolutions were available to measure the Lyman-alpha power spectrum in the similar redshift range to SDSS (z=3 - 4.2), but to smaller…
Dissertation Defense: Toric Elliptic Fibrations Over Hirzebruchs
Prashant Subbarao (UPenn)