Astro Seminar: "Understanding large-scale structure from the CMB"
Emmanuel Schaan (Princeton)
In this seminar, I will present two ways in which the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sheds light on critical uncertain physics and systematics of the large-scale structure.
Shear calibration with…
Math-Bio seminar: "TBA"
Erol Akcay, University of Pennsylvania
Primakoff Lecture: From (Astro)particle Physics to Applications: The Role of Scientific Institutes for the Development of Society
Rolf Heuer (CERN) Hosted by Joe Kroll
With the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particle physics entered a new era. The LHC project will provide a deeper understanding of the universe and the insights gained could change our view of the…
Condensed Matter seminar: "Quantum control and quantum error correction with superconducting circuits"
Mazyar Mirrahimi, INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation)
The development of quantum Josephson circuits has created a strong expectation for reliable processing of quantum information. Active quantum error correction (QEC) is regarded as the next major step towards building…
Math-Bio seminar: "Dimensionality reduction in the analysis of human genetics data"
Petros Drineas, Purdue University
Dimensionality reduction algorithms have been widely used for data analysis in numerous application domains including the study of human genetics. For instance, linear dimensionality reduction techniques (such as…
High Energy Seminar: "New Forms of Quantum Entanglement in Discretely Gauged Theories"
Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn)
High Energy Seminar: "New Forms of Quantum Entanglement in Discretely Gauged Theories"
Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn)
Condensed Matter seminar: "Engineering new materials from old materials"
Cory Dean, Columbia University
Graphene is probably the best known "exfoliatable" material, in which a two-dimensional sheet of carbons atoms, just one atom thick, can be peeled from a bulk piece of graphite. However this represents just one of…
Astro Seminar: "Weak Lensing in the Nonlinear Regime"
Jia Liu (Princeton)
Within the next decade, galaxy and CMB lensing datasets of unprecedented precision will come online from large surveys (DES, HSC, LSST, Euclid, WFIRST, AdvACT, SPT-3G, CMB-S4, etc.).
Math-Bio seminar: "Grand challenges in phylogenomics"
Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois
Estimating the Tree of Life will likely involve a two-step procedure, where in the first step trees are estimated on many genes, and then the gene trees are combined into a tree on all the taxa. However, the true…