Past Events

Mar

21

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "Electrifying active matter" Presented by Professor Petia Vlahovska - Northwestern University

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

March 21, 2024, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Bird flocks and fish schools move around like fluid when viewed on a scale much larger than the individuals. Similar large-scale coherent motions have been observed with self-propelled micro-particles such as bacteria and motile colloids. In this talk, I will discuss the collective…

Feb

29

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "Exotic Phases in Moire Systems" Presented by Professor Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

February 29, 2024, 4:25 - 5:25pm

I will review the experimental discoveries and amazing puzzles in Twisted Bilayer Graphene and in twisted MoTe2 which culminated with the discovery of long-thought phases of matter such as the Fractional Chern Insulator. We will then show that, theoretically, most of the puzzling…

Feb

22

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "The Entropy of Hawking Radiation" Presented by Dr. Maldacena - IAS, Princeton

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

February 22, 2024, 4:25 - 5:55pm

We will discuss recent progress on the computation of black hole entropy and the entropy of Hawking radiation. This involves an area formula that computes the fine grained or von Neumann entropy of black hole. The result is consistent with unitarity.

Feb

15

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "Inquiring Through Black Holes" Presented by Dr. Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

February 15, 2024, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Black holes have become unique tools in the understanding of a plethora of phenomena in vastly different fronts. From understanding spectacularly energetic events in our universe, gaining insights on potential new particles to unraveling seemingly unrelated phenomena through a firm…

Feb

8

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "Collective Functionalities Emerging in Microbial Active Matter" Presented by Dr. Mathijssen, University of Pennsylvania

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

February 8, 2024, 4:25 - 5:55pm

 Microbes often cooperate to withstand predators and compete even with multicellular organisms. Together, they can achieve functionalities that alone they cannot. However, this puzzle of how biological self-organization emerges from the collective dynamics of individual…

Feb

1

Seminar

Physics Colloquium - "Solving the Mott Problem" Presented by Professor Philip Phillips, UIUC

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

February 1, 2024, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Superconductivity in the copper-oxide ceramics remains a grand challenge in theoretical physics because of the paucity of tools to treat strongly coupled systems.  In such systems, all intuition based on single-particle physics fails.  Precisely what the propagating degrees…

Jan

25

Lecture

Physics Colloquium - "The Persistence of Spin Coherence in a Crystalline Environment" By Professor Ivan Biaggio

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

January 25, 2024, 4:25 - 5:25pm

The colloquium will focus on the entanglement of triplet exciton pairs as it can be observed in some organic molecular crystals. In such crystals, triplet excitons (quasiparticles with a spin of one) can be created as a spin-entangled pair via fission of a photoinduced singlet exciton…

Dec

7

Seminar

Colloquium Series: Will Horowitz – University of Cape Town

December 7, 2023, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Nov

30

Seminar

Colloquium Series: Timothy Atherton – Tufts University

November 30, 2023, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Nov

22

Event

Virtual Graduate Information Session

November 22, 2023, 2 - 3pm

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Nov

16

Seminar

Colloquium Series: Bitan Roy – Lehigh University

November 16, 2023, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Nov

9

Seminar

Colloquium Series: Professor Ariel Sommer – Lehigh University

November 9, 2023, 4:25 - 5:25pm