Department Colloquium: Einstein and Quantum Mechanics: It’s Not What You Think
Douglas Stone, Yale
Einstein is well known for his rejection of quantum mechanics in the form it emerged from the work of Heisenberg, Born and Schrodinger in 1926. Much less appreciated are the many seminal contributions he made to…
Advances in Biomedical Optics Seminar: "Optogenetic Tools for Controlling Biological Circuits"
Professor Brian Chow (University of Pennsylvania)
*Pizza to be served @ 11:45A*
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Spin Fluctuations and Entanglement"
Ari Turner, Johns Hopkins University
I will compare the effects of quantum and thermal fluctuations in a
spin chain by calculating the probability distribution for spin
fluctuations in a segment.
The calculation will use the concept…
MAKE-UP EXAMS
Phys & Ast make up exams are scheduled Wednesday, 1/21, 6:00=8:00, A1
DRL, bring your i.d.
Department Colloquium: Restoration of Early Sound Recordings using Optical Metrology and Image Analysis
Carl Haber, LBL
Sound was first recorded and reproduced by Thomas Edison in 1877. Until about 1950, when magnetic tape use became common, most recordings were made on mechanical media such as wax, foil, shellac, lacquer, and…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Universally Slow"
Ariel Amir, Harvard University
Glassy systems are very common in nature, from disordered electronic and magnetic systems to window glasses and crumpled paper. Among their key properties are slow relaxations to equilibrium without a typical…
Department Colloquium: "Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics"
Professor Charles Kane (Univ of Penn)
Over the past several years, our understanding of topological electronic phases of matter has advanced dramatically.
Advances in Biomedical Optics Seminar: "Laser Doppler Methods in the Health Sciences: from Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy to Optical Coherence Tomography"
Professor David Boas (Harvard Med)
Please join in on this Seminar.
*Pizza will be made available*
Condensed Matter Seminar: Light-induced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Chemo-responsive Gels
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
A remarkable feature of certain biological organisms is their ability to alter their shape and functionality in response to environmental cues. Polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are…
Astronomy Seminar: TBD
Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State)