High Energy Seminar: "TBA"
Mark Mezei (Princeton)
Condensed Matter seminar: "Roughness-induced criticality and the statistical mechanics of turbulence in pipes and soap films"
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois
Are fluid turbulence and critical phenomena analogous to one another? In this talk, I explain that this connection may be deeper than has been previously thought. Indeed, I argue that one can use these insights to…
Astro Seminar: "Towards Accurate Predictions for the Clustering of Galaxies in Redshift Space"
Emanuele Castorina (Berkeley)
The galaxy distribution across cosmic time contains a wealth of cosmological information. In the era of precision cosmology, galaxy surveys like DES,HSC,DESI,Euclid,LSST and others, would deliver very accurate…
Biomedical & Life Sciences Career Fair
Employers will be on campus during the fair to talk to you about their full-time position, future opportunities, and to answer your questions. This fair is only for PhD students and postdocs, and so they are looking…
"Decoding Your Mental GPS: Transcendental Numbers in the Brain"
Professor Vijay Balasubramanian
The brain uses specialized neurons known as place and grid cells to keep track of location. The discovery of the latter earned researchers a Nobel Prize, but the way the brain encodes and decodes this information is…
Math-Bio seminar: "Modeling RNA local splicing variations from large heterogeneous datasets"
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania
Alternative splicing (AS) of genes is a key contributor to transcriptome variations and numerous disease. RNA-Seq experiments produce millions of short RNA reads and are commonly used to assess alternative splicing…
High Energy Seminar: "AdS_2 Holography and Non-extremal Black Holes"
Ioannis Papadimitriou (SISSA)
I will present aspects of AdS_2 holography for a specific Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model that is obtained by Kaluza-Klein reduction from pure AdS_3 gravity with negative cosmological constant. In particular, I will…
Condensed Matter seminar: "Optical Tools for Unraveling Whole-brain Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Behavior "
Alipasha Vaziri, Rockefeller University
Optical technologies have been transformative for our current understanding of structure and function of neuronal circuits underlying behavior and are in many cases the limiting factors for pushing our understanding…
HE Experimental Physics: "Results from the DUNE 35-ton Prototype Detector"
Jonathan Insler (Drexel University)
The 35 ton prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detector was a single phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) integrated detector that took cosmics data for a six week run…
Math-Bio seminar: "Structured latent factor models to recover interpretable networks from transcriptomic data"
Barbara Engelhardt, Princeton University
Latent factor models have been the recent focus of much attention in "big data" applications because of their ability to quickly allow the user to explore the underlying data in a controlled and interpretable way…