Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar: Gregory S. Boebinger (Florida State University)

Bloomberg 462

TITLE: Exploring Weird Quasiparticles at the Heart of Quantum Matter (often using Extreme Magnetic Fields) ABSTRACT:  Materials science has provided technologies to advance humanity through the millenia. In the wide range of modern materials grouped under the heading of “Quantum Matter”, electron charges and electron spins conspire in weird and collective ways to create new […]

Joint JHU-UMD Particle Physics seminar: Vladimir Shiltsev (Northern Illinois University)

on UMD campus

TITLE: Particle Accelerators: Pushing the Frontiers of Physics ABSTRACT: Over the past three decades, the science of beams has evolved into a distinct discipline with its own subjects and methods. Some 30,000 accelerators are in operation worldwide today, including over 100 of major facilities for fundamental science research.  Around 5,000 accelerator scientists and engineers work […]

Department-wide colloquium: Michael Murrell (Yale)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

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 complex, internal macromolecular structures and diverse spatial and temporal patterns in chemical and mechanical activities, which in turn orchestrate cell phenotypes and behaviors. This self-organization […]

Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Samantha Pagan (Yale University)

Bloomberg 475

TITLE: Investigating the Nature of Neutrinos and Dark Matter at the KeV Scale in CUORE ABSTRACT: The extremely low backgrounds, excellent energy resolution, and high exposure achieved by CUORE, the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, enables multiple rare-events searches that investigate unanswered questions in physics. First, through studying neutrinoless double beta decay (OuBB) and […]

Experimental particle physics seminar: (i) Jeff Davis (JHU), (ii) Nick Pinto (JHU)

Bloomberg 475

Title: (i) Search for Higgs+photon production at LHC and constraints on light quark Yukawa couplings; (ii) Sensitivity to CP violation in the Higgs-strahlung process at a Future Circular Collider. Abstract: (i) A search for Higgs+photon production is performed with the LHC data for the first time. The analysis focuses on the topology of a boosted Higgs […]

Department-wide Colloquium: Ray Jayawardhana (JHU)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

TITLE: Exploring Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarfs in Young Star Clusters with JWST ABSTRACT: The discovery and characterization of free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs) is fundamental to our understanding of star and planet formation. The James Webb Space Telescope affords the opportunity to search for objects down to the opacity limit for fragmentation in nearby star-forming regions. We […]