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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...
Jun
26
2018
Dr. Ahmad F. Taha: A Generalized Approach to the Sensor & Control Nodes Selection/Placement Problems in Dynamic Networks
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Dr. Ahmad F. Taha, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio Title: A Generalized Approach to the Sensor & Control Nodes Selection/Placement...
Jun
29
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Join CIERA graduate student astronomers for a discussion of gravitational waves & black holes. Our astronomers will briefly present their own...
Jul
27
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Aug
31
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Sep
11
2018
Alex Ruichao Ma: Strongly-correlated quantum matter with superconducting circuits
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Title: Strongly-correlated quantum matter with superconducting circuits Speaker: Alex Ruichao Ma, University of Chicago Abstract: Superconducting circuits have emerged as a competitive platform...
Sep
17
2018
HEP Seminar: Wei-Chih Huang, Baryon asymmetry, lepton number violation and asymmetric dark matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will illustrate how observation of lepton number violation affects the baryon asymmetry generation mechanisms in the...
Sep
24
2018
HEP Seminar: Kostas Nikolopoulos: Probing the Higgs Yukawa couplings at the LHC
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Higgs boson observation by ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has completed the Standard Model;...
Sep
27
2018
CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Joint with EPS: Phil Nicholson: “Cassini's Grand Finale”
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Jointly with the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences...
Sep
27
2018
CMP Seminar: Professor Dirk Morr: Quantum Engineering of Majorana Fermions in Magnetic-Superconducting Hybrid Structures
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The experimental observation of Majorana states in topological superconductors represents a major breakthrough in realizing their applications in topological quantum...
Sep
28
2018
Colloquia: Ana Maria Rey: Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and necessary...
Sep
28
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Oct
2
2018
Astro Seminar: Rachel Bezanson: The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Massive galaxies reside in the densest and most evolved regions of the Universe, yet we are only beginning to understand...
Oct
4
2018
CMP Seminar: Dr. Edward Dahl: Quantum Material Simulation on the DW-2000Q
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In the early 1980's Feynman observed that simulating quantum systems with classical computers can be prohibitively expensive and suggested that...
Oct
5
2018
Colloquium: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère: Galaxy Formation at Northwestern: From the Big Bang to Stars and Black Holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Galaxy formation is a core science driver of the majority of current and upcoming astronomical facilities. Astrophysicists want to know...
Oct
9
2018
Special HEP Seminar: David Neufeld, Dark matter that interacts with baryons: density distribution within the Earth, new constraints on the interaction cross-section, and a dark matter search currently under way in my basement
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
For dark matter (DM) particles with masses in the 0.6 - 6 GeV/c^2 range, we may set stringent constraints on...
Oct
9
2018
Astro Seminar: Lorenzo Sironi: Fast and furious: magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets and black hole corona
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Relativistic blazar jets and black hole coronae routinely display fast and bright flares of non-thermal emission. By means of fully-kinetic...
Oct
10
2018
Radio Astronomy Seminar: David Neufeld: Small Interstellar Molecules and What They Tell Us
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Observations at infrared and radio wavelengths provide a wealth of information about the molecules within of the interstellar medium. Because...
Oct
11
2018
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Mark Transtrum: Bridging mechanism and phenomenology in models of complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Physics-based models of complex systems often involve a large number of unknown parameters. On the other hand the collective behavior...
Oct
11
2018
CMP Seminar: Dr. Alex Koshelev: Peak effect due to competing vortex ground states in superconductors with large inclusions
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Immobilization of flux lines (vortices) is crucial for high-current applications of superconducting materials. Vortex trapping by self-assembled nanoparticles has been...
Oct
11
2018
CIERA Tenth Annual Public Lecture by Director Vicky Kalogera: The NU Astronomy of Stars, Black Holes, and Cosmic Explosions
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: THE CIERA 10th ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and...
Oct
12
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Ekta Patel; Sean Ressler
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Ekta Patel (University...
Oct
12
2018
Colloquium: Ian Low: A Modern Perspective on the Nambu-Goldstone Boson
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in Nature and underlies a wide variety of physical phenomena ranging from superconductivity to the...
Oct
15
2018
HEP Seminar: Boris Kayser: Addressing the Majorana vs. Dirac Question Using Neutrino Decays
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We will explain why the question of whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles is particularly interesting, and why it...
Oct
16
2018
Astro Seminar: Mansi Kasliwal: The Dynamic Infrared Sky
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The dynamic infrared sky is hitherto largely unexplored. The infrared is key to understand elusive stellar fates that are opaque...
Oct
18
2018
CMP Seminar: Professor Doug Natelson: Nanostructures for correlated materials
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Nanostructure and microfabrication techniques have been invaluable for unraveling physics in metals and semiconductors, since they enable patterning and electronic...
Oct
19
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Andrew Chael; Luke Kelley
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: What will the...
Oct
19
2018
Colloquium: Paul Chaikin: Quantifying hidden order out of equilibrium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
While the equilibrium properties, states, and phase transitions of interacting systems are well described by statistical mechanics, the lack of...
Oct
22
2018
HEP Seminar: Laurentiu Rodina: The Unique S-matrix
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will explore the surprising interplay between six basic principles underlying perturbative relativistic QFT predictions: gauge invariance, the Adler zero,...
Oct
23
2018
Astro Seminar: Brian O'Shea: Connecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Galaxies are complicated beasts - many physical processes operate simultaneously, and over a huge range of scales in space and...
Oct
24
2018
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Andrea Isgro and Ingrid Stolt
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
The N-jettiness subtraction scheme Andrea Isgrò, Graduate Student abstract: The increasing experimental precision in Standard Model measurements at the Large Hadron Collider...
Oct
25
2018
CMP Seminar: Professor John Saunders: Superconductivity in YbRh2Si2; electrical transport and noise experiments
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
We report electrical transport measurements on the putative heavy fermion superconductor YbRh2Si2 [1], over the temperature range 1 K to...
Oct
26
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Kung-Yi Su, Emily Leiner
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Kung-Yi Su (Caltech) Talk...
Oct
26
2018
Colloquium: Zvi Bern: A curious story of quantum gravity in the ultraviolet
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Recent years have seen enormous progress in our ability to computeelementary-particle scattering processes in quantum field theory.These ideas include applications...
Oct
26
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
Join CIERA graduate student astronomers for a discussion of gravitational waves and black holes. Our astronomers will briefly present their...
Oct
29
2018
HEP Seminar: Aram Apyan, Standard Model Results from the LHC
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The electroweak sector of the Standard Model (SM) of particles can be tested either with precision measurements of fundamental observables...
Oct
30
2018
Astro Seminar: Sarah Ballard: The Grand Planetary Ensemble
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The Solar System furnishes our most familiar planetary architecture: many planets, orbiting nearly coplanar to one another. However, a typical...
Nov
1
2018
CMP Seminar: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Seminar Speaker: TBA Host: TBA Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Condensed Matter
Nov
2
2018
CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Beth Willman: "The Most Magnificent Map Ever Made"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium Dr. Beth WillmanDeputy Director, National Center...
Nov
2
2018
Colloquium: Anthony Leggett: Liquid helium-3 and its metallic cousins:exotic pairing and exotic excitations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Liquid helium-3-A is the first laboratory system confidently believed to undergo Cooper pairing in a non-s-wave state,and it has been...
Nov
5
2018
HEP Seminar: Brooke Russell: Leveraging LArTPC Technology to Definitively Resolve the MiniBooNE Anomaly - Electron Neutrino Appearance Search at MicroBooNE
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
MicroBooNE is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) short-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment located at Fermilab on the Booster...
Nov
6
2018
Astro Seminar: Jack Lissauer: Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
More than one-third of the 4000+ planet candidates found by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are associated with target stars that have...
Nov
7
2018
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn and Eve Chase
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: A Look to the Future Eve Chase, Graduate Student Since 2015, Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have detected five binary...
Nov
8
2018
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Zvonimir Dogic: Topological defects in active nematics
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Inspired by the remarkable properties of the biological cytoskeleton which is driven away from equilibrium by a conserved set of...
Nov
9
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Tingting Liu, Kerry Paterson
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Tingting Liu (University...
Nov
9
2018
Colloquium: Dr. Geoffrey Greene: The Neutron Lifetime “Problem”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Within a nucleus, the neutron may be unconditionally stable. However, when liberated from a nucleus, it is unstable and beta...
Nov
12
2018
HEP Seminar: Shivesh Mandalia: Tasting New Physics with Astrophysical Neutrino Flavour in IceCube
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube Neutrino Observatory, detect astrophysical very-high-energy neutrinos from distant astrophysical objects. Here, we report the first...
Nov
15
2018
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Blaise Delmotte: Using hydrodynamic interactions for self-assembly and particle transport in synthetic and biological suspensions
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Small particles suspended in a viscous fluid interact via long-range hydrodynamic interactions. In this talk, we will explore different ways...
Nov
15
2018
CMP Seminar: Dr. V. Ngampruetikorn: Impurity Induced Anomalous Thermal Hall Effect in Chiral Superconductors
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
We report theoretical results for the electronic contribution to thermal transport for chiral superconductors belonging to even- or odd-parity E1...
Nov
16
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Patrick Sheehan; Nick Frontiere
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Patrick Sheehan (NRAO)Nick...
Nov
16
2018
Special CMP Seminar: Professor Can-Ming Hu: Cavity Spintronics
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Cavity spintronics (also known as spin cavitronics) is a newly developing, interdisciplinary field that brings together microwave and optical communities...
Nov
16
2018
Colloquium: Matthew Schwartz: Modern Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Particle physics involves an intense data science challenge: signals of interest, like for the Higgs boson are often buried in...
Nov
26
2018
Observational Astro Meeting: Adithan Kathirgamaraju: Probing the Nature of Relativistic Outflows in Binary Mergers
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Adithan Kathirgamaraju (Purdue University) Title: Probing the nature...
Nov
26
2018
HEP Seminar: Ryan Plastid: Neutrino Portals to New Physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk I will introduce a so-called “dipole portal” coupling between Standard Model neutrinos, photons, and a heavy neutral...
Nov
27
2018
Astro Seminar: Gurtina Besla: The Dynamics of the Local Group in the Era of Precision Astrometry
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Our understanding of the dynamics of our Local Group of galaxies has changed dramatically over the past few years owing...
Nov
28
2018
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Wellons and Alex Mercanti
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
There's More than One Way to Simulate a Galaxy (or, There Will Be Lots of Movies in this Talk) Dr. Sarah...
Nov
30
2018
CIERA Theory Group: Lucy McNeil, Erin Cox
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Lucy McNeil (Monash) Talk Title: Probing...
Nov
30
2018
Colloquium: Dan Kasen: Light and Gravitational waves rom Neutron Star Mergers
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Just over one year ago, the merger of two neutron stars was detected in both gravitational and electromagnetic radiation. The...
Nov
30
2018
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Conferences/Collab Meetings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Dec
4
2018
Astro Seminar: Rodrigo Fernández: Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Mass ejection is involved in the generation of many types of electromagnetic transient, often in the presence of at least...
Dec
6
2018
CMP Seminar: Professor Christos Panagopoulos: Tunable Room Temparature Skyrmions
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The electric field experienced by a travelling electron translates, in its rest frame, to a magnetic field proportional to its...
Dec
10
2018
HEP Seminar: Mariano Quiros: Natural LFU violation in warped space
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Recent anomalies, with respect to the Standard Model predictions, of experimental results in B-physics, in the tau and muon sectors,...
Dec
12
2018
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Building Stellar Nurseries: Using the Hubble Space Telescope to Investigate Interstellar Cold CloudsCody Dirks, Graduate Student Understanding the star-formation process entails...
Dec
14
2018
Special Seminar: Carl-Johan Haster: The Future of Gravitational Wave Inference - Problems to Solve Over the Next Few Years
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents a Special Seminar featuring: Carl-Johan Haster (MIT Kavli Institute...
Jan
10
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Randy Ewoldt: Weakly-nonlinear viscoelastic rheometry
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Weakly nonlinear excitations are a fundamental characterization technique used in optics, acoustics, heat transfer, and other fields. This talk reviews...
Jan
11
2019
Colloquium: Chris Jacobsen: X-ray microscopy: smaller, colder, brighter, and more colorful
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
For most people, X rays bring medical imaging to mind, while for astronomers they provide one window into the cosmos....
Jan
14
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Tanmoy Laskar: "GRBs: The Radio Revolution"
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Tanmoy Laskar (University of Bath) Title: GRBs:...
Jan
14
2019
HEP Seminar: Tongyan Lin: Light Dark Matter Models
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract to be added Seminar Speaker: Tongyan Lin, UCSD Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
Jan
15
2019
CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Katrin Heitmann: Exploring the Dark Universe
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 CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium Dr. Katrin HeitmannPhysicist, Computational Scientist at...
Jan
17
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Carl Goodrich: Learning from nature: physical mechanisms for biomimetic functionality
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Recent advances in DNA nanotechnology, protein engineering, and polymer chemistry allow for the design of material systems where specific local...
Jan
18
2019
CIERA Theory Group: Prakriti Choudhury, Chris Pankow
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Theory Group Meetings
Friday Theory Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Prakriti Choudhury (Indian Institute...
Jan
20
2019
Total Lunar Eclipse with CIERA Astronomers
9:30 PM - 11:45 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Public Events
Observe the total lunar eclipse at the historic Dearborn Observatory, and talk to Northwestern astronomers! Hot chocolate provided at Dearborn while...
Jan
22
2019
Astro Seminar: Andrew Hearin: Modeling Cosmological Structure Formation with Extreme-Scale Simulations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The physics of dark matter and dark energy influences cosmological structure growth over a wide range of distance scales. Observational...
Jan
23
2019
Special Seminar: Marco Berton: "Rogue NLS1 - An AGN story"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Seminars
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents a Special Seminar featuring: Marco Berton (Finnish Centre for Astronomy...
Jan
24
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Yaojun Zhang: Genomic interactions in the complex environment of the cell
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Many processes in biology, from antibody production to tissue differentiation, require physical interactions between distant DNA segments. Genomic interactions are,...
Jan
25
2019
Colloquium: John Doyle: Cold and ultracold molecules for quantum information and particle physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
We will describe in this talk our recent results on optical trapping and Λ-enhanced laser cooling and imaging of CaF...
Jan
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...
Jan
28
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: TBA: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Due to predicted snowstorm tomorrow,...
Jan
29
2019
Astro Seminar: Ben Montet: Understanding the evolution of planetary systems and their host stars from the ground and from space
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Thanks to more than 20 years of dedicated searches for exoplanets, we now know of the existence of thousands of...
Jan
31
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Jie Lin: From single-cell growth to population growth
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Recent single-cell measurements show that cell volume and mass increase exponentially in time during the cell cycle for organisms across...
Feb
1
2019
Colloquium: Asimina Arvanitaki : Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Recently there have been several proposals of low-energy precision experiments that can search for new particles, new forces, and the...
Feb
4
2019
HEP Seminar: Mia Liu: Using electroweak bosons and the Higgs boson to probe new physics at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the chances of such a discovery.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The SM describes the building blocks of matter and their interactions. It has been tested extensively with experimental data and...
Feb
5
2019
Astro Seminar: Ana Bonaca: Uncovering the nature of dark matter with stellar streams in the Milky Way
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Stars orbiting in the halo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, are a window into the distribution of dark matter....
Feb
7
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Vincenzo Vitelli: Odd elasticity
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Hooke's law states that the deformations or strains experienced by an elastic object are proportional to the applied forces or...
Feb
8
2019
Colloquium: Sidney Nagel: Impact and intrusion: patterns, structure and the texture of our world
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Examine closely the world around you and many things that you take for granted are astonishing. Take, for example, a...
Feb
11
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: TBA: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
Feb
11
2019
HEP Seminar: Michele Levi: Effective Field Theory and Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This talk will present effective field theories (EFTs) in the context of studying gravitational waves emitted from radiating compact binary...
Feb
12
2019
Astro Seminar: Adam Leroy: New Views of the Cold Gas in Galaxies
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
A decade ago, large surveys of cold gas in other galaxies achieved physical resolution of order a kiloparsec. Large mapping...
Feb
13
2019
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Zhewei Yin and Travis Douglas
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
Constructing Scattering Amplitudes of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons Zhewei Yin People have long been developing new ideas on formulating and calculating scattering amplitudes. I...
Feb
14
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Farshid Jafarpour: Statistical Physics of Bacterial Populations
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Many physiological properties of genetically identical bacteria in identical environments can vary from cell to cell due to small-number fluctuations...
Feb
15
2019
Colloquium: Jim Sethna : Sloppy models, differential geometry, and the space of model predictions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Models of systems biology, climate change, ecology, complex instruments, and macroeconomics have parameters that are hard or impossible to measure...
Feb
18
2019
HEP Seminar: Ivan Martinez-Soler: New Physics with Neutrino Telescopes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Neutrinos are described in the Standard Model (SM) by three left-handed fermion fields, one for each fermion generation. In the...
Feb
19
2019
Astro Seminar: Erin Kara: X-ray reverberation in accreting black holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Accreting supermassive black holes can produce more electromagnetic and kinetic luminosities than the combined stellar luminosity of an entire galaxy....
Feb
20
2019
Radio Astronomy Seminar: Felix Lockman: Neutral Hydrogen Clouds Tracing Energetic Events in the Fermi Bubbles from the Nucleus of the Milky Way
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
The nucleus of many galaxies is the source of a massive outflow of gas that can shape the future evolution...
Feb
21
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. István Kovács: Emergence of functional interactions in complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
We are witnessing an unprecedented boom in biological data availability, inevitably leading to a turning point, where theory can be...
Feb
21
2019
CMP Seminar: Patric Holmvall: Modelling mesoscopic superconductivity: The discovery of a new superconducting order
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Modern quantum technologies frequently use superconducting materials that are experimentally realized as thin-film circuits or hybrid structure operating in the...
Feb
22
2019
Colloquium: Marc Kamionkowski: Black holes, dark matter, and not-so-dark matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Following LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves from the merger of a binary black hole, several colleagues and I speculated that...
Feb
22
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...
Feb
25
2019
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series: Dylan Temples and Paul Williams
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
• “Sub-GeV Dark Matter Reach In LXe-TPCs with Hydrogen Doping”Dylan Temples, Northwestern University Dark matter direct detection experiments seek to characterize...
Feb
25
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: TBA: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
Feb
25
2019
HEP Seminar: Da Liu : Neutron EDM and the Neutrino Masses
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will talk about my recent work on the strong CP problem and the neutrino mass. We...
Feb
26
2019
Astro Seminar: Yanqin Wu: A uniform population of planets
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: A large number of close-in super-Earths have now been discovered.How they form, and how they relate to other classes of...
Mar
1
2019
Colloquium: Swapan Chattopadhyay : Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Science: Atomic Interferometry as a Probe of the Early Universe and the Dark Sector
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
'Quantum Sensors' fundamentally exploit the macroscopic 'entanglement' of wave functions in quantum systems and can potentially reach far higher sensitivities...
Mar
4
2019
HEP Seminar: Andrew Gilbert : Higgs boson measurements at the LHC and prospects for the HL-LHC upgrade
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
With Run 2 of the LHC recently concluded we have seen major advances in our understanding of the Higgs boson...
Mar
5
2019
Astro Seminar: Sean Andrews: Observing Planet Formation
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Planetary systems form in the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. In the past few years, very...
Mar
8
2019
Colloquium: Erika Hamden : Observing the Diffuse Universe in the UV
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
You may think that scientific ballooning combines the gentle joy of a hot air balloon ride with the excitement of...
Mar
11
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Antonella Palmese: "Gravitational wave astrophysics and cosmology with DES galaxies"
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Antonella Palmese (Fermilab) Title: Gravitational wave...
Mar
11
2019
HEP Seminar: Yuber Perez-Gonzalez: A natural and dynamical neutrino mass mechanism at the electroweak scale
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Multiple experimental evidences show that neutrinos are massive. Among the plethora of models which explain the smallness of neutrino masses,...
Mar
15
2019
CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Joint w/ ECE: Stefan Danilishin: "Measuring Speed"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) jointly with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering presents:...
Mar
15
2019
Colloquium: Christoph Keplinger: Artificial muscles for a new generation of lifelike robots
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Robots today rely on rigid components and electric motors based on metal and magnets, making them heavy, unsafe near humans,...
Mar
18
2019
HEP Seminar: Yoni Kahn: Probing the Axiverse with Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Light axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to photons can mediate light-by-light scattering; in classical field theory terms, they induce cubic...
Mar
21
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Kathleen J. Stebe: Embedded energy landscapes in soft matter to direct colloid motion
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The ability to dictate the trajectories and docking sites of colloidal objects has far-reaching implications in fields ranging from reconfigurable...
Apr
1
2019
EPS Seminar & CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Sean Raymond: "Solar System formation in the context of extra-solar planets"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) and Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: Dr. Sean...
Apr
1
2019
HEP Seminar: Luigi Marchese: Higgs boson width at the LHC
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In the Standard Model the Higgs boson is a very narrow resonance and therefore measuring its width is challenging.How can...
Apr
2
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt: Jamming and Clogging of Passive and Active Particles in Disordered Media
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
There has been tremendous growth in studying nonequilibrium systems of particle assemblies which can exhibit jamming effects in the absence...
Apr
2
2019
Heilborn Lectures: Gravitational Waves: Astrophysics, Technical Challenges and Prospects for the Future
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
The first direct detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 with the measurement of the coalescence of two...
Apr
3
2019
Heilborn Lectures: The Gamble taken by the NSF with LIGO
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Despite the fact that no one had ever measured motions as small as 1/1000 of a nuclear radius or that...
Apr
5
2019
Heilborn Lectures: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
The observations of gravitational waves from the mergers of compact binary sources opens a new way to learn about the...
Apr
5
2019
Heilborn Lectures: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The observations of gravitational waves from the mergers of compact binary sources opens a new way to learn about the...
Apr
8
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: TBA: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: TBA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Host: Raffaella Margutti
Apr
8
2019
HEP Seminar: Manibrata Sen: Supernova neutrinos: messengers of a dying star
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
During a core-collapse supernova, a large number of neutrinos are emitted, which carry away a major fraction of the binding...
Apr
9
2019
Astro Seminar: Vikram Ravi: "Towards the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
In the last decade, we have established the existence of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) of sub-millisecond durations, likely originating...
Apr
11
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Kyle J. M. Bishop: Colloidal Robotics: Shape-based Programming of Active Particles
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Living cells navigate complex environments to perform diverse functions by integrating the capabilities of sensing, computation, and actuation. The pursuit...
Apr
12
2019
Colloquium: Sarah Rugheimer: Detecting Biosignatures and Pre-Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
When we observe the first terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres, we expect to find planets at a wide range of geological conditions...
Apr
16
2019
Astro Seminar: Simone Scaringi: One (disk) ring to rule them all: linking accretion from protostars to supermassive black holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
From planets to super-massive black holes, accretion (the accumulation of matter on a self-gravitating body through gravity) is the process...
Apr
17
2019
Radio Astronomy Seminar: Vicky Kaspi: Fast Radio Bursts
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a newly discovered astrophysical phenomenon consisting of short (few ms) bursts of radio waves. FRBs...
Apr
19
2019
Colloquium: Edgar Knobloch : Spatially Localized Structures in Driven Dissipative Systems: Theory and Applications
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Spatially localized structures arise frequently in driven dissipativesystems. In this lecture I will describe a number of examples fromdifferent physical...
Apr
22
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Charlie Telesco: "Mid-IR Astronomy with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)"
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Charlie Telesco (University of Florida,...
Apr
22
2019
HEP Seminar: Amol Patwardhan: Neutrino spin-coherence in a core-collapse supernova environment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We examine the prospects for coherent spin-transformations of Majorana neutrinos (i.e., neutrino-antineutrino transformations) in a core-collapse supernova environment. We observe...
Apr
25
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Rosemary Braun: Hearing the Many Shapes of Fitness
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In the early 90s, Gordon, Webb, and Wolpert famously demonstrated that the answer to Mark Kac's question "Can one hear...
Apr
25
2019
CMP Seminar: Professor Se Kwon Kim: Spintronics in Quantum Materials
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Recent advancements in spintronic techniques originally developed for spin-based devices now enable us to study fundamental spin physics of various...
Apr
26
2019
Colloquium: Brad Marston : The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Climate Change
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Quantum mechanics plays a crucial, albeit often overlooked, role in our understanding of the Earth's climate. In this talk three...
Apr
26
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Apr
29
2019
HEP Seminar: Tongyan Lin: Three ways to shine light on dark matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Understanding the particle model(s) of dark matter is a major endeavor in particle physics and cosmology, and in recent years...
Apr
30
2019
Astro Seminar: Elisa Quintana: Exploring the Solar Neighborhood with NASA's TESS mission
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018 and is undergoing a near all-sky survey to search for...
May
2
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Petia Vlahovska: Active fluids of microrotors
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Populations of self-propelled living or synthetic microparticles, e.g., bacteria or chemically-activated colloids can collectively exhibit behavior that on the macroscale...
May
3
2019
Colloquium: David Spergel: Our Simple and Strange Universe
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Our universe seems to be remarkably simple. With six basic numbers including the age of the universe, the density of...
May
6
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Randolf Klein: "SOFIA: Recent Results and Upcoming Opportunities in Airborne Astronomy"
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Randolf Klein (USRA / SOFIA) Title: SOFIA:...
May
7
2019
Astro Seminar: Leo C. Stein: Testing Einstein with numerical relativity: theories beyond general relativity, and the precision frontier
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Advanced LIGO and Virgo have already detected black holes crashing into each other at least ten times. With their upgrades...
May
9
2019
CMP Seminar: Professor Courtney Lannert: Bose Einstein Condensates in a new geometry: thin closed shells
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Recent experimental work with “bubble” traps opens up a path to observe BECs in a new geometry: confined to the...
May
10
2019
Colloquium: Fiona Harrison : Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, the first focusing high-energy X-ray (3 – 79 keV) telescope in orbit, extends sensitive X-ray...
May
14
2019
Astro Seminar: Jay Strader: Compact Binaries and the Origin of Millisecond Pulsars
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
It is well-established that fast-spinning millisecond pulsars are neutron stars recycled through accretion from binary companions. For most millisecond pulsars...
May
15
2019
Rapid Fire Research
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
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May
15
2019
Special Astro Seminar: Ryan Chornock: Optical Spectroscopy in the Era of Large Transient Surveys
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Over the past two decades, the advent of systematic time-domain optical imaging surveys has opened a new window of discovery...
May
16
2019
CMP Seminar: Professor John Zasadzinski: Bosonic Mode in the Tunneling Spectra of Cuprate and Fe-based Superconductors
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Conventional superconductors such as Pb or Nb exhibit above-gap features in the tunneling conductance that correspond to peaks in the...
May
17
2019
Colloquium: Corey S. O'Hern: Do protein cores behave as jammed solids?
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
It is well-known that the core regions of proteins are densely packed. Prior studies have even suggested that the packing fraction...
May
21
2019
Astro Seminar: Nathan Smith: Light Echoes of Eta Carinae, Massive Star Mergers, and Pre-Supernova Eruptions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Eta Carinae is the most massive and most luminous evolved star known in the Local Group, and it provides a...
May
23
2019
Complex Systems Seminar: Professor Katia Bertoldi: Propagation of nonlinear waves in mechanical metamaterials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Highly deformable structures characterized by a nonlinear response have enabled the design of new classes of tunable and responsive systems...
May
23
2019
CMP Seminar: Professor Michael E. Flatté: New Materials for Quantum Coherent Electronic Technologies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Electrons in most materials experience dramatic and frequent scattering from other electrons, phonons, and a variety of other excitations. Such...
May
28
2019
Special HEP Seminar: Dan Jardin: A Likelihood Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Inelastic Scattering in SuperCDMS
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
An abundance of evidence suggests that most of the Universe is composed of matter that cannot be seen, called dark...
May
28
2019
Astro Seminar: Jim Fuller: Surprising Impacts of Gravity Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Gravity waves are low frequency fluid oscillations restored by buoyancy forces in planetary and stellar interiors. Despite their ubiquity, the...
May
30
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Anand Bhattacharya: LaNiO3 and SrTiO3-δ: a tale of two strange metals.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Over the past few decades, our view of metals has undergone a transformation. While conventional metals are understood within the...
May
31
2019
Colloquium: Jianwei Qiu: Nuclear Femtography - A new frontier of science and technology
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The proton and neutron, known as nucleons, are the fundamental building blocks of all atomic nuclei and make up essentially...
May
31
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Jun
10
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Anna Ho: The Landscape of Engine-Driven Explosions
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Anna Ho (Caltech) Title: The Landscape of...
Jun
24
2019
HEP Seminar: Jeff Berryman: "Confronting Anomalies at Reactor Antineutrino Experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Nuclear reactors have long been a boon to neutrino research — indeed, neutrinos were discovered at a commercial reactor facility....
Jun
28
2019
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Dr. Simone Dussi: Stress management in biopolymer networks
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Living tissues are mechanically supported by elastic networks, which need to be soft enough to allow for cell migration and...
Jun
28
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Jul
11
2019
CMP Seminar: Dr. Andrew Mounce: Quantum Sensed Magnetism: Nitrogen Vacancies in Diamond for Nano-Scale Magnetometry, NMR, ESR
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The properties that make nitrogen vacancies in diamond good qubits, for example long coherence times at room temperature, also make...
Jul
26
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evening: 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Aug
15
2019
CMP Seminar: Professor Victor Henner: Classical and quantum simulation of spin dynamics: applications to fast coherent relaxation in systems of nanomagnets and to several NMR problems
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Problems of interacting quantum magnetic moments become exponentially complex with increasing number of particles. As a result, classical equations are...
Aug
21
2019
Hotwired Public Lecture: Andrew J. Connolly: "Streaming the Universe"
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Special Public Events
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: a SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE ON TRANSIENTSAndrew J. ConnollyProfessor...
Sep
24
2019
Astro Seminar: Emily Levesque: Red Supergiants: New Perspectives on Dying Stars
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Red supergiants (RSGs) are the helium-fusing descendants of moderately massive (10-25Mo) stars. As the coldest and largest (in physical size)...
Sep
27
2019
CIERA Astronomer Evenings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Astronomer Evenings
CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
Sep
30
2019
Observational Astro Meeting: Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont & TBA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Observational Astronomy Meetings
Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont (Caltech) Title: Insights...
Sep
30
2019
HEP Seminar: Yongchao Zhang: Gravitational Waves in the Axion-Like Particle Model
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Once there is a global U(1) symmetry broken at a high-energy scale f_a, we will have a light axion-like particle...
Oct
1
2019
Astro Seminar: Ray Jayawardhana: Characterizing Exoplanets: From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Searches for exoplanets have revealed a remarkable diversity of worlds, and comparative studies of their properties have begun in earnest....
Oct
4
2019
Colloquium: Petia Vlahovska: Active colloidal fluids
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Flocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between self-propelled (active) individuals...
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...
Oct
18
2021
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
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