High Energy Theory Seminar: Perturbations of Gibbons-Maeda Black Holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Theories

Christopher Pope (Texas A&M University)

The study of perturbations around black hole backgrounds in general relativity and Einstein-Maxwell theory has a long history, going back to Regge and Wheeler in the 1950s. In view of more recent developments in…

Astrophysics seminar: "TBA"

Fiona McCarthy (Cambridge and CCA)

Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Topology, Spin and Orbital in DNA-type Chiral Quantum Materials

Binghai Yan (Weizmann Institute of Science)

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers…

Dissertation Defense: TRACK RECONSTRUCTION AND SEARCHING FOR MASSIVE, LONG-LIVED CHARGED PARTICLES AT ATLAS

Abraham Kahn

High Energy Theory Seminar: Testing Beyond Slow-Roll Inflation Across Large and Small Cosmic Scales

Matteo Braglia (NYU)

Inflation is widely recognized as the leading theory for explaining the origin of the Big Bang. While the simplest slow-roll models predict a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of primordial density perturbations,…

Dissertation Defense: Validation and Testing of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope and Data Reduction Pipeline

Tanay Bhandarkar

Dissertation Defense: Exoplanets, Low-mass Stars, and Binary Systems in the Era of Precision Radial Velocities and Astrometry

Mark Giovinazzi

Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Critical points and Bifurcations integrate and amplify sensory information.

Ben Machta (Yale University)

Biological systems must integrate and amplify signals which are faint and insignificant at the level of individual sensory receptors. In this talk I will argue that organisms can use the diverging…

Astrophysics seminar: The James Webb Space Telescope: A New Era for Space Exploration

Mike McElwain (NASA)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared
space telescope designed to transform space science by observing targets
from within our own Solar System to the first light in the Universe (and…

Physics of Soft Matter: Self-Assembling, Responsive, Smart (and Squishy!)

Honoring David Weitz recipient of the 2024 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science

Free and open to the public

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