12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Exploring the landscapes of Quasicrystal Artificial Spin Ices Frank Barrows, Applied Physics Grad Student By patterning materials into nanoscale networks the interplay...
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Professor Alex Levchenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Anomalous quantum transport - Hall, Kerr and Josephson effects Abstract: I will review mechanisms of the anomalous...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The Dawn of Multi-messenger Astrophysics: Gravitational Waves and Light from GW170817 Speaker:Wen-fai Fong, Vicky Kalogera, and Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University, Department...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Physics beyond the Standard Model and CENNS experiments Speaker: Omar Miranda, Cinvestav (Mexico) Abstract: Low energy threshold neutrino experiments are currently under...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Dark Matter Substructure: Cosmological Treasure Trove or a Pandora's Box? Speaker: Frank van den Bosch, Yale University Host: Sarah Wellons Abstract: Hierarchical structure formation...
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Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Note: campus parking lots are restricted during the day....
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Title: Hunting for Dark Matter in the Gamma-ray Sky Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University Abstract: The annihilation of dark matter can lead to observable signatures...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Light dark matter search at the cosmic frontiers Speaker: Seodong Shin, University of Chicago / Yonsei University & Doojin Kim, CERN Abstract: We will discuss...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets Speaker: Gregg Hallinan, Caltech Host: Deanne Coppejans Abstract: All the magnetized planets in our solar...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania Title: Kirigami! Abstract: I will describe work on the puzzles of periodic order (like crystals) on intrinsically curved...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Vanessa Graber, McGill Space Institute at McGill University Title: Neutron Stars in the Laboratory Abstract: Neutron stars unite many extremes of physics and can...
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Title: Search for the new exotic quantum particle: Non-Abelian Majorana zero modes at semiconductor-superconductor interfaces Speaker: Jaydeep Sau, University of Maryland Abstract: Majorana zero...
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Title: Hyperon Production, Form Factors, and Diquarks Speaker: Kamal Seth, Northwestern University Abstract: The material Universe is made of baryons. Prior to 1947 when the first...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Luke Govia, University of Chicago Title: Enhancing cavity QED via anti-squeezing: synthetic ultra-strong coupling and entangled cat-states Abstract: We present applications of parametric...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The journey of relativistic astrophysical jets Speaker:Dimitrios Giannios, Purdue University Abstract: When black holes are fed gas by their environment, they convert gravitationalenergy into...
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Celestial Suite is a multimedia show for symphony orchestra with music composed by James Stephenson and astronomy visuals developed by...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: CP violation caused by another symmetry Speaker: Andreas Trautner, University of Bonn Abstract: Understanding the origin of CP violation offers a new starting point...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Independent Determination of Oscillation Parameters for Neutrinos and Antineutrinos Speaker: Kevin Kelly, Northwestern University Abstract: Over the last several decades, a...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Two-Photon Cooling of Atomic Hydrogen Speaker: Dylan Yost, Colorado State University Abstract: Since 2010, determinations of the proton charge radius through spectroscopic...
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
A Conversation with the Northwestern Scientists behind the First-ever Multi-messenger Astronomy Observations Moderated by Dr. Michelle Larson, President & CEO, Adler...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Calibration of second-order electron recoil effects in liquid xenon Dylan TemplesAbstract: Current generation liquid noble dark matter detectors use injected beta...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory Title: Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions Abstract: Externally driving a dynamical system, be it quantum or classical,...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
“The Polar Phase of Superfluid 3He”Andrew Zimmerman, Northwestern University The complex order parameter of superfluid 3He allows for a wide array...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Beyond Wrinkling: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and Other Thin Films Speaker: Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago Abstract: Surfactants at air/water interfaces...
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Title: Why is there something rather than nothing? Speaker: Andrew Long, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago Abstract: As we peer out into the...
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Title: Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab: First Stored Muons Speaker: James Mott, Boston University Abstract: Precision measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,...
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Title: New States in Complex Systems Speaker: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University Abstract: Complex systems are often described by simple equations which nevertheless can lead to...
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Title: TBA Speaker: Todd Thompson, Ohio State University Host: Jonathan Stern Abstract: TBA Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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Title: Higher-order predictions via the generalized double-copy Speaker: John Jospeh Carrasco, Theoretical Physics, CEA-Saclay & University of Paris-Saclay Abstract: Recent conceptual advances have allowed us to...
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Title: New Insights on the Origin of Cosmic Rays Speaker: Damiano Caprioli, University of Chicago Abstract: The origin of extraterrestrial energetic particles (usually referred to...
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Title: Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero Speaker: Jonathan Ouellet, MIT Abstract: • Why is there something in the universe instead...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Imaging nucleon structure in lattice QCD Speaker: Ross Young, University of Adelaide, Australia Abstract: With the recent completion of the 12 GeV upgrade at...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Pierre Darancet, Argonne National Laboratory Title: Theory of Thermal Relaxation of Electrons in Semiconductors and Two-Dimensional Materials Abstract: Excitations of a material using ultrafast...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics...
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Title: Primordial Non-Gaussianities and the Distribution of Galaxies on Large Scales Speaker: Mark Wise, Caltech Abstract: The inflationary cosmology predicts a primordial two point spatial...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Astronomers...
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Title: Top-philic Z-prime Forces at the LHC Speaker: Yue Zhang, Northwestern University Abstract: Despite extensive searches for an additional neutral massive gauge boson at the...
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Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eclipsing Binaries Speaker: Maxwell Moe, University of Arizona Host: Diego Munoz Abstract: Wide-field photometric surveys have discovered hundreds...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Are there jets in Super-luminous Supernovae? Deanne Coppejans, PhD | Northwestern University The explosions of stars (supernovae, SNe) show a wide range...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Quantum Measurements at LIGO Speaker: Nancy Aggarwal, MIT Abstract: The precision of gravitational wave measurements by the Advanced LIGO interferometers is limited by...
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Title: Spin Orbit Coupled Quantum Magnetism Speaker:Kate Ross, Colorado State University Abstract: “Quantum magnetism” refers to magnetic phases with physical properties that are determined...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Exploring New Physics with Fermionic Spins Speaker: William Terrano, Technical University of Munich Abstract: Precision measurements of large, coherent ensembles of aligned fermionic spins...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Imaging Black Holes now and in the future Speaker: Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen Host: Rocco Coppejans Abstract: One of the most fundamental predictions of general...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Title: "Searching for Missing Baryons and the Cosmic Web at Radio Wavelengths" Speaker: Professor Eric Wilcots, University of Wisconsin Abstract: We now understand that...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Jeff Snyder, Northwestern University Title: Electron Band Engineering for Thermoelectric Materials Abstract: The DOS and transport effective masses are commonly used to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Emerging Materials for Nanophotonics and Plasmonics Speaker:Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University Abstract: The fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics have taught us unprecedented ways to control...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Atom Interferometry: Gravity, Blackbody Radiation and Chameleons Speaker: Philipp Haslinger, UC Berkeley Abstract: If dark energy, which drives the accelerated expansion of the universe,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Origins of Super-Earths in Inner Solar Systems Speaker: Rebekah Dawson Host: Wen-fai Fong Abstract: Over the past decade, exoplanet surveys have discovered that many other solar...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
“Optical Stark Effect in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors”Trevor LaMountain First observed in atomic and molecular systems, sub-resonant light can cause energy levels to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: X-ray Dust Tomography: The New Frontier in Galactic Exploration Speaker: Sebastian Heinz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Light echoes from Galactic transients offer a powerful...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Electric Dipole Moment searches and small magnetic fields Speaker: Peter Fierlinger, Technical University Munich Abstract: Since several decades people search for an electric...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: The emergence of quenched galaxies in the era of JWST Speaker: Christina Williams, University of Arizona Host: Wen-fai Fong Abstract: The cessation of star-formation in galaxies...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Macroscopic Scale Atom Interferometry: Techniques and Fundamental Physics Applications Speaker: Tim Kovachy, Stanford University Abstract: Light-pulse atom interferometry—which uses optical pulses to split, recombine,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Wai Kwok: Argonne National Laboratory Title: Controlling Vortex Matter via Novel Patterned Structures Abstract: The advent of nanofabrication has opened new venues for...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Reverse Engineering Supernovae Speaker: Danny Milisavljevic, Purdue University Abstract: Core-collapse supernovae mark the catastrophic deaths of massive stars and are among the most powerful...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Neutrinos: A ν Torch to New Physics Speaker: Xiao Luo, Yale Abstract: The discovery of neutrino oscillations is so far the only direct experimental...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Laboratory tests of spatial and temporal variation of the fine structure constant using highly charged ions Speaker: David Allcock, NIST Boulder Abstract: The possibility...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Fast Radio Bursts -- Nature's Latest Cosmic Mystery Speaker: Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University Host: Deanne Coppejans Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: An effective field theory approach to neutrinoless double beta deca Speaker: Emanuele Mereghetti, Los Alamos National Laboratory Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments probe the nature...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Takeshi Mizushima, Osaka University, Japan Title: Anomalous transport phenomena in nematic and Weyl superconductors Abstract: Transport phenomena in topological superconductors (SCs) exhibit striking...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: New topological phases and effects in solids Speaker: Joel Moore, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Abstract: Much of condensed matter physics is concerned...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Proton puzzles at the precision frontier Speaker: Jan Bernauer, MIT Abstract: The nucleon and its structure are the focus of intense study on allenergy...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars: Transient Phenomena and Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Wide-Field Surveys Speaker: Maria...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes Speaker: Amy Reines, Montana State University Abstract: The origin of supermassive black holes remains a major outstanding issue...
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: TBA Speaker: Dan Kaplan, IIT Abstract: The gravitational acceleration of antimatter, gbar, has yet to be directly measured; an unexpected outcome of its measurement...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Probing the Dark Universe for Axions Speaker: Rakshya Khatiwada, University of Washington Abstract: The QCD axion is a weakly interacting sub-eV mass particle. It...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: TBA Speaker: Sasha Philippov, UC Berkeley Host: Sasha Tchekhovskoy Abstract: The modeling of pulsar radio and gamma-ray emission suggests that in order to...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Fundamental Physics with Tabletop Experiments: A New Venture for Northwestern Speaker: Gerald Gabrielse, Board of Trustees, Northwestern UniversityLeverett Professor of Physics (On...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Bottom-quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the LHC Speaker: Carlos Wagner, ANL & University of Chicago Abstract: The LEP experiment at CERN...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Seth Fraden, Brandeis University Title: Engineering reaction–diffusion networks with properties of neural tissue Abstract: We present an experimental system of networks of...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Clifford Hicks, Max Planck Institute, Dresden Title: Effect of uniaxial stress on the superconductivity of YBa2Cu3O6+x and Sr2RuO4 Abstract: We use piezoelectric-based uniaxial...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Christian Enss, Heidelberg University Title: Interplay of Nuclear Spins and Atomic Tunneling Systems Abstract: The investigation of non-equilibrium disordered quantum systems with novel...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: New Physics at Bell II Speaker: Bryan Fulsom, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Abstract: The first generation of B-Factories, BaBar and Belle, operated over the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: The Deepening Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts Speaker: Shami Chatterjee, Cornell University Host: Deanne Coppejans Abstract: Fast radio bursts, dispersed millisecond flashes of radio waves originating...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
“Phonon diffraction and dimensionality crossover in phonon-interface scattering”Riley Hanus, Northwestern University This theoretical work provides several mechanistic understandings of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems Speaker: Vidya Madhavan, UIUC Abstract: Electrons in free space have a well-defined mass. Recently,...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: Project 8: Measuring the neutrino mass with CRES Speaker: Mathieu Guigue, Pacific Northwest National Labs Abstract: Project 8 is a tritium endpoint neutrino mass experiment...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Sir Michael BerryMelville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus)H H Wills Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Bristol, UK "Nature’s optics and our understanding of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Sir Michael BerryMelville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus)H H Wills Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Bristol, UK "Variations on a theme of Aharonov...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
PLEASE NOTE: ROOM CHANGE TO RYAN AUDITORIUM Sir Michael BerryMelville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus)H H Wills Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Bristol, UK "Faster...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
PLEASE NOTE: TIME CHANGE TO 4:00 PM Sir Michael BerryMelville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus)H H Wills Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Bristol,...
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Sir Michael BerryMelville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus)H H Wills Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Bristol, UK "How quantum physics democratized music: a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Triggered Star Formation inside the Shell of a Wolf–Rayet Bubble as the Origin of the Solar System Speaker: Vikram Dwarkadas, University of Chicago Host: Raffaella...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Title: "A View of our Solar System at Radio Wavelengths" Speaker: Professor Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley Abstract: General Astronomy lectures about our own...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Sean Cornelius, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University Title: The fundamental advantages of temporal networks Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that many...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: On Ising's model of ferromagnetism Speaker:Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University Abstract: The 1D Ising model is a classical model of great historical significance...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: SuperNEMO and the mystery of matter Speaker: Cheryl Patrick, University College London Abstract: Why does the universe exist? Or rather - how did we...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Hungry Black Holes Speaker: Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland Host: Giacomo Terreran Abstract: We are entering an era of increasingly powerful wide-field optical imaging surveys that...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts Amherst Title: Transient Crosslinkers Tune the Patterns of Microtubule Filaments Abstract: The cell is a complex...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University Title: Superconductivity, Magnetism, Anisotropy, Spin-Orbit Interactions and Memory: The Remarkable Properties of the Conducting Gas at (111)...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Strange metals and black holes Speaker:Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Abstract: A `strange metal’ is a new state of matter, formed by electrons in...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: The search for supersymmetry in hadronic final states using boosted object reconstruction Speaker: Giordan Stark, University of Chicago Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Momentum-driven winds from radiatively efficient black hole accretion and their impact on galaxy properties Speaker: Rachel Somerville, Rutgers University Host: Sarah Wellons Abstract: Accretion onto supermassive black...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Erhai Zhao, Geroge Mason University Title: Hunting for spin liquids in an ultracold quantum gas Abstract: Quantum spin liquids evade conventional...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: GW170817: A Golden Neutron Star Merger Speaker:Ryan Chornock, Ohio University Abstract: On August 17th of last year, the Advanced LIGO/VIRGO gravitational wave observatories detected...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: “The MEG II Experiment: status and perspective” Speaker: Luca Galli, INFN-Pisa Abstract: The MEG experiment, designed to search for the μ → eγ...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Ultra-precise Spectrographs that Operate at the Diffraction Limit Speaker: Justin Crepp, University of Notre Dame Host: Ben Nelson Abstract: The Doppler radial velocity (RV) method continues...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Want to showcase your research to your peers? Want to practice your communication skills? Want to win great cash prizes?...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Daniel Needleman: Harvard University Title: Biophysics of Spindle Positioning and Elongation Abstract: The spindle is positioned asymmetrically during the first mitotic division in...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Leo Li, Columbia University Title: Graphene Double-layers: Exciton condensate and beyond Abstract: A graphene double layer heterostructure is achieved by bringing...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: Non-euclidean virtual reality Speaker: Elisabetta Matsumoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract: The properties of euclidean space seem natural and obvious to us, to the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: The Circumgalactic Medium: What It Is, and Why It Matters Speaker: Jason Tumlinson, Johns Hopkins University Host: Jonathan Stern Abstract: The “Circumgalactic Medium” is the vast reservoir...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Kok Wee Song- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Title: Landau-quantization effects in the superconducting transitions of layered materials Abstract: Superconducting...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The Diversity and Demographics of Distant Rocky Worlds Speaker:Leslie Rogers, University of Chicago Abstract: The discovery of exoplanets has brought the settings of many...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Massive non-classical states and the observation of quantum gravity Speaker: Dan Carney, University of Maryland/NIST Abstract: Recent advances in quantum cooling, control, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Unraveling Galaxy Formation Histories with Semi-Resolved Stellar Populations Speaker: Charlie Conroy, Harvard University Host: Cliff Johnson Abstract: The analysis of stellar populations has traditionally been pursued...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto Title: Oxide heterostructures - Quantum anomalous Hall insulators and Bogoliubov Landau levels Abstract: Recent progress in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The Zwicky Transient Facility Speaker:Brad Cenko, NASA Abstract: Thanks in large part to Moore’s Law (applied both to Si-based CCD detectors and computational/storage...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA graduate students Alex Gurvich and Zach Hafen will host this month’s event. They will discuss their research related to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Speaker: Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University Host: Sasha Tchekhovskoy Abstract: Accreting black holes are observed in a large variety of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Title: Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Speaker: Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University Host: Sasha Tchekhovskoy Abstract: Accreting black holes are observed in a large variety of...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Professor Paul Chaikin, New York University Title: Quantifying hidden order out of equilibrium Abstract: While the equilibrium properties, states, and phase transitions...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Ivan Sadovsky, Fermilab Title: Targeted evolution of pinning configuration for lower energy dissipation in superconductors Abstract: Understanding the dynamic behavior of vortex...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Title: The Puzzle of Liquid Water: New Insights for Physics, Chemistry, & Biology Speaker:Eugene Stanley, Boston University Abstract: We will discuss recent progress in understanding...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Free and open to the public. No registration or ticket required. Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics...
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Title: The Infrared Structure of Scalar Effective Field Theories Speaker: Zhewei Yin, Northwestern University Abstract: One important aspect in the study of scalar effective...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Dr. Nicolas Didier, Rigetti Computing Title: Hybrid quantum/classical computing on a 19-qubit processor based on parametrically-activated entangling gates. Abstract: Superconducting devices are one...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Alexander Stern, University of California, Irvine Title: Exotic states of matter realized under large uniaxial strain Abstract: In this talk I will do...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Professor Jukka Pekola, Aalto University, Finland Title: Superconducting qubits as quantum refrigerators and heat switches Abstract: I will first discuss thermodynamics of small...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Dr. Ahmad F. Taha, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio Title: A Generalized Approach to the Sensor & Control Nodes Selection/Placement...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Join CIERA graduate student astronomers for a discussion of gravitational waves & black holes. Our astronomers will briefly present their own...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Strongly-correlated quantum matter with superconducting circuits Speaker: Alex Ruichao Ma, University of Chicago Abstract: Superconducting circuits have emerged as a competitive platform...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will illustrate how observation of lepton number violation affects the baryon asymmetry generation mechanisms in the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Higgs boson observation by ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has completed the Standard Model;...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Jointly with the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences...
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The experimental observation of Majorana states in topological superconductors represents a major breakthrough in realizing their applications in topological quantum...
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Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and necessary...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Massive galaxies reside in the densest and most evolved regions of the Universe, yet we are only beginning to understand...
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In the early 1980's Feynman observed that simulating quantum systems with classical computers can be prohibitively expensive and suggested that...
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Galaxy formation is a core science driver of the majority of current and upcoming astronomical facilities. Astrophysicists want to know...
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For dark matter (DM) particles with masses in the 0.6 - 6 GeV/c^2 range, we may set stringent constraints on...
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Relativistic blazar jets and black hole coronae routinely display fast and bright flares of non-thermal emission. By means of fully-kinetic...
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Observations at infrared and radio wavelengths provide a wealth of information about the molecules within of the interstellar medium. Because...
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Physics-based models of complex systems often involve a large number of unknown parameters. On the other hand the collective behavior...
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Immobilization of flux lines (vortices) is crucial for high-current applications of superconducting materials. Vortex trapping by self-assembled nanoparticles has been...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: THE CIERA 10th ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Ekta Patel (University...
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in Nature and underlies a wide variety of physical phenomena ranging from superconductivity to the...
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We will explain why the question of whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles is particularly interesting, and why it...
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The dynamic infrared sky is hitherto largely unexplored. The infrared is key to understand elusive stellar fates that are opaque...
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Nanostructure and microfabrication techniques have been invaluable for unraveling physics in metals and semiconductors, since they enable patterning and electronic...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: What will the...
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While the equilibrium properties, states, and phase transitions of interacting systems are well described by statistical mechanics, the lack of...
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I will explore the surprising interplay between six basic principles underlying perturbative relativistic QFT predictions: gauge invariance, the Adler zero,...
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Galaxies are complicated beasts - many physical processes operate simultaneously, and over a huge range of scales in space and...
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The N-jettiness subtraction scheme Andrea Isgrò, Graduate Student abstract: The increasing experimental precision in Standard Model measurements at the Large Hadron Collider...
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We report electrical transport measurements on the putative heavy fermion superconductor YbRh2Si2 [1], over the temperature range 1 K to...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Kung-Yi Su (Caltech) Talk...
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Recent years have seen enormous progress in our ability to computeelementary-particle scattering processes in quantum field theory.These ideas include applications...
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Join CIERA graduate student astronomers for a discussion of gravitational waves and black holes. Our astronomers will briefly present their...
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The electroweak sector of the Standard Model (SM) of particles can be tested either with precision measurements of fundamental observables...
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The Solar System furnishes our most familiar planetary architecture: many planets, orbiting nearly coplanar to one another. However, a typical...
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Abstract: TBA Seminar Speaker: TBA Host: TBA Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Condensed Matter
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium Dr. Beth WillmanDeputy Director, National Center...
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Liquid helium-3-A is the first laboratory system confidently believed to undergo Cooper pairing in a non-s-wave state,and it has been...
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MicroBooNE is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) short-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment located at Fermilab on the Booster...
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More than one-third of the 4000+ planet candidates found by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are associated with target stars that have...
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Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: A Look to the Future Eve Chase, Graduate Student Since 2015, Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have detected five binary...
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Inspired by the remarkable properties of the biological cytoskeleton which is driven away from equilibrium by a conserved set of...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Tingting Liu (University...
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Within a nucleus, the neutron may be unconditionally stable. However, when liberated from a nucleus, it is unstable and beta...
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Neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube Neutrino Observatory, detect astrophysical very-high-energy neutrinos from distant astrophysical objects. Here, we report the first...
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Small particles suspended in a viscous fluid interact via long-range hydrodynamic interactions. In this talk, we will explore different ways...
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We report theoretical results for the electronic contribution to thermal transport for chiral superconductors belonging to even- or odd-parity E1...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Patrick Sheehan (NRAO)Nick...
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Cavity spintronics (also known as spin cavitronics) is a newly developing, interdisciplinary field that brings together microwave and optical communities...
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Particle physics involves an intense data science challenge: signals of interest, like for the Higgs boson are often buried in...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Adithan Kathirgamaraju (Purdue University) Title: Probing the nature...
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In this talk I will introduce a so-called “dipole portal” coupling between Standard Model neutrinos, photons, and a heavy neutral...
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Our understanding of the dynamics of our Local Group of galaxies has changed dramatically over the past few years owing...
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There's More than One Way to Simulate a Galaxy (or, There Will Be Lots of Movies in this Talk) Dr. Sarah...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Lucy McNeil (Monash) Talk Title: Probing...
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Just over one year ago, the merger of two neutron stars was detected in both gravitational and electromagnetic radiation. The...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Mass ejection is involved in the generation of many types of electromagnetic transient, often in the presence of at least...
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The electric field experienced by a travelling electron translates, in its rest frame, to a magnetic field proportional to its...
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Recent anomalies, with respect to the Standard Model predictions, of experimental results in B-physics, in the tau and muon sectors,...
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Building Stellar Nurseries: Using the Hubble Space Telescope to Investigate Interstellar Cold CloudsCody Dirks, Graduate Student Understanding the star-formation process entails...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents a Special Seminar featuring: Carl-Johan Haster (MIT Kavli Institute...
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Weakly nonlinear excitations are a fundamental characterization technique used in optics, acoustics, heat transfer, and other fields. This talk reviews...
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For most people, X rays bring medical imaging to mind, while for astronomers they provide one window into the cosmos....
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Tanmoy Laskar (University of Bath) Title: GRBs:...
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Abstract to be added Seminar Speaker: Tongyan Lin, UCSD Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium Dr. Katrin HeitmannPhysicist, Computational Scientist at...
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Recent advances in DNA nanotechnology, protein engineering, and polymer chemistry allow for the design of material systems where specific local...
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Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Prakriti Choudhury (Indian Institute...
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Observe the total lunar eclipse at the historic Dearborn Observatory, and talk to Northwestern astronomers! Hot chocolate provided at Dearborn while...
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The physics of dark matter and dark energy influences cosmological structure growth over a wide range of distance scales. Observational...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents a Special Seminar featuring: Marco Berton (Finnish Centre for Astronomy...
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Many processes in biology, from antibody production to tissue differentiation, require physical interactions between distant DNA segments. Genomic interactions are,...
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We will describe in this talk our recent results on optical trapping and Λ-enhanced laser cooling and imaging of CaF...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Due to predicted snowstorm tomorrow,...
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Thanks to more than 20 years of dedicated searches for exoplanets, we now know of the existence of thousands of...
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Recent single-cell measurements show that cell volume and mass increase exponentially in time during the cell cycle for organisms across...
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Recently there have been several proposals of low-energy precision experiments that can search for new particles, new forces, and the...
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The SM describes the building blocks of matter and their interactions. It has been tested extensively with experimental data and...
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Stars orbiting in the halo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, are a window into the distribution of dark matter....
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Hooke's law states that the deformations or strains experienced by an elastic object are proportional to the applied forces or...
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Examine closely the world around you and many things that you take for granted are astonishing. Take, for example, a...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
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This talk will present effective field theories (EFTs) in the context of studying gravitational waves emitted from radiating compact binary...
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A decade ago, large surveys of cold gas in other galaxies achieved physical resolution of order a kiloparsec. Large mapping...
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Constructing Scattering Amplitudes of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons Zhewei Yin People have long been developing new ideas on formulating and calculating scattering amplitudes. I...
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Many physiological properties of genetically identical bacteria in identical environments can vary from cell to cell due to small-number fluctuations...
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Models of systems biology, climate change, ecology, complex instruments, and macroeconomics have parameters that are hard or impossible to measure...
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Neutrinos are described in the Standard Model (SM) by three left-handed fermion fields, one for each fermion generation. In the...
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Accreting supermassive black holes can produce more electromagnetic and kinetic luminosities than the combined stellar luminosity of an entire galaxy....
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The nucleus of many galaxies is the source of a massive outflow of gas that can shape the future evolution...
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We are witnessing an unprecedented boom in biological data availability, inevitably leading to a turning point, where theory can be...
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Modern quantum technologies frequently use superconducting materials that are experimentally realized as thin-film circuits or hybrid structure operating in the...
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Following LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves from the merger of a binary black hole, several colleagues and I speculated that...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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• “Sub-GeV Dark Matter Reach In LXe-TPCs with Hydrogen Doping”Dylan Temples, Northwestern University Dark matter direct detection experiments seek to characterize...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will talk about my recent work on the strong CP problem and the neutrino mass. We...
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Abstract: A large number of close-in super-Earths have now been discovered.How they form, and how they relate to other classes of...
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'Quantum Sensors' fundamentally exploit the macroscopic 'entanglement' of wave functions in quantum systems and can potentially reach far higher sensitivities...
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With Run 2 of the LHC recently concluded we have seen major advances in our understanding of the Higgs boson...
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Planetary systems form in the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. In the past few years, very...
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You may think that scientific ballooning combines the gentle joy of a hot air balloon ride with the excitement of...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Antonella Palmese (Fermilab) Title: Gravitational wave...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Multiple experimental evidences show that neutrinos are massive. Among the plethora of models which explain the smallness of neutrino masses,...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) jointly with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering presents:...
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Robots today rely on rigid components and electric motors based on metal and magnets, making them heavy, unsafe near humans,...
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Light axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to photons can mediate light-by-light scattering; in classical field theory terms, they induce cubic...
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The ability to dictate the trajectories and docking sites of colloidal objects has far-reaching implications in fields ranging from reconfigurable...
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The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) and Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: Dr. Sean...
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In the Standard Model the Higgs boson is a very narrow resonance and therefore measuring its width is challenging.How can...
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There has been tremendous growth in studying nonequilibrium systems of particle assemblies which can exhibit jamming effects in the absence...
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The first direct detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 with the measurement of the coalescence of two...
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Despite the fact that no one had ever measured motions as small as 1/1000 of a nuclear radius or that...
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The observations of gravitational waves from the mergers of compact binary sources opens a new way to learn about the...
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The observations of gravitational waves from the mergers of compact binary sources opens a new way to learn about the...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
During a core-collapse supernova, a large number of neutrinos are emitted, which carry away a major fraction of the binding...
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In the last decade, we have established the existence of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) of sub-millisecond durations, likely originating...
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Living cells navigate complex environments to perform diverse functions by integrating the capabilities of sensing, computation, and actuation. The pursuit...
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When we observe the first terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres, we expect to find planets at a wide range of geological conditions...
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From planets to super-massive black holes, accretion (the accumulation of matter on a self-gravitating body through gravity) is the process...
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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a newly discovered astrophysical phenomenon consisting of short (few ms) bursts of radio waves. FRBs...
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Spatially localized structures arise frequently in driven dissipativesystems. In this lecture I will describe a number of examples fromdifferent physical...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Charlie Telesco (University of Florida,...
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We examine the prospects for coherent spin-transformations of Majorana neutrinos (i.e., neutrino-antineutrino transformations) in a core-collapse supernova environment. We observe...
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In the early 90s, Gordon, Webb, and Wolpert famously demonstrated that the answer to Mark Kac's question "Can one hear...
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Recent advancements in spintronic techniques originally developed for spin-based devices now enable us to study fundamental spin physics of various...
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Quantum mechanics plays a crucial, albeit often overlooked, role in our understanding of the Earth's climate. In this talk three...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Understanding the particle model(s) of dark matter is a major endeavor in particle physics and cosmology, and in recent years...
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018 and is undergoing a near all-sky survey to search for...
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Populations of self-propelled living or synthetic microparticles, e.g., bacteria or chemically-activated colloids can collectively exhibit behavior that on the macroscale...
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Our universe seems to be remarkably simple. With six basic numbers including the age of the universe, the density of...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Randolf Klein (USRA / SOFIA) Title: SOFIA:...
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Advanced LIGO and Virgo have already detected black holes crashing into each other at least ten times. With their upgrades...
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Recent experimental work with “bubble” traps opens up a path to observe BECs in a new geometry: confined to the...
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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, the first focusing high-energy X-ray (3 – 79 keV) telescope in orbit, extends sensitive X-ray...
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It is well-established that fast-spinning millisecond pulsars are neutron stars recycled through accretion from binary companions. For most millisecond pulsars...
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Over the past two decades, the advent of systematic time-domain optical imaging surveys has opened a new window of discovery...
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Conventional superconductors such as Pb or Nb exhibit above-gap features in the tunneling conductance that correspond to peaks in the...
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It is well-known that the core regions of proteins are densely packed. Prior studies have even suggested that the packing fraction...
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Eta Carinae is the most massive and most luminous evolved star known in the Local Group, and it provides a...
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Highly deformable structures characterized by a nonlinear response have enabled the design of new classes of tunable and responsive systems...
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Electrons in most materials experience dramatic and frequent scattering from other electrons, phonons, and a variety of other excitations. Such...
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An abundance of evidence suggests that most of the Universe is composed of matter that cannot be seen, called dark...
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Gravity waves are low frequency fluid oscillations restored by buoyancy forces in planetary and stellar interiors. Despite their ubiquity, the...
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Over the past few decades, our view of metals has undergone a transformation. While conventional metals are understood within the...
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The proton and neutron, known as nucleons, are the fundamental building blocks of all atomic nuclei and make up essentially...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Anna Ho (Caltech) Title: The Landscape of...
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Nuclear reactors have long been a boon to neutrino research — indeed, neutrinos were discovered at a commercial reactor facility....
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Living tissues are mechanically supported by elastic networks, which need to be soft enough to allow for cell migration and...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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The properties that make nitrogen vacancies in diamond good qubits, for example long coherence times at room temperature, also make...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Problems of interacting quantum magnetic moments become exponentially complex with increasing number of particles. As a result, classical equations are...
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Public Events
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: a SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE ON TRANSIENTSAndrew J. ConnollyProfessor...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Red supergiants (RSGs) are the helium-fusing descendants of moderately massive (10-25Mo) stars. As the coldest and largest (in physical size)...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont (Caltech) Title: Insights...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Once there is a global U(1) symmetry broken at a high-energy scale f_a, we will have a light axion-like particle...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Searches for exoplanets have revealed a remarkable diversity of worlds, and comparative studies of their properties have begun in earnest....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Flocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between self-propelled (active) individuals...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Fast radio bursts are frequent, bright millisecond bursts of radio emission that have fortunately turned out to not be from...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Rapid follow-up of neutron star mergers and short GRBs Kerry Paterson, Postdoctoral Associate, CIERA Short Gamma-Ray bursts (SGRBs) are highly energetic, relativistic...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
What would we be able to do if we could build electronically integrated machines the size of a single cell?...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Hard X-ray polarimetric observations of neutron stars, magnetars, and mass accreting black holes can give us qualitatively new information about...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The on-shell superspace formulation of N=4 SYM allows the writing of all possible scattering processes in one compact object called...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Massive black hole (BH) binaries and mergers are promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays and for LISA....
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
At present, quantum technologies appear to be on a tremendous ascent towards transformative applications in both simulation and sensing. To...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Cosmology is famously an observational rather than an experimental science. No experimentalists were present in the early universe, and the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The MicroBooNE experiment utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
The fundamental question in neutrino physics. Yuber Perez, Postdoctoral Researcher Are neutrinos their own antiparticles? That is, are neutrinos Dirac or Majorana...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Spreading processes, as in infectious diseases, social behaviors, or computer viruses, impact biological, social, and technological systems. To manage spreading...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: THE CIERA 11th ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Nearly all galaxies appear to harbor a central supermassive black hole. The origin and properties of initial black hole seeds...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The last decades have witnessed the emergence of the basic model of theoretical nuclear physics. Effective field theories exploit the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Numerous international astronomy reports have recently highlighted the need for fully dedicated, large aperture, massively multiplexed spectroscopy in the optical...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The collective modes of superconductors draw considerable interest as they are fundamental products of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the superconducting...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
New anisotropic states of superfluid 3He have been studied at ultra-low temperatures. They are similar to those in the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, the advantages of wavelet analysis (WA) for resolving data structures are demonstrated. Due to good scaling properties...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Astrophysical neutrinos, the “ghost particles of the Cosmos”, are unique probes of the physical conditions in their sources, as they...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Designing and Building Two Scintillating LAr Bubble Chamber for WIMPs and reactor CEvNS Rocco Coppejans, Postdoctoral Researcher The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC)...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Colloidal membranes are unique 2D assemblages consisting of a liquid-like layer monolayer of aligned rodlike viruses that are held together...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Multimode superconducting microwave cavities provide a hardware efficient means of engineering a large Hilbert space with high coherence, suitable for...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Understanding limits on the superconducting transition temperature Tc is a problem of fundamental importance. I will discuss rigorous upper bounds...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Despite the wide-ranging role Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play throughout astrophysics, we lack a firm theoretical understanding of how...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
In honor of Northwestern’s One Book selection, Hidden Figures, join us for a special CIERA Astronomer Evening focused on NASA’s...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This seminar has been CANCELED The Liquid Argon Time Projector Chamber (LAr-TPC) technology – with extraordinary event imaging, excellent particle identification, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Organic conductors are layered, correlated electron systems known to stabilize a remarkable diversity of ground states simply by tuning the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Jet substructure has moved from conceptual idea to integral tool in particle physics within a decade. This has been due...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Live Webcast links to view lecture Viewable: https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cb0a34f8-f0ce-493b-bb22-ab090178d5f6 Abstract: The Event Horizon Telescope is a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array operating at the...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
At present, quantum technologies appear to be on a tremendous ascent towards transformative applications in both simulation and sensing. To...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Dielectric polarization is omnipresent in soft-matter systems, as these systems often are comprised of organic materials suspended in water. In...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
In the past year, the longstanding goal of imaging a black hole has become reality. Two long baseline interferometry experiments...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
LHC, besides its amazing success in confirming our Standard Model predictions, has (so far) not delivered any direct evidence of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The radio sky is filled with transient phenomena that yield wondrous mysteries and opportunities in astrophysics. Radio pulsars, rotating neutron...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
RbEuFe4As4 is a recently discovered superconductor in which superconductivity and magnetic order coexist at unusually high temperatures with Tc ~...
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by RCTP
Seven Minutes of Scholarship will showcase researchers presenting their work for a technically-minded, non-expert audience. The goal of the symposium is to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The lack of evidence for SUSY at the LHC motivates new search strategies such as looking for scenarios with small...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: Dr. Jeremy D. Schnittman NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Host: Fred...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In order to function effectively, living cells must compartmentalize myriad chemical reactions.In the classic view, distinct functional volumes are separated...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss the recently proposed dark matter interpretation of the neutron lifetime discrepancy. The difference between bottle and beam...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Magnetic fields exert controllable forces that generate microscopic actuation and locomotion in soft materials with superparamagnetic or ferromagnetic components. Magnetoelasticity...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
We will consider hierarchical triples in which the outer star donates mass to the inner binary. Some of the infalling...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Utilizing complex networks with error bars István Kovács, Assistant Professor Network theory is a powerful tool to describe and study complex systems,...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Microbes live in complex communities that play a central role in global nutrient cycles. The flow of nutrients around these...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Development of a nanometer-scale magnetic sensing technique applicable to individual magnetic particles enables revolutionary progress in physical, biological and medical...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The most common sources in gravitational wave astronomy all relics of the past history of the Cosmos, whether we are...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Experimental analyses during the high-luminosity era of the LHC will call for an unprecedented level of precision in event simulation....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Observations have shown that nearly all galaxies harbor massive or supermassive black holes at their centers. Gravitational wave (GW) observations...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The most common kinds of interactions in physics obey a basic kind of reciprocity: when two systems or particles interact,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The European space agency's second catalog of the Gaia mission is revolutionizing astronomy. Arguably all scientific questions can benefit from...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Using a combination of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes, and the ALMA millimeter interferometer, we have begun to...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Understanding the microscopic chemical and physical principles that control organization and self-assembly in non-equilibrium conditions remains an important problem in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
One of the proposed approaches to realize a quantum computer is to make use of exotic Majorana fermion modes that...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Liquid Argon Time Projector Chamber (LAr-TPC) technology – with extraordinary event imaging, excellent particle identification, and fine-granularity calorimetry – coupled...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Magnetic fields, turbulence, and jet-driven outflows play a critical role in core-collapse supernovae and compact-object mergers. These transients belong to...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Symmetry and Structure in Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes Suna Zekioglu, Graduate Student Abstract: Scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity reveal rich structures...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Patients with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and most malignant of all primary brain tumors, receive treatment with radiation...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Why are the patterns of plankton in the ocean so patchy? Why do frequently described geometrical hallucinations tend to fall...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that, if it exists, may account for more than a quarter of...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Much of the history of radio astronomy concerns sources like Cygnus A, first observed in the late 1930s. Originally thought...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Clusters of galaxies are the largest objects in the Universe with the most massive baryonic component in the form of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I present aspects of precision phenomenology for current and future colliders with a focus on my own research. Seminar Speaker: Tobias...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Over the past thirty years, astronomers have made extraordinary progress in detecting planets around other stars. We now know that...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
From Observations to Origins: Disentangling Gas Flows in the Circumgalactic Medium Zach Hafen, Northwestern Astronomy PhD Student As much as half of...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
We will discuss recent results with active nematics confined to either toroidal or flat space. We will first describe how...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The co-evolution massive, early-type galaxies and their nuclear black holes is apparently regulated by feedback from active galactic nuclei. X-ray observations...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Why is the entropy of a black hole proportional to its surface area? One possible answer is holographic --- that...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Large near-infrared spectroscopic surveys have confirmed that star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon (z~2-3) exhibit emission line spectra that are distinct...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In Cosmology, most of the information comes from observing the small departures from homogeneity that characterize our universe: they tell...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
While the structure of the Solar System out to about 100 AU is well explained, beyond this there are trans-Newtonian objects...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Superconducting circuits have emerged as one of the most promising platforms for quantum computation as a result of rapid advances...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The recently developed skipper-CCD sensor allows the development of massive ionization detectors with single electron sensitivity. I will discuss the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Anna Grassellino, Fermilab Host: Sauls Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
TBA Speaker: Ilse Cleeves, University of Virgina Host: Diego Munoz Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The role of molecular spectroscopy in physics has evolved over the years. It was traditionally used to study molecular structure...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
TBA Seminar Speaker: Walter Tangarife, Loyola University Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Please visit our website for any updates. HEIKE E. RIEL DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IBM Keywords: Physcis, Astronomy, Heilborn
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Please visit our website for any updates. HEIKE E. RIEL DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IBM Keywords: Physcis, Astronomy, Heilborn
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Professor Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida Host: James Sauls Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Condensed Matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Please visit our website for any updates. HEIKE E. RIEL DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IBM Keywords: Physcis, Astronomy, Heilborn
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
TBA Seminar Speaker: Zahra Tabrizi, Virginia Tech Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Please visit our website for any updates. Jacqueline N Hewitt, MIT Host: Zadeh Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Radio Astronomy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago Host: Kovachy Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
TBA Seminar Speaker: Claudius Krause, Fermilab Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Jasmine Nirody, Rockefeller University Host: Marko Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
TBA Seminar Speaker: Matheus Hostert, University of Minnesota Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
TBA Speaker: Josiah Schwab, UC Santa Cruz Host: Kyle Kremer Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) is a hypothetical process, which is expected to occur if neutrinos are Majorana particles. While...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
TBA Speaker: Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA Host: Luke Kelly Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Tom Witten, University of Chicago Host: Marko Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The direct search for dark matter has been a long journey, with many null results. The much-hypothesized Weakly Interacting Massive...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
TBA Speaker: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz Host: Luke Kelley Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Maria Spiropulu, Cal Tech Host: Kumar Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
TBA Speaker: Keith Hawkins, University of Texas, Austin Host: Erin Cox Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Lindley Winslow, MIT Host: Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Physics & Astronomy department will be hosting a virtual end of the year event to celebrate our students on...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
To look inside of a Stern-Gerlach measurement, we consider the system of a spin-1/2 atom and two virtual detectors (quantum...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Gravitational-wave detectors are yielding a bounty of observations, and revolutionising our understanding of stellar-mass black holes. But what about the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
I will review recent breakthroughs in understanding some general features of relativistic Quantum Field Theory and associated structure in physical...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies brighter than Mr = −12.3 around one hundred Milky Way analogs at...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The chemistry of protoplanetary disks sets the initial composition of newly formed planets and may also regulate the efficiency...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Deformable sheets are ubiquitous in nature and industry across a vast range of scales, from graphene to metal foil to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Close double white dwarf binaries will be key sources of mHz gravitational waves for future missions like LISA. But...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Development of laser-based techniques to cool and manipulate trapped atoms led to a quantum revolution, with applications ranging from creation...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: One of the key objectives of modern astrophysics is to understand the formation and evolution galaxies. In this regard,...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Curvature is one of the most basic geometric characteristics of space. The original definitions of curvature apply only to smooth...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Stars are fundamental to astronomy, and how they form influences everything from exoplanet studies to cosmology. Stars form in...
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: AN ONLINE PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and open to...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Professor Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University Host: István Kovács Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Complex Systems
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA Web site: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/zaven.arzoumanian-1 Host: Giacomo Fragione If you know someone who would be interested in attending this talk,...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Professor Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University Host: Michelle Driscoll Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Complex Systems
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Professor Yang-Yu Liu, Harvard Medical School, Associate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Host: István Kovács Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Complex Systems
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva, CUNY CityTech Website: https://www.drvivianaacquaviva.com Host: Tjitske Starkenburg If you know someone who would be interested in attending this talk,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Tuguldur Sukhbold, Ohio State University Website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~sukhbold.1/ Host: Giacomo Terreran If you know someone who would be interested in attending this...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Alexie Leauthaud, UCSC Website: https://alexie.sites.ucsc.edu Host: Tjitske Starkenburg If you know someone who would be interested in attending this talk, please...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Renyu Hu, PhD Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Starshade Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Website: http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~ryh/ Host: Sukrit Ranjan If you know someone...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Professor Robert Leheny, North Carolina State University Host: Michelle Driscoll Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Complex Systems
