multi-day
CIERA Astronomy LIVE
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomy LIVE
CIERA Astronomy LIVE brings Northwestern astronomers to the public in an interactive online format. Trivia, short presentations and interviews, and...
Past Events
multi-day
"Particle Physics After the Discovery of the Higgs Boson" Inaugural Prize Lectures
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Department of Physics and Astronomy presents the Inaugural Sievert Prize Lectures, "Particle Physics After the Discovery of the Higgs...
Oct
8
2019
Astro Seminar: Matt McQuinn: Welcome to the era of FRB “cosmology”
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...
Oct
9
2019
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Kerry Paterson and Emily Leiner
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...
Oct
10
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Itai Cohen: Electronically integrated cell sized robots
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?...
Oct
11
2019
Colloquium: Henric Krawczynski: First Results from the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimetry Experiment
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...
Oct
14
2019
HEP Seminar: Gabriele Dian: Exploring the Surroundings of the Amplituhedron
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...
Oct
15
2019
Astro Seminar: Laura Blecha: Modeling the multi-messenger signatures of massive black hole evolution
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....
Oct
17
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Eric Holland: Superconducting Quantum Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
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...
Oct
18
2019
Colloquium: Daniel Baumann: Amplitudes Meet Cosmology
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...
Oct
21
2019
HEP Seminar: Lauren Yates: Status of the MicroBooNE Experiment
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...
Oct
23
2019
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Yuber Perez and Manibrata Sen
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...
Oct
24
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard: Adaptive Susceptibility and the Dynamics of Spreading Processes
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...
Oct
24
2019
CIERA Eleventh Annual Public Lecture by Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan: "Cartography of the Cosmos: Mapping the Unseen"
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...
Oct
25
2019
Colloquium: Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan: Black Hole Archaelogy: Tracing the Origin of Early Seed Black Holes
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...
Oct
25
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
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...
Oct
28
2019
HEP Seminar: Alessandro Lovato: Nuclear quantum Monte Carlo: an overview
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...
Oct
29
2019
Astro Seminar: Jennifer Marshall: The future of massively multiplexed spectroscopy: The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
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...
Oct
31
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Joshua Wiman: New approaches to the conventional Higgs mode
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...
Nov
1
2019
Colloquium: Bill Halperin: Macroscopic Quantum states at Ultra-low Temperature
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...
Nov
4
2019
HEP Seminar: Victor Henner: Why the wavelet analysis is useful in physics of resonances?
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...
Nov
5
2019
Astro Seminar: Maria Petropoulou : Active Galactic Nuclei as high-energy neutrino factories
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...
Nov
6
2019
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Rocco Coppejans and Aprajita Hajela
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)...
Nov
7
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Thomas Powers: Mechanics of Colloidal Membranes
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...
Nov
7
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Srivatsan Chakram: Quantum information processing using multimode cavities
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...
Nov
8
2019
Special CMP Seminar: Professor Mohit Randeria: Bounds on the Superconducting Transition Temperature: Applications to Twisted Bilayer Graphene, FeSe/STO and Cold Atoms
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...
Nov
8
2019
Colloquium: Ken Shen: A Revolution in Our Understanding of Type Ia Supernovae
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...
Nov
8
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evening: A Celebration of NASA’s Space Program / Hidden Figures
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...
Nov
11
2019
CANCELED - HEP Seminar: Ornella Palamara: Hunting BSM with Short-Baseline LAr-TPC Neutrino Experiments
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...
Nov
15
2019
Colloquium: Stuart Brown: High-field phases in layered superconductors
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...
Nov
18
2019
HEP Seminar: Sal Rappoccio: The future of jet substructure
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...
Nov
20
2019
Radio Astronomy Seminar: Shep Doeleman: The Event Horizon Telescope: Using Radio Interferometry to Image a Black Hole
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...
Nov
21
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Eric Holland: Superconducting Quantum Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
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...
Nov
22
2019
Colloquium: Erik Luijten: Dielectric manipulation of soft matter in and out of equilibrium
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...
Nov
26
2019
Astro Seminar: Jason Dexter: beyond the shadow
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...
Dec
2
2019
HEP Seminar: Daniel Wiegand: Constraining New Physics using Standard Model Effective Theory
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...
Dec
3
2019
Astro Seminar: Emmanuel Fonseca: Pulsar & FRB Astrophysics in the Era of CHIME
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...
Dec
5
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Ulrich Welp: Coexistence of rare-earth magnetism and superconductivity in RbEuFe4As4
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 ~...
Dec
5
2019
Seven Minutes of Scholarship featuring IDEAS Data Scientists
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...
Dec
9
2019
HEP Seminar: Jonathan Long: SUSY Searches with ATLAS and Potential Improvements from Track Triggers
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...
Dec
10
2019
CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Jeremy D. Schnittman: "Life on Miller's Planet: The Habitability Zone Around Supermassive Black Holes"
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...
Jan
6
2020
ESAM Seminar: Eric Dufresne, Ph.D., Growing Droplets in Cells and Gels
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...
Jan
6
2020
HEP Seminar: Bartosz Fornal: Neutron Dark Decay
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...
Jan
10
2020
Colloquium: Mónica Olvera de la Cruz: Control of Magnetoelastic Filaments and Membranes via Dynamic Magnetic Fields
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...
Jan
14
2020
Astro Seminar: Rosanne Di Stefano: Mass Transfer within Hierarchical Triples: New Models for Progenitors of Gravitational Mergers and Type Ia Supernovae
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...
Jan
15
2020
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: István Kovács and Mike Grudić
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,...
Jan
16
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Seppe Kuehn: The structure-function problem in microbial communities
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...
Jan
16
2020
CMP Seminar: Professor Mikhail Belogolovskii: From nanoSQUIDs to Josephson junctions with a multilayer Al/Ni barrier, an efficient route to nanoscale magnetometry
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...
Jan
17
2020
Colloquium: Shane L. Larson: Probing relics of the Cosmos in low frequency gravitational waves
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...
Jan
20
2020
HEP Seminar: Stefan Hoeche: Towards precision event simulation for collider experiments
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....
Jan
21
2020
Astro Seminar: Sarah Vigeland: Probing Massive and Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Waves
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...
Jan
24
2020
Colloquium: Aash Clerk: One-way quantum interactions for fun and profit
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,...
Jan
28
2020
Astro Seminar: Jackie Faherty: Visualizing a Billion Stars for Science and Education
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...
Jan
31
2020
Colloquium: John Martinis: Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
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...
Feb
4
2020
Astro Seminar: Erica Nelson: The emergence of galactic structure
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...
Feb
6
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan: Design principles for controlling organization and self-assembly far from equilibrium.
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...
Feb
7
2020
Colloquium: Dale Van Harlingen: S-TI-S (Superconductor-Topological Insulator-Superconductor) Josephson junction networks: a platform for exploring and exploiting Majorana fermions for quantum information processing
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...
Feb
10
2020
HEP Seminar: Ornella Palamara: Hunting BSM with Short-Baseline LAr-TPC Neutrino Experiments
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...
Feb
11
2020
Astro Seminar: Philipp Moesta: Magnetic Fields, Jets, and Turbulence in the Multi-messenger Era
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...
Feb
12
2020
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Suna Zekioglu and Nic Pavao
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...
Feb
13
2020
Special Complex Systems Seminar: C. David James: Patient Derived Xenografts for Studying Tumor Adaptation and Acquired Resistance to Therapy
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...
Feb
14
2020
CANCELED: Colloquium: Nigel Goldenfeld: Stochastic Turing Patterns in Oceans, Brains and Biofilms
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...
Feb
17
2020
HEP Seminar: Ziqing Hong: Probing Dark Matter with SuperCDMS in the Era of eV Sensitivity
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...
Feb
19
2020
Radio Astronomy Seminar: Roger Blandford: The Evolution of Extragalactic Radio Sources
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...
Feb
21
2020
Colloquium: Irina Zhuravleva: Physics of Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters: Bridging Large and Small Scales
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...
Feb
24
2020
HEP Seminar: Tobias Neumann: Collider precision phenomenology
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...
Feb
25
2020
Astro Seminar: Andrew Vanderburg: Preparing for Earth 2.0: The Detailed Properties of Terrestrial Planets
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...
Feb
26
2020
Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Zach Hafen and Matt Bressler
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...
Feb
27
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Alberto Fernandez-Nieves: Active nematics and topological defects
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...
Feb
28
2020
CANCELED: Colloquium: Brian McNamara: AGN Feedback and the Origin of Molecular Clouds in Massive Galaxies
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...
Mar
2
2020
HEP Seminar: Bogdan Stoica: Bit Threads: Understanding Gravitation from Quantum Entanglement
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...
Mar
3
2020
Astro Seminar: Allison Strom: Rethinking metallicity: the quest to measure the chemistry of distant galaxies
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...
Mar
6
2020
Colloquium: Leonardo Senatore: Cosmological Large-Scale Structure: from Field Theory to Data
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...
Mar
9
2020
HEP Seminar: James Unwin: A Black Hole at the Edge of our Solar System?
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...
Mar
11
2020
Special Colloquium: Quantum information processing using multimode circuit-QED
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...
Mar
13
2020
Postponed: Colloquium: Juan Estrada: Dark Matter and Neutrinos with Low Threshold Silicon Detectors
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...
Mar
20
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Anna Grassellino: TBD
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
Mar
31
2020
Cancelled: Astro Seminar: Ilse Cleeves: TBA
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
Apr
3
2020
Cancelled- Colloquium: Kang-Kuen Ni: Bringing Together Physics and Chemistry with Ultracold Polar Molecules
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...
Apr
6
2020
Cancelled HEP Seminar: Walter Tangarife: TBA
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
Apr
9
2020
Postponed CMP Seminar: Professor Peter Hirschfeld: TBA
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
Apr
13
2020
Cancelled HEP Seminar: Zahra Tabrizi: TBA
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
Apr
15
2020
Postponed: Radio Astronomy Seminar: Jacqueline N Hewitt: Progress in 21cm Line Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn
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
Apr
17
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Cheng Chin: TBD
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
Apr
20
2020
Cancelled HEP Seminar: Claudius Krause: TBA
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
Apr
24
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Jasmine Nirody: TBD
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
Apr
27
2020
Cancelled HEP Seminar: Matheus Hostert: TBA
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
Apr
28
2020
Cancelled: Astro Seminar: Josiah Schwab: TBA
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
May
4
2020
HEP Seminar: Benjamin Schmidt: A ton-scale cryogenic search for neutrinoless double beta decay: the CUORE and CUPID experiments
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...
May
5
2020
Cancelled Astro Seminar: Zaven Arzoumanian: TBA
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
May
8
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Tom Witten: TBD
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
May
12
2020
Cancelled Astro Seminar: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: TBA
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
May
15
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Maria Spiropulu: TBD
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
May
19
2020
Cancelled Astro Seminar: Keith Hawkins: TBA
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
May
29
2020
Cancelled Colloquium: Lindley Winslow: TBD
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
TBD Seminar Speaker: Lindley Winslow, MIT Host: Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
Jun
18
2020
Physics & Astronomy End of the Year Celebration
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...
Sep
22
2020
Astro Seminar: Stephen Taylor: Charting The Next Frontier of Gravitational-wave Discovery with Pulsar-timing Arrays
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...
Sep
25
2020
Colloquium: JJ Carrasco: Decoding the “DNA" of prediction, from the smallest to largest scales in nature
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...
Sep
29
2020
Astro Seminar: Marla Geha: The SAGA Survey: Exploring Satellite Galaxies Around Milky Way Analogs
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...
Oct
6
2020
Astro Seminar: Ilse Cleeves: Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares
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...
Oct
8
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Joseph Paulsen: The extreme mechanics of balloons: From interfacial films to inflated membranes and back
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...
Oct
13
2020
Astro Seminar: Josiah Schwab: 1 + 1 = 1: Single White Dwarfs from Double White Dwarf Mergers
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...
Oct
16
2020
Colloquium: Brian Odom: Adding Trapped Molecules to the Quantum Toolkit
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...
Oct
20
2020
Astro Seminar: Keith Hawkins: Galactic Archaeology with Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
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,...
Oct
22
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Dmitri Krioukov: Ollivier-Ricci curvature convergence in random geometric graphs
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...
Oct
27
2020
Astro Seminar: Nia Imara: Star Formation Then and Now
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...
Oct
28
2020
CIERA Public Lecture by Shane Larson: "A Storm of Stars: A Living History of the Milky Way"
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...
Nov
5
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Hyejin Youn: Scaling in physics, biology, cities and beyond
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In this talk, we will have a quick summary of scaling theory's applications in physics, biology, and social science. In...
Nov
10
2020
Astro Seminar: Zaven Arzoumanian: A NICER Era for Neutron Stars and Black Holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aims to answer longstanding questions about the physics and astrophysics of neutron-star...
Nov
13
2020
Colloquium: Kam Moler: Quantum Rings of Many Things
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Electrons create magnetic fields, so materials that manifest quantum-mechanical and strongly correlated electron behavior must have magnetic signatures. Although...
Nov
19
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Karen Daniels: Fingers, fractals, and flow in liquid metals
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
A droplet of pure water placed on a clean glass surface will spread axisymmetrically, and a droplet of mercury will...
Dec
3
2020
Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Yang-Yu Liu: Human Microbiome: Our Inner Ecosystem
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: We coexist with a vast number of microbes that live in and on our bodies. Those microbes and their genes...
Jan
8
2021
Colloquium: Professor B.S. Sathyaprakash: A Panorama of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have continued to make breakthrough discoveries that are testing conventional wisdom and setting new challenges for...
Jan
19
2021
Astro Seminar: Viviana Acquaviva: Understanding the Universe through distant galaxies
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Understanding the physical properties of galaxies and how they change through cosmic time allows us to learn about the...
Jan
25
2021
HEP Seminar: Vedran Brdar: Gravitational waves and new physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will discuss gravitational wave signature arising from first order phase transition in...
Jan
26
2021
Astro Seminar: Tuguldur Sukhbold: Islands of explosions in a sea of implosions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The wealth of observational data on supernova light curves, compact object masses, and chemical abundances hold critical clues on how...
Jan
29
2021
Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani: Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The data science revolution is finally enabling the development of large-scale data-driven models that provide real- or near-real-time forecasts and...
Feb
2
2021
Astro Seminar: Alexie Leauthaud: The Galaxy-Halo Connection from Gravitational Lensing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: I will begin this talk with an overview of galaxy-galaxy lensing and how it informs us about the connection...
Feb
4
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: William Witczak-Krempa: Conformal field theories and quantum phase transitions: an entanglement perspective
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Quantum phase transitions occur when a quantum system undergoes a sharp change in its groundstate, e.g. between a ferro-...
Feb
5
2021
Colloquium: Tracy Slatyer: Galactic Puzzles in the Gamma-Ray Sky
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Studies of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have revealed surprising excesses of apparently diffuse gamma-ray emission toward...
Feb
9
2021
Astro Seminar: Renyu Hu : Characterizing atmospheric chemistry in temperate exoplanets
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The era of observationally characterizing temperate exoplanets and studying their atmospheric composition has begun. Hubble and JWST already have...
Feb
11
2021
CMP Seminar: Pallab Goswami: Higher-order topology of quantum and classical materials
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Both quantum and classical many-particle systems can support topological states of matter, which are immune to smooth, local perturbations. The...
Feb
16
2021
Astro Seminar: Johanna Teske: A Statistical Population Study of Small Planets from TESS
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Recent results on the characterization of small planets have presented two questions: (1) Is there a range of super-Earth...
Feb
18
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Robert Leheny: Microscopic dynamics underlying yielding, stress relaxation, and rejuvenation of soft glassy materials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Any solid under applied stress possesses an elastic limit above which it fails. Failure of ductile solids is characterized...
Feb
19
2021
Colloquium: Eric Cornell: Looking for New Physics in the World’s Smallest Heavy Ion Storage Ring
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The very fact of our existence means Nature is hiding extra symmetry violation somewhere! We hope to uncover it...
Feb
22
2021
HEP Seminar: Xing Fan: Prospects for better measurement of the electron magnetic moment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Measurement of ��-factor of an electron provides the most stringent test of the Standard Model and probes beyond Standard...
Feb
23
2021
Astro Seminar: Nathan Leigh: Chaos in the Gravitational Three-Body Problem
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The gravitational three-body problem has a long history, extending all the way back to Sir Isaac Newton. In spite...
Mar
8
2021
HEP Seminar: Daniel Wiegand: Removing flat directions in SMEFT fits: Complementing LHC with EIC and PVDIS
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: LHC, besides its amazing success in confirming our Standard Model predictions, has not delivered any direct evidence of Physics beyond...
Mar
9
2021
Special Seminar: Marta Bryan, "Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Marta Bryan, UC Berkeley Website: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~martalbryan/index.html Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director Talk Abstract: Over the past two...
Mar
10
2021
Special Seminar: Jason Wang, "Capturing the Nature of Other Worlds"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Jason Wang, Caltech Website: https://jasonwang.space/ Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director Talk Abstract: Although thousands of exoplanets have...
Mar
11
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Zoltán Toroczkai: A continous-time, analog approach to hard combinatorial optimization problems
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Many real-life problems can be formulated in boolean logic as a class of problems where the task is finding boolean...
Mar
12
2021
Colloquium: Kerstin M. Perez: Scanning the X-ray Sky for Dark Matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The nature of dark matter is a driving question of 21st century physics. Dark matter particle interactions could imprint...
Mar
15
2021
Special Seminar: Kareem El-Badry, "Better together: binary stars as probes of stellar evolution and fundamental physics"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Kareem El-Badry, UC Berkeley Website: https://kareemelbadry.github.io/ Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director Talk Abstract: Binary stars are foundational...
Mar
16
2021
Special Seminar: Ben Margalit, "Unraveling the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Ben Maralit, UC Berkeley Website: http://benmargalit.com Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director Talk Abstract: Fast radio bursts are...
Mar
17
2021
Special Seminar: Adam Miller, "Lighting the Fuse: Mapping Supernovae to Their Stellar Progenitors"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Adam Miller, Northwestern University Website: https://www.amillerastro.com/ Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director In this talk I will...
Mar
22
2021
Special Seminar: Ana Bonaca, "The Milky Way as the frontier laboratory for cosmology"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Presenter: Ana Bonaca, Harvard University Website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~abonaca/ Host: Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, CIERA Director The Milky Way is a...
Mar
25
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Bank Fenyves: Synaptic polarity prediction and sign-balance in the Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal connectome network
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Dynamic networks are often signed, i.e. nodes can activate or inhibit other nodes via their connections. The proportion of...
Apr
2
2021
Colloquium: Andrea Young: Orbital magnetism in graphene heterostructures
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The earliest reports of ferromagnetism date to Thales of Miletus who lived and wrote around 600 BC. Thales noted...
Apr
6
2021
Astro Seminar: Alexander Ji: Understanding R-Process Nucleosynthesis with Stellar Abundances and Astrophysical Transients
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Half of the heaviest elements in the periodic table are synthesized in the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process), but the...
Apr
8
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Maksim Kitsak: Network reconstruction with hyperbolic geometry
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Geometric representations of networks, also known as network embeddings, are routinely used in machine learning, visualization, network science, and graph...
Apr
12
2021
HEP Seminar: Francesco Capozzi: Tip of the Red Giant Branch constraints on Axions and Neutrino
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The brightness of the tip of the red-giant branch allows one to constrain novel energy losses that would lead to a...
Apr
13
2021
Astro Seminar: Megan Ansdell: Feeling the Heat: Planet Formation in Massive Star Clusters
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Most planetary systems, including our Solar System, formed in stellar clusters centered on massive O/B-type stars. Mounting theoretical work...
Apr
15
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Sebastian Fuerthauer: Towards a physics of living materials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Living cells move, deform and divide. The engine of these behaviors is the cytoskeleton, a highly crosslinked network of polymer...
Apr
19
2021
HEP Seminar: Ivan Esteban: Long Range Interactions in Cosmology: Implications for Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Cosmology is well suited to study the effects of long range interactions due to the large densities in the...
Apr
20
2021
Astro Seminar: Jennifer Barnes: Origins of the Astrophysical R-process
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis is responsible for the production of roughly half of the elements in the Periodic...
Apr
22
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Stephanie Palmer: How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: An animal eye is only as efficient as the organism’s behavioral constraints demand it to be. Efficient coding has...
Apr
23
2021
Joint Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Jim Kasting: "The Search for Life on Planets Around Other Stars"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents a joint interdisciplinary colloquium with the Departments of...
Apr
27
2021
Astro Seminar: Lia Corrales: New Frontiers of Short Wavelength Exploration: From Astromineralogy to Exoplanets
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Short wavelengths of light, from the X-ray to the UV, can be used to probe the abundance and phase...
Apr
30
2021
Colloquium: Kang-Kuen Ni: Bringing together Quantum Chemistry and Physics with Ultracold Molecules
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Advances in quantum manipulation of molecules bring unique opportunities, including the use of molecules to search for new physics,...
May
3
2021
HEP Seminar: Julia Gehrlein: CEvNS gate to new physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEνNS) by the COHERENT collaboration in 2017 has opened a new...
May
6
2021
Complex Systems Seminar: Emőke-Ágnes Horvát: Studying Online Scholarly Communication at Scale Using Network Science and Machine Learning
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Scholars are readily disseminating their work online. As the general public, journalists, and interested government increasingly turn to online...
May
11
2021
Astro Seminar: Joe Anderson: Constraining the progenitors of massive star explosions: a meta-analysis of core-collapse supernovae 56Ni yields
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Massive stars end their lives in violent explosions as core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe). A large diversity is observed in...
May
17
2021
HEP Seminar: Jason Crnkovic: First measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration has recently released its first measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly with a...
May
18
2021
Astro Seminar: Greg Mosby: Analyzing star formation histories and near-infrared detectors using tools from machine learning
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Galaxies process the raw materials of the universe. Thus, studying the stars in galaxies and their histories gives us...
May
21
2021
Colloquium: Tim Gorringe : First results from the Fermilab muon g-2 experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The muon is a heavy cousin of the ordinary electron and like electrons the muon's magnetic. It's magnetic moment,...
May
28
2021
Colloquium: Thomas Searles: Tunable Strong Coupling in Terahertz Metasurfaces
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Recently, the study of ultrastrong light-matter coupling has gained increased interest due to its potential application in optoelectronics, plasmonics...
Jun
7
2021
HEP Seminar: Kun Liu: New Results from the SeaQuest Experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: What is really inside a proton? The fundamental building blocks of the proton, quarks and gluons, have been known...
Jun
24
2021
An Huang: Quadratic reciprocity as an adelic open-closed string duality
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: I shall discuss a proposal of an adelic version of open-closed string duality in the simple case of Green's...
Sep
17
2021
Guest Seminar: Professor Michael Trott: The Geometric SMEFT description of curved Higgs Field Space(s)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: In recent years, the effective field theory approach to the Standard Model, the SMEFT, has been used to study LHC...
Sep
24
2021
Colloquium: Jens Koch: Next generation superconducting qubits for quantum computing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The field of superconducting qubits is currently dominated by the transmon qubit. Over the course of more than a...
Sep
27
2021
HEP Seminar: James Mangan: Covariant Color-Kinematics Duality
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The modern S-matrix program focuses directly on observables like scattering amplitudes rather than any underlying actions. One of the...
Sep
30
2021
CMP Seminar: James Sauls: Strong-coupling theory of superfluid Helium 3
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: I present a strong-coupling theory for the stability and thermodynamics of the chiral A-phase of superfluid 3He based on...
Oct
4
2021
HEP Seminar: Zahra Tabrizi: EFT Constraints from Neutrino Experiments
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: We will discuss how to systematically study physics beyond the standard model (BSM) in the neutrino experiments within the...
Oct
5
2021
Astro Seminar: Philip Muirhead: The Race to the Bottom: The Search for Planets around Ever Smaller Hosts
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Results from NASA’s Kepler Mission indicate that low-mass stars, specifically M dwarf stars, are swarming with terrestrial exoplanets. The...
Oct
8
2021
Colloquium: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano: The Power of the Dark Side: Discovering New Physics among Dark Matter and Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model of Particle Physics is a triumph or our era; it is also wrong. We have come...
Oct
14
2021
CMP Seminar: Venkat Chandrasekhar: The Nonlocal Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) based on superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions form the basis of some of the...
Oct
18
2021
CANCELLED: Heilborn Lectures: Heike Riel: Progress in Nanoelectronic Devices - a Physicists Perspective
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
Oct
21
2021
CMP Seminar: Emanuele Dalla Torre: Quantum simulations with quantum computers on the cloud
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Quantum computing holds the promise to solve specific computational problems much faster than any known classical algorithm. Current quantum...
Oct
22
2021
CANCELLED: Heilborn Lectures: Heike Riel: The Future of Computing
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
Oct
22
2021
Colloquium: Jasmine Nirody: A tale of two motilities: adaptive biomechanical systems in complex, changing environments
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Natural environments are heterogeneous and can fluctuate with time. As such, biomechanical systems from proteins to whole organisms have...
Oct
25
2021
HEP Seminar: Minglei Xiao: On-Shell Basis of Effective Field Theories
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: An independent set of operators in effective field theories has long been a subtle problem, due to the many redundancies...
Oct
26
2021
Astro Seminar: Daniel Lecoanet: Mixing near Stellar Convective Boundaries
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Convective motions in stars extend beyond the boundary of a convection zone, leading to additional mixing in the radiative...
Oct
26
2021
CFP Colloquium: Alec Lindman: Atomic Tritium for a Next-Generation Neutrino Mass Experiment
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: The Project 8 experiment will make a direct measurement with sensitivity to much of the unexplored range of neutrino...
Oct
28
2021
Special CMP Seminar: Dr. Akash Dixit: Searching for dark matter with superconducting qubits
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with...
Oct
28
2021
CMP Seminar: Joe Aumentado: Next-generation quantum-limited amplifiers for superconducting quantum computing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Josephson parametric amplifiers have played an critical role in making superconducting quantum computing seem remotely viable. However, for many...
Oct
29
2021
Colloquium: Sidney Redner: First-Passage Processes in Physics and Beyond
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: A fundamental aspect of a random walk is determining when it reaches a specified threshold position for the first...
Nov
2
2021
Astro Seminar: Reed Essick: Gravitational Laboratories for Nuclear Physics: Constraining the Equation of State of Neutron Stars with Astrophysical Observations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Neutron stars (NSs) allow us to probe fundamental interactions at densities otherwise inaccessible in the lab, up to as...
Nov
9
2021
Astro Seminar: Chihway Chang: Weak lensing in the Dark Energy Survey and beyond
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk I will first give an update on the DES Y3 cosmology results using two-point functions of...
Nov
11
2021
CMP Seminar: Gabor Csathy: Exotic Paired and Nematic Ground States of the Two-dimensional Electron Gas
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: The competition of paired and nematic ground states occurs in several strongly correlated fermionic systems and, to date, it...
Nov
12
2021
Colloquium: Giorgio Gratta: The quest for neutrino-less double-beta decay
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos, the only neutral elementary fermions, have provided us with many surprises. Flavor oscillations reveal the non-conservation of the...
Nov
18
2021
CMP Seminar: Andreas Glatz: Towards Critical Current by Design
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Understanding the dynamic behavior of vortex matter in complicated pinning landscapes is a major challenge for both fundamental science...
Nov
19
2021
Colloquium: George W. Crabtree: Decarbonizing the Future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Climate change is becoming an ever more urgent challenge, with rising carbon dioxide levels, increasing global temperatures, rising sea...
Nov
29
2021
HEP Seminar: Yingsheng Huang: Fully-heavy tetraquark production with NRQCD factorization
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The $X(6900)$ resonance discovered in the double-$J/\psi$ channel at LHCb experiment has spurred intensive interest in unravelling the nature...
Dec
2
2021
CMP Seminar: Nikolay Zhelev: Superfluid 3He under nanoscale confinement
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological superfluid3He, with its unconventional spin-triplet p-wave pairing, provides a model system for topological superconductors, which have attracted significant...
Dec
3
2021
Colloquium: Matthew Toups: Hunting Neutrino Anomalies with MicroBooNE
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos are the most elusive fundamental constituents of matter. And yet these particles may hold the key to exotic...
Dec
9
2021
CMP Seminar: Yafis Barlas: Topological Phases and Hofstadter butterflies in two-dimensional crystals
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Large-scale interference Moiré patterns emerge when two-dimensional (2D) crystals are rotated at relative angles, generally referred to as Twistronics....
Jan
3
2022
CANCELLED: HEP Seminar: Alex Edison: Constructing the 6 Loop 4 Point N=4 super-Yang-Mills Integrand
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk, we'll discuss the current state-of-the-art for constructing multi-loop integrands in N=4 super-Yang-Mills. After briefly covering some...
Jan
10
2022
HEP Seminar: Matthew Lewandowski: Gravitational Causality and the Self-Stress of Photons
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: We study causality in gravitational systems beyond the classical limit. Using on-shell methods, we consider the one-loop corrections from...
Jan
18
2022
Astro Seminar: Maya Fishbach: Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have observed over 80 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and...
Jan
24
2022
HEP Seminar: Sapta Bhattacharya: An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC in multiboson processes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The effective field theory (EFT) approach posits that in a scenario where new particles cannot be observed directly at...
Jan
25
2022
Astro Seminar: Luke Kelley: Binary AGN and their Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Pulsar timing arrays search for low-frequency gravitational waves by analyzing the radio waves from millisecond pulsars distributed throughout the...
Jan
28
2022
Colloquium: Andrew Houck: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Superconducting circuits provide a useful toolbox for science at the intersection of many different fields – materials, devices, physics,...
Feb
1
2022
Astro Seminar: Tjitske Starkenburg: Unraveling Galaxy Evolution: tracing observed galaxy properties to galaxy formation physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Galaxies form and evolve under a nonlinear combination of numerous internal and external physical processes. Together these processes determine...
Feb
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Nate Odell: Testing Lepton Flavor Universality with a Precision Measurement of the W Boson Branching Fractions at CMS
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: An apparent feature of the Standard Model is that all electroweak bosons couple equally to all three lepton generations,...
Feb
8
2022
Astro Seminar: Giacomo Fragione: Intermediate-mass black holes: past, present, future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Very little is known about the formation, evolution, and demographics of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). While the classical approach...
Feb
14
2022
HEP Seminar: Lance Dixon: Scattering Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theory and a New Duality
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Scattering amplitudes are the arena where quantum field theory directly meets collider experiments. An excellent model for scattering in...
Feb
15
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Patrick Sheehan: Unveiling Planet Formation in the Youngest Disks
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Surveys are now revealing a tremendous diversity in the properties of exoplanetary systems that can exist. A general paradigm...
Feb
17
2022
CMP Seminar: Kayla Nguyen: New Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Electron microscopy is transforming the physical sciences. Aided by a new generation of direct imaging detectors, cryo-electron microscopy won...
Feb
18
2022
Colloquium: Christopher R Monroe: Quantum Computing with Atoms
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped atomic ions are a leading physical platform for quantum computers, featuring qubits with essentially infinite idle coherence times....
Feb
21
2022
HEP Seminar: Ciaran O’Hare: Venturing into the neutrino fog
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The last few years have seen the largest underground dark matter searches rapidly approach their purported ultimate sensitivity limit...
Feb
23
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Maya Fishbach: Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational-wave catalogs
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have observed over 80 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and...
Feb
28
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Lena Murchikova: Sagittarius A* in its natural habitat
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Milky Way’s Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* is the closest to us supermassive black hole. It is...
Feb
28
2022
HEP Seminar: Eleni Vryonidou: SMEFT precision for global LHC fits
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk I discuss Effective Field theory as a way to probe new physics at the LHC. I...
Mar
2
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Allison Strom: The Quest to Measure Galaxy Chemistry in the Early Universe
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The chemistry of gas and stars in galaxies connects many seemingly disparate areas of astrophysics, from planet formation and stellar...
Mar
4
2022
Colloquium: Nancy Makri: Real-Time Path Integral Methods for Condensed Phase Quantum Dynamics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The unfavorable scaling of wavefunction storage severely impacts the feasibility of quantum dynamical calculations in finite-temperature condensed phase systems. Feynman’s...
Mar
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Juan Carlos Vasquez Carmona: Unravelling the left-right mixing using 0νββ decay and collider probes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In the context of the minimal left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay between current and future neutrinoless double...
Mar
8
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Jane Huang: Observational Frontiers in Planet Formation
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The discoveries of thousands of exoplanets have presented a number of puzzles about their properties and origins. Until recently,...
Mar
11
2022
Colloquium: Frank Petriello: Footprints in the desert
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is one of the great intellectual achievements of the late 20th century,...
Mar
15
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Anna Ho: Fast Transients: A (Fleeting) Window on the Final Stages of Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Compact Objects
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few years, the discovery of cosmic explosions has become routine: every night, robotic optical telescopes mosaic...
Mar
28
2022
HEP Seminar: Sara Mitchell: The observation of excited \Omega_{c}^{0} baryons in \Omega_{b}^{-} \to \Xi_{c}^{+}K^{-}\pi^{-} decays at LHCb
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hadron spectroscopy has received a lot of attention since the discovery of the X(3872) and pentaquark candidates. Over the...
Mar
29
2022
Astro Seminar: Joel Primack: New Challenges in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planet Habitability
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Hubble tension between measurements of H0 in the early universe vs. nearby can be resolved by a brief...
Mar
31
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Giulia Menichetti: Foodome Project: Tackling the Complexity of Food Systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Naturally occurring compounds and additives lack extensive records describing their presence in food, their quantified amounts, and their binding...
Mar
31
2022
CMP Seminar: Alex Gurevich: What can happen if we try to break a topological defect by astrong driving force?
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological defects provide symmetry breaking in systems with longrang order. Examples in condensed matter are domain walls and spinskyrmions...
Apr
1
2022
Colloquium: Julieta Gruszko: Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: The Search for Majorana Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Why is the universe dominated by matter, and not antimatter? Neutrinos, with their changing flavors and tiny masses, could provide...
Apr
5
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: At the Crossroads of Atomic and Solid-State Physics: Ultra-Cold Atoms as a New Condensed Matter System
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Gases of ultracold atoms share some of the properties of electrons in solids. Optical lattices influence such atoms in...
Apr
7
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: A New Measure: The revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since...
Apr
8
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein changed the way we think about Time. Now, early in the...
Apr
11
2022
HEP Seminar: Ashot Gasparian: New High Precision Measurement of the Neutral Pion Life Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The neutral pion is the lightest two-quarks strongly interacting particle in Nature. As such, the properties of Pion decay...
Apr
12
2022
Astro Seminar: Kate Alexander: Cosmic Extremes: Time-Domain Astrophysics in a Multi-Messenger World
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Neutron stars and black holes provide laboratories to study extreme physics and shape diverse astrophysical phenomena, from the origin...
Apr
14
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Martin Koppenhoefer: Quantum Synchronization: Framework and Implementation
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Synchronization is a universal feature shared by very different complex dynamical systems, ranging from electronic circuits to biological systems....
Apr
15
2022
Colloquium: Jan Tobochnik: Agent-based modeling of wealth distribution
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: What drives wealth inequality? An agent-based approach developed by physicists and mathematicians suggests that extreme wealth inequality is a...
Apr
18
2022
HEP Seminar: Kagan Simsek: Neutral-current SMEFT studies at the EIC
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been successful in describing all known experimental phenomena and with the...
Apr
19
2022
Astro Seminar: Fakhri Zahedy: The Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium and What it Teaches Us about Galaxy Evolution
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The extended (~100 kpc-scale) gaseous halos surrounding galaxies, known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), regulate the gas exchange between...
Apr
21
2022
CMP Seminar: Nick Poniatowski: Spin waves meet superconductivity
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Spin triplet superconductors are among the most exotic of quantum materials, featuring a rich phenomenology including topological surface states, fractional...
Apr
22
2022
Colloquium: Tao Han: Physics motivations for future colliders
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), high energy physics has...
Apr
26
2022
Astro Seminar: Diego Muñoz: A Revised Paradigm of Binary-Disk Interaction
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last five years, we have witnessed a renewed interest in the classical problem of binary-disk interaction, which...
Apr
28
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Leidy Klotz: Subtracting in complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When attempting to improve objects, ideas, or situations, people systematically overlook subtractive changesi. This new finding in cognitive psychology...
Apr
28
2022
CMP Seminar: Yulia Krasnikova: betaNMR and muSR for condensed matter physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Both betaNMR (beta-detected nuclear magnetic resonance) and muSR (muon spin spectroscopy) are experimental methods that can achieve low energy...
Apr
29
2022
Colloquium: Zahra Tabrizi: Beyond Standard Model with Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos were discovered more than 60 years ago, yet they are the most mysterious particles of the Standard Model...
May
2
2022
HEP Seminar: María Luisa Sarsa: Testing DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation result beyond three-sigma with ANAIS−112 experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: DAMA/LIBRA observation of an annual modulation in the detection rate compatible with that expected for dark matter is one...
May
5
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Christopher Moore: Fairness, Accuracy, and Transparency in Criminal Justice and Housing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: In criminal justice, housing, lending, and other areas that irreversibly affect people’s lives, decisions (or at least recommendations) are...
May
5
2022
CMP Seminar: T.C. Wu: Electromagnetic Responses in a Topological Superconductor and Weyl Superconductor due to Surface States
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk, we will present our recent study of electromagnetic responses in 3D topological superconductors and Weyl superconductors originating...
May
6
2022
Colloquium: Maura McLaughlin: Pulsar Timing Arrays See Red: Entering the Era of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. Pulsar timing arrays world-wide monitor over 100 of...
May
9
2022
HEP Seminar: Nabha Shah: Non-perturbative double copy in 2D
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Color-kinematics duality and the resulting double copy construction hold for a large class of theories and a lot of...
May
10
2022
Astro Seminar: Rosalba Perna: Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as interesting environments for the evolution of stars and the...
May
12
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Vivek Sharma: Surface Forces and Stratification in Micellar Foam Films
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Ultrathin films of soft matter containing supramolecular structures like micelles, nanoparticles, smectic liquid crystals, lipid bilayers, and polyelectrolytes undergo...
May
12
2022
CMP Seminar: Nikolay Zhelev: Quantum Materials at mK Temperatures
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Cooling down to low temperatures reveals the quantum nature of macroscopic materials. This has implication for both advancing our...
May
13
2022
Particle Theory Seminar: Rafael Aoude: Heavy Classical Scattering at 2PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: The classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables,...
May
13
2022
CANCELLED: Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna Host: Professor Timothy Kovachy
May
16
2022
HEP Seminar: Ashutosh Kotwal: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by...
May
17
2022
Special CMP Seminar: Andrew Huxley: Unconventional superconductivity and the possibility of half quantum vortices
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: A superconductor hosting moveable half-quantum vortices would be of particular interest for potential applications in quantum computing. I will...
May
17
2022
Astro Seminar: Jennifer Bergner: Volatile chemistry in planet-forming disks
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Planets form within disks composed of gas, ice, and dust in orbit around young stars. The distribution of volatiles...
May
19
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Arda Halu: Tackling biological context, one network at a time: Examples from network biology and network pharmacology
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Networks have proven time and again to be highly versatile tools in modeling biological interactions, finding useful applications in...
May
19
2022
CMP Seminar: Ivar Martin: How to evade thermalization in many-body systems
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: It was recently experimentally discovered that magnetically ordered states can persist far from equilibrium – even at energy densities...
May
20
2022
CANCELLED: Colloquium: Wolfgang Wernsdorfer: Operating quantum states in a magnetic molecule
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The endeavour of quantum electronics is driven by one of the most ambitious technological goals of today’s scientists: the...
May
23
2022
HEP Seminar: Xin Qian: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Xin Qian, Brookhaven National Laboratory Host: Professor André de Gouvêa
May
24
2022
Astro Seminar: Poojan Agarwal: Reconsidering the contribution of massive stars in star cluster simulations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few decades, our view of the cosmos has changed a lot. High-resolution data from both ground-...
May
26
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Rony Granek: Nano-particles carried by multiple dynein motors: A Self-Regulating Nano-Machine
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Native cargos demonstrate efficient intra-cellular active transport. Here we investigate the motion of spherical nanoparticles (NPs) grafted with flexible...
May
26
2022
CMP Seminar: Anton Vorontsov: Phase crystallization in superconductors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Superconducting properties arise from the broken U(1) symmetry by the phase of the electron pair condensate. In the traditional...
May
27
2022
Rapid Fire Research
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Describing your research in a clear, concise, and stimulating way is as much of an art as a science, and...
May
31
2022
Astro Seminar: Sarah Wellons: Simulating the Growth and Quenching of Massive Galaxies from the Early Universe to Today
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Great observational progress over the past decade has revealed how galaxies have changed over cosmic time. One surprising revelation...
Jun
2
2022
CMP Seminar: Christos Panagopoulos: Topological Solitons in Chiral Quantum Matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological solitons and quantum mechanics have been intertwined for the past 60 years. Even before the term soliton had...
Jun
3
2022
Colloquium: Brian McNamara: How Giant Galaxies are Shaped by Massive Black Holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: X-ray and radio observations have revealed enormous energy being released from the nuclei of massive galaxies. This energy, presumably...
Jun
6
2022
HEP Seminar: Graziano Venanzoni: Status and prospect of the MUonE experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The latest measurement of the muon g-2 announced at Fermilab exhibits a 4.2$\sigma$ discrepancy from the currently accepted Standard...
Jun
9
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Eric Corwin: Extreme Diffusion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Diffusion is pervasive in the natural world. Over one hundred years ago Einstein created a remarkably simple and powerful...
Jun
10
2022
Colloquium: Caterina Braggio: Quantum sensing in axion dark matter search
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Over the last 30 years, dark matter (DM) direct searches have focused on candidates with mass exceeding the proton mass,...
Jun
23
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes: Hunting mosquitoes with networks
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: In 2009, it was discovered that when Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia, transmission of...
Jul
7
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Jianxi Gao: Resilience and tipping points of complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: This talk focuses on understanding, predicting, and ultimately controlling real-world complex systems in an ever-changing world facing the global...
Aug
30
2022
AMO Seminar: Shau-Yu Lan: Cold-atoms laboratory in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Abstract: Confining particles in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers has opened up new prospects to scale up the distance and time...
Sep
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Yang Ma: The partonic picture and the SM expectation of high-energy lepton colliders
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
After the triumph of discovering the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, people are getting increasingly interested in...
Sep
23
2022
Colloquium: Sasha Tchekhovskoy: Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps, Fireworks, and Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Based on state-of-the-art general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, I will discuss how black holes feast on the surrounding gas, burp...
Sep
26
2022
HEP Seminar: Alex Edison: "Pushing the loop frontier in non-planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk, we'll discuss the current state-of-the-art for constructing multi-loop integrands in N=4 super-Yang-Mills. After briefly covering some of the key...
Sep
27
2022
Astro Seminar: Bing Zhang: Fast Radio Bursts: A mystery being solved
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts originating from cosmological distances and are one of the biggest mysteries...
Sep
29
2022
CMP Seminar: Anupam Garg: Title: The new and improved, fair, balanced, and optimized, buy-one-get-one-free, probably meaningless, approach to the high-spin classical limit of the spin-s Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment via the incorporation of detector
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: See title Speaker: Anupam Garg, Professor, Northwestern University Host: John Ketterson
Sep
30
2022
Colloquium: Wen-fai Fong: Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Transients
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: When we look up at the night sky, we see a static universe. However, observational surveys have revealed that...
Oct
3
2022
HEP Seminar:Zoya Vallari:“Probing neutrino oscillations with accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The long-baseline neutrino experiments continue to provide precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters by searching for the appearance of...
Oct
4
2022
Astro Seminar: Jenny Greene: Elves, Dwarfs, and (mini) Monsters
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Our Local Group has been a rich testing ground for small-scale predictions of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model,...
Oct
6
2022
CMP Seminar: Yi Li: Coherent information processing with hybrid magnonics embedded in superconducting circuits
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hybrid dynamic systems have recently attracted great attention due to their applications in quantum computing, communications, and sensing. In particular,...
Oct
7
2022
Colloquium: Nathaniel Stern: New Dimensions on Interaction of Light and Matter: Quantum Materials, Quantum Light, and Quantum Control
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The quantum conception of light consisting of particles of discrete energy, or photons, underlies its interaction with matter. For...
Oct
10
2022
HEP Seminar: Jeff Berryman: "Searches for New Physics in Neutron Stars"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The age of multimessenger astronomy promises to benefit numerous subdisciplines within physics. In particular, precision studies of neutron stars will...
Oct
11
2022
Astro Seminar: Emanuele Berti: Next-generation detectors: challenges and opportunities
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The observation of compact binary mergers by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration marks the dawn of a new era in astronomy. Next-generation...
Oct
13
2022
CMP Seminar: Ziwan Huang: "Dephasing and symmetry breaking in superconducting qubits due to non-Gaussian noise"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Noise has been a long-standing issue for further improving the qubit coherence times. It remains an important task to further...
Oct
14
2022
Colloquium: Jim Sauls: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Host: William Halperin Speaker: Jim Sauls, Professor, Northwestern University
Oct
17
2022
HEP Seminar: Dylan Temples: Results from the first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most compelling open questions in particle physics and cosmology....
Oct
18
2022
Astro Seminar: Shri Kulkarni: The Far Ultraviolet diffuse background
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Historically, the search for the inter-galactic medium (IGM) motivated the search for the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) background which in turn led...
Oct
19
2022
PACER Seminar: Lindsey Byrne and Helen Ansell:TBA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: TBA Speakers: Lindsey Byrne, Graduate Student, Northwestern University Helen Ansell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Oct
20
2022
CMP Seminar: Ruslan Prozorov: Limiting magnetic fields of superconductors with arbitrary potential and pair-breaking scattering
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: The upper critical magnetic field, H_c2, the nucleation field of surface superconductivity, H_c3, and the thermodynamic critical magnetic field,...
Oct
24
2022
HEP Seminar: John Hardin: “Exotic Neutrino Searches at IceCube and Beyond”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: John Hardin, Researcher, MIT Host: Andre de Gouvea
Oct
25
2022
Astro Seminar: Daniel Fabrycky: Exoplanetary Probes: Resonant Chains, Exomoons, and Tidal Dynamics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: I will introduce the mid-sized and growing list of planetary systems with 2-body and 3-body resonances among the planets....
Oct
27
2022
CMP Seminar: Adina Luican-Mayer: "2D Quantum materials and devices at the atomic scale"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Material systems, devices, and circuits, based on the manipulation of individual charges, spins, and photons in solid-state platforms are key...
Oct
28
2022
Colloquium: Mary James: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Mary James, Professor, Reed College, Portland OR Host: John Joseph Carrasco
Nov
1
2022
Astro Seminar: Mitch Begelman: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Mitch Begelman, Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Nov
2
2022
PACER Seminar: Cole Kampa and Maxwell Wisne: TBA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: TBA Speakers: Cole Kampa, Graduate Student, Northwestern University Maxwell Wisne, Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Nov
3
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Nathan Keim: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Nathan Keim, Associate Research Professor, Penn State University Host: Professor Michelle Driscoll
Nov
3
2022
CMP Seminar: James Rondinelli: Persistent Spin Textures and Where to Find Them
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: . Nonmagnetic materials with unidirectional spin-momentum locking, or persistent spin textures (PST), have been shown to exhibit spin transport...
Nov
8
2022
Astro Seminar: Federica Bianco: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Federica Bianco, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Nov
11
2022
Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna Hosts: Professor Andy Geraci, Professor Tim Kovachy
Nov
14
2022
HEP Seminar: Roland Farrell: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Roland Farrell, PhD student, University of Washington, Seattle Host: Ian Low
Nov
15
2022
Radio Astro Seminar: Jacqueline N Hewitt: Neutral Hydrogen Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Jacqueline N Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nov
15
2022
Astro Seminar: Salvatore Vitale: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Salvatore Vitale, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Nov
16
2022
PACER Seminar: Joe Michail and Sai Pavan Chitta: TBA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: TBA Speakers: Joe Michail, Graduate Student, Northwestern University Sai Pavan Chitta, Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Nov
17
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Dustin Kleckner: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Dustin Kleckner, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California Merced Host: Professor Michelle Driscoll
Nov
17
2022
CMP Seminar: Zizhou Jin: Title: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstrat: TBA Speaker: Zizhou Jin, University of Geneva Host: Anupam Garg
Nov
29
2022
Astro Seminar: Ue-Li Pen:TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Ue-Li Pen, Professor CITA University of Toronto Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Dec
2
2022
Colloquium: Dave Meyer: Experiencing Hubble: A Career in Astronomy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos through a variety of ground-breaking discoveries ranging...
Jan
7
2023
Sievert Prize Lecture Series: The Rise of Quantum Machines "Discovery of the Quantum Nature of Reality"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join the Department of Physics and Astronomy in our second annual Sievert Prize Lecture Series! This series takes place...
Jan
14
2023
Sievert Prize Lecture Series: The Rise of Quantum Machines "Early Development of Technologies based on Quantum Phenomena"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join the Department of Physics and Astronomy in our second annual Sievert Prize Lecture Series! This series takes place...
Jan
17
2023
Astro Seminar: Katerina Chatziioannou: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Katerina Chatziioannou, Assisant Professor of Physics, Caltech Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Jan
21
2023
Sievert Prize Lecture Series: The Rise of Quantum Machines "Creation of Quantum Systems by Design"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join the Department of Physics and Astronomy in our second annual Sievert Prize Lecture Series! This series takes place...
Jan
24
2023
Astro Seminar: Jessica Lu: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Jessica Lu, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Jan
28
2023
Sievert Prize Lecture Series: The Rise of Quantum Machines "Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join the Department of Physics and Astronomy in our second annual Sievert Prize Lecture Series! This series takes place...
Jan
31
2023
Astro Seminar: Marcelle Soares-Santos: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santo, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Host: Professor Giacomo Fragione
Feb
4
2023
Sievert Prize Lecture Series: The Rise of Quantum Machines "Quantum Computing in Principle: Quantum Physics and the Source of its Computational Power"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Please join the Department of Physics and Astronomy in our second annual Sievert Prize Lecture Series! This series takes place...