Events Archive

Events Archive

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...

Biophysics Seminar: Seppe Kuehn, University of Chicago| A sparse mapping from structure to function in microbial communities|Zoom

Biophysics Seminar: Seppe Kuehn, University of Chicago| A sparse mapping from structure to function in microbial communities|Zoom
Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 12:15 pm

The metabolic function of microbial communities emerges through a complex hierarchy of genome-encoded processes, from gene expression to interactions between diverse taxa. Therefore, a central challenge for microbial ecology is deciphering how genomic structure determines metabolic function in communities.

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

HET Seminar | Sridip Pal, Member, School of Natural Sciences, IAS | "Universality in Asymptotic Bounds and their Saturation in 2D CFT" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Sridip Pal, Member, School of Natural Sciences, IAS | "Universality in Asymptotic Bounds and their Saturation in 2D CFT" | via Zoom
Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 1:45 pm

To connect to the HET Seminar via Zoom, please click the following link:
https://theias.zoom.us/j/96660745132?pwd=Y3FPUWVDZlNwUEdINkxjSnNhK0dpZz09

Speaker(s):
Sridip Pal
Member, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
"Universality in Asymptotic Bounds and their Saturation in 2D CFT"

Gravity Group Seminar | Speakers TBA "The Simons Observatory Instrument: Status of Ongoing Research at Princeton"

Gravity Group Seminar | Speakers TBA "The Simons Observatory Instrument: Status of Ongoing Research at Princeton"
Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with four small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Charles M Marcus, NBI, "The Search for Fractional Statistics"

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Charles M Marcus, NBI, "The Search for Fractional Statistics"
Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:00 pm

Panel discussion with Duncan Haldane (Princeton), Michael Manfra (Purdue) and Gwendal Feve (ENS)

Audience: A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Charles M Marcus
Niels Bohr Institute
"The Search for Fractional Statistics"

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Jiaxin Yin | "Tunneling into emergent topological matter"

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Jiaxin Yin | "Tunneling into emergent topological matter"
Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 1:00 pm

The search for topological matter is evolving towards strongly interacting systems including topological magnets and superconductors, where novel effects emerge from the quantum level interplay between geometry, correlation, and topology.

Speaker(s):
Jiaxin Yin
Princeton University

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020

PRISM / PCCM Seminar Series Fall 2020
Wed, Nov 11, 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 | Ryan Thorngren, Harvard University | “Adventures in Gapless Topological Phases” | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Ryan Thorngren, Harvard University | “Adventures in Gapless Topological Phases” | via Zoom
Mon, Nov 9, 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):
Ryan Thorngren
Harvard University
“Adventures in Gapless Topological Phases”

PGI Virtual Seminar Series | Carolyn Raithel, "Constraining the Neutron Star Equation of State with Gravitational Wave Events"

HET Seminar | Mykola Dedushenko, SCGP, Stony Brook | "Yangians and other algebras you can find at boundaries and interfaces" | via Zoom

HET Seminar | Mykola Dedushenko, SCGP, Stony Brook | "Yangians and other algebras you can find at boundaries and interfaces" | via Zoom
Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 1:45 pm

To join HET Seminar please click link below:

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

Meeting ID: 985 9550 4817

Speaker(s):
Mykola Dedushenko
SCGP, Stony Brook
"Yangians and other algebras you can find at boundaries and interfaces"

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University, "Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light"

Hamilton Colloquium Series, Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University, "Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light"
Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 12:00 pm

The power of quantum information lies in its capacity to be non-local, encoded in correlations among two, three, or many entangled particles.  Yet our ability to produce, understand, and exploit such correlations is hampered by the fact that the interactions between particles and ordinarily local.

Audience: A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Monika Schleier-Smith
Stanford University
"Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light"

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Johnpierre Paglione, U of MD | "Exotic superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2"

Condensed Matter Zoom Seminar | Johnpierre Paglione, U of MD | "Exotic superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2"
Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 1:00 pm

Topological superconductivity has attracted great interest in condensed matter physics because of its potential applications in quantum computing. Spin-triplet superconductors are one promising class that can host the topological excitations of interest, but experimental realizations are few and far between.

Speaker(s):
Johnpierre Paglione
Dept. of Physics, U of MD

Physics Forum on Applying to Grad School

Physics Forum on Applying to Grad School
Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 2:00 pm

The panel will consist of Profs. Page, Petta, Lisanti, and Olsen, who will answer questions and offer advice. 

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