High Energy Joint Theory/Experiment seminar: "Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space"
Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)
The extraordinary advances in quantum control of matter and light have been transformative for atomic and molecular precision measurements enabling probes of the most basic laws of Nature to gain a…
High Energy Theory seminar: "Finding True Love"
Horng Sheng Chia (Institute of Advanced Study)
Gravitational wave observations offer unique probes onto the nature of astrophysical bodies in coalescing binary systems. As a binary approaches merger, its dynamics is sensitive to the tidal…
Thesis Defense: "Modern Perspectives on Symmetries in Quantum Fields and Strings"
Ethan Torres (University of Pennsylvania)
Thesis Defense: "Generalized Symmetries in Supergravities and Superconformal Field Theories via String Theory"
Hao Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
Thesis Defense: "Quantum Geometry and Topology in Periodically-Strained Graphene"
Võ Tiến Phong (University of Pennsylvania)
Committee:
Prof. Eugene Mele (advisor)
Prof. Charles Kane
Prof. Justin Khoury (chair)
Prof. Liang Wu
Prof. Martin Claassen
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "A New Way of doing Astrophysics with Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)"
Beth Willman (LSSTC )
Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is 10-year long NSF and DOE-funded experiment that will soon begin an unprecedented movie of half of the sky, tracking changes from…
High Energy Theory seminar: "String solutions without supersymmetry"
Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago)
The construction of a string landscape is sharply constrained by no-go results. A way to potentially evade those no-go results is by building non-classical string solutions. In this talk, I will…
High Energy Experiment seminar: "High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector"
Chris Hays (Oxford University)
The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. We have performed the most precise measurement…
Thesis Defense: "Liquid Crystal Transitions and Deformations Due to Colloidal Inclusions, Geometric Confinement, and Magnetic Fields"
Sophie Ettinger (University of Pennsylvania)
Special Seminar: “Reconstructing Gravity from Cosmological data”
Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University)
The era of precision Cosmology is around the corner and it promises to shed light on some of the long-standing questions such as the nature of gravity on the large cosmological scales. However,…