Theoretical approaches to cosmic tensions, Abstract: The Hubble and weak-lensing S8 tensions in cosmology perhaps hint at new physics beyond LCDM. I have extensively investigated these anomalies, proposing the early dark energy (EDE) solution to the Hubble tension. Although EDE has had some successes, there are challenges yet - improving EDE's underlying fundamental model, constraining […]
Order from disorder: Designing sequence-programmable protein condensates, Abstract: Biology provides numerous examples of phase-separated protein and nucleic acid condensates, which establish distinct compartments for spatially organizing biomolecules within living cells. This mechanism of spatial organization relies on the ability of biomolecular systems to navigate high-dimensional phase diagrams by tuning the interactions among proteins and […]
Title:Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with CUORE and CUPID Abstract: We do not know whether neutrinos are their own antiparticle. Neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay is a theorized radioactive decay process that would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticle, and it would also be the first observation of lepton number violation. The discovery of this […]
Star Cluster Formation, Binary Stars, and Multiple Populations: Missing Links
The speakers are Cody Schimming (Topological defect interactions in nematics with periodic boundary conditions) and Alejandro Soto Franco (Periodic dynamics of topological defects in active fluids on Riemannian 2-manifolds).
Gender minorities and women in physics tea & cookies. More information about Gender minorities and women in physics.
Black (hole) Coffee is a space for students, postdocs, and professors to discuss cutting-edge research on all things black holes, spanning both observations and theory.
ML x Astro/Cosmo meetings are geared towards discussing new methods/ideas at the intersection of machine learning and astrophysics/cosmology.
TITLE: Microgels: Heroes or Villains in Soft Matter Science? ABSTRACT: to be announced Host: Bob Leheny
"Thinking about 10 TeV pCM Colliders," Abstract: Today, we have a "Standard Model" of particle physics that is in excellent agreement with experiment. In particular, a central feature of this model -- a phase transition in the early universe to a state of spontaneously broken symmetry --- was confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs […]
Witnessing the Formation of Planetary Systems Richard Teague (MIT) JHU/STScI joint colloquium
Mysteries of the Higgs Boson, ABSTRACT: Thirty-five years after it was postulated as a key component of the theory of weak interactions, the Higgs boson was discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Since that time, the major couplings of the Higgs boson have been measured at the LHC, with results in good […]