Department Colloquia

Upcoming Department Colloquia



Primakoff Lecture: “The Life and Death of Turbulence”

Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign)
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Turbulence is the last great unsolved problem of classical physics. But there is no consensus on what it would mean to actually solve this problem. In this colloquium, I propose that turbulence is most…



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “The String Landscape, The Swampland, and Our Universe"

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “Fast Radio Bursts”

Victoria Kaspi (McGill University)
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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (few millisecond) bursts of radio waves observed from cosmological distances.  Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day,…



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Martin Claasen (University of Pennsylvania)
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado – Boulder)
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Past Department Colloquia



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “Search for CP violation in neutrino oscillation by T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande”

Atsuko Ichikawa (Kyoto University)
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Since the discovery of neutrino oscillation in 1998, an overall picture of the flavor-mass mixing in the lepton sector has been build.



Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19"

Alessandro Vespigiani (Northeastern University)
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Cloud recording of talk:

https://upenn.zoom.us…