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Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Quantum Control of Quantum Materials
Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)

March 12, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Coherently engineering quantum states with light is a key frontier in the control of quantum materials. Over the last two decades, ultrafast lasers have revealed a variety of emergent topological, magnetic, and…
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: Gravitational waves with astrometry in the Gaia era
Deyan Mihaylov (Case Western Reserve University)

March 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Gravitational waves have a periodic effect on the apparent positions of stars on the sky. This effect can be quantified and ultra-precise astrometric measurements (like the ones from Gaia) can be used…
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Penn Science Café: There is No One Way To Teach Math
Penn Science Café
Robin Penmantle (Speaker) & Bill Ashmanskas (Moderator)

March 18, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm Get ready for a lively, interactive Science Café with Penn math professor Robin Pemantle and Penn physics senior lecturer Bill Ashmanskas, both members of Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation’s…
Seminars, Astro Seminars
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Enrique Paillas (Waterloo)

March 19, 2025 - March 26, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "TBA"
Arthur Apresyan (FNAL)

March 19, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Andreas Karch (UT Austin)

March 24, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Motility regulation as a self-organization principle
Julien Tailleur (MIT)

March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Equilibrium statistical mechanics tells us how to control the self-assembly of passive materials by tuning the competition between energy and entropy to achieve desired states of organization. Out of equilibrium, no…
Seminars, Astro Seminars

Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)

March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Department News

What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?

February 24, 2025

Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing
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2025 Sloan Research Fellows

February 19, 2025

The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente,
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The Missing Data Link

January 28, 2025

When Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway co-founded the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI) in 2021, their initial goal was to support the undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs acro
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Department Scholar in Residence Update: Sculpture Installation on Cover of Arts Based Research Book

January 28, 2025

Portal, a sculpture installation inspired by research of black holes created by Rebecca Kamen, visiting scholar and artist in residence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been
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A less ‘clumpy,’ more complex universe?

January 23, 2025

Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become ‘messier and complicated’ than expected in recent years.
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Fruit flies and physics

January 16, 2025

Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid.
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Fourteen full-time faculty members are joined by staff, postdocs, and students in research on astrophysics and cosmology.

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Condensed Matter

The Condensed Matter research at Penn is organized around three broadly defined groups: Quantum Matter, Soft Matter and Living Matter.

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Particle Physics

The Particle Physics group at Penn studies the fundamental forces of Nature, early universe cosmology and mathematical physics.

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Upcoming Events

Today

Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)

Deyan Mihaylov (Case Western Reserve University)

Penn Science Café

Robin Penmantle (Speaker) & Bill Ashmanskas (Moderator)

Enrique Paillas (Waterloo)

Arthur Apresyan (FNAL)

Andreas Karch (UT Austin)

Julien Tailleur (MIT)

Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)

Department News