Department-wide Colloquium Reserved for Open House Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran Title: "Opening Up the Gravitational Wave Spectrum" Abstract: The historic discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO has initiated a new era […]
Theoretical principles of viral capsid self-organization and genome packaging Single-stranded (ss) RNA viruses, which impact humans, animals, and plants, constitute the largest and most widespread genetic class of viruses. During […]
Interphase Chromatin Undergoes a Local Sol-Gel Transition Upon Cell Differentiation Cell differentiation, the process by which stem cells become specialized cells, is associated with chromatin reorganization inside the cell nucleus. […]
Emergence of size in living cells The emergence of macroscopic phenomena from interactions of its microscopic components is a problem permeating much of modern physics. Successes include our understanding of […]
Topology and “impossible” electronic devices Since the discovery of quantized Hall effects in the 1980s, topology has provided a useful new paradigm for understanding condensed matter systems, expanding our vocabulary […]
Title: Photonic Pseudomagnetism and Landau Levels Abstract: When electrons moving in a two-dimensional plane are subject to a perpendicular magnetic field they move in circles called cyclotron orbits as a result […]
TITLE: Hot, Warm, Cold, and Frigid Exoplanets from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
TITLE: Absolutely Mindboggling! ABSTRACT: The fractional quantum Hall states are among the most beautiful, the most consequential, and the best understood strongly correlated states discovered in nature. I will begin […]
TITLE: The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research, ABSTRACT: The National MagLab in the United States exists to provide magnetic fields that are more than a million times stronger […]
TITLE: Mechanics of Domain Walls ABSTRACT: Domain walls, narrow regions separating domains of uniform magnetization, have a long history in the field of magnetism. As topological solitons, they present interest […]
Thank you to everyone who participated this past spring in the climate survey conducted by the department’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) in conjunction with JHU’s Office of Diversity […]
TITLE: Energetic optimization during cell division ABSTRACT: Living systems are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium through the continuous consumption of ambient energy. This energy is invested in the formation of […]