DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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)...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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%...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CMP Seminar: Priya Sharma: "Inverse Faraday Effect in Fermi Liquids"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

In the Fermi liquid metallic state, a static local magnetic moment is induced on the application of a circularly polarized...

Complex Systems Seminar: Chang-Han Rhee: "Heavy-Tailed Large Deviations and Sharp Characterization of Global Dynamics of SGDs in Deep Learning"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

While the typical behaviors of stochastic systems are often deceptively oblivious to the tail distributions of the underlying uncertainties, the...

PAECRS: Shelby Klomp and Chang Liu, PhD Students

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Optical Trapping and Optimal Detection of Microdisks for Detection of High Frequency Gravitational Waves" Shelby Klomp, PhD Student, Geraci Group I present...

Astrophysics Seminar: Greg Herczeg:"Variability in the Growth of Stars and Planets"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

While the stages in the formation of stellar systems are now well charted, uncertainties in the initial conditions and evolution...

Colloquium: Alexandra Gade:"The science of FRIB: From the Nuclear Many-body Challenge to the Origin of the Elements in the Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

There are approximately 300 stable and 3,000 known unstable (rare) isotopes. Estimates are that over 7,000 different isotopes are bound...

Special HEP Seminar: Srubabati Goswami: "Analytic Treatment of Neutrino Oscillation and Decay in Matter "

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Neutrino decay is governed by a non-Hermitian effective  Hamiltonian and in general the  mass eigenstates  and decay eigenstates are not...

CFP Colloquium: Christopher Foot: Matter-wave interferometry of ultracold atoms: small and intermediate-scale experiments

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: This seminar will describe two topics in atom interferometry. Firstly, experiments using a quenched two-dimensional Bose gas to investigate the...

HEP Seminar: Raymond Co: "Solving Cosmological Mysteries with Axion Rotations"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

We present a paradigm where the (QCD) axion’s novel evolution, a rotation in field space, can address cosmological mysteries of...

Colloquium: Bonnie Fleming: "Fermilab Science in the Next Decade and Beyond"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Particle physics probes the most fundamental questions in the universe from the smallest to the largest scales and how they...

CMP Seminar: Gleb Finkelstein: "Classical Dynamics of the Multi-terminal Josephson Junctions"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

In multi-terminal Josephson junctions (MTJJ), several superconducting contacts are made to a common non-superconducting region. As a result, the state...

PAECRS: Danyang Chen and Zhiheng Sheng, PhD Students

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Error Budgeting for a Quantum Error Correction System" Danyang Chen, PhD Student, Koch Group In this talk, I'll explore Quantum Error Correction...

CFP Colloquium: Yan Zhou: Precision measurements of molecular ions in a ring trap - a new approach for testing fundamental symmetries

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: In this presentation, I will discuss a new experimental platform designed to facilitate quantum logic control of polar molecular...

Astrophysics Seminars: Jamie Rankin: “New Insights into Cosmic Rays from Parker Solar Probe”

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

For over 50 years, space-based measurements of cosmic rays have been used to better understand the acceleration and transport of...

HEP Seminar: Asher Berlin: "Electromagnetic Signals of High-Frequency Gravitational Wave"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

There is strong motivation to extend the observable frequency range of gravitational waves (GWs) beyond the Hz - kHz regime...

Colloquium:James Fitzgerald: "Ensemble Modeling of Biological Neural Networks"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Neuronal activity patterns provide the physical substrates for perception, cognition, and behavior. This activity in turn emerges from the network...

Astrophysics Seminar: Jessie Dotson: "The Asteroid Threat Assessment Project"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Planetary Defense is a multi-discipline international effort which requires finding and tracking near earth asteroids, studying their characteristics, developing and...

HEP Seminar: Titas Roy:"Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top Quark Pairs"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Several models predict modifications to the SM properties in the presence of new particles. The top quark, being the heaviest...

Colloquium: Andrew Cleland: "Exploring the Quantum Nature of Sound"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Phonons are the quantum particles of sound waves in solids, representing the collective motion of astronomical numbers of atoms. While...

CMP Seminar: Andras Gyenis: "Novel Nonlinear Elements for Protected Superconducting Qubits"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

To unlock the potential of quantum computers, one of the key challenges that the field has to overcome is to...

PAECRS: Siyuan Liu and Sebastian Urrutia Quiroga

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Controlling Magnetic Field for Next-Generation Electron EDM Search" Siyuan Liu, Graduate Researcher, Gabrielse Group The Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of electron is...

CFP Colloquium: Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz: Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract:  A precise understanding of the interaction between the atomic nucleus and its bound electrons enables the exploration of physical...

Astrophysics Seminar: Quinn Konopacky: Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged Planets

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

In the past fifteen years, several new jovian exoplanets at wide separations have been revealed using ground based telescopes equipped...

HEP Seminar: Henning Bahl: "Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Boson" ONLINE

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

More than ten years after the Higgs discovery, we have entered the Higgs precision era. In this talk, I will...

Colloquium:David Sand: "Small-scale Cosmology with Satellites and Stellar Substructures in Nearby Galaxies"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model for structure formation is successful in reproducing large scale structures (>10 Mpc), but challenges...

CMP Seminar: Johannes Pollanen: "Hybrid Quantum Phononics with Superconducting Qubits*"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting qubits, and the experimental architecture of circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED), have emerged as not only a promising platform for...

Complex Systems Seminar: Miklos Racz: "Correlated Stochastic Block Models: Graph Matching and Community Recovery"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

I will discuss statistical inference problems on edge-correlated stochastic block models. We determine the information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery of...

CFP Colloquium: Nick Huggett: What Could we Learn from Table Top Quantum Gravity?

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: It’s not straight-forward to adequately and uncontroversially explain, in terms of theory testing alone, the significance of difficult proposed...

Astrophysics Seminar: Nahum Arav: "The Contribution of Quasar Absorption Outflows to AGN Feedback"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

Determining the distance of quasar absorption outflows from the central source and their kinetic luminosity are crucial for understanding their contribution to...

Colloquium: Robert Joynt: "Discrete Scale Invariance: Fractal-like Effects in Condensed Matter"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Discrete scale invariance is the symmetry that fractals show, familiar from many biological systems.   Manifestations in quantum systems have been predicted...

Special HEP Seminar: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla:" A Journey into the Interior of Earth with Neutrinos"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Neutrinos produced in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a unique and independent probe to explore the internal structure and composition...

CMP Seminar: Adrian Lupascu: "Quantum Sensing with Superconducting Devices"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting devices are currently one of the main candidates for the implementation of quantum computers. These devices have features that...

Astrophysics Seminar: Harley Katz: "Challenging our Understanding of High-redshift Galaxy Formation with JWST Observations"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy Seminars

The insights gained from the first year and a half of JWST observations at high-redshift has transformed our understanding of...

HEP Seminar: Cancelled

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Colloquium: Rakshya Khatiwada: "Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Science"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

This talk will introduce Quantum Sensing and its applications to fundamental physics. In particular, it will focus on qubits, the...