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...
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...
Feb
21
2025
Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell: "The Discovery of Pulsars – a Grad Student’s Tale"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In this talk I will describe how pulsars were discovered and reflect on why the discovery was made then and...
Feb
20
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Dirk Morr: "Topological Superconductivity, Majorana Zero Modes and Quantum Algorithms in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid (MSH) systems have proven to be versatile platforms for the engineering of topological superconductivity and the ensuing Majorana...
Feb
17
2025
HEP Seminar: Manoa Andriamirado: "Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Reactor Neutrino Detector and Roads to PROSPECT-II"
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to detect eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillation at short...
Feb
14
2025
Colloquium: Andrew Sonnenschein: "Next Generation Searches for Axion Dark Matter"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In the early 1980s, axions and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) were identified as promising dark matter candidates. The last...
Feb
12
2025
PAECRS: Danel Wilbern and Cong Shen
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Daniel Wilbern, Postdoctoral Scholar, Velasco Group "The Fast Beam Conditions Monitor for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade" The CMS experiment is one of...
Feb
11
2025
CFP Colloquium: Daniel Carney: Terrestrial quantum gravity experiments
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will give an overview of recent activity based on the idea that we can test quantum properties of...
Feb
10
2025
HEP Seminar: Ira Rothstein: "SuperPlanckian Scattering in Quantum and Classical Gravity"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will introduce a Lagrangian formalism to calculate in quantum gravity in the Regge limit in a systematic expansion in...
Feb
7
2025
Colloquium: Henrik Johansson: "From Graviton Scattering to Black-Hole Quantum Amplitudes in General Relativity"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Since the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes, it has become crucial to better understand gravitational two-body...
Feb
6
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Joseph Sklenar: "Controlling Magnetization Dynamics at GHz and THz Frequencies within Antiferromagnetic Metamaterials"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Within antiferromagnetic materials and metamaterials, magnons, with frequencies spanning tens of GHz to THz frequencies exist at all wavenumbers. The...
Feb
4
2025
CFP Colloquium: Christopher G. Tully: How to unravel early moments of the Universe with neutrinos: introduction to the PTOLEMY project
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: What would we give to see an even younger image of the Universe from relics of the Big Bang?...
Feb
3
2025
HEP Seminar: Vishvas Pandey: "Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions and the Quest for New and Precision Physics Searches in Neutrino Experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Current and future accelerator-based neutrino facilities, leveraging intense neutrino beams and advanced detectors, aim to precisely determine neutrino properties and...
Jan
31
2025
Colloquium: Lina Necib: "Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In this talk, I will explore the interfacing of simulations, observations, and machine learning techniques to construct a detailed map...
Jan
30
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Lin-Ding Yuan, "New Physics in Symmetry-Breaking Antiferromagnets"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Central to the study of spin-related phenomena is the capability tocreate spin polarized states. The conventional way of creating spin...
Jan
29
2025
PAECRS: Jiru Liu and Kyle Rocha
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Jiru Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Kamal Group “Detecting Multimode Entanglement from Classical-Nonclassical Polarity” Recent research in continuous-variable systems introduces the concept of classical-nonclassical...
Jan
28
2025
CIERA Colloquium: Pieter van Dokkum: "Did JWST break the Universe?"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
JWST has shown us that the galaxy population in the high redshift Universe is richer and more complex than we...
Jan
27
2025
HEP Seminar: Gray Putnam: "Search for Long-Lived Particles with Di-Muon Decays at the ICARUS Detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The ICARUS detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab is sensitive to “long-lived” particles (LLPs) that would be...
Jan
24
2025
Colloquium: Neelesh Patankar: "Phase Change of Water near Surfaces"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Water-hating (superhydrophobic) and water-loving (superhydrophilic) surfaces have been extensively studied for the past two decades. The early focus in the...
Jan
23
2025
Complex Systems Seminar: Mahsa Bagherikalhor: "The Complexity of Social Networks: The Role of Triadic Interactions"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Have you ever noticed how your attitude can be influenced by your relationships? Traditional models of social interaction often focus...
Jan
17
2025
Colloquium: Elvira Mulyukova: "Microphysics of Creep: The Role Of Crystalline Defects In Earth’s Unique Tectonic Regime"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Why did life evolve on Earth but not on other known terrestrial planets? One of the necessary ingredients for planetary...
Jan
16
2025
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Jennifer Fowlie: " Novel Superconductors and Helimagnets by Topotactic Redox Reactions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Topotactic transformation of epitaxial thin films by soft chemistry allows the realization of high crystalline quality metastable phases. In this...
Jan
15
2025
Special CFP Seminar: Neil McCall: When crystal harps play cosmic symphonies: progress towards a tabletop test of PeV-scale physics using molecules trapped in cryocrystals
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Despite its triumphs, the Standard Model cannot explain, among other things, why our universe contains more matter than antimatter....
Jan
14
2025
CFP Colloquium: Hartmut Häffner: 3D-Printed Micro Ion Trap Technology for Scalable Quantum Information Processing and Precision Measurements
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Trapped-ion applications, such as in quantum information, precision measurements, optical clocks, and mass spectrometry, rely on specialized high-performance ion...
Jan
13
2025
HEP Seminar: Ryan Linehan: "Superconducting Qubit Devices for Low-Threshold Dark Matter Direct Detection"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The continued absence of a conclusive detection of conventional, GeV-scale particle dark matter (DM) has recently increased focus on developing...
Jan
13
2025
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Carl Goodrich: "The Hidden Architecture of Self-Assembly"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Experiments have reached a monumental capacity for designing, synthesizing, and controlling microscopic particles for self-assembly. However, our ability to take...
Jan
10
2025
Colloquium: Evelyn Tang: "Robust Dynamics and Function in Stochastic Topological Systems"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Living systems exhibit various robust dynamics during system regulation, growth, and motility. However, how robustness emerges from stochastic components remains...
Dec
16
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Erik Kountz: "Thermal Diffusivity and Conductivity in Charge Density Wave Materials"
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Photo-thermal microscopes can be used to take high resolution thermal diffusivity by measuring phase delay in local-temperature through measurements of...
Dec
2
2024
HEP Seminar: Carolina Figueiredo: "A Geometric Formulation of the Cosmological Wavefunction"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Is there a geometric object underlying the cosmological wavefunction for Tr $\phi^3$ theory, just as associahedra underlie scattering amplitudes? In...
Nov
22
2024
Colloquium: Rafael Martinez Galarza: "The Chandra Source Catalog: A Legacy Product for Machine Learning Discovery in High Energy Astrophysics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The era of data-driven discovery is producing a wave of new science in high energy astrophysics, and the Chandra Source...
Nov
21
2024
CMP Seminar: Alexey Levchenko: "Hydrodynamics of Dirac Fluids"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will review the evolution of ideas surrounding the hydrodynamic behavior of electron liquids in solids and...
Nov
21
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Hanlin Sun: "Triadic Percolation Induces Dynamical Topological Patterns in Higher-Order Networks"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Triadic interactions are higher-order interactions which occur when a set of nodes affects the interaction between two other nodes. Examples...
Nov
21
2024
Special HEP Seminar: Kevin Pedro: “Dark QCD: the Next Frontier in Dark Matter”
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
There has been a surge of interest in hidden valley models with new, strong forces, sometimes called "dark QCD". These...
Nov
19
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Smadar Naoz: "It's Raining Black Holes...Hallelujah!"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes has forever changed how we observe the Universe. Upcoming detectors,...
Nov
15
2024
Colloquium: Ronald Walsworth: "Quantum Diamond Sensors — Best of Both Worlds"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The nitrogen–vacancy (NV) quantum defect in diamond is a leading modality for magnetic, electrical, temperature, and pressure sensing with high...
Nov
14
2024
CIERA 15th Anniversary Public Astronomy Lecture: Stephon Alexander: "The Jazz of Physics"
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight...
Nov
14
2024
CMP Seminar: Mahdi Hosseini: "Engineering Mesoscopic Coherence Between Photons and Atoms"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Realizing and utilizing quantum correlations between many atoms and photons is an active area of physics that leads to fascinating dynamics...
Nov
14
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Maria E. Pope: "Dynamic Activity in the Healthy Brain: Shaped by Structure, Routed for Communication, Rich in Information"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The brain’s activity is highly dynamic as is necessary for maintaining responsiveness to a changing environment. Characterizing these dynamics and...
Nov
13
2024
PAECRS: Emanuela Celi and Daniel Wilbern
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Emanuela Celi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Figueroa-Feliciano Group “Hunting Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with Cryogenic Detectors” Since its discovery in 2017, interest in Coherent...
Nov
13
2024
CIERA Special Colloquium: Stephon Alexander "Is the Universe Right-Handed?"
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Stephon Alexander is an award winning theoretical physicist of international repute, author, and jazz musician whose work is at the...
Nov
12
2024
CFP Colloquium: Andrei Derevianko: Fragility of life or what would happen if the speed of light were smaller
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The anthropic principle implies that life can emerge and be sustained only in a narrow range of values of...
Nov
12
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Joshua Frieman "Is Dark Energy Evolving? Probing Cosmology with Large Surveys and AI"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
I will discuss how large cosmic surveys are providing new insights into our understanding of the dark universe, with emphasis...
Nov
11
2024
HEP Seminar: Dylan Temples: "Superconducting Sensors for Particle Dark Matter Searches: R&D at NEXUS"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Superconducting thin films have long been used as phonon sensors, particularly in the field of dark matter (DM) direct detection,...
Nov
9
2024
Family Weekend at the Dearborn Observatory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
In honor of Family Weekend, the Dearborn will hold an extra Saturday evening open house--no reservations are required. The session...
Nov
8
2024
Colloquium: Dashun Wang: "The Science of Science: Exciting Progress and Future Directions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The increasing availability of large-scale datasets that trace the entirety of the scientific enterprise, have created an unprecedented opportunity to...
Nov
7
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara A. Solla: "Artificial Neural Networks: a Statistical Physics Perspective"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are composed of very simple elements that implement Boolean logic. The basic model, the McCulloch-Pitts (MP)...
Nov
5
2024
CFP Colloquium: Shusei Kamioka: Muon g-2/EDM experiment at J-PARC
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Precise measurements using muon beam are promising approaches to search for new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics....
Nov
4
2024
HEP Seminar: Si Wang: "Searching for Heavy Leptophilic Z’: from Future Muon Collider to Gravitational Waves"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The extra gauge U(1) model is special, with the simplest extension of the SM symmetry, it introduces a gauge boson...
Nov
1
2024
Colloquium: Don Lincoln: "Talking about Science: Engaging the Media, the Government, Students, and your Mom"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Our world is a bubbling frenzy of information, misinformation, and disinformation. Scientific thinking under constant assault in the public marketplace,...
Oct
31
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Xiang Cheng: "Drop Impact Case Study: "Uncovering the Fascinating Physics Behind an Everyday Fluid Phenomenon"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
From raindrops striking a windshield to coffee splashing on a table, drop impact is a common occurrence in everyday life...
Oct
30
2024
PAECRS: Eva Zhao and Leone Luzzatto
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Eva Zhao, PhD Student, Motter Group "Hysteresis and Nongenetic Traits in Bacterial Regulatory Networks" A fundamental biophysical question is how bacteria may...
Oct
29
2024
CFP Colloquium: David Moore: Mechanical sensors for dark matter and neutrinos
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The development of optomechanical systems—in which the motion of a massive object is controlled and measured using light—has revolutionized the...
Oct
29
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Catherine Espaillat: "Dynamic Protoplanetary Disks: New Perspectives from JWST"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Protoplanetary disks surround many pre-main-sequence stars, but the process by which these systems evolve into planetary systems remains a fundamental...
Oct
28
2024
HEP Seminar: Miguel Hernandez Morquecho: "Measurements of Pion and Muon Nuclear Capture at Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
LArIAT is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment in a test beam, took data at Fermilab from 2015...
Oct
25
2024
Colloquium: Dionysios Anninos: " Toward Theories of Accelerated Expansion”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
There are significant indications that at large scales our Universe experiences epochs of accelerated expansion. During such epochs, quantum effects...
Oct
24
2024
CMP Seminar: Andrew Higginbotham: "Thermally Stabilized Superconductivity and Photonic 'Friction' in Josephson Junction Arrays"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Superconducting resonators are technological building blocks for quantum computing, cosmology, and particle physics. Yet, despite their prevalence, in some limits...
Oct
24
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries...
Oct
24
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics" [copy]
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries...
Oct
22
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Erin Kara: “Black Hole Accretion and Growth in the Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Era”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The field of black hole accretion is seeing a renaissance in the last 5–10 years, thanks to the advent of...
Oct
21
2024
HEP Seminar: Aidan Herderschee: “An Amplitudes Perspective on Gravitational Waves”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In this talk, I will introduce how amplitude techniques are applied to the study of gravitational waves. After a broad...
Oct
18
2024
Colloquium: Kin Fai Mak: "Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Moiré Semiconductors"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The realization of graphene has provided a tabletop platform to explore the physics of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with well-defined...
Oct
17
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Jennifer Schwarz: "Physical Processes that Function as Learning Mechanisms"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
All biological systems are learning systems. Moreover, all biological systems are physical systems. Therefore, there exists a direct connection between...
Oct
16
2024
PAECRS: Elena Prieto and Adrian Thompson
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Elena Prieto, PhD Student, Rasio Group "Formation of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters" The existence of black holes (BHs) with masses...
Oct
15
2024
Physics and Astronomy Fall Welcome
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Come meet the faculty and other physics and astronomy majors (and physicists and astronomers at heart) for our department’s Fall...
Oct
15
2024
CIERA Colloquium: Phil Arras: "Debris Disks as the Origin of High-Altitude Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The entry of interplanetary dust particles into Earth’s atmosphere deposits heavy elements at high altitudes, and may be observed in...
Oct
14
2024
HEP Seminar: Michael Wagman: “Solving the Signal-to-Noise Problem with Lanczos”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) can provide important theory inputs needed for new physics searches ranging from the muon g-2 to...
Oct
11
2024
Colloquium: Jeff Wereszczynski:"Exploring the Physical Mechanisms of Nucleosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation through Molecular Simulations"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The regulation of gene expression is governed by complex molecular interactions involving DNA, histones, and various regulatory proteins. These processes...
Oct
10
2024
CMP Seminar: Nana Shumiya: "Disentangling and Eliminating Loss Sources in Tantalum Superconducting Circuits"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The field of quantum computing has seen an explosion in research efforts and interest in both academia and industry within...
Oct
8
2024
CFP Colloquium: Eric Hudson: Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: In 1976 Kroger and Reich established the existence of a low-lying nuclear excited state in 229Th through the spectroscopy of...
Oct
8
2024
Astrophysics Colloquium: Elisabeth Krause: "Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Over the next decade, large galaxy surveys will map billions of galaxies and probe cosmic structure formation with high statistical...
Oct
7
2024
HEP Seminar: Cash Hauptmann: "Enhanced Dark Matter Abundance in First-Order Phase Transitions"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This talk will cover recent work proposing a non-thermal production mechanism of dark matter utilizing first-order phase transitions. The mechanism...
Oct
4
2024
Colloquium: Eric Dahl: "Preparing for Discovery in the Hunt for Dark Matter"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment’s 7-ton xenon time projection chamber is the largest and most sensitive detector yet in our field’s...
Sep
30
2024
HEP Seminar: Matheus Hostert: "Exotic Flavor-Violating New Physics at Mu3e and Mu2e"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
I will discuss examples of flavor-violating light new physics in experiments searching for ultra-rare µ+ --> e+e+e- decays (Mu3e) and...
Sep
27
2024
Colloquium: Selim Shahriar: "Precision Quantum Sensing with Exotic States of Atoms: Superluminal Lasers and Schroedinger Cats"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Specially prepared quantum states of alkali atoms can have exotic properties that can be tailored to produce extremely sensitive quantum...
Sep
26
2024
CMP Seminar: Nitin Samarth: "Emergent Superconductivity in Epitaxial Quantum Materials”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The synthesis of epitaxial quantum materials provides opportunities to explore interesting phenomena that emerge from the interplay between factors such...
Sep
20
2024
Special Colloquium: William Halperin: “Superfluid 3He: Science and Serendipity”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The remarkable discovery of superfluid 3He has paved the way for the modern era of quantum condensed states of matter....
Sep
12
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Daniel Grass: "Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geotropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
The GQuEST (Gravity from the Quantum Entanglement of Space-Time) experiment uses tabletop-scale Michelson laser interferometers to probe for fluctuations in...
Aug
8
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: John Zima: "Tensor Networks for Stochastic Chemical Kinetics"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Well-mixed chemical reaction networks (CRNs) contain many distinct chemical species with copy numbers that fluctuate in correlated ways. While those...
Jul
29
2024
Special HEP Seminar: Daniel Naredo Tuero: "Global LFV Analysis of EFTs"
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
In the search for New Physics, one of the most promising avenues are lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes, which suffer...
Jul
24
2024
Special CMP Seminar: Oleg Mukhanov: "Integrated Superconducting Control of Superconducting Quantum Circuits"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Traditionally, the control and measurement of superconducting quantum devices including arrays of qubits are done using room-temperature classical electronics connected...
Jun
6
2024
CMP Seminar: Anton Vorontsov: "Suppression of Superfluid He-3 by Magnetically-Active Surfaces"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quasiparticles' scattering on surfaces is the dominant pairbreaking mechanism in unconventional superfluids in confinement. It is also the main player...
Jun
6
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Caroline Szczepanski: “Manipulating Multi-Scale Surface Instabilities in Polymer Coatings and Gels”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
A common hallmark amongst biological interfaces are hierarchical surface features. These topographical structures vary in type and quality (e.g., wrinkles,...
May
30
2024
CMP Seminar: Nicolo Lo Piparo: “Toward a Routing Protocol for Aggregated Quantum Networks”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Quantum networks will allow remote users to exchange information by sharing quantum states over large distances. This will greatly improve...
May
30
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Joseph Paulsen: "The Interplay of Gross and Fine Features inFlexible Sheets"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Although thin films are typically manufactured in planar sheets or rolls, they are often forced into three-dimensional shapes, producing a...
May
28
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Paul Duffell: "Binary Accretion"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
In astrophysics, there are many scenarios in which a gaseous disk accretes onto a binary system. Two major examples are...
May
24
2024
Colloquium: Eric Cornell: 'Precision Measurements are having a Moment: Recent Results in g-2 and Electric Dipoles of Leptons'
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The past three years have seen three dipole-moment measurements of record-breaking accuracy – the magnetic dipole moments (aka “g-2”) of...
May
21
2024
How to Apply to Graduate School
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Come hear from Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Physics faculty and current grad students about the process of applying to graduate...
May
21
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Peter Pauzauskie: Synthesis and characterization of optically levitated quantum electronic sensors
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The first detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration in 2015 ushered in new era of experimental gravitational wave...
May
21
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Marla Geha: "The SAGA Survey: Exploring Satellite Galaxies Around 101 Milky Way-Analog Systems"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The Milky Way's satellite galaxies provide critical clues to how low mass galaxies form and the nature of dark matter....
May
21
2024
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Logan Wright: "Programming Physical Systems like Neural Networks"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
My new lab at Yale works on two complementary research directions. In the first, we are trying to understand and...
May
21
2024
Special Complex Systems Seminar: Logan Wright: "Programming Physical Systems like Neural Networks" [copy]
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
My new lab at Yale works on two complementary research directions. In the first, we are trying to understand and...
May
20
2024
HEP Seminar: Abdollah Mohammadi: "Standard Model-Like is the 125-GeV Higgs boson?"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
One of the very first pivotal questions that arose immediately after the announcement of the observation of the Higgs boson...
May
20
2024
Amplitudes and Insights Seminar: Zhewei Yin: "An Area Law for Entanglement Entropy in Particle Scattering"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
We show in a very general setup that the linear entropy for the entanglement of a final state, resulting from...
May
17
2024
Cancelled - Colloquium: Martin Savage: "Quantum Simulations of Fundamental Physics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Remarkable advances in the development of quantum computers are accelerating efforts to simulate features of matter that are not accessible...
May
15
2024
PAECRS: Shih-Yuan Chen and Matthew Capocci
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
"Rocking, Rolling, and Jumping: How an Excited Liquid Marble Dances on a Flat Stage" Shih-Yuan Chen, PhD Student Liquid marbles are water...
May
14
2024
CFP Colloquium: Cumrun Vafa: String Theory and our Universe
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I will explain how ideas from string theory can lead to concrete predictions in our universe which can be...
May
14
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Chris Reynolds: "Exploring the Axion-Sector with X-ray Astronomy"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Many of the best motivated extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, including String Theories, predict the existence of...
May
10
2024
Colloquium: Christopher Jarzynski: "Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Thermodynamics provides a robust conceptual framework and set of laws that govern the exchange of energy and matter. Although these...
May
9
2024
CMP Seminar: Kaveh Ahadi: Kaveh Ahadi: "Cooperative Orders in Thin Films and Heterostructures"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The intersection of emergent phenomena, e.g., ferroelectricity and superconductivity, is a fertile landscape for exotic quantum orders. In this presentation,...
May
7
2024
CFP Colloquium: Edmund G. Myers: Atomic masses for fundamental constants and fundamental physics
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Highlights of precision atomic mass measurements at Florida State University will be presented. Although sometimes overlooked, such measurements are...
May
7
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Todd Thompson:"Three Preludes on a Theme of Magnetars: Spindown, Nucleosynthesis, and Giant Flares"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Neutron stars born with magnetic fields greater than 1014 G (“magnetars”) are common in the Galaxy. Approximately 10 - 50%...
May
6
2024
HEP Seminar: Alexis Nikolakopoulos: "Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in Accelerator-based Oscillation Experiments"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Modern neutrino experiments, including T2(H)K, DUNE, and the SBN program at Fermilab, use intense neutrino beams created in particle accelerators...
May
3
2024
Colloquium: Paul Wiseman: "Unraveling Scale Spanning Dynamics within Podosome Networks in Human Dendritic Cells using Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation Spectroscopy"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Podosomes are punctate actin-rich cytoskeletal structures used by dendritic cells and macrophages to sense the mechanical properties of the surrounding...
May
2
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Dimitrios Vavylonis: "Cell Patterning for Division and Growth"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
A fundamental pattern of many living cells is medial division followed by polarized growth. I will discuss recent advancements made...
Apr
30
2024
Special joint CFP/SPQT Division of ECE seminar: Maxwell Gregoire: Levitated Optomechanics at the Air Force Research Laboratory
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Recent experiments with optically levitated particles have shown incredible promise for various forms of high-precision sensing. At the Air...
Apr
30
2024
Astrophysics Seminar:Scott Ransom "Neutron Star Masses: The Bigger the Better"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The central densities of neutron stars are the highest known in the Universe, so mass and radius measurements of pulsars...
Apr
29
2024
HEP Seminar: Sophie Middleton: "Searching for Muon Charged Lepton Flavor Violation"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
It is well established that quarks and neutral leptons (neutrinos) exhibit flavor violation. Observation of neutrino oscillation implies loop level...
Apr
26
2024
Colloquium: Shih-Chieh Hsu: "Unravelling Dark Universe with Artificial Intelligence"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Compelling experimental evidence strongly supports searches for new particles predicted by theories Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Such searches are...
Apr
23
2024
Astrophysics Seminar:Diana Powell: "Microphysical Insights into Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
A fundamental understanding of planetary histories and characteristics requires an empirical connection between planet formation and evolved planets—a long-sought goal...
Apr
22
2024
HEP Seminar: Cari Cesarotti: "Physics Potential at a future Muon Collider"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A clear outcome of Snowmass 2021 and now the US P5 report was the community support for R&D towards a...
Apr
22
2024
Special CFP Seminar: Alexander Hipp: Searching for Galactic Halo Substructure with ADMX
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The QCD axion is a well-motivated solution to two of the biggest problems in physics: the strong CP problem...
Apr
19
2024
Colloquium: Lee Roberts: "Taking the Muon for a Spin in the World’s Largest Penning Trap"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In his seminal 1926 paper, P.A.M. Dirac predicted that the g-factor for electrons is ge = 2. Subsequent more precise...
Apr
17
2024
PAECRS: Anna Childs and Saptarshi Biswas
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
"The Formation and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets around M-dwarfs": Anna Childs, Postdoctoral Associate The search for habitable exoplanets around M-dwarf stars is...
Apr
17
2024
PAECRS: Anna Childs and Saptarshi Biswas [copy]
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
"The Formation and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets around M-dwarfs": Anna Childs, Postdoctoral Associate The search for habitable exoplanets around M-dwarf stars is...
Apr
17
2024
PAECRS: Anna Childs and Saptarshi Biswas [copy] [copy]
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
"The Formation and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets around M-dwarfs": Anna Childs, Postdoctoral Associate The search for habitable exoplanets around M-dwarf stars is...
Apr
16
2024
CFP Colloquium: David Kaplan: The Case for Testing the Modifications of Quantum Mechanics
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: We discuss the case for potential extensions to and motivate tests of quantum mechanics. We then argue that most...
Apr
16
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Ted Bergin: "Linking Planet Formation to Exoplanet Composition"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
For the past decade we have begun to explore the origin of planetary compositions which are set in the natal...
Apr
15
2024
HEP Seminar: Shruti Paranjape: "Hidden Amplitude Zeros and the Double Copy"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The study of scattering amplitudes as on-shell functions of kinematic variables can teach us a lot about quantum field theories....
Apr
12
2024
Colloquium: Ann-Marie Madigan: "The Importance of being Eccentric"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The collective gravity of bodies on eccentric orbits is key to understanding the evolution of gravitational systems from planets to...
Apr
11
2024
CMP Seminar: Christina Gao: "Axion Wind Detection with the Homogeneous Precession Domain of the Superfluid He-3"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Axions and axion-like particles may couple to nuclear spins like a weak oscillating effective magnetic field, the “axion wind.” Existing...
Apr
11
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Siddharth Patwardhan: "Modeling Complex Systems as Multiplex Networks"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
A multiplex network is a collection of single-layer networks sharing common nodes; each layer of a multiplex captures a different...
Apr
9
2024
CFP Colloquium: Michael Ramsey-Musolf: Fundamental Symmetries in Nuclei: Tackling the Strong Interaction and Hunting for New Physics
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Nuclei and hadrons are “laboratories” for exploring nature’s fundamental interactions. In this talk, I discuss the theoretical challenges and...
Apr
9
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Brant Robertson: "Finding the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe with JWST"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window into the early universe, enabling sensitive, high-resolution images of the...
Apr
5
2024
Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: James Webb Space Telescope: 25 Years to Build, 2 Years to Change Astronomy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope is the most ambitious and complicated telescope ever to be launched into space. To...
Apr
3
2024
Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: One of the original rationales for building JWST was to move beyond the limitations of the Hubble Space Telescope...
Apr
2
2024
Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: Gratification from Building and Testing JWST: A Potpourri of First Results
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope required a new approach to optical design and cryogenic cooling. Successful ground tests were...
Apr
1
2024
HEP Seminar: Daniel Li: "Search for Standard Model Triple-Top Quark Production with the CMS Detector"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Standard Model of physics has been successful in predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, which was discovered by...
Apr
1
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Siddarth Patwardhan: TBA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: TBA Siddarth Patwardhan, PhD Student, Indiana University Host: Adilson Motter
Mar
29
2024
Colloquium: Surendra Singh: "Structured Beams of Light"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Maxwell’s equations admit a rich array of wave-like solutions beyond the well known plane wave and Gaussian beam solutions. Structured...
Mar
28
2024
Complex Systems Seminar: Paul Salipante: “The Nonlinear Rheology of Model Wormlike and Rod-like Suspensions using a Small Volume Microcapillary Rheometer”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Many rheology modifiers are composed of rod-like particles or worm-like surfactant aggregates. Real world applications often expose these solutions to...
Mar
26
2024
CFP Colloquium: Maxim Pospelov: Theory of EDMs, Standard Model and beyond
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: I give a review of the modern state of EDM theory. In recent years, there has been a large...
Mar
26
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Sean Ressler: "Cleaning Up The Dirty Astrophysical Parts: Novel Approaches to Simulating Black Hole Accretion "
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Black hole science has entered into a particularly exciting era characterized by groundbreaking current and future international missions like the...
Mar
25
2024
HEP Seminar: Bryan Ramson: "The New Era of Precision Neutrino Physics"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments present some of the most compelling paths towards beyond-the-standard-model physics through measurement of PMNS matrix elements...
Mar
12
2024
Special Joint ESAM/Complex Systems Seminar: Naomi Oppenheimer: "Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of Active Two-dimensional Fluids"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
I will describe two biologically inspired systems that can be analyzed using the same hydrodynamic Hamiltonian formalism. The first is...
Mar
11
2024
HEP Seminar: Christian Herwig: "A Path to Dark Matter Discovery with Particle Accelerators "
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Though the range of viable dark matter (DM) masses spans 90 orders of magnitude, the natural scenario where its abundance...
Mar
11
2024
Special CMP Seminar: Eli Levenson-Falk: "Quantum Refrigeration to Suppress Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Superconducting qubits are a leading quantum information technology, combining long-lived coherence with strong addressability and engineering flexibility. However, they are...
Mar
5
2024
Astrophysics Seminar: Carl Fields: "Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Multidimensional progenitor models can enable us to capture the chaotic nuclear shell burning occurring deep within the interior of a...
Mar
4
2024
HEP Seminar: Garv Chauhan: "Probing Sterile Neutrinos in Supernovae"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Sterile neutrinos constitute one of the simplest solutions to explain the origin of neutrino masses. They can be easily produced...
Mar
1
2024
Colloquium: John Marko: "Control of Topology and Geometry of Chromosomes and Nuclei"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The chromosomes of cells are based on very long DNA molecules that must be replicated, disentangled and physically separated to...
Feb
27
2024
Astrophysics Seminar:Alex Ciprijanovic: "Bridging the Gap Between Astronomical Datasets: From Proof of Concept to AI Model Deployment with Domain Adaptation"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Artificial intelligence methods show great promise in increasing the quality and speed of work with large astronomical and high-energy physics...
Feb
26
2024
HEP Seminar: Andrew Wightman: "Search for New Physics in Top Quark Production with Additional Leptons using Effective Field Theory"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The CERN LHC has generated an extraordinary amount of high energy particle collisions that can be used to search for...
Feb
23
2024
Colloquium: Maura McLaughlin: "Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. Pulsar timing arrays world-wide monitor over 100 of these...