Dissertation Defense: "Chirality and its spontaneous symmetry breaking in two liquid crystal systems"

Louis Kang

Dissertation Defense: "Deformation of Two-dimensional Amorphous Granular Packings"

Jennifer Rieser

Dissertation Defense: "Clogging of Granular Hopper Flows"

Charles Thomas

Dissertation Defense: A Search For B-L R-Parity-Violating Scalar Top Decays in √s=8 TeV pp Collisions With The ATLAS Experiment

Brett Jackson

Dissertation Defense: Spatially-dense, Multi-spectral, Frequency-domain Diffuse Optical Tomography of Breast Cancer

Han Y. Ban

Dissertation Defense: "Search for Weakly-Produced Supersymmetry in Same-sign Di-lepton Final State"

Elizabeth Hines

Dissertation Defense: Search for an Invisibly Decaying Higgs Boson Produced via Vector Boson Fusion

Rami Vanguri

Dissertation Defense: Unearthing the Anticrystal: Criticality in the Linear Response of Disordered Solids

Carl Goodrich

Dissertation Defense: Towards Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization

Matt Malloy

World Science Festival: "Time Is of The Essence... or Is It?" (Day 2)

David Z. Albert, Vijay Balasubramanian, Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin

What is time? The question has preoccupied philosophers and scientists for centuries. Isaac Newton described time as absolute, but Einstein proved that time is relative, and, shockingly, that time and space are…