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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves coming from cosmological distances. Their nature is presently unknown and an...
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...
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The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...
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The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We explore astrophysical probes of dark matter interactions in the extreme environments surrounding supermassive black holes. First, we use ultra-high-energy...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) project will enhance the global EHT array so that it is possible to make...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Amplitudes and Insights
Conserved conformal correlation functions play a central role in holography and cosmology, yet their construction becomes increasingly complicated for operators...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Electrons trapped above the surface of superfluid helium represent a compelling qubit platform, combining exceptional spin coherence, high mobility, and...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In this talk we explore how coupled oscillator networks can be employed to solve a variety of difficult computing problems....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Motivated by the swampland program, it has been proposed that a tower of massive Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons from a compactified...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Despite significant advances in synthetic materials design, the complexity of living matter dwarfs what is presently achievable in artificial materials....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
One of the principal challenges of learning, understanding, and thinking about quantum mechanics is the comparative lack of meaningful and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
One of the principal challenges of learning, understanding, and thinking about quantum mechanics is the comparative lack of meaningful and...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Multifunctional materials and structures that carry load, dissipate energy, and actively respond to external stimuli hold great potential for various...
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Join SPS (Society of Physics Students) for their first Professor Chat at 5:30 PM in Tech F160. Come learn about...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The recent observation of neutrinos produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has ushered in an era of collider neutrino...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
In honor of Family Weekend, the Dearborn will hold a special open house event--no reservations are required. The session is...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
In honor of Family Weekend, the Dearborn will hold a special open house event--no reservations are required. The session is...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Understanding how networked dynamical systems coordinate, adapt, and compute is a fundamental challenge in the study of complex systems, covering...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
We investigate the spin dynamics of a dipole-coupled system by comparing a direct solution of the Schrodinger equation for quantum...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Signed networks allow us to move beyond simple notions of connectivity by representing relationships as positive, negative, or potentially neutral....
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Abstract: Precision measurements in molecules have enabled sensitive probes of fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, and are currently exploring...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Precision experiments increasingly target weakly coupled waves, including axion dark matter and gravitational radiation. Such waves are commonly described as...
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One of the most prominent goals of particle physics is to understand the fundamental composition and behavior of matter. Large-scale...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
After an introduction to the relevant topics, we present a continuous-time crystal based on a quantum black-hole laser, where the...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Defects in nematics frustrate the orientational order of this liquid crystalline phase. When driven out-of-equilibrium, these defects self-propel, interact, and...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Join us for the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s Fall Welcome on Tuesday, October 13 at 5:30 PM in Tech...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In the coming decade, the US will host a multi-billion-dollar particle physics project called the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)....
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: An increasing number of applications in fundamental physical and quantum research require the detection and quantitative measurement of very...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
In honor of Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, the Dearborn will be walk-in only this evening. No reservations are required--just show...
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory
In honor of Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, the Dearborn will be walk-in only this evening. No reservations are required--just show...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Neutrinos are elementary particles that can help shed light on open questions in fundamental physics and probe astrophysical phenomena. This...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
We are developing thermal transport and quantum sensing approaches for studying quantum spin liquid-related phenomena in atomically thin magnetic materials....
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Optically levitated sensors inside a Fabry–Pérot cavity have been proposed for high-frequency gravitational-wave detection, but their optimal configuration exhibits a...
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computing technologies, such as superconducting circuit-QED systems, have allowed the exploration of novel physical phenomena. These include strongly nonlinear...
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Evan Shaman, Chandrasekhar Group "Development of a Cantilever Magnetometer for Magnetic Characterization of Mesoscopic Systems" Understanding the magnetic profiles of mesoscopic systems...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer a "uniquely quantum handle" for controlling mechanical systems. While NV-based sensing in bulk diamond...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Measuring the leptonic CP phase δCP and resolving the θ23 octant are primary objectives of DUNE and T2HK. We show...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Gravity and gauge theory seem spectacularly different, yet their physical predictions reveal a remarkable structural relationship known as the double...
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Attention Physics and Astronomy rising senior undergraduates planning to apply to graduate school and incoming 1st year graduate students! You may...
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Abstract: Rapid progress with quantum state control and entanglement on demand in arrays of individual atomic qubits is shortening the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Recent observations of the Galactic plane with wide-field air shower gamma-ray observatories have revealed emitters producing gamma rays at energies...
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To explain the smallness of neutrino mass, new fields are commonly introduced, and some of these fields can constitute dark...
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In this talk I will discuss open questions in our quest to understand the stellar systems that punctuate the end...
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We propose a novel mechanism for generating gamma rays from the Galactic Center via scattering of cosmic-ray protons off dark...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Cells operate by coordinating reactions to occur at the right time and in the right place in a biochemically and...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Congratulations to the Class of 2026! Join us as we congratulate our graduating students on Friday, June 12 from 11:00 AM-1:00...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The mid-to-long wavelength infrared region holds essential information on the atmospheric composition, dynamics, and evolutionary history of both brown dwarfs...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Attractive colloidal particles in a simple fluid, depending on their packing fraction and interactions can exhibit a wide range of...
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Come hear from Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Physics faculty about the process of applying to grad school and have all...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Theo Malas-Danze from Alice and Bob - INRIA Quantic Team (Paris) “Satellite Limit Cycles can Break Cat-Qubit Stability” I will present a...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Rapid progress with quantum state control and entanglement on demand in arrays of individual atomic qubits is shortening the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Astrophysical black holes are surrounded by accretion disks, jets, magnetospheres, and coronae consisting of magnetized relativistic plasma. They produce observable...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Living systems construct complex structures through interactions at multiple scales. In this talk, I will explore this idea in two...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Quantum science tools have been pivotal in various precision experiments, such as gravitational wave detectors, atomic clocks, and searches...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Quantum fluids, crystal lattice, magnetic fields, and conducting electrons are strongly coupled inside a neutron star. Their coupling to the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Quantum fluids, crystal lattice, magnetic fields, and conducting electrons are strongly coupled inside a neutron star. Their coupling to the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In a recent CMS paper, we exploited a new handle on boosted Higgs bosons by identifying H->WW decays at high...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In a recent CMS paper, we exploited a new handle on boosted Higgs bosons by identifying H->WW decays at high...
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We propose a novel mechanism for generating gamma rays from the Galactic Center via scattering of cosmic-ray protons off dark...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
For many organisms, timing is a literal matter of life and death: survival depends on foraging, hiding, sleeping, reproducing, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Phonon bursts in the substrate of a superconducting qubit array with energy above the superconducting gap can produce dissipative quasiparticle...
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michelle Driscoll will present her research in a special seminar targeting undergraduates (but the entire community is welcome!). Following the...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Ultracold molecules are an emerging platform for quantum science that combines the techniques of atomic physics pioneered over the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In the early universe matter and antimatter were created in unequal amounts, leaving a universe that is predominately composed of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Abstract: I will discuss recent developments on a novel kind of symmetry known as non-invertible symmetry. It is implemented by...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Topology has emerged as a unifying principle in modern condensed matter physics and materials science, enabling quantum phases that are...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Abstract: Geometric frustration prevents simple building blocks from assembling into perfectly ordered structures, but this failure can become a powerful...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Short-Baseline Near Detector, SBND, is the near detector of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino program, a suite of liquid-argon time projection...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Speaker: Ken DeRose (Northwestern University) Title: A Surprise in the Lab from the Interplay of Dynamical Decoupling and Dissipation Abstract: Dynamical decoupling...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The idea that structure in the Universe was created from quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations is compelling but unproven. Testing this...
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Determining the tail of probability distributions is an important topic in many physical settings. For classical stochastic systems, much about...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Amidst longstanding excitement about phase separation in cells, fundamental questions have persisted about exactly which molecules are required for liquid–liquid...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs) in star-forming regions represent the low end of the stellar initial mass function and overlap in...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
This talk will explore our current understanding of the fast radio burst (FRB) radiation mechanism, highlighting key observational findings and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
This talk will address the impact of heavy dark matter (DM) captured in massive stars via scattering(s) with the star...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: One of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century was the theory of quantum mechanics, according to which...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Quantum mechanics is a theory of wave functions in Hilbert space. Many features that we generally take for granted...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks
Abstract: Over a century ago, Boltzmann and others provided a microscopic understanding for the tendency of entropy to increase. But...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Inflation may have involved more than a single scalar degree of freedom. Spectator scalar fields, while subdominant in the background...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Over forty years ago, Nielsen and Ninomiya proved that chiral modes cannot exist in discrete systems without a matching anti-chiral...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: In this talk I'll describe how a magnet can be used as a Weber bar for the detection of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The evolution of galaxies is fundamentally connected to the evolution of their central black holes. The large-scale environment of the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
We examine decoherence in neutrino oscillations induced by an ultralight scalar field coupled to neutrinos. The scalar induces time- and...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Quantum entanglement is well-understood in a two-qubit system. Concurrence is a scalar quantity that measures the degree of entanglement between...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Self-organization is a hallmark of biological systems. It is characterized by the spontaneous appearance of collective order that arises merely...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The Arrhenius equation is regularly used to describe the dynamics of two-state switching in a variety of systems. The prefactor in ...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The last decade has seen a tremendous increase in research probing the role of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation through the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
It is possible that the large-scale structure of both the very early and very late universe are approximately de Sitter....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Biological tissues are often framed simply as fluids or solids, creating a binary that overlooks rich intermediate structures. In this...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter...
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics degrees open doors to careers in data science, software development, consulting, education, industry research, and more. To highlight the...
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics degrees open doors to careers in data science, software development, consulting, education, industry research, and more. To highlight the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Over 15 years ago, parametric coupling was proposed as a way to entangle flux qubits at their “sweet spots” with...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
This talk presents two complementary directions of my research in mechanobiology. First, I will present our recent work to solve the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Gas accretion onto massive black holes at high fractions of the Eddington limit may produce galaxy-altering feedback, in the form...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Mu2e, the muon-to-electron conversion experiment at Fermilab, will search for charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) through the coherent conversion of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
There are a variety of systems that exhibit chiral dynamics, including vortices in fluids and superfluids, charges in magnetic fields,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
High-resolution simulations of galaxy formation predict that young, low-mass galaxies undergo bursty star formation, with star formation rates that vary...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The discovery of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride (UTe2) precipitated a flurry of research activity motivated both by strong evidence for...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The self-assembly of materials is oftentimes restricted by the capacity to grow and deform building blocks. Here, I will present...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: The Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory has developed techniques to laser cool and trap extremely rare, radioactive isotopes...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Planets, unlike stars, are thought to form from the bottom up. We review the "core accretion" theory for giant planets...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict new particles with macroscopic lifetimes, giving rise to striking displaced signatures at collider...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Fine Wine and Sour Milk: Is Aging Inevitable?" Age comes for us all, from the scale of our whole bodies to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
We take it for granted that sight and sound can be recorded, stored, and replayed with high realism. Indeed, modern...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Superconducting nanostructures underpin the development of many promising quantum computing approaches and alternatives to conventional classical computing. Most work to...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Sachin Venkatesh Thakku Saravana, Tchekhovskoy Group "UNOfying the Scales: Simulating Black Hole Accretion from Event Horizon to Galaxy Scales using Physics-Informed...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: One of the biggest challenges in fundamental physics is understanding the microscopic nature of dark matter. Scalar ultralight dark matter...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Searches for Higgs-related resonances in b b γ γ final states provide a sensitive probe of extended Higgs sectors and...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Getting Life Under Control" Life has evolved sophisticated regulatory and control mechanisms, from cells regulating protein production to neuronal circuits generating...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Galaxy clustering provides a precision probe of the expansion rate of the Universe and the growth of structure within it,...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia
Abstract: Time-reversal symmetry (T) breaking due to undiscovered new physics can couple to gluons, which in turn modulates the interactions between...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
R-process-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and nearby satellites, hold the keys to understanding heavy element production across...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The 2->2 scattering amplitudes of unitary field theories obey positivity bounds that constrain, for example, Wilson coefficients in weakly-coupled effective...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Biophysical Fiction or Reality" To what extent are the possibilities of brain-machine interfaces, thought-reading through brain scanning, chimeric organ transplants, and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In fundamental physics our aim is to understand the building blocks of the nature and their interactions, and we study...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Like silicon for electronics, DNA is the revolution-enabling material for biotechnology. It is chemically stable, readily produced with high purity,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Gideon McFarland, Starkenburg Group "A Journey Through The Space Between: Probing The Expansion of The Universe with Cosmic Voids in LSST" The...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Don't be Dense: Understanding the Diversity of White Dwarf Supernova Explosions" Professor Adam Miller will present his research in a special...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The discovery of billion-solar-mass black holes within the first Gigayear of cosmic history presents an intriguing puzzle: how did supermassive...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
"Analyticity of the Black Hole S-Matrix" I will discuss the analytic structure of the S-matrix for classical wave scattering on a...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Artificial Intelligence and Other Bio-Inspired Technologies" Biologically inspired technologies are ubiquitous, including the airplane, sonar, and even machine learning broadly construed-from...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Quantum sensing and metrology seek to use quantum states and entanglement to improve our ability measure a variety of quantities...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
The Arrhenius equation is regularly used to describe the dynamics of two-state switching in a variety of systems. The prefactor in ...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The post-inflationary QCD axion is a sharp BSM theory target that spans a frequency range from 5 to 50 GHz...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"The Physics of the Brain" The brain is the most energy-efficient computational device yet encountered, requiring only about 20 Watts of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
I will review the connections of quantum field theory to modern quantum devices and opportunities to probe fundamental physics with...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
In the Standard Model, the flavor sector contains the majority of free parameters corresponding to masses and mixings of the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Living Systems Across Scales" Organisms of different sizes face distinct energetic challenges and yet, they are related by common allometric scaling...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
In 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Disorder significantly impacts the electronic properties of conducting quantum materials by inducing electron localization and thus altering the local density...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"What is Life After All and What Makes It Possible?" Living organisms are built out of cells, which serve to segregate...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
One of the central open questions in cosmology is whether the standard ΛCDM model fully describes the evolution of the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Efforts to achieve coherent control of complex quantum matter have reshaped multiple disciplines at the foundation of quantum materials discovery...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
Astrophysics abounds with precision measurement problems, for example when we search for exoplanets, map the dark matter in our Galaxy,...
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Are you wondering how you can join a physics or astronomy research lab? Here is your chance to find out!...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Life on Earth from it's Origin to Present Day" Today, it's easy to take the sheer diversity of life on Earth...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) can potentially solve many computationally hard problems more efficiently than deterministic algorithms on von Neumann computers....
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
Superconducting circuits have emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulation platform for exploring many-body physics in synthetic quantum matter. In...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
The surface of a cell experiences frequent stretching and compression. The resulting membrane tension is converted to intracellular electrochemical signals...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In studies of networks, researchers often examine the evolution of mesoscale structures, structures that involve groups of nodes that are...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Many driven systems in condensed matter, such as sheared amorphous solids, compressed crumpled sheets, and disordered magnets, undergo complex sequences...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The last decade has provided exceptional data on black holes and neutron stars: imaging of black hole shadows with the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has measured a sample of primarily atmospheric muon neutrino events over 11 years from all directions...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, John Martinis and Michel Devoret “for the discovery of...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars
We present a transmon split-junction qubit which can be controlled by Meissner screening currents, which generate required phase bias. The...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
Microorganisms inhabit and swim in fluids at low Reynolds numbers, a world, though foreign to us, is of utmost importance...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
We have known for decades that magnetic fields and relativistic particles (cosmic rays) can play a key role in some...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess has a spectrum, angular distribution, and overall intensity that agree remarkably well with that expected...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) solutions in the nematic phase have peculiar properties. They are tumbling materials, which means that...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars
In this talk, I introduce a dynamic percolation model designed to describe resource consumption and depletion in networks: the minimum-cost...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professor Ian Low will present his research “The Origin of Symmetry -- A Perspective from Quantum Information” in a talk...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Sissi Chen, Carrasco Research Group “The Root of Black Hole Evaporation” Einstein’s general relativity predicts that black holes can only absorb matter...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS
Sissi Chen, Carrasco Research Group “The Root of Black Hole Evaporation” Einstein’s general relativity predicts that black holes can only absorb matter...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars
The Giant Magellan Telescope is one of the two, next generation, “extremely large” telescopes (ELTs) now under construction. Both GMT...
