multi-day
Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...
Past Events
multi-day
Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...
Feb
7
2023
Astro Seminar: Meredith MacGregor: "How to Form a Habitable Planet"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Planets form from disks of dust and gas surrounding young stars. As they grow, these new planets inherit their chemical...
Feb
7
2023
CFP Colloquium: Chen-Yu Liu: The neutron lifetime puzzle
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrons are stable inside atomic nuclei. Outside the confines of the nucleus, they decay into a proton, electron, and...
Feb
3
2023
Colloquium: Joseph Lykken: "Wormholes in the Laboratory"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
A wormhole, as first described by Einstein and Rosen in 1935, is a shortcut between two points in space. In...
Feb
2
2023
Complex Systems Seminar: Marian Anghel: "Distributed Stability Analysis and Control of Dynamic Networks"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Recently, sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used for the stability analysis and control synthesis of polynomial dynamical systems. This...
Feb
1
2023
Special CMP Seminar: Anushya Chandran: "Quasi-periodic Driving: a Tool in the Quantum Mechanic's Toolbox"
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In the past decade, quantum simulators have increased in their power and scope, offering exquisite dynamical control of tens or...
Jan
31
2023
Astro Seminar: Marcelle Soares-Santos: "Dark Energy: recent results and the path for discovery in the era of multi-messenger studies"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
This talk presents an overview of my research on dark energy with focus on recent developments towards incorporating gravitational wave...
Jan
30
2023
HEP Seminar: Innes Bigaran: "Getting chirality right: scalar leptoquarks as a simultaneous solution to the electron and muon g-2 anomalies"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Anomalies in the flavor sector have attracted significant attention in recent years. Of particular interest for this talk are those...
Jan
27
2023
Colloquium: John Teufel: “Listening to Quantum Sound”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Quantum mechanics is traditionally considered when measuring at the extreme microscopic scale, i.e. single photons, electrons or atoms. However, even...
Jan
25
2023
Special CMP Seminar: Thomas Iadecola: Quantum Dynamics in the Quantum Science and Technology Era
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Nonequilibrium dynamics is a frontier topic in quantum many-body physics that has seen remarkable advances over the past decade. Essential...
Jan
24
2023
Astro Seminar: Jessica Lu: "Black Holes in the Milky Way and the Tech to Find Them"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
The population of stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored. Only a dozen black holes...
Jan
24
2023
CFP Colloquium: Jake Taylor: Exploring fundamental physics with quantum information science
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum technologies provide new base capabilities which open up new frontiers in sensing, networking, and computation. I will discuss the...
Jan
23
2023
HEP Seminar: Nicholas Smith: "Boosted Higgs and Effective Field Theory"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Recent developments in jet substructure allow novel measurements of Higgs boson production at high transverse momentum. I will discuss these...
Jan
20
2023
Colloquium: Todd Gingrich: "Nonequilibrium steady states: principles, simulations, and rates"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Chemical systems can deviate from equilibrium for a variety of reasons: because they are kinetically trapped, because they are subject...
Jan
17
2023
Astro Seminar: Katerina Chatziioannou: "Studying the neutron star equation of state with gravitational waves"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Detections of neutron stars in binaries through gravitational waves offer a novel way to probe the properties of extremely dense...
Jan
17
2023
CFP Colloquium: Jaideep Singh: The Search for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments Using Pear-Shaped Nuclei in the FRIB Era
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Experimental tests of fundamental symmetries using nuclei and other particles subject to the strong nuclear force have led to...
Jan
13
2023
Special Talk: Michael Hatridge: Parametric controls and modular quantum computing in superconducting quantum circuits
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Parametric driving has long been used in weakly nonlinear superconducting circuits to create nearly quantum-limited ‘parametric’ amplifiers, which are in...
Jan
9
2023
HEP Seminar: Susan Dittmer: "The Higgs precision era begins: H->WW at CMS"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
10 years ago, the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments opened a new chapter of...
Jan
6
2023
Colloquium: Hsiao-Wen Chen: "The Turbulent Life of the Circumgalactic Medium & the CUBS"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains the fuel for future star formation and the record of past feedback, making it uniquely...
Jan
5
2023
Complex Systems Seminar: William Redman: "Microperiscopes and renormalization group theory for probing biological and artificial neural networks"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This talk will be split into two parts. In the first half, I will discuss my work on developing a...
Dec
12
2022
HEP Seminar: Matheus Hostert: Dark Neutrons Underground
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss signatures of dark baryons that mix with the neutron at underground neutrino experiments. Intense neutron sources can...
Dec
5
2022
HEP Seminar: Matthew Strait: "The astrophysics program of the NOvA neutrino experiment"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the primary goals of discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector, determining the neutrino...
Dec
2
2022
Colloquium: Dave Meyer: "Experiencing Hubble: A Career in Astronomy"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos through a variety of ground-breaking discoveries ranging...
Nov
29
2022
Astro Seminar: Ue-Li Pen:"Coherent cosmological radiation: FRBs and gravitational waves"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
FRBs and gravitational waves are the only distant sources sufficiently coherent to exhibit wave optics phenomena in their propagation. Nominally...
Nov
29
2022
CFP Colloquium: Mark Kasevich: Observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect and its implications for quantum superpositions of Newtonian gravitational fields
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The gravitational interaction of a tungsten source mass with atomic wavepackets has been observed in an atom deBroglie wave interferometer,...
Nov
21
2022
HEP Seminar: Asli Abdullahi: "Exotic e+e- production at MicroBooNE"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We present a phenomenological study of MicroBooNE’s ability to investigate e+e- final states produced in dark photon mediated neutrino-upscattering —...
Nov
17
2022
CMP Seminar: Yao Lu: "High-fidelity beamsplitter between 3D cavities with a parity-protected mixer"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Fast, high-fidelity multi-mode operations between microwave resonators are an important tool for bosonic quantum computation and simulation with superconducting circuits....
Nov
17
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Dustin Kleckner: "Self Organization with Light and Sound"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The idea of using light to manipulate individual particles is well known: optical traps are a widely used tool in...
Nov
17
2022
Radio Astro Seminar: Jacqueline N Hewitt: Neutral Hydrogen Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars
Over the past several decades, the scientific pursuit of “precision cosmology” has led to the currently accepted paradigm of a...
Nov
15
2022
Astro Seminar: Salvatore Vitale: "Astrophysics with gravitational-wave sources: today and tomorrow"
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
In the first 7 years of operation, ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected nearly 100 compact binaries, most...
Nov
15
2022
CANCELLED: CFP Colloquium: Swati Singh: Mechanical sensors for exploring the dark sector
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: When properly engineered, simple quantum systems such as harmonic oscillators or spins can be excellent detectors of feeble forces...
Nov
14
2022
HEP Seminar: Roland Farrell: "Preparations for Quantum Simulations of 1+1D QCD"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A framework for performing real-time simulations of QCD on a one-dimensional lattice using quantum computers is presented. By including weak...
Nov
11
2022
Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer: "How does a quantum object gravitate?"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over...
Nov
10
2022
CMP Seminar: Tony Jin: "Quantum fluctuations of diffusive systems"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Diffusion is the most commonly encountered type of transport in nature, in classical and quantum systems alike. The diffusive...
Nov
8
2022
Astro Seminar: Federica Bianco: "Building a Legacy: the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Astrophysics is the perfect nursery for Data Science: we cannot touch the stars, we cannot explode them in a lab....
Nov
8
2022
CFP Colloquium: John Bollinger: Quantum-enhanced sensing of displacements and electric fields with trapped-ion crystals
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will describe quantum-enhanced sensing of motional excitations and electric fields using a crystal of ~150 trapped ions formed in...
Nov
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Qiaofeng Liu: Minimal Entanglement and Emergent Symmetries in Low-energy QCD
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We study low-energy scattering of spin-1/2 baryons from the perspective of quantum information science, focusing on the correlation between entanglement...
Nov
5
2022
Family Weekend Saturday at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Family Weekend with a special walk-in only evening. The evening is free and open to...
Nov
4
2022
Colloquium: Carlos E.M. Wagner: "Open Questions in Particle Physics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is a very successful theory that explains a large diversity of physical phenomena, that...
Nov
3
2022
CMP Seminar: James Rondinelli: Persistent Spin Textures and Where to Find Them
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: . Nonmagnetic materials with unidirectional spin-momentum locking, or persistent spin textures (PST), have been shown to exhibit spin transport...
Nov
3
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Nathan Keim: "Memories in a soft glassy solid"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When a disordered jammed solid is sheared for many cycles at constant strain amplitude, it can relax until the...
Nov
1
2022
Astro Seminar: Mitch Begelman: "Black Holes and Their Accretion Disks: A Magnetic Perspective"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Standard accretion disk theory does a pretty good job of explaining the overall energetics of gas draining into black holes,...
Oct
28
2022
Colloquium: Mary James: What Does Access Really Mean? Findings from the AIP TEAM_UP Report
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: In this talk I discuss the findings of the American Institute of Physics’ TEAM_UP Task Force that examined causes and...
Oct
27
2022
CMP Seminar: Adina Luican-Mayer: "2D Quantum materials and devices at the atomic scale"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Material systems, devices, and circuits, based on the manipulation of individual charges, spins, and photons in solid-state platforms are key...
Oct
25
2022
Astro Seminar: Daniel Fabrycky: "Exoplanetary Probes: Resonant Chains, Exomoons, and Tidal Dynamics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: I will introduce the mid-sized and growing list of planetary systems with 2-body and 3-body resonances among the planets....
Oct
24
2022
HEP Seminar: John Hardin:"Sterile Neutrino Short Baseline Fits in 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Recent results from the Short Baseline Sterile Neutrino Global Fits are presented. Several new datasets, from experiments such as...
Oct
21
2022
Colloquium: Gerald Gabrielse :"New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: A one-electron quantum cyclotron, quantum mon-demolition (QND) detection, inhibited spontaneous emission, a split dilution refrigerator, and a self-shielded superconducting solenoid...
Oct
20
2022
CMP Seminar: Ruslan Prozorov: Limiting magnetic fields of superconductors with arbitrary potential and pair-breaking scattering
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: The upper critical magnetic field, H_c2, the nucleation field of surface superconductivity, H_c3, and the thermodynamic critical magnetic field,...
Oct
18
2022
Astro Seminar: Shri Kulkarni: "The Far Ultraviolet diffuse background"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Historically, the search for the inter-galactic medium (IGM) motivated the search for the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) background which in turn led...
Oct
17
2022
HEP Seminar: Dylan Temples: Results from the first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most compelling open questions in particle physics and cosmology....
Oct
14
2022
Colloquium: Jim Sauls: "The Left Hand of the Electron in a Chiral Vacuum"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Parity violation by the weak force was demonstrated in an experiment led by Chien-Shiung Wu in 1957 on the asymmetry...
Oct
13
2022
CMP Seminar: Ziwan Huang: "Dephasing and symmetry breaking in superconducting qubits due to non-Gaussian noise"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Noise has been a long-standing issue for further improving the qubit coherence times. It remains an important task to further...
Oct
11
2022
Astro Seminar: Emanuele Berti: Next-generation detectors: challenges and opportunities
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The observation of compact binary mergers by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration marks the dawn of a new era in astronomy. Next-generation...
Oct
10
2022
HEP Seminar: Jeff Berryman: "Searches for New Physics in Neutron Stars"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The age of multimessenger astronomy promises to benefit numerous subdisciplines within physics. In particular, precision studies of neutron stars will...
Oct
7
2022
Reunion Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
The Dearborn Observatory is marking Reunion Weekend with a special three hour walk-in only evening. The evening is free and...
Oct
7
2022
Colloquium: Nathaniel Stern: New Dimensions on Interaction of Light and Matter: Quantum Materials, Quantum Light, and Quantum Control
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The quantum conception of light consisting of particles of discrete energy, or photons, underlies its interaction with matter. For...
Oct
6
2022
CMP Seminar: Yi Li: Coherent information processing with hybrid magnonics embedded in superconducting circuits
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hybrid dynamic systems have recently attracted great attention due to their applications in quantum computing, communications, and sensing. In particular,...
Oct
4
2022
Astro Seminar: Jenny Greene: Elves, Dwarfs, and (mini) Monsters
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Our Local Group has been a rich testing ground for small-scale predictions of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model,...
Oct
4
2022
CFP Colloquium: Xing Fan: Search for New Physics with One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: A single trapped electron cooled to its cyclotron ground state-- the quantum cyclotron -- is the precision tool that we...
Oct
3
2022
HEP Seminar:Zoya Vallari:“Probing neutrino oscillations with accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The long-baseline neutrino experiments continue to provide precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters by searching for the appearance of...
Sep
30
2022
Colloquium: Wen-fai Fong: Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Transients
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: When we look up at the night sky, we see a static universe. However, observational surveys have revealed that...
Sep
29
2022
CMP Seminar: Anupam Garg: Title: The new and improved, fair, balanced, and optimized, buy-one-get-one-free, probably meaningless, approach to the high-spin classical limit of the spin-s Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment via the incorporation of detector
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: See title Speaker: Anupam Garg, Professor, Northwestern University Host: John Ketterson
Sep
27
2022
Astro Seminar: Bing Zhang: Fast Radio Bursts: A mystery being solved
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts originating from cosmological distances and are one of the biggest mysteries...
Sep
26
2022
HEP Seminar: Alex Edison: "Pushing the loop frontier in non-planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk, we'll discuss the current state-of-the-art for constructing multi-loop integrands in N=4 super-Yang-Mills. After briefly covering some of the key...
Sep
23
2022
Colloquium: Sasha Tchekhovskoy: Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps, Fireworks, and Gravitational Waves
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Based on state-of-the-art general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, I will discuss how black holes feast on the surrounding gas, burp...
Sep
20
2022
CFP Colloquium: Anupam Mazumdar: Spin Entanglement witness for testing quantum gravity
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Understanding gravity in the framework of quantum mechanics is one of the great challenges in modern physics. Along this...
Sep
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Yang Ma: The partonic picture and the SM expectation of high-energy lepton colliders
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
After the triumph of discovering the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, people are getting increasingly interested in...
Jul
7
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Jianxi Gao: Resilience and tipping points of complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: This talk focuses on understanding, predicting, and ultimately controlling real-world complex systems in an ever-changing world facing the global...
Jun
23
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes: Hunting mosquitoes with networks
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: In 2009, it was discovered that when Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia, transmission of...
Jun
10
2022
Colloquium: Caterina Braggio: Quantum sensing in axion dark matter search
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Over the last 30 years, dark matter (DM) direct searches have focused on candidates with mass exceeding the proton mass,...
Jun
9
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Eric Corwin: Extreme Diffusion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Diffusion is pervasive in the natural world. Over one hundred years ago Einstein created a remarkably simple and powerful...
Jun
6
2022
HEP Seminar: Graziano Venanzoni: Status and prospect of the MUonE experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The latest measurement of the muon g-2 announced at Fermilab exhibits a 4.2$\sigma$ discrepancy from the currently accepted Standard...
Jun
3
2022
Colloquium: Brian McNamara: How Giant Galaxies are Shaped by Massive Black Holes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: X-ray and radio observations have revealed enormous energy being released from the nuclei of massive galaxies. This energy, presumably...
Jun
2
2022
CMP Seminar: Christos Panagopoulos: Topological Solitons in Chiral Quantum Matter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological solitons and quantum mechanics have been intertwined for the past 60 years. Even before the term soliton had...
May
31
2022
Astro Seminar: Sarah Wellons: Simulating the Growth and Quenching of Massive Galaxies from the Early Universe to Today
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Great observational progress over the past decade has revealed how galaxies have changed over cosmic time. One surprising revelation...
May
27
2022
Rapid Fire Research
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Describing your research in a clear, concise, and stimulating way is as much of an art as a science, and...
May
26
2022
CMP Seminar: Anton Vorontsov: Phase crystallization in superconductors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Superconducting properties arise from the broken U(1) symmetry by the phase of the electron pair condensate. In the traditional...
May
26
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Rony Granek: Nano-particles carried by multiple dynein motors: A Self-Regulating Nano-Machine
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Native cargos demonstrate efficient intra-cellular active transport. Here we investigate the motion of spherical nanoparticles (NPs) grafted with flexible...
May
24
2022
Astro Seminar: Poojan Agarwal: Reconsidering the contribution of massive stars in star cluster simulations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few decades, our view of the cosmos has changed a lot. High-resolution data from both ground-...
May
24
2022
CFP Colloquium: Jan Schütte-Engel: High Frequency Gravitational Waves
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: In this colloquium I first review sources of high frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs). I will point out what can...
May
23
2022
HEP Seminar: Xin Qian: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Xin Qian, Brookhaven National Laboratory Host: Professor André de Gouvêa
May
20
2022
CANCELLED: Colloquium: Wolfgang Wernsdorfer: Operating quantum states in a magnetic molecule
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The endeavour of quantum electronics is driven by one of the most ambitious technological goals of today’s scientists: the...
May
19
2022
CMP Seminar: Ivar Martin: How to evade thermalization in many-body systems
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: It was recently experimentally discovered that magnetically ordered states can persist far from equilibrium – even at energy densities...
May
19
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Arda Halu: Tackling biological context, one network at a time: Examples from network biology and network pharmacology
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Networks have proven time and again to be highly versatile tools in modeling biological interactions, finding useful applications in...
May
17
2022
Astro Seminar: Jennifer Bergner: Volatile chemistry in planet-forming disks
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Planets form within disks composed of gas, ice, and dust in orbit around young stars. The distribution of volatiles...
May
17
2022
Special CMP Seminar: Andrew Huxley: Unconventional superconductivity and the possibility of half quantum vortices
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: A superconductor hosting moveable half-quantum vortices would be of particular interest for potential applications in quantum computing. I will...
May
17
2022
CFP Colloquium: Rainer Kaltenbaek: Recent developments and next steps for the MAQRO mission proposal
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The MAQRO proposal for a medium-sized space mission aims to harness a deep-space environment to test the foundations of...
May
16
2022
HEP Seminar: Ashutosh Kotwal: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by...
May
13
2022
CANCELLED: Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer: TBA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna Host: Professor Timothy Kovachy
May
12
2022
CMP Seminar: Nikolay Zhelev: Quantum Materials at mK Temperatures
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Cooling down to low temperatures reveals the quantum nature of macroscopic materials. This has implication for both advancing our...
May
12
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Vivek Sharma: Surface Forces and Stratification in Micellar Foam Films
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Ultrathin films of soft matter containing supramolecular structures like micelles, nanoparticles, smectic liquid crystals, lipid bilayers, and polyelectrolytes undergo...
May
10
2022
Astro Seminar: Rosalba Perna: Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as interesting environments for the evolution of stars and the...
May
10
2022
CFP Colloquium: Vladan Vuletic: Search for Dark Matter with Atomic Precision Spectroscopy
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics describes virtually all measurements of elementary particles exquisitely well, and yet various astrophysical...
May
9
2022
HEP Seminar: Nabha Shah: Non-perturbative double copy in 2D
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Color-kinematics duality and the resulting double copy construction hold for a large class of theories and a lot of...
May
6
2022
Colloquium: Maura McLaughlin: Pulsar Timing Arrays See Red: Entering the Era of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. Pulsar timing arrays world-wide monitor over 100 of...
May
5
2022
CMP Seminar: T.C. Wu: Electromagnetic Responses in a Topological Superconductor and Weyl Superconductor due to Surface States
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk, we will present our recent study of electromagnetic responses in 3D topological superconductors and Weyl superconductors originating...
May
5
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Christopher Moore: Fairness, Accuracy, and Transparency in Criminal Justice and Housing
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: In criminal justice, housing, lending, and other areas that irreversibly affect people’s lives, decisions (or at least recommendations) are...
May
3
2022
CFP Colloquium: Markus Hennrich: Trapped Rydberg ions
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped Rydberg ions are a novel approach for quantum information processing [1,2]. This idea joins the advanced quantum control of trapped...
May
2
2022
HEP Seminar: María Luisa Sarsa: Testing DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation result beyond three-sigma with ANAIS−112 experiment
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: DAMA/LIBRA observation of an annual modulation in the detection rate compatible with that expected for dark matter is one...
Apr
29
2022
Colloquium: Zahra Tabrizi: Beyond Standard Model with Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos were discovered more than 60 years ago, yet they are the most mysterious particles of the Standard Model...
Apr
28
2022
CMP Seminar: Yulia Krasnikova: betaNMR and muSR for condensed matter physics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Both betaNMR (beta-detected nuclear magnetic resonance) and muSR (muon spin spectroscopy) are experimental methods that can achieve low energy...
Apr
28
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Leidy Klotz: Subtracting in complex systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When attempting to improve objects, ideas, or situations, people systematically overlook subtractive changesi. This new finding in cognitive psychology...
Apr
26
2022
Astro Seminar: Diego Muñoz: A Revised Paradigm of Binary-Disk Interaction
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last five years, we have witnessed a renewed interest in the classical problem of binary-disk interaction, which...
Apr
26
2022
CFP Colloquium: Shimon Kolkowitz: Searches for new physics with a multiplexed optical lattice clock
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The remarkable precision of optical atomic clocks offers sensitivity to new and exotic physics through tests of relativity, searches for...
Apr
22
2022
Colloquium: Tao Han: Physics motivations for future colliders
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), high energy physics has...
Apr
21
2022
CMP Seminar: Nick Poniatowski: Spin waves meet superconductivity
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Spin triplet superconductors are among the most exotic of quantum materials, featuring a rich phenomenology including topological surface states, fractional...
Apr
19
2022
Astro Seminar: Fakhri Zahedy: The Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium and What it Teaches Us about Galaxy Evolution
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The extended (~100 kpc-scale) gaseous halos surrounding galaxies, known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), regulate the gas exchange between...
Apr
19
2022
CFP Colloquium: Kaori Fuyuto: Searching for new physics in CP violation
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics has successfully passed virtually every empirical test in the laboratory so far. However,...
Apr
18
2022
HEP Seminar: Kagan Simsek: Neutral-current SMEFT studies at the EIC
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been successful in describing all known experimental phenomena and with the...
Apr
15
2022
Colloquium: Jan Tobochnik: Agent-based modeling of wealth distribution
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: What drives wealth inequality? An agent-based approach developed by physicists and mathematicians suggests that extreme wealth inequality is a...
Apr
14
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Martin Koppenhoefer: Quantum Synchronization: Framework and Implementation
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Synchronization is a universal feature shared by very different complex dynamical systems, ranging from electronic circuits to biological systems....
Apr
12
2022
Astro Seminar: Kate Alexander: Cosmic Extremes: Time-Domain Astrophysics in a Multi-Messenger World
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Neutron stars and black holes provide laboratories to study extreme physics and shape diverse astrophysical phenomena, from the origin...
Apr
11
2022
HEP Seminar: Ashot Gasparian: New High Precision Measurement of the Neutral Pion Life Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The neutral pion is the lightest two-quarks strongly interacting particle in Nature. As such, the properties of Pion decay...
Apr
8
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein changed the way we think about Time. Now, early in the...
Apr
7
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: A New Measure: The revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since...
Apr
5
2022
Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: At the Crossroads of Atomic and Solid-State Physics: Ultra-Cold Atoms as a New Condensed Matter System
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Gases of ultracold atoms share some of the properties of electrons in solids. Optical lattices influence such atoms in...
Apr
1
2022
Colloquium: Julieta Gruszko: Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: The Search for Majorana Neutrinos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Why is the universe dominated by matter, and not antimatter? Neutrinos, with their changing flavors and tiny masses, could provide...
Mar
31
2022
CMP Seminar: Alex Gurevich: What can happen if we try to break a topological defect by astrong driving force?
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological defects provide symmetry breaking in systems with longrang order. Examples in condensed matter are domain walls and spinskyrmions...
Mar
31
2022
Complex Systems Seminar: Giulia Menichetti: Foodome Project: Tackling the Complexity of Food Systems
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Naturally occurring compounds and additives lack extensive records describing their presence in food, their quantified amounts, and their binding...
Mar
29
2022
Astro Seminar: Joel Primack: New Challenges in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planet Habitability
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Hubble tension between measurements of H0 in the early universe vs. nearby can be resolved by a brief...
Mar
28
2022
HEP Seminar: Sara Mitchell: The observation of excited \Omega_{c}^{0} baryons in \Omega_{b}^{-} \to \Xi_{c}^{+}K^{-}\pi^{-} decays at LHCb
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hadron spectroscopy has received a lot of attention since the discovery of the X(3872) and pentaquark candidates. Over the...
Mar
15
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Anna Ho: Fast Transients: A (Fleeting) Window on the Final Stages of Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Compact Objects
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few years, the discovery of cosmic explosions has become routine: every night, robotic optical telescopes mosaic...
Mar
15
2022
CFP Colloquium: Hendrik Ulbricht: Matterwave interferometry with large masses
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The topic of this talk is matterwave interferometry with large-mass particles (molecules, nanoparticles). I will discuss recent progress with...
Mar
11
2022
Colloquium: Frank Petriello: Footprints in the desert
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is one of the great intellectual achievements of the late 20th century,...
Mar
8
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Jane Huang: Observational Frontiers in Planet Formation
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The discoveries of thousands of exoplanets have presented a number of puzzles about their properties and origins. Until recently,...
Mar
7
2022
HEP Seminar: Juan Carlos Vasquez Carmona: Unravelling the left-right mixing using 0νββ decay and collider probes
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In the context of the minimal left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay between current and future neutrinoless double...
Mar
4
2022
Colloquium: Nancy Makri: Real-Time Path Integral Methods for Condensed Phase Quantum Dynamics
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The unfavorable scaling of wavefunction storage severely impacts the feasibility of quantum dynamical calculations in finite-temperature condensed phase systems. Feynman’s...
Mar
2
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Allison Strom: The Quest to Measure Galaxy Chemistry in the Early Universe
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The chemistry of gas and stars in galaxies connects many seemingly disparate areas of astrophysics, from planet formation and stellar...
Mar
1
2022
CFP Colloquium: Michael Tarbutt: Measuring the electron’s electric dipole moment using ultracold YbF molecules
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Measurements of the electron’s electric dipole moment (eEDM) test time-reversal symmetry and are exceptionally demanding tests of physics beyond...
Feb
28
2022
HEP Seminar: Eleni Vryonidou: SMEFT precision for global LHC fits
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk I discuss Effective Field theory as a way to probe new physics at the LHC. I...
Feb
28
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Lena Murchikova: Sagittarius A* in its natural habitat
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Milky Way’s Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* is the closest to us supermassive black hole. It is...
Feb
23
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Maya Fishbach: Astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational-wave catalogs
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have observed over 80 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and...
Feb
22
2022
CFP Colloquium: Dalziel Wilson: Optomechanical Dark Matter Detection
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Recently it has been proposed to search for dark matter using mechanical sensors, exploiting the fact that all dark...
Feb
21
2022
HEP Seminar: Ciaran O’Hare: Venturing into the neutrino fog
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The last few years have seen the largest underground dark matter searches rapidly approach their purported ultimate sensitivity limit...
Feb
18
2022
Colloquium: Christopher R Monroe: Quantum Computing with Atoms
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped atomic ions are a leading physical platform for quantum computers, featuring qubits with essentially infinite idle coherence times....
Feb
17
2022
CMP Seminar: Kayla Nguyen: New Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Electron microscopy is transforming the physical sciences. Aided by a new generation of direct imaging detectors, cryo-electron microscopy won...
Feb
15
2022
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Patrick Sheehan: Unveiling Planet Formation in the Youngest Disks
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Surveys are now revealing a tremendous diversity in the properties of exoplanetary systems that can exist. A general paradigm...
Feb
15
2022
CFP Colloquium: Yonatan Kahn: Light-by-light scattering: the last frontier of precision QED
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum electrodynamics (QED), describing the interactions of electrons and photons, is the oldest quantum field theory. In 1949, the...
Feb
14
2022
HEP Seminar: Lance Dixon: Scattering Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theory and a New Duality
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Scattering amplitudes are the arena where quantum field theory directly meets collider experiments. An excellent model for scattering in...
Feb
8
2022
Astro Seminar: Giacomo Fragione: Intermediate-mass black holes: past, present, future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Very little is known about the formation, evolution, and demographics of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). While the classical approach...