Condensed Matter seminar: “Polyhedral Crystalline Membranes”

Monica Olvera de la Cruz , Northwestern University

Polyhedral geometries have beguiled scientists and mathematicians for millennia.  In recent times polyhedral shapes have been identified at the microscopic level in crystalline shells such as fullerenes, viral…

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Mubdi Rahman (Johns Hopkins)

High Energy Theory Seminar

Eirik Svanes (Oxford)

Professional Development Seminar Series: "Bridging the Gap: Transitioning Academic Research to Commercial Value"

Samuel Khamis, Ph.D., Former Physics and Astronomy Graduate

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar "A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at =0.4 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars"

Paul Schechter, MIT

Department Colloquium: "Gauge theories, strings and gravity"

Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study

Gauge theories, such as the one describing strong interactions, contain string-like excitations. String theory describes the quantum dynamics of strings and it reduces to gravity at long distances. The simplest…

Dissertation Defense for Stephanie Feldman Majkut "Mechanical development and functional mechanosensitivity during early cardiogenesis."

High Energy Theory Seminar: "Price for a NEC-violation"

Alex Vikman (CERN and Stanford)

High Energy Theory Seminar: "Density perturbations in Hybrid Inflation: a free field theory time-delay approach"

Evangelos Sfakianakis (MIT)

Condensed Matter Seminar: "Responsive Materials by Buckling of Soft Elastic Sheets"

Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

Soft elastic solids placed under compressive stress can undergo a variety of geometry-dependent mechanical shape instabilities, providing opportunities for tailoring the structure and properties of stimuli-responsive…