Department Colloquium: The Cosmic Barber:"Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond"

Clifford Will (University of Florida)

According to general relativity, every self-gravitating object has ``hair'', an array of multipole moments of various types that characterize the body's exterior geometry. In alternative theories of gravity,…

Dissertation Defense: "Single Cells Use Transcriptional Mechanisms to Compensate for Differences in Cell Size and DNA Content"

Olivia Padovan-Merhar (University of Pennsylvania)

Dissertation Defense: "Nano-Bio Hybrid Electronic Sensors for Chemical Detection and Disease Diagnostics"

Nicholas Kybert, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Defense:"OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS AT THE NANOSCALE"

Michael Turk (University of Pennsylvania)

Advances in Biomedical Optics Seminar: ""Dual-agent Fluorescence Imaging for Highlighting Receptor-Specific Contrast in Tumors""

Professor Scott Davis (Dartmouth)

*Pizza to be served @ 11:45A* 

Condensed Matter Seminar: "How challenging is the path from nanoscience to nanotechnology? A computational condensed matter physicist perspective"

Vincent Meunier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Efforts to assemble functional materials with atomic precision has energized scientists and engineers to eventually lead to the field of nanoscience. The development of nanoscience is a premise for new technological…

Astro Seminar: "ALMA observations of strongly lensed galaxies: A window into the small-scale structure of dark matter halos"

Yashar Hezaveh (Stanford)

ALMA is starting to open a new window into the dusty structures of
the universe. With its milli-arcsec resolution and spectral
capabilities, among other things, it is promising to teach us
…

Condensed Matter Seminar: "Sloppy Models, Differential Geometry, and How Science Works"

James P. Sethna, Cornell University

Models of systems biology, climate change, ecosystems, and macroeconomics have parameters that are hard or impossible to measure directly. If we fit these unknown parameters, fiddling with them until they agree with…

Astro Seminar: "Halo Bias and its Evolution in the Peak Model"

Tobias Baldauf (IAS)

The clustering statistics of galaxies and their host haloes in current and upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys have the potential to put stringent constraints on cosmology and fundamental physics. The…

Soft Materials: Physics to Physiology via Computation

Michael L. Klein, Laura H Carnell Professor of Science (Temple University)

Eli Burstein Lecture 2015