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PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 12:00 pm

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) co-sponsor a seminar series that is held on Wednesdays throughout the semester.

Audience: Faculty, Postdocs, graduate students

PCTS: Unruh acceleration radiation, vacuum entanglement and relativity

PCTS: Unruh acceleration radiation, vacuum entanglement and relativity

Special Seminar | Turning light into matter: observing photon-induced WW production at the LHC with ATLAS | William McCormack | LBL

Special Seminar | Turning light into matter: observing photon-induced WW production at the LHC with ATLAS | William McCormack | LBL
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 2:30 pm

After the Higgs mechanism breaks the SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the Electroweak sector of the Standard Model, we find trilinear and quartic terms coupling photons and W bosons.  This leads to the experimentally testable prediction that two colliding high-energy photons can convert into two W bosons.  Measuring this interaction would be a unique...

Speaker(s):
William McCormack
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Special Seminar | Searching for Clues to a Matter Dominated Universe with Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers | Yeon-Jae Jwa | Columbia University

Special Seminar | Searching for Clues to a Matter Dominated Universe with Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers | Yeon-Jae Jwa | Columbia University
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 1:30 pm

We live in a matter-dominated Universe. Sakharov's famous argument listed three necessary conditions for such a manifestation of matter dominance: There needs to be a baryon number violating process; CP symmetry violation; and interactions out of thermal equilibrium.

Speaker(s):
Yeon-Jae Jwa
Columbia University

It from Qubit Workshop | Online Workshop on Qubits and Black Holes | December 7-9, 2020 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | via Zoom

It from Qubit Workshop | Online Workshop on Qubits and Black Holes | December 7-9, 2020 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | via Zoom
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 9:00 am to Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 6:00 pm

This workshop will focus on the quantum mechanics of black holes with the goal of understanding how spacetime encodes quantum information. This meeting is sponsored by the “It from Qubit" collaboration. All talks will take place on Zoom. The link for the talks will be announced prior to the workshop.

Speaker(s):
IAS, Princeton University
Online Workshop on Qubits and Black Holes

HET Seminar | Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN | "Solving unitarity with contraction mappings" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN | "Solving unitarity with contraction mappings" | via Zoom
Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 1:45 pm

To join HET Seminar please click link below:

https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98595504817?pwd=QWxDMzFGWjdBdmVBRTFyQmtvajVNQT09(link is external)

Meeting ID: 985 9550 4817

Speaker(s):
Alexander Zhiboedov
CERN
"Solving unitarity with contraction mappings"

Gravity Group Lunch Seminar, Mariangela Lisanti | Princeton, Dark Matter Phenomenology

Gravity Group Lunch Seminar, Mariangela Lisanti | Princeton, Dark Matter Phenomenology
Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 12:00 pm

This week, Mariangela Lisanti and her group will give us an overview of their research in dark matter phenomenology.

EDI initiative "All Hands" meeting

EDI initiative "All Hands" meeting
Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 2:00 pm

EDI initiative "All Hands" Meeting
2 pm (EST), Thursday, December 3, 2020  
All working groups should plan to present ~5-10 minutes of updates on their ongoing projects.  We're looking forward to seeing you all then!

Physics Department Book Club Kick off Event | "Einstein on Race and Racism" by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor |via Zoom

Physics Department Book Club Kick off Event | "Einstein on Race and Racism" by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor |via Zoom
Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 3:30 pm

We would like to invite you all to the Physics Department Book Club Kick Off event on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 3:30pm via Zoom!

Join us as we introduce the book "Einstein on Race and Racism" by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor.

Click on the link below to join our Kick Off event!

Meeting ID: 942 9640 4435

Speaker(s):
Christopher Palmer, Katherine Lamos
Princeton University
Physics Department Book Club Kick off Event

HEE Seminar- Taylor Faucett-UCI-Physics Learning from Machines Learning

HEE Seminar- Taylor Faucett-UCI-Physics Learning from Machines Learning
Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 2:00 pm

Abstract: 

Speaker(s):
Taylor Faucett
UCI
Physics Learning from Machines Learning

HET Seminar | Andrew Strominger, Harvard University | "Progress on Celestial Holography" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Andrew Strominger, Harvard University | "Progress on Celestial Holography" | via Zoom
Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 2:30 pm

To connect to the HET Seminar via Zoom, please click the following link:
https://theias.zoom.us/j/92467790530?pwd=WUI3U1RCRCtYSjJyV1A2Vmx6dk81QT09
Meeting ID: 924 6779 0530

Speaker(s):
Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
"Progress on Celestial Holography"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Fani Dosopoulou, "The Merger History of Elliptical Galaxies: Mass Deficit"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Fani Dosopoulou, "The Merger History of Elliptical Galaxies: Mass Deficit"
Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:30 pm

Abstract: The structure and kinematics of galactic nuclei are fossil relics of the merger histories of galaxies and of the interaction between stars and SMBH binaries. Stars ejection during the SMBH binary evolution should reduce a galaxy’s central density and expand its core.

Biophysics Seminar: Kranthi Kiran Mandadapu, University of California Berkeley: On the role of motility and glassy dynamics in growth of bacterial monolayers into the third dimension| Zoom

Biophysics Seminar: Kranthi Kiran Mandadapu, University of California Berkeley: On the role of motility and glassy dynamics in growth of bacterial monolayers into the third dimension| Zoom
Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:15 pm

Many mature bacterial colonies and biofilms are complex three-dimensional (3D) structures. A key step in their developmental program is a transition from a two-dimensional (2D) monolayer into a 3D architecture.

Audience: A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
University of California Berkeley

Gravity Group Lunch Seminar, Anne Gambrel | KICP, U. Chicago "The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator and its Application to SPIDER"

Gravity Group Lunch Seminar, Anne Gambrel | KICP, U. Chicago "The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator and its Application to SPIDER"
Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 12:00 pm

Every analysis of cosmic microwave background observations faces the challenge of compressing large amounts of data into the comparatively tiny spaces of power spectra and cosmological parameters.

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University, "The String Landscape and the Swampland"

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University, "The String Landscape and the Swampland"
Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 12:15 pm

String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy.  There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland' which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity.  In this talk I review some of these conditions...

Audience: A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
“The String Landscape and the Swampland”

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Titus Neupert,UZH | "Heating and blackhole dynamics in critical Floquet systems"

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Titus Neupert,UZH | "Heating and blackhole dynamics in critical Floquet systems"
Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:00 pm

While driven interacting quantum matter is generically subject to heating and scrambling, certain classes of systems evade this paradigm. I will discuss such an exceptional class in periodically driven critical (1 + 1)-dimensional systems with a spatially modulated, but disorder-free time evolution operator.

Speaker(s):
Titus Neupert
U of Zurich

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:00 pm

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) co-sponsor a seminar series that is held on Wednesdays throughout the semester.

Audience: Faculty, Postdocs, graduate students

HET Seminar | Alexey Milekhin, UCSB | "Quantum error correction and large N" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Alexey Milekhin, UCSB | "Quantum error correction and large N" | via Zoom
Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:30 pm

To join HET Seminar please click link below:

https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98595504817?pwd=QWxDMzFGWjdBdmVBRTFyQmtvajVNQT09

Speaker(s):
Alexey Milekhin
UCSB
Quantum error correction and large N

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Eliot Hijano Cubelos, "Where are BMS symmetries in the flat limit of AdS/CFT?"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Eliot Hijano Cubelos, "Where are BMS symmetries in the flat limit of AdS/CFT?"
Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 12:30 pm

Abstract: A holographic description of physics in Minkowski space is still elusive. A tempting approach is to implement a flat limit from AdS/CFT. Such a limit has not properly been understood, even at the level of the symmetries of the theory; How do BMS symmetries emerge from the flat limit of the asymptotic symmetries of anti-de Sitter space...

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