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Rigid Bubbles: Novel Instabilities in Colloidal Film Rupture Phalguni Shah When a soap bubble pops, a rupture opens up and grows on...
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CIERA Astronomy LIVE brings Northwestern astronomers to the public in an interactive online format. Trivia, short presentations and interviews, and...
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Highly deformable structures characterized by a nonlinear response have enabled the design of new classes of tunable and responsive systems...
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Electrons in most materials experience dramatic and frequent scattering from other electrons, phonons, and a variety of other excitations. Such...
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An abundance of evidence suggests that most of the Universe is composed of matter that cannot be seen, called dark...
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Gravity waves are low frequency fluid oscillations restored by buoyancy forces in planetary and stellar interiors. Despite their ubiquity, the...
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Over the past few decades, our view of metals has undergone a transformation. While conventional metals are understood within the...
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The proton and neutron, known as nucleons, are the fundamental building blocks of all atomic nuclei and make up essentially...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Anna Ho (Caltech) Title: The Landscape of...
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Nuclear reactors have long been a boon to neutrino research — indeed, neutrinos were discovered at a commercial reactor facility....
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Living tissues are mechanically supported by elastic networks, which need to be soft enough to allow for cell migration and...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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The properties that make nitrogen vacancies in diamond good qubits, for example long coherence times at room temperature, also make...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Problems of interacting quantum magnetic moments become exponentially complex with increasing number of particles. As a result, classical equations are...
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Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: a SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE ON TRANSIENTSAndrew J. ConnollyProfessor...
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Red supergiants (RSGs) are the helium-fusing descendants of moderately massive (10-25Mo) stars. As the coldest and largest (in physical size)...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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Monday Observational Meetings for Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), this week featuring: Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont (Caltech) Title: Insights...
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Once there is a global U(1) symmetry broken at a high-energy scale f_a, we will have a light axion-like particle...
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Searches for exoplanets have revealed a remarkable diversity of worlds, and comparative studies of their properties have begun in earnest....
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Flocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between self-propelled (active) individuals...
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Fast radio bursts are frequent, bright millisecond bursts of radio emission that have fortunately turned out to not be from...
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Rapid follow-up of neutron star mergers and short GRBs Kerry Paterson, Postdoctoral Associate, CIERA Short Gamma-Ray bursts (SGRBs) are highly energetic, relativistic...
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What would we be able to do if we could build electronically integrated machines the size of a single cell?...
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Hard X-ray polarimetric observations of neutron stars, magnetars, and mass accreting black holes can give us qualitatively new information about...
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The on-shell superspace formulation of N=4 SYM allows the writing of all possible scattering processes in one compact object called...
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Massive black hole (BH) binaries and mergers are promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays and for LISA....
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At present, quantum technologies appear to be on a tremendous ascent towards transformative applications in both simulation and sensing. To...
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Cosmology is famously an observational rather than an experimental science. No experimentalists were present in the early universe, and the...
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The MicroBooNE experiment utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab...
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The fundamental question in neutrino physics. Yuber Perez, Postdoctoral Researcher Are neutrinos their own antiparticles? That is, are neutrinos Dirac or Majorana...
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Spreading processes, as in infectious diseases, social behaviors, or computer viruses, impact biological, social, and technological systems. To manage spreading...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: THE CIERA 11th ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and...
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Nearly all galaxies appear to harbor a central supermassive black hole. The origin and properties of initial black hole seeds...
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CIERA Astronomer Evenings are special programs that take place on the last Friday of every month at Northwestern's Dearborn Observatory. Look...
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The last decades have witnessed the emergence of the basic model of theoretical nuclear physics. Effective field theories exploit the...
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Numerous international astronomy reports have recently highlighted the need for fully dedicated, large aperture, massively multiplexed spectroscopy in the optical...
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The collective modes of superconductors draw considerable interest as they are fundamental products of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the superconducting...
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New anisotropic states of superfluid 3He have been studied at ultra-low temperatures. They are similar to those in the...
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In this talk, the advantages of wavelet analysis (WA) for resolving data structures are demonstrated. Due to good scaling properties...
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Astrophysical neutrinos, the “ghost particles of the Cosmos”, are unique probes of the physical conditions in their sources, as they...
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Designing and Building Two Scintillating LAr Bubble Chamber for WIMPs and reactor CEvNS Rocco Coppejans, Postdoctoral Researcher The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC)...
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Colloidal membranes are unique 2D assemblages consisting of a liquid-like layer monolayer of aligned rodlike viruses that are held together...
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Multimode superconducting microwave cavities provide a hardware efficient means of engineering a large Hilbert space with high coherence, suitable for...
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Understanding limits on the superconducting transition temperature Tc is a problem of fundamental importance. I will discuss rigorous upper bounds...
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Despite the wide-ranging role Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play throughout astrophysics, we lack a firm theoretical understanding of how...
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In honor of Northwestern’s One Book selection, Hidden Figures, join us for a special CIERA Astronomer Evening focused on NASA’s...
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This seminar has been CANCELED The Liquid Argon Time Projector Chamber (LAr-TPC) technology – with extraordinary event imaging, excellent particle identification, and...
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Organic conductors are layered, correlated electron systems known to stabilize a remarkable diversity of ground states simply by tuning the...
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Jet substructure has moved from conceptual idea to integral tool in particle physics within a decade. This has been due...
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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...
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At present, quantum technologies appear to be on a tremendous ascent towards transformative applications in both simulation and sensing. To...
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Dielectric polarization is omnipresent in soft-matter systems, as these systems often are comprised of organic materials suspended in water. In...
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In the past year, the longstanding goal of imaging a black hole has become reality. Two long baseline interferometry experiments...
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LHC, besides its amazing success in confirming our Standard Model predictions, has (so far) not delivered any direct evidence of...
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The radio sky is filled with transient phenomena that yield wondrous mysteries and opportunities in astrophysics. Radio pulsars, rotating neutron...
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RbEuFe4As4 is a recently discovered superconductor in which superconductivity and magnetic order coexist at unusually high temperatures with Tc ~...
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Seven Minutes of Scholarship will showcase researchers presenting their work for a technically-minded, non-expert audience. The goal of the symposium is to...
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The lack of evidence for SUSY at the LHC motivates new search strategies such as looking for scenarios with small...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents: Dr. Jeremy D. Schnittman NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Host: Fred...
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In order to function effectively, living cells must compartmentalize myriad chemical reactions.In the classic view, distinct functional volumes are separated...
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I will discuss the recently proposed dark matter interpretation of the neutron lifetime discrepancy. The difference between bottle and beam...
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Magnetic fields exert controllable forces that generate microscopic actuation and locomotion in soft materials with superparamagnetic or ferromagnetic components. Magnetoelasticity...
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We will consider hierarchical triples in which the outer star donates mass to the inner binary. Some of the infalling...
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Utilizing complex networks with error bars István Kovács, Assistant Professor Network theory is a powerful tool to describe and study complex systems,...
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Microbes live in complex communities that play a central role in global nutrient cycles. The flow of nutrients around these...
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Development of a nanometer-scale magnetic sensing technique applicable to individual magnetic particles enables revolutionary progress in physical, biological and medical...
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The most common sources in gravitational wave astronomy all relics of the past history of the Cosmos, whether we are...
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Experimental analyses during the high-luminosity era of the LHC will call for an unprecedented level of precision in event simulation....
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Observations have shown that nearly all galaxies harbor massive or supermassive black holes at their centers. Gravitational wave (GW) observations...
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The most common kinds of interactions in physics obey a basic kind of reciprocity: when two systems or particles interact,...
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The European space agency's second catalog of the Gaia mission is revolutionizing astronomy. Arguably all scientific questions can benefit from...
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The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than...
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Using a combination of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes, and the ALMA millimeter interferometer, we have begun to...
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Understanding the microscopic chemical and physical principles that control organization and self-assembly in non-equilibrium conditions remains an important problem in...
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One of the proposed approaches to realize a quantum computer is to make use of exotic Majorana fermion modes that...
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The Liquid Argon Time Projector Chamber (LAr-TPC) technology – with extraordinary event imaging, excellent particle identification, and fine-granularity calorimetry – coupled...
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Magnetic fields, turbulence, and jet-driven outflows play a critical role in core-collapse supernovae and compact-object mergers. These transients belong to...
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Symmetry and Structure in Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes Suna Zekioglu, Graduate Student Abstract: Scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity reveal rich structures...
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Patients with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and most malignant of all primary brain tumors, receive treatment with radiation...
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Why are the patterns of plankton in the ocean so patchy? Why do frequently described geometrical hallucinations tend to fall...
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Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that, if it exists, may account for more than a quarter of...
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Much of the history of radio astronomy concerns sources like Cygnus A, first observed in the late 1930s. Originally thought...
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Clusters of galaxies are the largest objects in the Universe with the most massive baryonic component in the form of...
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I present aspects of precision phenomenology for current and future colliders with a focus on my own research. Seminar Speaker: Tobias...
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Over the past thirty years, astronomers have made extraordinary progress in detecting planets around other stars. We now know that...
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From Observations to Origins: Disentangling Gas Flows in the Circumgalactic Medium Zach Hafen, Northwestern Astronomy PhD Student As much as half of...
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We will discuss recent results with active nematics confined to either toroidal or flat space. We will first describe how...
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The co-evolution massive, early-type galaxies and their nuclear black holes is apparently regulated by feedback from active galactic nuclei. X-ray observations...
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Why is the entropy of a black hole proportional to its surface area? One possible answer is holographic --- that...
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Large near-infrared spectroscopic surveys have confirmed that star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon (z~2-3) exhibit emission line spectra that are distinct...
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In Cosmology, most of the information comes from observing the small departures from homogeneity that characterize our universe: they tell...
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While the structure of the Solar System out to about 100 AU is well explained, beyond this there are trans-Newtonian objects...
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Superconducting circuits have emerged as one of the most promising platforms for quantum computation as a result of rapid advances...
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The recently developed skipper-CCD sensor allows the development of massive ionization detectors with single electron sensitivity. I will discuss the...
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Anna Grassellino, Fermilab Host: Sauls Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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TBA Speaker: Ilse Cleeves, University of Virgina Host: Diego Munoz Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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The role of molecular spectroscopy in physics has evolved over the years. It was traditionally used to study molecular structure...
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TBA Seminar Speaker: Walter Tangarife, Loyola University Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
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Abstract: TBA Professor Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida Host: James Sauls Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Condensed Matter
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TBA Seminar Speaker: Zahra Tabrizi, Virginia Tech Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
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Please visit our website for any updates. Jacqueline N Hewitt, MIT Host: Zadeh Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Radio Astronomy
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago Host: Kovachy Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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TBA Seminar Speaker: Claudius Krause, Fermilab Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Jasmine Nirody, Rockefeller University Host: Marko Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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TBA Speaker: Josiah Schwab, UC Santa Cruz Host: Kyle Kremer Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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Neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) is a hypothetical process, which is expected to occur if neutrinos are Majorana particles. While...
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TBA Speaker: Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA Host: Luke Kelly Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Tom Witten, University of Chicago Host: Marko Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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TBA Speaker: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz Host: Luke Kelley Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Maria Spiropulu, Cal Tech Host: Kumar Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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TBA Speaker: Keith Hawkins, University of Texas, Austin Host: Erin Cox Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
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TBD Seminar Speaker: Lindley Winslow, MIT Host: Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Seminar, Colloquium
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The Physics & Astronomy department will be hosting a virtual end of the year event to celebrate our students on...
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Abstract: Gravitational-wave detectors are yielding a bounty of observations, and revolutionising our understanding of stellar-mass black holes. But what about the...
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I will review recent breakthroughs in understanding some general features of relativistic Quantum Field Theory and associated structure in physical...
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Abstract: The SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies brighter than Mr = −12.3 around one hundred Milky Way analogs at...
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Abstract: The chemistry of protoplanetary disks sets the initial composition of newly formed planets and may also regulate the efficiency...
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Deformable sheets are ubiquitous in nature and industry across a vast range of scales, from graphene to metal foil to...
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Abstract: Close double white dwarf binaries will be key sources of mHz gravitational waves for future missions like LISA. But...
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Development of laser-based techniques to cool and manipulate trapped atoms led to a quantum revolution, with applications ranging from creation...
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Abstract: One of the key objectives of modern astrophysics is to understand the formation and evolution galaxies. In this regard,...
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Curvature is one of the most basic geometric characteristics of space. The original definitions of curvature apply only to smooth...
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Abstract: Stars are fundamental to astronomy, and how they form influences everything from exoplanet studies to cosmology. Stars form in...
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Presents: AN ONLINE PUBLIC LECTURE -- Free and open to...
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In this talk, we will have a quick summary of scaling theory's applications in physics, biology, and social science. In...
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Abstract: NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aims to answer longstanding questions about the physics and astrophysics of neutron-star...
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Abstract: Electrons create magnetic fields, so materials that manifest quantum-mechanical and strongly correlated electron behavior must have magnetic signatures. Although...
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A droplet of pure water placed on a clean glass surface will spread axisymmetrically, and a droplet of mercury will...
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Abstract: We coexist with a vast number of microbes that live in and on our bodies. Those microbes and their genes...
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Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have continued to make breakthrough discoveries that are testing conventional wisdom and setting new challenges for...
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Abstract: Understanding the physical properties of galaxies and how they change through cosmic time allows us to learn about the...
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Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will discuss gravitational wave signature arising from first order phase transition in...
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Abstract: The wealth of observational data on supernova light curves, compact object masses, and chemical abundances hold critical clues on how...
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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...
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Abstract: I will begin this talk with an overview of galaxy-galaxy lensing and how it informs us about the connection...
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Abstract: Quantum phase transitions occur when a quantum system undergoes a sharp change in its groundstate, e.g. between a ferro-...
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Abstract: Studies of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have revealed surprising excesses of apparently diffuse gamma-ray emission toward...
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Abstract: The era of observationally characterizing temperate exoplanets and studying their atmospheric composition has begun. Hubble and JWST already have...
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Both quantum and classical many-particle systems can support topological states of matter, which are immune to smooth, local perturbations. The...
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Abstract: Recent results on the characterization of small planets have presented two questions: (1) Is there a range of super-Earth...
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Abstract: Any solid under applied stress possesses an elastic limit above which it fails. Failure of ductile solids is characterized...
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Abstract: The very fact of our existence means Nature is hiding extra symmetry violation somewhere! We hope to uncover it...
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Abstract: Measurement of ��-factor of an electron provides the most stringent test of the Standard Model and probes beyond Standard...
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Abstract: The gravitational three-body problem has a long history, extending all the way back to Sir Isaac Newton. In spite...
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Abstract: LHC, besides its amazing success in confirming our Standard Model predictions, has not delivered any direct evidence of Physics beyond...
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...
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...
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Abstract: Many real-life problems can be formulated in boolean logic as a class of problems where the task is finding boolean...
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Abstract: The nature of dark matter is a driving question of 21st century physics. Dark matter particle interactions could imprint...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Abstract: The brightness of the tip of the red-giant branch allows one to constrain novel energy losses that would lead to a...
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...
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...
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Abstract: Cosmology is well suited to study the effects of long range interactions due to the large densities in the...
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Abstract: Rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis is responsible for the production of roughly half of the elements in the Periodic...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: In recent years, the effective field theory approach to the Standard Model, the SMEFT, has been used to study LHC...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The field of superconducting qubits is currently dominated by the transmon qubit. Over the course of more than a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The modern S-matrix program focuses directly on observables like scattering amplitudes rather than any underlying actions. One of the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: I present a strong-coupling theory for the stability and thermodynamics of the chiral A-phase of superfluid 3He based on...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: We will discuss how to systematically study physics beyond the standard model (BSM) in the neutrino experiments within the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Results from NASA’s Kepler Mission indicate that low-mass stars, specifically M dwarf stars, are swarming with terrestrial exoplanets. The...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model of Particle Physics is a triumph or our era; it is also wrong. We have come...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) based on superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions form the basis of some of the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Please visit our website for any updates. HEIKE E. RIEL DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IBM Keywords: Physcis, Astronomy, Heilborn
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Quantum computing holds the promise to solve specific computational problems much faster than any known classical algorithm. Current quantum...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Please visit our website for any updates. HEIKE E. RIEL DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IBM Keywords: Physcis, Astronomy, Heilborn
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Natural environments are heterogeneous and can fluctuate with time. As such, biomechanical systems from proteins to whole organisms have...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: An independent set of operators in effective field theories has long been a subtle problem, due to the many redundancies...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Convective motions in stars extend beyond the boundary of a convection zone, leading to additional mixing in the radiative...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: The Project 8 experiment will make a direct measurement with sensitivity to much of the unexplored range of neutrino...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Josephson parametric amplifiers have played an critical role in making superconducting quantum computing seem remotely viable. However, for many...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: A fundamental aspect of a random walk is determining when it reaches a specified threshold position for the first...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Neutron stars (NSs) allow us to probe fundamental interactions at densities otherwise inaccessible in the lab, up to as...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk I will first give an update on the DES Y3 cosmology results using two-point functions of...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: The competition of paired and nematic ground states occurs in several strongly correlated fermionic systems and, to date, it...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos, the only neutral elementary fermions, have provided us with many surprises. Flavor oscillations reveal the non-conservation of the...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Understanding the dynamic behavior of vortex matter in complicated pinning landscapes is a major challenge for both fundamental science...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Climate change is becoming an ever more urgent challenge, with rising carbon dioxide levels, increasing global temperatures, rising sea...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The $X(6900)$ resonance discovered in the double-$J/\psi$ channel at LHCb experiment has spurred intensive interest in unravelling the nature...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological superfluid3He, with its unconventional spin-triplet p-wave pairing, provides a model system for topological superconductors, which have attracted significant...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos are the most elusive fundamental constituents of matter. And yet these particles may hold the key to exotic...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Large-scale interference Moiré patterns emerge when two-dimensional (2D) crystals are rotated at relative angles, generally referred to as Twistronics....
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: We study causality in gravitational systems beyond the classical limit. Using on-shell methods, we consider the one-loop corrections from...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The effective field theory (EFT) approach posits that in a scenario where new particles cannot be observed directly at...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Pulsar timing arrays search for low-frequency gravitational waves by analyzing the radio waves from millisecond pulsars distributed throughout the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Superconducting circuits provide a useful toolbox for science at the intersection of many different fields – materials, devices, physics,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Galaxies form and evolve under a nonlinear combination of numerous internal and external physical processes. Together these processes determine...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: An apparent feature of the Standard Model is that all electroweak bosons couple equally to all three lepton generations,...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Scattering amplitudes are the arena where quantum field theory directly meets collider experiments. An excellent model for scattering in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Surveys are now revealing a tremendous diversity in the properties of exoplanetary systems that can exist. A general paradigm...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Electron microscopy is transforming the physical sciences. Aided by a new generation of direct imaging detectors, cryo-electron microscopy won...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped atomic ions are a leading physical platform for quantum computers, featuring qubits with essentially infinite idle coherence times....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The last few years have seen the largest underground dark matter searches rapidly approach their purported ultimate sensitivity limit...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo have observed over 80 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Milky Way’s Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* is the closest to us supermassive black hole. It is...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In this talk I discuss Effective Field theory as a way to probe new physics at the LHC. I...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The unfavorable scaling of wavefunction storage severely impacts the feasibility of quantum dynamical calculations in finite-temperature condensed phase systems. Feynman’s...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: In the context of the minimal left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay between current and future neutrinoless double...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The discoveries of thousands of exoplanets have presented a number of puzzles about their properties and origins. Until recently,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is one of the great intellectual achievements of the late 20th century,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few years, the discovery of cosmic explosions has become routine: every night, robotic optical telescopes mosaic...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Hadron spectroscopy has received a lot of attention since the discovery of the X(3872) and pentaquark candidates. Over the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The Hubble tension between measurements of H0 in the early universe vs. nearby can be resolved by a brief...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Naturally occurring compounds and additives lack extensive records describing their presence in food, their quantified amounts, and their binding...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Topological defects provide symmetry breaking in systems with longrang order. Examples in condensed matter are domain walls and spinskyrmions...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Gases of ultracold atoms share some of the properties of electrons in solids. Optical lattices influence such atoms in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy 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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein changed the way we think about Time. Now, early in the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The neutral pion is the lightest two-quarks strongly interacting particle in Nature. As such, the properties of Pion decay...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Neutron stars and black holes provide laboratories to study extreme physics and shape diverse astrophysical phenomena, from the origin...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Synchronization is a universal feature shared by very different complex dynamical systems, ranging from electronic circuits to biological systems....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: What drives wealth inequality? An agent-based approach developed by physicists and mathematicians suggests that extreme wealth inequality is a...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been successful in describing all known experimental phenomena and with the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The extended (~100 kpc-scale) gaseous halos surrounding galaxies, known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), regulate the gas exchange between...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Spin triplet superconductors are among the most exotic of quantum materials, featuring a rich phenomenology including topological surface states, fractional...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), high energy physics has...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last five years, we have witnessed a renewed interest in the classical problem of binary-disk interaction, which...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: When attempting to improve objects, ideas, or situations, people systematically overlook subtractive changesi. This new finding in cognitive psychology...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy 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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Neutrinos were discovered more than 60 years ago, yet they are the most mysterious particles of the Standard Model...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy 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...
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...
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...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. Pulsar timing arrays world-wide monitor over 100 of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: Color-kinematics duality and the resulting double copy construction hold for a large class of theories and a lot of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as interesting environments for the evolution of stars and the...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Ultrathin films of soft matter containing supramolecular structures like micelles, nanoparticles, smectic liquid crystals, lipid bilayers, and polyelectrolytes undergo...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: Cooling down to low temperatures reveals the quantum nature of macroscopic materials. This has implication for both advancing our...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract: The classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna Host: Professor Timothy Kovachy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by...
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...
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Networks have proven time and again to be highly versatile tools in modeling biological interactions, finding useful applications in...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: It was recently experimentally discovered that magnetically ordered states can persist far from equilibrium – even at energy densities...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: The endeavour of quantum electronics is driven by one of the most ambitious technological goals of today’s scientists: the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Xin Qian, Brookhaven National Laboratory Host: Professor André de Gouvêa
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: In the last few decades, our view of the cosmos has changed a lot. High-resolution data from both ground-...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Native cargos demonstrate efficient intra-cellular active transport. Here we investigate the motion of spherical nanoparticles (NPs) grafted with flexible...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Professor Anton Vorontsov, Montana State University Host: Prof. James Sauls
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Abstract: Great observational progress over the past decade has revealed how galaxies have changed over cosmic time. One surprising revelation...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Brian McNamara, University of Waterloo Hosts: Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
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...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Eric Corwin, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Host: Professor István Kovács
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Caterina Braggio, University of Padova, Italy
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza Host: Professor Adilson Motter
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Speaker: Jianxi Gao Host: Professor Adilson Motter
