Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science: "Jamming by Design"
Heinrich Jaeger (Chicago)
In materials science, high performance is typically associated with structural regularity and order. This holds for traditional solids such as crystals as well as for many types of nanoscale devices. However, there…
Dissertation Defense: "Black Holes and Conformal Symmetry"
Zain Saleem (University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation Defense: "Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds: The BLASTPol and BLAST-TNG Experiments"
Nicholas Galitzki (UPenn)
The Science Carnival at Penn's Landing
For the second year in a row, the department of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded one of Penn's six booths at the Carnival. We will talk to the public about the size and scale of planets and how big we think…
Science After Hours: Nerd Olympics at Franklin Institute
Physics and Astronomy grad students will join the Franklin Institute to put on an evening of fun and science! We will be looking at spectral lines, learning about standard candles (how we measure how far away things…
Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science: "Finding New Electronic Materials"
Robert J. Cava (Princeton)
“New materials give new properties” is a phrase that I think best describes the goal of our research program. We find new materials by thinking about how the chemistry and structures of materials at the level of the…
Department Colloquium: "Wave Piloting in the Marshall Islands"
Professor John Huth (Harvard) Hosted by: Professor Joe Kroll
Of all the Pacific Island navigation cultures, the practice of wave piloting in the Marshall Islands is perhaps the most curious. Navigators observed the patterns of ocean swells to find their way among atolls and…
High Energy Theory: "TBA"
Matthew Schwartz (Harvard)
"Close Up and Far Away"
A large group of Physicists will host an event called "Close Up and Far Away" where the public will have access to tour Physics and Astronomy Professor Mark Devlin's High Bay, see the clean room at the Singh Center…
Condensed Matter seminar: "Non-linear elasticity and relaxation in polymer networks and soft tissues"
Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania
The stiffness of tissues in which cells are embedded has effects on cell structure and function that can act independently of or override chemical stimuli.