Thesis Defense: "Generalized Symmetries in Supergravities and Superconformal Field Theories via String Theory"

Hao Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)

Thesis Defense: "Quantum Geometry and Topology in Periodically-Strained Graphene"

Võ Tiến Phong (University of Pennsylvania)

Committee:

Prof. Eugene Mele (advisor)
Prof. Charles Kane
Prof. Justin Khoury (chair)
Prof. Liang Wu
Prof. Martin Claassen

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "A New Way of doing Astrophysics with Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)"

Beth Willman (LSSTC )

Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is 10-year long NSF and DOE-funded experiment that will soon begin an unprecedented movie of half of the sky, tracking changes from…

High Energy Theory seminar: "String solutions without supersymmetry"

Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago)

The construction of a string landscape is sharply constrained by no-go results. A way to potentially evade those no-go results is by building non-classical string solutions. In this talk, I will…

High Energy Experiment seminar: "High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector"

Chris Hays (Oxford University)

The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. We have performed the most precise measurement…

Thesis Defense: "Liquid Crystal Transitions and Deformations Due to Colloidal Inclusions, Geometric Confinement, and Magnetic Fields"

Sophie Ettinger (University of Pennsylvania)

Special Seminar: “Reconstructing Gravity from Cosmological data”

Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University)

The era of precision Cosmology is around the corner and it promises to shed light on some of the long-standing questions such as the nature of gravity on the large cosmological scales. However,…

Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science: "Shedding Nano-Light on Quantum Materials"

Dmitri N. Basov (Columbia University)

Optical imaging is pervasive in daily life and in modern technology. Unfortunately, optics encounters problems when it comes to “seeing” objects that are much smaller than the wavelength of light. And that is the…

High Energy seminar: "Exploring nature with black holes and gravitational waves"

Sam Wong (University of Pennsylvania)

In this talk, we will explore the exciting world of black holes and gravitational waves and their role in our understanding of the universe. First predicted by Einstein's theory…

Astrophysics seminar: "TBA"

Shany Danieli (Princeton University)