CAS Wine & Cheese Seminar

Bloomberg 462

Fall 2023 schedule The JHU/STScI Center for Astrophysical Sciences Wine and Cheese Seminars take place in Bloomberg 462 on Mondays at 3:30. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), or two speakers, each giving a half hour (25+5) presentation. Hour-long speakers will be invited by the committee, and the […]

Event Series STScI/JHU Galaxy Journal Club Meetings

STScI/JHU Galaxy Journal Club

STScI CafeCon

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. Tentative talk schedule for the fall semester: […]

Pavel Volkov (UConn) “Topology and phase transitions in twisted nodal superconductors”

Bloomberg 462

Topology and phase transitions in twisted nodal superconductors    “Twistronics” paradigm has been tremendously successful in realizing strongly correlated and topological phases of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors or semimetals. In my talk, I will show that twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors allow a similar degree of control over the neutral quasiparticles in superconductors.     […]

Event Series Department-wide Colloquium Series

Bearden Lecture: Preeti Kharb “Jets in Radio-Quiet AGN and their Influence on the Host Galaxies”

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

The 2023 Bearden Lecture is presented by Dr. Preeti Kharb, who is a faculty member at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Pune, India TITLE: Jets in Radio-Quiet AGN and their Influence on the Host Galaxies ABSTRACT: 'Radio-quiet' AGN dominate the AGN population. Their jets, when present, are faint […]