Events Archive

Events Archive

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Elias Most "Neutron star mergers: On the impact of high spins in multi-messenger gravitational wave events"

Biophysics Seminar: Gurol Suel, University of California San Diego| The role of inorganic ions in bacterial resilience

Biophysics Seminar: Gurol Suel, University of California San Diego| The role of inorganic ions in bacterial resilience
Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 12:15 pm

We have been working to measure and understand how ion fluxes and ionic interactions regulate fundamental biological processes, and in particular promote stress tolerance in bacteria. I will present our recent work that builds on our discovery of action potentials generated within bacterial biofilms.

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

HET Seminar | Oscar Varela, Utah State University | "AdS4/CFT3 Squashed, Stretched, Warped and Invaded" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Oscar Varela, Utah State University | "AdS4/CFT3 Squashed, Stretched, Warped and Invaded" | via Zoom
Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 1:45 pm

The spectrum of single-trace operators of holographic CFTs at strong coupling and large N can be mapped to the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein modes over the dual AdS supergravity solutions.

Speaker(s):
Oscar Varela
Utah State University
"AdS4/CFT3 Squashed, Stretched, Warped and Invaded"

Gravity Group Seminar | Paul Steinhardt, "Cosmological Bounces and Bouncing Cosmology"

Gravity Group Seminar | Paul Steinhardt, "Cosmological Bounces and Bouncing Cosmology"
Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 12:00 pm

The talk will introduce the group working on cosmological theories in which the big bang is replaced by a smooth, non-singular bounce and the large-scale properties of the universe are explained by a period of slow contraction that precedes the bounce.

Email Angela Lewis for Zoom registration...

FPO - Xiaowen Chen - "Statistical Physics Approaches to Collective Behavior in Networks of Neurons"

FPO - Xiaowen Chen - "Statistical Physics Approaches to Collective Behavior in Networks of Neurons"
Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 2:00 pm

In recent years, advances in experimental techniques have allowed for the first time simultaneous measurements of many interacting components in living systems at almost all scales, making now an exciting time to search for physical principles of collective behavior in living systems.

FPO - Yaqiong Li - "Probing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Using Large Superconducting Detector Arrays"

FPO - Yaqiong Li - "Probing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Using Large Superconducting Detector Arrays"
Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 9:00 am
The discovery and measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation have laid the foundation of the current cosmological model, in which the universe is primarily composed of dark energy and dark matter.

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Sep 23, 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 | Joaquin Turiaci, UC Santa Barbara | "The gravitational path integral near extremality"| via Zoom

HET Seminar | Joaquin Turiaci, UC Santa Barbara | "The gravitational path integral near extremality"| via Zoom
Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 2:30 pm

I will explain the relation between the Euclidean path integral over near-extremal black hole geometries and its dimensional reduction to 2D Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. I will focus mostly on the case of 3D gravity and a particular application to pure 3D gravity.

Speaker(s):
Joaquin Turiaci
UC Santa Barbara
"The gravitational path integral near extremality"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Gabriele Benomio, "A new instability for higher dimensional black holes"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Gabriele Benomio, "A new instability for higher dimensional black holes"
Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 12:30 pm

Abstract: In contrast with the classical stability of stationary, asymptotically flat black holes in four dimensions, some families of higher dimensional black holes suffer from dynamical instabilities.

HET Seminar | Petr Kravchuk, Member, School of Natural Sciences, IAS | “Light-rays and detectors in Wilson-Fisher theory” | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Petr Kravchuk, Member, School of Natural Sciences, IAS | “Light-rays and detectors in Wilson-Fisher theory” | via Zoom
Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 1:45 pm

In conformal field theory, in contrast to gapped theories, S-matrix is not well-defined. Similarly, various inclusive observables which make sense in a gapped theory, such as "energy squared" calorimeters, suffer from IR divergences in CFTs.

Speaker(s):
Petr Kravchuk
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study
“Light-rays and detectors in Wilson-Fisher theory”

Gravity Group Seminar | Meet the Gravity Group

Gravity Group Seminar | Meet the Gravity Group
Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:00 pm

We will kick off this season with a "Meet the Gravity Group" event. The format will be the same as last year's: all of us, be we juniors getting started on our Fall papers or emeritus, will get one slide and one minute to introduce ourselves to our new colleagues and share our spring / summer updates with the group.

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Sep 16, 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 | Zohar Komargodski, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University | “Non-Symmetries, Naturalness, and Two-Dimensional Adjoint QCD” | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Zohar Komargodski, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University | “Non-Symmetries, Naturalness, and Two-Dimensional Adjoint QCD” | via Zoom
Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 2:30 pm

We will explain the notion of "non-symmetries" or "defect symmetries." We will show that massless two-dimensional QCD admits exponentially many such symmetries. We will use them to prove deconfinement as well as to compute exactly the tension of all k-strings in the small mass limit.

Speaker(s):
Zohar Komargodski
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University
“Non-Symmetries, Naturalness, and Two-Dimensional Adjoint QCD”

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Alex Lupsasca, "The Shape of the Black Hole Photon Ring: A Precise Test of Strong-Field General Relativity"

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Alex Lupsasca, "The Shape of the Black Hole Photon Ring: A Precise Test of Strong-Field General Relativity"
Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 12:30 pm

We propose a new test of strong-field general relativity (GR) based on the universal interferometric signature of the black hole photon ring. The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by GR but not yet observed, that appears on images of sources near a black hole.

Biophysics Seminar: Bill Bialek & Josh Shaevitz, Princeton University: State of the Center| Zoom

Biophysics Seminar: Bill Bialek & Josh Shaevitz, Princeton University: State of the Center| Zoom
Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 12:15 pm
Audience: A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Princeton University

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Sep 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

FPO - Laura Chang - Dark Matter in the Milky Way

FPO - Laura Chang - Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 11:00 am

We have entered a data-driven era of astrophysics and cosmology, providing a wealth of datasets within which to search for the answers to some of the most fundamental open questions in the physics of our Universe.

FPO - Kelvin Mei - "A Search for Scalar Top Quarks in Final States with High Jet Multiplicity and a Lepton with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider"

FPO - Kelvin Mei - "A Search for Scalar Top Quarks in Final States with High Jet Multiplicity and a Lepton with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider"
Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 3:30 pm

A search is conducted for scalar top quarks decaying in the Full Run II dataset for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of 137.2\fbinv collected at a center of mass energy of √s = 14 TeV.

HET Seminar | Lorenz Eberhardt, Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study | “Partition functions of the tensionless string” | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Lorenz Eberhardt, Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study | “Partition functions of the tensionless string” | via Zoom
Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 1:45 pm

I discuss string theory on AdS3xS3xT4 in the tensionless limit, with one unit of NS-NS flux. This theory is conjectured to be dual to the symmetric product orbifold CFT.

Speaker(s):
Lorenz Eberhardt
Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study
“Partition functions of the tensionless string”

FPO - Tong Gao - Thermal Transport Properties of Quantum Spin Liquid Materials

FPO - Tong Gao - Thermal Transport Properties of Quantum Spin Liquid Materials
Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 10:00 am

Abstract Quantum spin liquids(QSL) have fascinated physicists for nearly half a century since Anderson first introduced this concept with his resonating-valence-bond(RVB) idea in 1973. Although many progresses had been made, more challenges emerge from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

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