Department-wide Science Coffee
3rd floor lobbyInformal science discussions and coffee, open to the entire department.
Informal science discussions and coffee, open to the entire department.
We meet every Tuesday at 1pm, Eastern time, in the CafeCon (the conference room next to the STScI cafeteria), and also remotely using BlueJeans. We start with a talk by guest speaker for ~30 minutes, followed by paper discussion. Vote for what papers you want discussed on Benty-Fields. Sign up for e-mails by sending a […]
Title: “Higgs-Confinement Transitions in QCD from Symmetry Protected Topological Phases” Abstract: In gauge theories with fundamental matter, such as QCD, there is typically no sharp way to distinguish confining and Higgs regimes because there are no suitable order parameters. It is standard lore that these two regimes are continuously connected. In this talk I will […]
Joint JHU/STScI Colloquium: Kelsey Johnson (UVA) "The New View of Emerging Star Clusters"
15-20 min long talks on astronomy-related papers, projects, ideas. Enjoy both Astronomy and Coffee (please bring your own mugs). If you have new results, ideas or want to discuss an interesting paper from arXiv, we encourage you to present. Spring 2024 schedule
Speaker 1: Alvin Modin - Crafting planar optics by 3D photoalignment of nematic liquid crystals Speaker 2: Nathan Prouse – Correlating Collective Self-Ordering in Polymers to Pair-Interactions Zoom link is https://JHUBlueJays.zoom.us/j/93026415427?pwd=ZGo1ditSNjh6V1JFY2dWNlhTOStLQT09
15-20 min long talks on astronomy-related papers, projects, ideas. Enjoy both Astronomy and Coffee (please bring your own mugs). If you have new results, ideas or want to discuss an interesting paper from arXiv, we encourage you to present. Spring 2024 schedule
Informal science discussions and coffee, open to the entire department.
Title: de Sitter as an Axion Detector Abstract: Axions, scalar fields with compact field spaces, are some of the most well-motivated candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, I will explain how inflationary correlations are uniquely sensitive to the topology of a scalar's field space, and can thus be used to distinguish […]
Title: The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Collider Physics Abstract: The recent detection of neutrinos at the LHC has ushered in a new era of multi-messenger collider physics. Up to 2022, neutrinos had never been directly detected in the 50-year history of particle colliders. In 2023, the first 153 neutrinos were detected at FASER, a small, inexpensive […]
Jason Glenn (NASA Goddard) "Uncovering the Dust-Obscured Universe with the PRIMA Far-Infrared Probe: Growth of Galaxies, Supermassive Black Holes, and Planets"
15-20 min long talks on astronomy-related papers, projects, ideas. Enjoy both Astronomy and Coffee (please bring your own mugs). If you have new results, ideas or want to discuss an interesting paper from arXiv, we encourage you to present. Spring 2024 schedule