Astronomy seminar: "TBA"
Abigail Lee, University of Chicago
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
Peter Adshead (University of Illinois)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells" - CANCELLED
Ibraham Cissé (Max Planck Institute)
We will discuss the latest efforts in our laboratory to develop highly sensitive methods of microscopy, to go directly inside living cells and uncover the behavior of single biomolecules as…
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
Ho Tat Lam (MIT)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design" - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2023
Francesco Zamponi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
Rough (energy, or free energy, or fitness) landscapes are ubiquitous in disordered systems, from material science to biology. These landscapes feature a multitude of local energy minima, separated by…
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
John T. Giblin, Jr. (Kenyon College)
Astrophysics seminar: "Ultralight sails for interstellar space travel"
Deep Jariwala and Igor Bargatin (University of Pennsylvania)
We argue that light sails with nanometer-scale thicknesses that are rapidly accelerated to relativistic velocities by lasers must be significantly curved in order to reduce their intrafilm mechanical…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Neuronal biomechanics measured using combined atomic force – traction force microscopy"
Christian Staii (Tufts University)
During brain development neurons grow axons and dendrites that extend from the cell body and connect with other neurons to form neuronal circuits. Axons navigate over long distances (10-100 times…
High Energy seminar: "Precision Physics & Proton Structure at the LHC"
Johannes K. L. Michel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The LHC precision program critically relies on precise theory predictions for Standard-Model baseline rates to identify possible deviations due to New Physics and extract Standard Model…
Primakoff Lecture: “From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics”
Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)
The laser increased the intensity of light that can be generated by orders of magnitude and thus brought about nonlinear optical interactions with matter. Chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, changed the…