Events

Apr

9

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Multiscale Mechanics of Cytoskeletal Networks" Presented by Dr. Bekele Gurmessa - Bucknell University

Location:

LL 316

April 9, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Biological cells regulate their mechanical behavior through the cytoskeleton, a composite network of interacting protein filaments whose properties emerge from structure and dynamics across multiple scales. In this talk, I will describe optical tweezers microrheology and imaging…

Apr

16

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Exploration of Light Ion Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider" Presented by Dr. Austin Baty - University Of Illinois, Chicago

Location:

LL 316

April 16, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Collisions of relativistic heavy ions, such as gold and lead, have been used for decades to explore a hot, deconfined medium of quarks and gluons known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP).  In the last few years, there has also been great interest in searching for similar effects in…

Apr

23

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Exploring the quantum world with dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates" Presented by Dr. Peter Engles - University of Washington

Location:

LL 316

April 23, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Ultracold quantum gases play a central role in modern quantum science. These systems consist of clouds of atoms cooled to temperatures near absolute zero using laser cooling and related techniques, making them among the coldest objects in the universe. Although quantum mechanics is…

Apr

30

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Quasicrystals of Ultracold Quantum Matter" Presented by Dr. Charles Brown - Yale

Location:

LL 316

April 30, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Quasicrystals are not spatially periodic, yet they exhibit long-range order. These aperiodic crystals feature rotational symmetries that are mathematically forbidden in periodic crystals. In 1984, Shechtman performed X-ray diffraction measurements on a metallic alloy, revealing 10…