All members of the department are invited and encouraged to attend. The purpose of the meeting will be to make some announcements and to provide information and updates on various research, education, outreach, and administrative initiatives in the department. As with the colloquium, a wine and cheese reception will follow.
TITLE: Photonic Band Gap R&D for Next Generation Axion Haloscopes ABSTRACT: Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate particle, which have the potential to simultaneously solve multiple problems in particle physics. As a dark matter candidate, large scale haloscopes, such as ADMX and HAYSTAC, aim to detect axions in the galactic halo by measuring the […]
Talk titles will be available on the CAS wiki page.
Title: Quantum near extremal black holes and anomalies Abstract: The Bekenstein–Hawking formula gives a coarse-grained count of the number of microstates of a black hole, and it is remarkable that it may sometimes be reproduced from a microscopic count in string theory. However, the standard approach (which we will briefly review) typically relies on supersymmetry by counting […]
Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar: Salem Al Mosleh (University of Maryland Eastern Shore) Host: Brian Camley
* Lunch at noon TITLE: Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physics ABSTRACT: Since the times of Henry Cavendish and John Mitchell, the strength of gravity has been measured by comparing it to the reaction of a calibrated mechanical spring. While in the last 60 years planetary measurements (with natural and […]
Title: The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes
Hosted by JHU Gender Minorities & Women in Physics (G-WiP), TITLE: A new vision for the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian ABSTRACT: I will present the latest discoveries and developments at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Our discoveries cover solar astrophysics, star formation and evolution, galaxy formation & evolution, extrasolar […]
High energy physics theory seminar TITLE: TBD, ABSTRACT: TBD Bloomberg 447
High energy physics theory seminar TITLE: TBD, ABSTRACT: TBD Bloomberg 447
TITLE: Memory and Plasticity in Amorphous Solids ABSTRACT: While we are all familiar with retaining information in a computer or our minds, memory is an essential quality of many more non-equilibrium systems around us. We consider what information is stored in the arrangement of the particles in a 2D solid adsorbed at an oil-water interface. […]
Title: Knowing Stars, Knowing Planets: Unlocking JWST Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres through New Stellar Insights