Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Critical points and Bifurcations integrate and amplify sensory information.

Ben Machta (Yale University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Biological systems must integrate and amplify signals which are faint and insignificant at the level of individual sensory receptors. In this talk I will argue that organisms can use the diverging…



Astrophysics seminar: The James Webb Space Telescope: A New Era for Space Exploration

Mike McElwain (NASA)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared
space telescope designed to transform space science by observing targets
from within our own Solar System to the first light in the Universe (and…



Physics of Soft Matter: Self-Assembling, Responsive, Smart (and Squishy!)

Honoring David Weitz recipient of the 2024 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
- Rose Recital Hall, Room 419
Fisher-Bennet Hall

Free and open to the public

Itinerary

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High Energy Theory Seminar: Integrability and Hidden Symmetries in Black Hole Dynamics

Uri Kol (Harvard University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

The last decade has produced a number of remarkable discoveries, such as the first direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration and the first black hole image taken by the…



Dissertation Defense: Towards Precision Photometric Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with Machine Learning

Helen Qu
- DRL 4C4


Colloquium: Theia: Illuminating Neutrinos with a New Kind of Detector

Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8


High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"

Lorenzo Ricci (University of Maryland)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2


Astrophysics Seminar: Near-field Cosmology with Stellar Streams

Nora Shipp (Carnegie Mellon)
- David Rittenhouse Labs, 4E19

Stellar streams, the tidal remnants of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies orbiting throughout the Milky Way’s halo, are some of the most powerful tools in the study of near-field cosmology. In particular, they are…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Optical neural networks for faster AI and super resolution imaging

Alex Lvovsky (University of Oxford)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Although machine intelligence is taking over the world, its current digital electronic platform is very inefficient in terms of energy consumption. Switching to analogue computation, which function more like human…



High Energy Theory Seminar: 5D SCFTs, Brane Webs, GTPs, Quivers and Geometry

Sebastian Franco (CUNY)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 3W2

String/M-Theory provides various approaches for constructing 5d Superconformal Field Theories, most notably geometric engineering via M-theory on toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds and webs of (p,q) 5-branes in Type IIB String…

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