HET & HEE Joint Seminar: "Digging Deeper for New Physics in the LHC Data"
David Shih (Rutgers University)
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY CAREER SEMINAR: 10 Essential Steps to Successful Job Hunting for Physics PhD Students
Dr. Joseph Barber, Senior Associate Director (Penn Career Services)
Whether you are applying for faculty positions or for jobs in the broad range of other industries/fields that value a STEM PhD, there is plenty you can and should be doing throughout your PhD to position yourself for…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "The Case for an Exciton Metal in Bilayer Graphene"
Michael Zaletel (Princeton University)
Graphene based heterostructures have emerged as a pristine platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry, topology and non-Abelian excitations in the quantum Hall regime. I will begin with a theoretical review of…
High Energy Theory Seminar: (TBA)
Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis)
Joint Mathematics & Physics Seminar: 6D SCFTs and Group Theory
Tom Rudelius (IAS)
Certain classes of superconformal field theories in six dimensions (6D SCFTs) are in one-to-one correspondence with certain classes of group homomorphisms. In this talk, we will see that this correspondence allows…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Jamming of non-circular and deformable particles"
Mark Shattuck (City University of New York)
We study mechanically stable packings of deformable and rigid 2D circulo-polygons using computer simulations. A 2D circulo-polygon is a particle shape formed by the collection of all points equidistant from the edge…
Astro Seminar: "Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: from Weighing the Giants to LSST"
Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook)
Surveys of galaxy clusters provide a sensitive probe of cosmology by measuring the evolution of the halo mass function. However, already current cluster surveys are systematically limited by uncertainties in the…
Physics Department Colloquium: Eye patches: The Evolution of Novel Soft Matter
Alison Sweeney (U of Penn)
Life on Earth constitutes the most sophisticated iterations in the known universe of what physicists classify as soft matter. Research in my group focuses on learning the physical rules of soft matter self-assembly…
HET & HEE Joint Seminar: "Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition"
Clay Cordova, (IAS Princeton)
Local energy conditions are the key hypothesis in many classical results in general relativity. In quantum theory, these local energy conditions are invalidated due to quantum fluctuations. Nevertheless a weaker…
Dissertation Defense: "Electronic Properties of Grain Boundaries in Single Layer Graphene"
Madeleine Phillips (UPenn)