ADVANCES IN BIOMEDICAL OPTICS: Exploring Brain Interactions with Diffuse Optics
Rickson Mesquita (University of Campinas)
The human brain can be seen as a complex system due to its functional capabilities and structural organization. Indeed, previous works employing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography…
Department Colloquium: "The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age"
Gino Segre (University of Pennsylvania) and Bettina Hoerlin
Enrico Fermi was unique in a number of ways, including the staggering breadth of his research, from relativity theory and magnetohydrodynamics to instrument development. He was the only 20th century physicist to have…
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Postponed Exams
Fall 2016 Postponed Exam
ALL EXAMS ARE FROM 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.
Astro Seminar: "Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)"
Zhilei Xu (Johns Hopkins University)
Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an array of telescopes to observe Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in Chile. CLASS will make large angular scale CMB polarization measurements in frequency bands at …
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Real-space imaging of a nematic quantum liquid"
Ben Feldman, Princeton University
Electronic phases in condensed matter systems generally respect the symmetries of their solid state host. However, interactions among electrons can give rise to a variety of exotic correlated states characterized by…
Astro Seminar: "Measuring the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background with POLARBEAR and the Simons Array"
Frederick Matsuda (University of California) hosted by Mark Devlin
POLARBEAR is a high resolution polarization sensitive instrument in Chile currently observing the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal in order to probe the physics of the early universe and inflation.…
Night Skies in the Observatory: "How to find another Earth … Nearby"
Professor James Aguirre (UPenn)
In the last twenty years, the notion that planets exist outside our solar system has moved from informed speculation to hard, observational science. James will discuss how we find planets outside the solar system,…
Dissertation Defense: "Nano/Biosensors Based on Large Area Graphene"
Pedro Ducos (UPenn)
Experimental Particle Physics: "TBA"
Alessandro Tricoli (Brookhaven National Laboratory)