CoSMS Institute Colloquium Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recipient of the 2017 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. “Three Seeds in the Flowering of Quantum Science” A new field of quantum science has sprung into life in the … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Steve Pollock, CU Boulder "A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses" At most universities, upper-division physics courses are taught using a traditional lecture approach that does not make use of many of the instructional … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Mercedes Lopez-Morales, CFA, Harvard "Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres" In the past two decades we have gone from only knowing about the planets in our own Solar System to discovering thousands of planets orbiting around other … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Jonathan Celli, University of Massachusetts, Boston "Modeling tumor-microenvironment interactions for development of biophysics-informed strategies in cancer therapeutics" Cancer progression is regulated not only by the molecular biology and genetics of the disease but also by … Read more
Cells respond to external biochemical and mechanical cues to generate myriad responses including force generation, motility, gene expression and differentiation. The connection between external cue and internal response are the biochemical pathways that control the cell. Understanding these responses is … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Yosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Electronic Stopping in Condensed Matter: Ab Initio Understanding of Electronic Excitation Dynamics under Proton Irradiation" Transfer of the kinetic energy from a highly-energetic ion to electrons in … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Grant Matthews, Notre Dame University "The Cosmological Quest for Evidence of the Birth of the Universe out of the Multiverse Landscape" One expects that the universe was born out of a complicated string-theory landscape near … Read more
A lecture by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, on the newly published book of the same title.
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Thomas Schaefer, North Carolina State University "The QCD Critical Point" I summarize arguments that suggest that the phase diagram of QCD (the theory of quarks and gluons) has a critical endpoint which is analogous to … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania "The Maps Inside Your Head" Abstract: 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 … Read more