Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Planets form from disks of dust and gas surrounding young stars. As they grow, these new planets inherit their chemical...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrons are stable inside atomic nuclei. Outside the confines of the nucleus, they decay into a proton, electron, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
A wormhole, as first described by Einstein and Rosen in 1935, is a shortcut between two points in space. In...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Recently, sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used for the stability analysis and control synthesis of polynomial dynamical systems. This...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In the past decade, quantum simulators have increased in their power and scope, offering exquisite dynamical control of tens or...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
This talk presents an overview of my research on dark energy with focus on recent developments towards incorporating gravitational wave...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Anomalies in the flavor sector have attracted significant attention in recent years. Of particular interest for this talk are those...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Quantum mechanics is traditionally considered when measuring at the extreme microscopic scale, i.e. single photons, electrons or atoms. However, even...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Nonequilibrium dynamics is a frontier topic in quantum many-body physics that has seen remarkable advances over the past decade. Essential...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The population of stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored. Only a dozen black holes...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum technologies provide new base capabilities which open up new frontiers in sensing, networking, and computation. I will discuss the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Recent developments in jet substructure allow novel measurements of Higgs boson production at high transverse momentum. I will discuss these...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Chemical systems can deviate from equilibrium for a variety of reasons: because they are kinetically trapped, because they are subject...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Detections of neutron stars in binaries through gravitational waves offer a novel way to probe the properties of extremely dense...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using nuclei and other particles subject to the strong nuclear force have led to...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Parametric driving has long been used in weakly nonlinear superconducting circuits to create nearly quantum-limited ‘parametric’ amplifiers, which are in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
10 years ago, the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments opened a new chapter of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains the fuel for future star formation and the record of past feedback, making it uniquely...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This talk will be split into two parts. In the first half, I will discuss my work on developing a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss signatures of dark baryons that mix with the neutron at underground neutrino experiments. Intense neutron sources can...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the primary goals of discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector, determining the neutrino...
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...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
FRBs and gravitational waves are the only distant sources sufficiently coherent to exhibit wave optics phenomena in their propagation. Nominally...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The gravitational interaction of a tungsten source mass with atomic wavepackets has been observed in an atom deBroglie wave interferometer,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We present a phenomenological study of MicroBooNE’s ability to investigate e+e- final states produced in dark photon mediated neutrino-upscattering —...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Fast, high-fidelity multi-mode operations between microwave resonators are an important tool for bosonic quantum computation and simulation with superconducting circuits....
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The idea of using light to manipulate individual particles is well known: optical traps are a widely used tool in...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Over the past several decades, the scientific pursuit of “precision cosmology” has led to the currently accepted paradigm of a...
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
In the first 7 years of operation, ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected nearly 100 compact binaries, most...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: When properly engineered, simple quantum systems such as harmonic oscillators or spins can be excellent detectors of feeble forces...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A framework for performing real-time simulations of QCD on a one-dimensional lattice using quantum computers is presented. By including weak...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Diffusion is the most commonly encountered type of transport in nature, in classical and quantum systems alike. The diffusive...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Astrophysics is the perfect nursery for Data Science: we cannot touch the stars, we cannot explode them in a lab....
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will describe quantum-enhanced sensing of motional excitations and electric fields using a crystal of ~150 trapped ions formed in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We study low-energy scattering of spin-1/2 baryons from the perspective of quantum information science, focusing on the correlation between entanglement...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Family Weekend with a special walk-in only evening. The evening is free and open to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is a very successful theory that explains a large diversity of physical phenomena, that...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When a disordered jammed solid is sheared for many cycles at constant strain amplitude, it can relax until the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Standard accretion disk theory does a pretty good job of explaining the overall energetics of gas draining into black holes,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: In this talk I discuss the findings of the American Institute of Physics’ TEAM_UP Task Force that examined causes and...
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...
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....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Recent results from the Short Baseline Sterile Neutrino Global Fits are presented. Several new datasets, from experiments such as...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: A one-electron quantum cyclotron, quantum mon-demolition (QND) detection, inhibited spontaneous emission, a split dilution refrigerator, and a self-shielded superconducting solenoid...
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,...
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...
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....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Parity violation by the weak force was demonstrated in an experiment led by Chien-Shiung Wu in 1957 on the asymmetry...
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...
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...
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...
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Reunion Weekend with a special three hour walk-in only evening. The evening is free and...
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...
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,...
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,...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: A single trapped electron cooled to its cyclotron ground state-- the quantum cyclotron -- is the precision tool that we...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Understanding gravity in the framework of quantum mechanics is one of the great challenges in modern physics. Along this...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: In this colloquium I first review sources of high frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs). I will point out what can...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The MAQRO proposal for a medium-sized space mission aims to harness a deep-space environment to test the foundations of...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics describes virtually all measurements of elementary particles exquisitely well, and yet various astrophysical...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped Rydberg ions are a novel approach for quantum information processing [1,2]. This idea joins the advanced quantum control of trapped...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The remarkable precision of optical atomic clocks offers sensitivity to new and exotic physics through tests of relativity, searches for...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics has successfully passed virtually every empirical test in the laboratory so far. However,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The topic of this talk is matterwave interferometry with large-mass particles (molecules, nanoparticles). I will discuss recent progress with...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Measurements of the electron’s electric dipole moment (eEDM) test time-reversal symmetry and are exceptionally demanding tests of physics beyond...
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...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Recently it has been proposed to search for dark matter using mechanical sensors, exploiting the fact that all dark...
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...
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....
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum electrodynamics (QED), describing the interactions of electrons and photons, is the oldest quantum field theory. In 1949, the...
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...
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...