Events Archive

Title: Foundation Models for Science: What happens if we train large (language) models on scientific data? - Shirley Ho
Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 4:30 pm5:30 pm

Abstract: In recent years, the fields of natural language processing and computer vision have been revolutionized by the success of large models pretrained with task-agnostic objectives on massive, diverse datasets. This has, in part, been driven by the use of self-supervised pretraining methods which allow models to utilize far more training…

Faculty, Postdocs, graduate students
Special Seminar:Josephson junction arrays as a platform for topological phases of matter|Omri Lesser (Weizmann Inst)|May 4 @3:30pm Joseph Henry Rm
Thu, May 4, 2023, 3:30 pm5:00 pm

The search for low-dimensional topological superconductivity is fueled by the promise of new and exotic physics, such as chiral superconductivity and non-Abelian anyons. However, the need to break time-reversal symmetry, usually by applying a relatively large external magnetic field, has hindered the realization of these novel phases of matter…

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Physics faculty, post docs, grads
Condensed Matter:Instanton Density Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory | Jingyuan Chen ,Tsinghua University (Beijing)|A06 5/1 @2PM
Mon, May 1, 2023, 2:30 pm3:30 pm

A long standing problem in lattice QCD is to construct an explicit instanton density operator on the lattice. We introduce such a construction, after suitably refining the lattice Yang-Mills action, so that it captures the continuum Yang-Mills theory better than the traditional lattice Yang-Mills action does. This refinement needed follows…

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Physics faculty, post docs, grads
Special Seminar: (Machine) Learning of Dark Matter| Lina Necib (MIT)|Joseph Henry Rm @3PM
Fri, Apr 21, 2023, 3:00 pm4:30 pm

In this talk, I present different machine learning and data driven techniques that produce measurements of stellar kinematics around the Milky Way, and relate them to our understanding of Dark Matter. More specifically, I will discuss a data driven technique applied to Gaia DR3 combined with Apogee data to produce the circular velocity…

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Physics faculty, post docs, grads
Special Seminar - From Quantum Circuits to Gravity inside the Black Hole - Ying Zhao, UCSB
Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 4:00 pm5:00 pm

Abstract:  Black holes have not just become laboratories for astronomers, but also present some of the deepest unsolved problems in theoretical physics. During the past decade scientists learned that concepts from quantum information play a key role in understanding fundamental problems in gravity. In this talk I will explain some recent…

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Special Seminar - Towards a physics of learning and decision-making - Gautam Reddy - Harvard University
Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 2:00 pm3:00 pm

Abstract: Living systems sense their physical environment and process this information to interact back with the environment. This continual loop that iterates between sensing, computation and action drives the emergence of complex behaviors. Physics plays a key role in this sensorimotor loop by imposing constraints on all of its basic elements…

Faculty, post docs, grads
Special Seminar: "Designing quantum matter in two dimensions"
Wed, Jan 4, 2023, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Experimental condensed matter research is undergoing a revolution. Before, the need for 3D crystalline samples with a given structure and doping set stringent requirements for realization of the desired properties. Now, it is possible to create tunable 2D samples in the lab, overcoming the previous limitations and speeding up the research. Here…

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Faculty, Postdocs, graduate students
Special Seminar: "Hofstadter states and re-entrant charge order in a semiconductor moiré lattice"
Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Abstract: In this talk, I will present local electronic compressibility measurements on a twisted transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer, which reveal a rich phase diagram of Hofstadter states and novel electron crystalline orders. We show that this reflects the coexistence of both flat and dispersive moiré bands whose…

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Faculty, Postdocs, graduate students
University Closed
Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 8:30 amTue, Dec 27, 2022, 9:30 am
Special Seminar w/Dicke candidate Hongyuan Li (UC Berkeley): "Imaging Correlated Quantum Phases in van der Waals Heterostructures"
Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 9:00 am10:00 am
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Physic faculty, post docs, grads
PRISM/PCCM seminar: Chemically Controlled Shape-morphing of Elastic Sheets
Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Please join us Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at 12:00 noon for the webinar featuring Prof. Anna Balazs of The University of Pittsburgh.

Registration is required for this webinar:  Registration form(link is external)

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PRISM/PCCM seminar: Mid-Infrared Nanophotonics for Sensing and Nanoscale Manipulation
Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Registration is required. You can register using this form here(link is external).
All seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. in the Bowen Hall Auditorium Room 222. A light lunch is…

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Special Seminar, Dicke Candidate Shengkai Li, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Field-mediated Interaction in Active Matter" December 3, 2021, Jadwin 481
Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 10:00 am10:00 am

Like most physical systems, in active matter, the characteristics of interaction play an important role. For example, the extent of attraction can switch a collective of particles from a homogeneous mixture to phase-separated clusters. Further, particle concavity in shape-changing active systems can change…

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Special Seminar, Dicke Candidate Ako Jamil, Yale University, "Light and Charge Transport in Liquid Xenon Detectors for Rare Event Searches" December 2, 2021 Jadwin 481
Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 10:00 am10:00 am

Noble Liquid Time Projection Chambers are ubiquitously used in the field of rare events searches such neutrinoless double beta decay or dark matter. A detailed understanding of light and charge transport in liquid xenon or liquid argon is of the utmost importance when modeling the performance of these experiments. In this talk I will present…

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Special Seminar w/Dicke candidate Giovanni Scuri (Harvard): “Engineering exciton properties in atomically thin semiconductors via the twist angle"
Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 1:30 pm1:30 pm

Special seminar with Dicke fellowship candidate: Giovanni Scuri, Harvard University

Abstract: The twist degree of freedom provides a powerful tool for engineering the electrical and optical properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. In this talk, I will show how the twist angle between two…

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Special Seminar w/Dicke candidate Cheng Zang (Caltech): “The development and deployment of the first BICEP Array receiver at 30/40 GHz"
Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Special seminar with Dicke fellowship candidate: Cheng Zang, Caltech University

The inflationary theory has been added into the picture of the well-established lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) standard model to explain the initial conditions of our universe. The quantum fluctuations in the early…

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PRISM/PCCM Seminar "Dynamic Speckle Holography: Probing Strain Fields in Fractured Materials"
Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Speaker: Prof. David Weitz, Harvard, Department of Physics 
Hosts: Prof. Sujit Datta and Prof. Pierre-Thomas Brun, Princeton CBE
Registration is required

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PRISM/PCCM SEMINAR: Expanding the Compositional and Microstructural Space of Layered and 2D Materials (MAX phases and MXenes)
Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Please join us Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at 12:00 noon in the Bowen Hall Auditorium for the next seminar of the PRISM/PCCM Fall ’21 Seminar Series featuring Prof. Christina Birkel of Arizona State University. A light lunch is provided at 11:30 a.m. in the Bowen Hall Atrium immediately prior to the seminar.

This is a hybrid event—for…

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PRISM/PCCM SEMINAR: Elastohydrodynamic Friction: From Colloidal Networks to Haptic Materials
Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Abstract: The need to understand friction fundamentally at the microscale is increasingly important in technologies as diverse as soft robotics and consumer products. The first part of the talk focuses on the role of particle roughness in the rheology, structure, and dynamics of dense colloidal suspensions. Recent work from our group showed…

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PRISM/PCCM Webinar: Bespoke Biomaterials: Towards Personalized Tissue Mimics
Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Registration is required. You can register for this webinar using this form here.

Abstract: Each individual is unique, yet pharmaceutical companies design the same…

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