Condensed Matter seminar: "Designing quantum matter with superconducting nanowires"

Nina Markovic, Goucher College

Superconducting nanowires are an experimental realization of a model quantum system that features collective degrees of freedom and exhibits a host of non-equilibrium and non-local phenomena. The nature of the…

Condensed Matter seminar: "Nano-photonic phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures"

Dimitri Basov, Columbia University

Layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals consist of individual atomic planes weakly coupled by vdW interaction, similar to graphene monolayers in bulk graphite. These materials can harbor superconductivity and…

Astro Seminar: "Exodynamos: Magnetic Field Generation and Detectability"

TBD

Planetary magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Solar System and extrasolar planets are common in the galaxy.  However, no extrasolar planetary magnetic field (or exodynamo) has yet been directly detected. Magnetic…

Condensed Matter seminar: "Braiding Light"

Claudio Chamon, Boston University

Many topological phenomena first proposed and observed in the context of electrons in solids have recently found counterparts in optical and acoustic systems. In this talk I will discuss non-Abelian Berry phases that…

Astro Seminar: "Beyond Pluto: The Hunt for Planet X"

Scott Sheppard (Carnegie Institution for Science)

The Kuiper Belt, which has Pluto as the largest member, is a region of comet like objects just beyond Neptune.  This belt of objects has an outer edge, which we are now only able to explore in detail.  For the past…

Dissertation Defense: "Hard-, Soft- and Sticky Spheres for Dynamical Studies of Disordered Colloidal Packings"

Matthew Gratale (UPenn)

High Energy Theory: "Effective Field Theory of Dissipative Fluids"

Hong Liu (MIT)

ABO Seminars: "Label-free Optical Micro Imaging of Tissue Histology in Vivo"

Xingde Li (Johns Hopkins University)

This seminar will focus on our recent progresses on developing high-resolution biophotonic imaging technologies, particularly the second-generation optical coherence tomography (OCT) endoscopy and multiphoton…

Primakoff Lecture: "From (Astro)Particle Physics to Applications: The role of Scientific Institutes for the development of society"

Rolf Heuer