Events Archive

In response to the cancelled APS March Meeting, postdocs and graduate students will be hosting a "virtual" Princeton Physics March Meeting this Thursday, March 5, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in PCTS seminar room 407.  

Abstract: The real-space approach has been proved as a powerful method to study topological states: both the classification of topological states and that of their anomalous surfaces can be obtained in an intuitive, straightforward way. I will talk about new progress in topological materials which is inspired by, the real-space approach.

The Gaia mission has provided distance and velocity measurements of over a billion stars in the Milky Way, making it the largest stellar catalog at hand. Simultaneously, recent developments in cosmological simulations have made it possible to track stars and dark matter in realistic Milky Way-like galaxies.

Abstract: Merritt Moore will discuss her journey as a physicist and professional ballet dancer.

Superconducting circuits have emerged as a competitive platform for quantum computation, satisfying the challenges of controllability, long coherence and strong interactions. Here we apply this toolbox to a different problem: the exploration of strongly correlated quantum materials made of microwave photons.

The QCD axion, originally proposed as a solution to the strong CP problem, is also a well motivated dark-matter candidate. Recently, a number of experimental proposals have emerged to search for QCD axion dark matter over the entire allowed mass range (~1 peV-1 eV).

Abstract: Measurements of the fine-structure constant alpha require methods from several subfields and are thus powerful tests of the consistency of theory and experiment in physics.

Abstract: "With the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012, the fundamental question “Does the Higgs boson exist?” was replaced by “Is it really the Higgs boson of the standard model?”.

The past decades have seen rapid advances in our ability to probe and control atoms. The ability to bring atoms into the ultracold regime has opened up many applications, ranging from creating the most precise clocks to quantum simulation of condensed matter systems. Compared to atoms, molecules have a much richer internal structure.