Rittenhouse Lecture: Dr. Scott Bolton (Southwest Research Institute)

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.  Juno's scientific objectives include the study of Jupiter's interior, atmosphere and…

Math-Bio seminar: "Linear payoff relationships in repeated games"

Alex McAvoy, Harvard University

In 2012, the study of the repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma was revitalized by the discovery of a new class of strategies known as “zero-determinant” (ZD) strategies. Through coercion, for example, ZD strategies allow a…

High Energy Seminar: "TBA"

Ruth Gregory (Durham University)

Math-Bio seminar: "Does antibiotic resistance evolve in hospitals?"

Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley

We present a joint paper with Anna Seigal, Portia Mira and Miriam Barlow, aimed at addressing the question in the title. Nosocomial outbreaks of bacteria and the heavy usage of antibiotics suggest that resistance…

Advances in Biomedical Optics: "Molecular Imaging of Breast Cancer: Clinical and Biologic Insights"

David Mankoff, Prof. of Radiology (UPenn)

*These seminars are supported by the Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory, the Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical  Imaging, the Department of Radiology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at…

Condensed Matter Seminar: "Physics of the Peacock’s Dance"

Suzanne Amador Kane, Haverford College

Peacocks are the textbook example of an elaborate mating display--and hence of sexual selection in evolution.  To seduce females, male peafowl perform a complicated dance in which they tilt, pivot and shake their…

Astro Seminar: "SciServer - A Collaborative Research Environment for Large-scale Data-driven Science"

Gerard Lemson (Johns Hopkins)

SciServer is a Big Data infrastructure project developed at Johns Hopkins University that provides a common environment for sharable, computationally-intensive research.

Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "Search for right-handed W and heavy neutrinos in the 2l+2j final state at CMS"

Jorge Chaves, Cornell University

Despite the discovery of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson, there are still unanswered questions that are not explained by the SM, such as the nature of the chiral structure of weak interactions. During…