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…
Astrophysics seminar: "TBA"
Shany Danieli (Princeton University)
High Energy Joint Theory/Experiment seminar: "TBA"
Scott Thomas (Rutgers University)
High Energy Theory seminar: "TBA"
David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "The 'Who Ordered That' Collider"
Nathaniel Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara)
In this talk, I’ll survey some of the major open questions in particle physics and make the case that they can best be addressed by a qualitatively new type of particle accelerator: a high-energy muon…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design"
Francesco Zamponi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
Rough (energy, or free energy, or fitness) landscapes are ubiquitous in disordered systems, from material science to biology. These landscapes feature a multitude of local…
High Energy Theory seminar: "TBA"
Florent Baume (University of Hamburg)