Special Events

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Past Special Events



Workshop on Hybrid Cherenkov/Scintillation Detection Technologies

Jun 3, 2025 - Jun 5, 2025 at - David Rittenhouse Laboratory

This workshop brings together researchers to explore the latest hybrid Cherenkov and scintillation detection technologies: novel scintillator formulations, spectral photon sorting, advanced photon sensors,…



Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting

May 21, 2025 - May 23, 2025 at - David Rittenhouse Laboratories

The meeting will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, on May 21-23 (Wednesday-Friday). We will have a workshop day before the start of the meeting on Tuesday May 20 for working groups to work together in…



Penn Science Café: There is No One Way To Teach Math

Penn Science Café
Robin Penmantle (Speaker) & Bill Ashmanskas (Moderator)
- Lobby. Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology
3200 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Get ready for a lively, interactive Science Café with Penn math professor Robin Pemantle and Penn physics senior lecturer Bill Ashmanskas, both members of Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation’…



Center for Soft and Living Matter Special Seminar: Medium-range order and local structure fluctuations in metallic glass

Professor Xun-Li Wang, City University of Hong Kong
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2N3

Amorphous materials have no long-range order, but there are ordered structures at short-range (2-5 Å), medium-range (5-20 Å), and even longer-length scales. While regular and semiregular polyhedra are…



Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Finding the Cosmic Puzzle's Missing Pieces

Mark Trodden (UPenn)
- Black Squirrel Club 1049 Sarah St Philadelphia, PA 19125

Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Finding the Cosmic Puzzle’s Missing Pieces,” a look at how the fields of astronomy and subatomic physics are working in tandem to shed light on the darkest parts of the…