Condensed Matter seminar: "The crumpled state: crumpling dynamics and the evolution of damage networks"

Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University

The simple process of crumpling a sheet of paper with our hands results in a complex network of interconnected permanent creases of many sizes and orientations. Sheet preferentially bends along these creases,…

Astro Seminar: "The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)"

David Chuss (Villanova)

The LCDM model of cosmology has been successful in describing the universe’s energy content and evolution with six parameters; however, the observed geometric flatness of the universe, its near homogeneity, and the…

Math-Bio seminar: "Assessing the relationship of ancient samples to modern populations and to each other"

Joshua Schraiber, Temple University

When ancient samples are sequenced, one of the first questions asked is how those samples relate to modern populations and to each other. Commonly, this is assessed using methods such as Structure or Admixture,…

Math-Bio seminar: "Bayesian inference of evolutionary divergence with genomic data under diverse demographic models"

Yujin Chung, Temple University

In the study of diverging populations and species, a common goal is to disentangle the conflicting signals of prolonged genetic drift (elevating divergence) and gene exchange (removing it). In this talk, I present a…

High Energy Seminar: "TBA"

Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)

Special Seminar: "Steric association of bent molecules into chiral oligomeric chains: the slinky-like structure of the twist-bend nematic phase"

Noel Clark, University of Colorado

Dissertation Defense: "Transport Signatures of Quantum Phase Transitions and the Interplay of Geometry and Topology in Nodal Materials"

Benjamin Wieder

Department Colloquium:"The Maps Inside Your Head"

Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn) hosted by: Joe Kroll

How do our brains make sense of a complex and unpredictable world? In this talk, I will discuss a physicist's approach to the neural topography of information processing in the brain. First I will review the brain's…

Astro Seminar: "The New Ly-alpha Power Spectrum Measurements and constraints on WDM"

Vid Irsic (University of Washington)

With the X-Shooter XQ-100 Legacy survey, 100 QSO measurements at intermediate resolutions were available to measure the Lyman-alpha power spectrum in the similar redshift range to SDSS (z=3 - 4.2), but to smaller…

Dissertation Defense: "Understanding the Implications of Neural Population Activity on Behavior"

John Briguglio (UPenn)