Monday Colloquium

Somitogenesis, the segmentation of the antero-posterior axis in vertebrates, is thought to result from the interactions between a genetic oscillator and a posterior-moving determination wavefront. The segment (somite) size is set by the product of the...

Connecting theoretical models for exotic quantum states to real materials is a key goal in quantum material synthesis. Among such theoretical models, a “toy model” is one made deliberately simplistic in order to demonstrate new physical concepts and their...

Modern machine learning has had an outsized impact on many scientific fields, and particle physics is no exception. What is special about particle physics, though, is the vast amount of theoretical and experimental knowledge that we already have about...

I will give you my perspective on where we are with respect to quantum gravity, string theory, and the so-called real world.

Optical and near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, are superconducting detectors that can tell you the energy and arrival time of each individual photon without false counts. In this talk I will discuss the recent progress my group has...

Martin White (UC, Berkley) "Modeling large-scale structure for the golden era of cosmological surveys" Abstract: The Universe we observe exhibits order on a wide range of scales, and the study of this large-scale structure provides one of our premier...

Dear Physics Department Members – We’d like to draw your attention to our first colloquium of the season, given by Prof. Keivan Stassun, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University. In response to the shutdownSTEM meeting, the Equity and...