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.
Title: Stars under Einstein’s microscope: strong gravitational lensing near caustics Abstract: Rich clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitational magnifiers in the Universe. One of the most interesting gravitational lensing […]
Title: New Pathways for Topological Flat Bands, and Roton Condensate in Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Systems Abstract: Recent studies on topological flat bands in moiré superlattices have revealed fascinating new […]
All are welcome to join the Summit committee no matter if you are an active WiP member or not. This is a big event, so we appreciate any help you […]
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, […]
Speaker 1: Alvin Modin (Leheny group) - Crafting planar optics by 3D photoalignment of nematic liquid crystals Speaker 2: Grace Luettgen (Camley group) – Bidirectional chemotaxis of malignant lymphocytes Zoom […]
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 […]
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, […]
JHU/STScI CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars take place in Bloomberg 462 every Monday at 3:30 pm Eastern. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), […]
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 […]
Title: The hyperbolic tale of GW190521 Abstract: I will discuss the most enigmatic signal observed by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration to date, GW190521, and the possibility that it was generated by […]