Department Colloquia

Upcoming Department Colloquia



Rittenhouse Lecture: An imperfect view of the Universe

Alan Heavens (Imperial College London)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

Our most expensive telescopes make exquisite images of the distant Universe, but however good the telescope, the images are flawed.  The light has been on a long journey, navigating through the rich array…



Colloquium: "TBA"

Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4


Colloquium: "TBA"

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- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4


Primakoff Lecture: "TBA"

TBD
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4


Colloquium: "TBA"

TBD
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

Past Department Colloquia



Colloquium: Quantum Hall physics in a quantum Foucault pendulum

Richard Fletcher (MIT)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

When charged particles are placed in a magnetic field, the single-particle energy states form discrete, highly-degenerate Landau levels. Since all states within a Landau level have the same energy,…



Colloquium: Nonlinear topological photonics

Bo Zhen (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

Topological photonics is a rapidly developing field, often drawing inspirations from the recent successes in electronic systems. Yet there are a few major differences between photons and electrons, leading to…



Colloquium: "The First 250 Years of Physics and Astronomy at Penn"

Paul Heiney (University of Pennsylvania Emeritus)
- DRL A4

The histories of physics and astronomy at Penn will be presented primarily through the lives of prominent individuals, culminating in the 1994 merger of the Physics and Astronomy Departments.  We…



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "A New Way of doing Astrophysics with Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)"

Beth Willman (LSSTC )
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

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…



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "The 'Who Ordered That' Collider"

Nathaniel Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

In this talk, I’ll survey some of the major open questions in particle physics and make the case that they can best be addressed by a qualitatively new type of particle accelerator: a high-energy muon…