Dissertation Defense: Towards Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization

Matt Malloy

World Science Festival: "Time Is of The Essence... or Is It?" (Day 2)

David Z. Albert, Vijay Balasubramanian, Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin

What is time? The question has preoccupied philosophers and scientists for centuries. Isaac Newton described time as absolute, but Einstein proved that time is relative, and, shockingly, that time and space are…

World Science Festival Event: "Until The End of Time" (Day 1)

Vijay Balasubramanian, Janna Levin, Lee Smolin

Could time as we know it come to an end? Does the very question blow your mind a little? Come with us to explore this idea by examining the Big Bang and the mysteries of black holes, where, according to the laws of…

Special Astro Seminar: Magneto Is Not A Hero: "The Galactic Magnetic Field and the Formation of Density Structures in the Interstellar Medium as Revealed by Planck"

Juan Diego Soler (IAS)

Planck has produced the first all-sky map of the polarized emission from dust at submillimeter wavelengths. Compared with earlier ground-based and balloon-borne observations this survey is an immense step forward…

ABO Seminar: Photomedicine: 3 Examples From Bench to Bedside

Professor Hubert van den Bergh (Photomedicine group Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))

I will discuss 3 developments from the basics to widespread clinical application, in which light is used for detecting disease, and for treating disease. The first case is the development of an auto-fluorescence…

The ARTacama Project | Panel Discussion and Tour

(Project of the Experimental Cosmlogy Lab, hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy) 

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Astro Seminar: "Can We Teach Scientific Critical Thinking to non-Scientists and Scientists Alike? (A Modestly Grandiose Educational Proposal to Save the World, Up for Discussion)

Saul Perlmutter (LBNL)

There is a body of techniques and practices, a language and culture,
that is usually implicitly taught by apprenticeship and osmosis to
graduate students and postdocs. This is the underpinning of an…

Astronomy Night: "The Fate of the Universe"

Dr. Marisa March, Post-doctoral Researcher (University of Pennsylvania)

Stargazers of all ages are invited to spend an evening looking up! 

Members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy will help you explore the night sky through telescopes on Shoemaker…

Topology Symposium: "Is the Abstract Mathematics of Topology Applicable to the Real World?"

Professors Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania), Robert MacPherson (Institute for Advanced Study), Raul Rabadan (Columbia University)

SAS 2015 Teaching Awards Ceremony

Deans Office Representatives

To applaud the extraordinary commitment of these individuals to the education of our students.  The winners of the SAS Teaching Awards will be honored at a School-wide reception. We hope that you will join us for…