Department-wide all-hands meeting

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

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.

Experimental particle physics seminar: Alexander Leder (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Bloomberg 462

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 […]

High energy physics theory seminar: Matthew Heydeman

Bloomberg 462

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 […]

Joint JHU-UMD particle physics seminar: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford U.)

Bloomberg 462

* 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 […]

Department-wide Colloquium: Lisa Kewley (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

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 […]