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 […]
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. Tentative talk schedule for the fall semester: […]
Speaker: Nicholas Kern Title: Mapping Cosmic Dawn with HERA: Improved Constraints on the 21cm Power Spectrum and IGM Heating Date and time: Tuesday December 5, 3 - 4 pm EST
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. […]
15-20 min long talks on astronomy-related papers, projects, ideas.
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 […]
Kungang Li (University of Maryland) presents a joint HEP-Ex -Condensed matter seminar Title: "Superconducting Qubits in Quantum Sensing and its Energy Relaxation Time Fluctuations". Abstract: Superconducting qubits are an ideal platform for quantum processors and sensors, demonstrating utility in high-energy physics applications. Quantum sensing in this field involves the controlled interaction of superconducting qubits with […]
15-20 min long talks on astronomy-related papers, projects, ideas.
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: […]
Speaker: Robert Wald Title: Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions Date and time: Tuesday December 12, 2 - 3 pm EST Room: Bloomberg 462