Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Probing Topological Valley Physics in Bilayer Graphene"
Long Ju, Cornell University
Graphene has been a model solid state system where novel quantum phenomena emerge from the interplay between symmetry, band topology and reduced dimensionality. In particular, AB-stacked bilayer graphene has a unique…
Astro Seminar: "Quenching and Bulge Growth Over Cosmic Time in Massive Galaxies"
Marc Huertas-Company (Paris Observatory)
The life of a galaxy is a balance between processes that trigger star formation by accelerating gas cooling and others which tend to prevent stars to form by expelling or heating gas. Over the past years, the…
Math-Bio seminar: "Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from genomic data"
Adam Siepel, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Across many species, a large fraction of genetic variants that influence phenotypes of interest is located outside of protein-coding genes, yet existing methods for identifying such variants have poor predictive…
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Non-equilibrium dynamics of a frustrated Mott insulator"
Zhanybek Alpichshev, M.I.T.
What happens to electrons when both the spin orbit coupling and inter-particle Coulomb repulsion are very strong? While SOC alone can change the topology of the single particle insulating state, even short range on-site…
ADVANCES IN BIOMEDICAL OPTICS: Exploring Brain Interactions with Diffuse Optics
Rickson Mesquita (University of Campinas)
The human brain can be seen as a complex system due to its functional capabilities and structural organization. Indeed, previous works employing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography…
Department Colloquium: "The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age"
Gino Segre (University of Pennsylvania) and Bettina Hoerlin
Enrico Fermi was unique in a number of ways, including the staggering breadth of his research, from relativity theory and magnetohydrodynamics to instrument development. He was the only 20th century physicist to have…
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Postponed Exams
Fall 2016 Postponed Exam
ALL EXAMS ARE FROM 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.
Astro Seminar: "Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)"
Zhilei Xu (Johns Hopkins University)
Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an array of telescopes to observe Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in Chile. CLASS will make large angular scale CMB polarization measurements in frequency bands at …
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Real-space imaging of a nematic quantum liquid"
Ben Feldman, Princeton University
Electronic phases in condensed matter systems generally respect the symmetries of their solid state host. However, interactions among electrons can give rise to a variety of exotic correlated states characterized by…
Astro Seminar: "Measuring the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background with POLARBEAR and the Simons Array"
Frederick Matsuda (University of California) hosted by Mark Devlin
POLARBEAR is a high resolution polarization sensitive instrument in Chile currently observing the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal in order to probe the physics of the early universe and inflation.…