DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and...

Colloquium: Shih-Chieh Hsu: "Unravelling Dark Universe with Artificial Intelligence"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Compelling experimental evidence strongly supports searches for new particles predicted by theories Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Such searches are...

Astrophysics Seminar:Diana Powell: "Microphysical Insights into Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

A fundamental understanding of planetary histories and characteristics requires an empirical connection between planet formation and evolved planets—a long-sought goal...

HEP Seminar: Cari Cesarotti: "Physics Potential at a future Muon Collider"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

A clear outcome of Snowmass 2021 and now the US P5 report was the community support for R&D towards a...

Special CFP Seminar: Alexander Hipp: Searching for Galactic Halo Substructure with ADMX

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: The QCD axion is a well-motivated solution to two of the biggest problems in physics: the strong CP problem...

Colloquium: Lee Roberts: "Taking the Muon for a Spin in the World’s Largest Penning Trap"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In his seminal 1926 paper, P.A.M. Dirac predicted that the g-factor for electrons is ge = 2. Subsequent more precise...

PAECRS: Anna Childs and Saptarshi Biswas

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"The Formation and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets around M-dwarfs": Anna Childs, Postdoctoral Associate The search for habitable exoplanets around M-dwarf stars is...

CFP Colloquium: David Kaplan: The Case for Testing the Modifications of Quantum Mechanics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: We discuss the case for potential extensions to and motivate tests of quantum mechanics.  We then argue that most...

Astrophysics Seminar: Ted Bergin: "Linking Planet Formation to Exoplanet Composition"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

For the past decade we have begun to explore the origin of planetary compositions which are set in the natal...

HEP Seminar: Shruti Paranjape: "Hidden Amplitude Zeros and the Double Copy"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The study of scattering amplitudes as on-shell functions of kinematic variables can teach us a lot about quantum field theories....

Colloquium: Ann-Marie Madigan: "The Importance of being Eccentric"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The collective gravity of bodies on eccentric orbits is key to understanding the evolution of gravitational systems from planets to...

CMP Seminar: Christina Gao: "Axion Wind Detection with the Homogeneous Precession Domain of the Superfluid He-3"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Axions and axion-like particles may couple to nuclear spins like a weak oscillating effective magnetic field, the “axion wind.” Existing...

Complex Systems Seminar: Siddharth Patwardhan: "Modeling Complex Systems as Multiplex Networks"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

A multiplex network is a collection of single-layer networks sharing common nodes; each layer of a multiplex captures a different...

CFP Colloquium: Michael Ramsey-Musolf: Fundamental Symmetries in Nuclei: Tackling the Strong Interaction and Hunting for New Physics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Nuclei and hadrons are “laboratories” for exploring nature’s fundamental interactions. In this talk, I discuss the theoretical challenges and...

Astrophysics Seminar: Brant Robertson: "Finding the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe with JWST"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window into the early universe, enabling sensitive, high-resolution images of the...

Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: James Webb Space Telescope: 25 Years to Build, 2 Years to Change Astronomy

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope is the most ambitious and complicated telescope ever to be launched into space. To...

Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: One of the original rationales for building JWST was to move beyond the limitations of the Hubble Space Telescope...

Heilborn Lecture: Marcia Rieke: Gratification from Building and Testing JWST: A Potpourri of First Results

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope required a new approach to optical design and cryogenic cooling. Successful ground tests were...

HEP Seminar: Daniel Li: "Search for Standard Model Triple-Top Quark Production with the CMS Detector"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The Standard Model of physics has been successful in predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, which was discovered by...

Complex Systems Seminar: Siddarth Patwardhan: TBA

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Abstract: TBA Siddarth Patwardhan, PhD Student, Indiana University Host: Adilson Motter

Colloquium: Surendra Singh: "Structured Beams of Light"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Maxwell’s equations admit a rich array of wave-like solutions beyond the well known plane wave and Gaussian beam solutions. Structured...

Complex Systems Seminar: Paul Salipante: “The Nonlinear Rheology of Model Wormlike and Rod-like Suspensions using a Small Volume Microcapillary Rheometer”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Many rheology modifiers are composed of rod-like particles or worm-like surfactant aggregates. Real world applications often expose these solutions to...

CFP Colloquium: Maxim Pospelov: Theory of EDMs, Standard Model and beyond

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: I give a review of the modern state of EDM theory. In recent years, there has been a large...

Astrophysics Seminar: Sean Ressler: "Cleaning Up The Dirty Astrophysical Parts: Novel Approaches to Simulating Black Hole Accretion "

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Black hole science has entered into a particularly exciting era characterized by groundbreaking current and future international missions like the...

HEP Seminar: Bryan Ramson: "The New Era of Precision Neutrino Physics"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments present some of the most compelling paths towards beyond-the-standard-model physics through measurement of PMNS matrix elements...

Special Joint ESAM/Complex Systems Seminar: Naomi Oppenheimer: "Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of Active Two-dimensional Fluids"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

I will describe two biologically inspired systems that can be analyzed using the same hydrodynamic Hamiltonian formalism. The first is...

HEP Seminar: Christian Herwig: "A Path to Dark Matter Discovery with Particle Accelerators "

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Though the range of viable dark matter (DM) masses spans 90 orders of magnitude, the natural scenario where its abundance...

Special CMP Seminar: Eli Levenson-Falk: "Quantum Refrigeration to Suppress Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Superconducting qubits are a leading quantum information technology, combining long-lived coherence with strong addressability and engineering flexibility. However, they are...

Astrophysics Seminar: Carl Fields: "Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Multidimensional progenitor models can enable us to capture the chaotic nuclear shell burning occurring deep within the interior of a...

HEP Seminar: Garv Chauhan: "Probing Sterile Neutrinos in Supernovae"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Sterile neutrinos constitute one of the simplest solutions to explain the origin of neutrino masses.  They can be easily produced...

Colloquium: John Marko: "Control of Topology and Geometry of Chromosomes and Nuclei"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The chromosomes of cells are based on very long DNA molecules that must be replicated, disentangled and physically separated to...

Astrophysics Seminar:Alex Ciprijanovic: "Bridging the Gap Between Astronomical Datasets: From Proof of Concept to AI Model Deployment with Domain Adaptation"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Artificial intelligence methods show great promise in increasing the quality and speed of work with large astronomical and high-energy physics...

HEP Seminar: Andrew Wightman: "Search for New Physics in Top Quark Production with Additional Leptons using Effective Field Theory"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The CERN LHC has generated an extraordinary amount of high energy particle collisions that can be used to search for...

Colloquium: Maura McLaughlin: "Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

  Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. Pulsar timing arrays world-wide monitor over 100 of these...

CMP Seminar: Priya Sharma: "Inverse Faraday Effect in Fermi Liquids"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

In the Fermi liquid metallic state, a static local magnetic moment is induced on the application of a circularly polarized...

Complex Systems Seminar: Chang-Han Rhee: "Heavy-Tailed Large Deviations and Sharp Characterization of Global Dynamics of SGDs in Deep Learning"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

While the typical behaviors of stochastic systems are often deceptively oblivious to the tail distributions of the underlying uncertainties, the...

PAECRS: Shelby Klomp and Chang Liu, PhD Students

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Optical Trapping and Optimal Detection of Microdisks for Detection of High Frequency Gravitational Waves" Shelby Klomp, PhD Student, Geraci Group I present...

Astrophysics Seminar: Greg Herczeg:"Variability in the Growth of Stars and Planets"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

While the stages in the formation of stellar systems are now well charted, uncertainties in the initial conditions and evolution...

Colloquium: Alexandra Gade:"The science of FRIB: From the Nuclear Many-body Challenge to the Origin of the Elements in the Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

There are approximately 300 stable and 3,000 known unstable (rare) isotopes. Estimates are that over 7,000 different isotopes are bound...

Special HEP Seminar: Srubabati Goswami: "Analytic Treatment of Neutrino Oscillation and Decay in Matter "

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Neutrino decay is governed by a non-Hermitian effective  Hamiltonian and in general the  mass eigenstates  and decay eigenstates are not...

CFP Colloquium: Christopher Foot: Matter-wave interferometry of ultracold atoms: small and intermediate-scale experiments

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: This seminar will describe two topics in atom interferometry. Firstly, experiments using a quenched two-dimensional Bose gas to investigate the...

HEP Seminar: Raymond Co: "Solving Cosmological Mysteries with Axion Rotations"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

We present a paradigm where the (QCD) axion’s novel evolution, a rotation in field space, can address cosmological mysteries of...

Colloquium: Bonnie Fleming: "Fermilab Science in the Next Decade and Beyond"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Particle physics probes the most fundamental questions in the universe from the smallest to the largest scales and how they...

CMP Seminar: Gleb Finkelstein: "Classical Dynamics of the Multi-terminal Josephson Junctions"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

In multi-terminal Josephson junctions (MTJJ), several superconducting contacts are made to a common non-superconducting region. As a result, the state...

PAECRS: Danyang Chen and Zhiheng Sheng, PhD Students

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Error Budgeting for a Quantum Error Correction System" Danyang Chen, PhD Student, Koch Group In this talk, I'll explore Quantum Error Correction...

CFP Colloquium: Yan Zhou: Precision measurements of molecular ions in a ring trap - a new approach for testing fundamental symmetries

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: In this presentation, I will discuss a new experimental platform designed to facilitate quantum logic control of polar molecular...

Astrophysics Seminars: Jamie Rankin: “New Insights into Cosmic Rays from Parker Solar Probe”

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

For over 50 years, space-based measurements of cosmic rays have been used to better understand the acceleration and transport of...

HEP Seminar: Asher Berlin: "Electromagnetic Signals of High-Frequency Gravitational Wave"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

There is strong motivation to extend the observable frequency range of gravitational waves (GWs) beyond the Hz - kHz regime...

Colloquium:James Fitzgerald: "Ensemble Modeling of Biological Neural Networks"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Neuronal activity patterns provide the physical substrates for perception, cognition, and behavior. This activity in turn emerges from the network...

Astrophysics Seminar: Jessie Dotson: "The Asteroid Threat Assessment Project"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Planetary Defense is a multi-discipline international effort which requires finding and tracking near earth asteroids, studying their characteristics, developing and...

HEP Seminar: Titas Roy:"Heavy Resonances Decaying to Top Quark Pairs"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Several models predict modifications to the SM properties in the presence of new particles. The top quark, being the heaviest...

Colloquium: Andrew Cleland: "Exploring the Quantum Nature of Sound"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Phonons are the quantum particles of sound waves in solids, representing the collective motion of astronomical numbers of atoms. While...

CMP Seminar: Andras Gyenis: "Novel Nonlinear Elements for Protected Superconducting Qubits"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

To unlock the potential of quantum computers, one of the key challenges that the field has to overcome is to...

PAECRS: Siyuan Liu and Sebastian Urrutia Quiroga

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Controlling Magnetic Field for Next-Generation Electron EDM Search" Siyuan Liu, Graduate Researcher, Gabrielse Group The Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of electron is...

CFP Colloquium: Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz: Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract:  A precise understanding of the interaction between the atomic nucleus and its bound electrons enables the exploration of physical...

Astrophysics Seminar: Quinn Konopacky: Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged Planets

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

In the past fifteen years, several new jovian exoplanets at wide separations have been revealed using ground based telescopes equipped...

HEP Seminar: Henning Bahl: "Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Boson" ONLINE

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

More than ten years after the Higgs discovery, we have entered the Higgs precision era. In this talk, I will...

Colloquium:David Sand: "Small-scale Cosmology with Satellites and Stellar Substructures in Nearby Galaxies"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model for structure formation is successful in reproducing large scale structures (>10 Mpc), but challenges...

CMP Seminar: Johannes Pollanen: "Hybrid Quantum Phononics with Superconducting Qubits*"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting qubits, and the experimental architecture of circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED), have emerged as not only a promising platform for...

Complex Systems Seminar: Miklos Racz: "Correlated Stochastic Block Models: Graph Matching and Community Recovery"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

I will discuss statistical inference problems on edge-correlated stochastic block models. We determine the information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery of...

CFP Colloquium: Nick Huggett: What Could we Learn from Table Top Quantum Gravity?

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: It’s not straight-forward to adequately and uncontroversially explain, in terms of theory testing alone, the significance of difficult proposed...

Astrophysics Seminar: Nahum Arav: "The Contribution of Quasar Absorption Outflows to AGN Feedback"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Determining the distance of quasar absorption outflows from the central source and their kinetic luminosity are crucial for understanding their contribution to...

Colloquium: Robert Joynt: "Discrete Scale Invariance: Fractal-like Effects in Condensed Matter"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Discrete scale invariance is the symmetry that fractals show, familiar from many biological systems.   Manifestations in quantum systems have been predicted...

Special HEP Seminar: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla:" A Journey into the Interior of Earth with Neutrinos"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Neutrinos produced in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a unique and independent probe to explore the internal structure and composition...

CMP Seminar: Adrian Lupascu: "Quantum Sensing with Superconducting Devices"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Superconducting devices are currently one of the main candidates for the implementation of quantum computers. These devices have features that...

Astrophysics Seminar: Harley Katz: "Challenging our Understanding of High-redshift Galaxy Formation with JWST Observations"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

The insights gained from the first year and a half of JWST observations at high-redshift has transformed our understanding of...

HEP Seminar: Cancelled

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Colloquium: Rakshya Khatiwada: "Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Science"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

This talk will introduce Quantum Sensing and its applications to fundamental physics. In particular, it will focus on qubits, the...

CFP Colloquium: Martine Schut: Entanglement-based test of Quantum Gravity and its Experimental Challenges

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: In 2017 a table top experiment that uses entanglement witnessing to test the quantum nature of gravity was proposed....

Special CMP Seminar: Anshu Sirohi: "Robust Magnetic Domains and Modulated Currents at Domain Boundaries in Ultra-thin SrRuO3"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

In low-dimensional correlated materials, the formation and the evolution of magnetic domains are particularly complex. Despite the large amount of...

Special HEP Seminar: Emanuela Celi: "Searching for Exotic Double Beta Decays with Scintillating Cryogenic Calorimeters"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νDBD) is a process whose discovery would reshape the Standard Model picture of the neutrino. Beyond the...

HEP Seminar: Kelci Mohrman: Using effective field theory to search for new physics in the top quark sector

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Despite the remarkable success of the standard model, there is strong evidence that it does not represent a complete description...

CMP Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff: "Interfacing Non-Interacting Superconducting Qubits with Microwave Photons"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Mediating interactions and generating entanglement between separated qubits is a fundamental physics question, as well as an important ingredient for...

Special Seminar: Megan Russell: "Designing Cryogenic Readout for CMB Experiments"

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer a window into the early universe. Experiments such as LiteBIRD and the...

Astrophysics Seminar: Natasha Batalha, NASA: "The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

One of NASA's primary goals is to observationally characterize exoplanet atmospheres, understand the chemical and physical processes of exoplanets and...

HEP Seminar: Nishant Agarwal: "Mutual Information as a Measure of Renormalizability"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Loop corrections in interacting quantum field theories (QFTs) on a time-dependent background often diverge in time, hence obscuring the notion...

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm during the fall and...

Colloquium: Stephan Hruszkewycz: "X-ray Coherence, Speckle, and Imaging for Atomic and Nanoscale Studies of Materials"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In this talk, we will cover the basic principles governing x-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging at modern synchrotron light sources...

Complex Systems Seminar: Camille Duprat: "Aggregation of Soft Fibres"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Fibrous media are present in a variety of systems, many involving an interaction with a liquid, in particular with liquid-air...

PAECRS: Imran Sultan and Austin Marga, PhD Students

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"A Theoretical Analysis of the Hot Circumgalactic Medium with FIRE" The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the vast diffuse gas that surrounds...

CFP Colloquium: Dmitry Budker: Fast oscillating fundamental “constants”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Background ultralight scalar fields that are considered as a viable candidate for galactic dark matter may manifest themselves in...

Astrophysics Seminar: Rob Simcoe: " The Emergence of Circumgalactic Heavy Elements in the First Gyr with JWST/EIGER"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Heavy element absorption systems were first detected in reionization-era quasar spectra nearly two decades ago. However it has only become possible to...

HEP Seminar: Bianka Meçaj: "Jet Substructure with Energy Correlators"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Many New Physics searches and QCD precision measurements at particle colliders involve the study of jet substructure for final state...

Colloquium: Austin Joyce: "Bootstrapping Inflation"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

I will describe how cosmic correlations provide a window into the early universe, and how we are working to understand...

CMP Seminar: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya: "Roll and Stumble: A Robust Mechanism for Self-Organization of Granular Matter*"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

A monolayer of granular spheres in a cylindrical vial, driven continuously by an orbital shaker and subjected to a symmetric...

Complex Systems Seminar: Matthias Schneider: "Physics to Biology: Interface Pulses and the 2nd Law as a Foundation for Biological Communication and Regulation"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Life is full of hydrated interfaces that all have to obey physical principles. If we “inject” momentum conservation and thermodynamics...

Astrophysics Seminar: Diana Powell: "Microphysical Insights into Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

A fundamental understanding of planetary histories and characteristics requires an empirical connection between planet formation and evolved planets—a long-sought goal...

HEP Seminar: Benoit Assi: "Compositeness from eV to TeV"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Composite states occur over vast scales and play an important role in various domains of particle physics. In the first...

Colloquium: Prem Kumar: "Engineering Challenges for the Emerging Quantum Networks"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Quantum internet of the future will require device functionalities that implicitly respect the fundamental facts such as quantum information cannot...

PAECRS: Alex Edison and Elizabeth Teng

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Gravitational Wave Tails via Particle Physics" The first observation of gravitational waves nearly ten years ago has  ushered us into the age...

CFP Colloquium: Dylan Yost: Precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen at Colorado State University

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Because of atomic hydrogen’s simplicity, its energy levels can be precisely described by theory.  This has made hydrogen an...

Astrophysics Seminar: Keith Hawkins: "Galactic Archaeology: Using Large-Scale Surveys to Understand our Cosmic Home"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Title: Galactic Archaeology: Using Large-Scale Surveys to Understand our Cosmic Home Abstract : Our universe it made up of many billions...

HEP Seminar: Daniel Spitzbart: "Top Quark Couplings and Decays as a New Physics Discovery Tool"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Searches of physics beyond the standard model are being conducted in many shapes and forms at the LHC, but so...

Colloquium: Asimina Arvanitaki: "The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its Distribution on the Surface of the Earth and its Manipulation by Laboratory-scale Diffraction Gratings"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The CνB is a cosmological relic analogous to the CMB, and contains information about the universe before it was one-second-old....

CMP Seminar: John Zasadzinski: Exploiting the Superconducting Proximity Effect for the Development of Nb based Qubit Circuits

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Abstract: The native, amorphous oxidation layer of Nb is complex and includes magnetic and conducting sub-oxides that make it unsuitable...

Complex System Seminar: Eddie Lee: A Theory of Innovation and Obsolescence Connecting Markets and Genetic Evolution to Science

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Innovation and obsolescence describe dynamics of ever-churning and adapting social and biological systems. We formalize the connection with a reduced...

CFP Colloquium: Ohkyung Kwon: Testing the Foundations of Quantum Space-Time with Interferometers Using Quantum Metrology

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: The core tenet of quantum mechanics is its rejection of local realism, exemplified by Bell tests. Despite impressive constraints...

Astrophysics Seminar: Ashley Villar: Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

The eruptions, collisions and explosions of stars drive the universe’s chemical and dynamical evolution. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory...

HEP Seminar: Deepak Sathyan: "Precise SM Measurements as BSM Probes: a NewPurpose for the W-mass Measurement"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Precision measurements of Standard Model (SM) parameters are valuable multipurpose probes for heavy new physics and check the consistency of...

Family Weekend Saturday at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

The Dearborn Observatory is open for a special Family Weekend public viewing Saturday, Oct 21 from 9 to 11 pm....

Colloquium: Barry Bradlyn: “A New Spin on Topological Quantum Chemistry”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Abstract: The discovery of topological materials is one of the most transformative recent breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, revealing new...

CMP Seminar: Silvia Zorzetti: "Advancing Quantum Sensors and Sensor Networks with High-Efficiency Transduction"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Abstract: Quantum transducers enable the conversion of quantum information and signals between different physical platforms. In the field of sensing,...

PAECRS: Andrew Dana and Vic Dong: TBA

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

Abstract: TBA Speaker: Andrew Dana, Geraci Group     Abstract: TBA Speaker: Vic Dong, Fong Group  

Astrophysics Seminar: DJ Pasham: "Repeating Extragalactic Nuclear Transients as Extreme Mass Ratio Binaries"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Extreme Mass Ratio binaries are systems containing a massive black hole (>10,000 Msolar) and a closely orbiting smaller object (0.1-1000...

HEP Seminar: Jennet Dickinson: "Boosted Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion with the CMS Experiment""

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

A first search is conducted for boosted Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion in the H(bb) decay channel at...

Viewing of Partial Solar Eclipse - CANCELED

10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Dearborn Observatory

We regret to annoucne that due to the awful weather forecast for Saturday morning, Oct 14th, the partial solar eclipse...

Colloquium: Marcela Carena: "Baryogenesis in the Early Universe"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

One of the main open questions in modern physics is how the imbalance between matter and antimatter that governs our...

CMP Seminar: Goutam Sheet: "Magnetic stripes and bubbles in FenGeTe2 (n = 3,4)"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

I will present the observation of Skyrmion-like magnetic textures in the 2D itinerant ferromagnets FenGeTe2 (n = 3,4) by low-temperature...

Astrophysics Seminar: Pablo Laguna: "Two Black Hole Stories from Numerical Relativity"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

The first simulations of the inspiral and coalescence of binary black holes were carried out almost twenty years ago. With...

HEP Seminar: Elias Bernreuther: "Light Long-Lived Particles at the LHC and at Belle II"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Searches for long-lived particles (LLPs) are a rapidly expanding frontier at the LHC and other collider experiments. Still, many gaps...

Colloquium: Venkat Chandrasekhar: "Everything, Everywhere, all at once: The Complex Physics of Complex Oxide Heterostructures"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Heterostructures made from complex oxides show a dazzling variety of fundamental phenomena, including ferroelectricity, superconductivity, magnetism, spin-orbit interactions and topological...

CMP Seminar: Badih Assaf: "Spectroscopy of the Dirac Surface States at a Magnetic Insulator – Topological Insulator Interface"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Topological insulator (TI) – magnetic insulator (MI) interfaces have been studied under two important perspectives. On one hand, the spin-momentum...

Complex Systems Seminar: Katharine Jensen: "Elastocapillary Adhesion with Soft Gels"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Establishing an adhesive contact between two materials requires two things: that surface energies favor the creation of an interface, and...

CFP Colloquium: Yanbei Chen: Gravitational-wave Detection, Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics and Low-Energy Quantum Gravity

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Experimental progress in quantum optomechanics has allowed preparing, manipulating, and probing the mechanical motions of macroscopic objects in the...

Astrophysics Seminar: Daniel Stark: "Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Over the past year, deep infrared images and spectra from JWST have pushed the cosmic frontier back to just 300...

HEP Seminar: Fei Teng: “From Scattering Amplitudes to Classical Gravitational Systems"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

In the past few years, scattering amplitudes have been proven to be a useful tool to compute observables in classical...

Colloquium:Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguère: "The Circumgalactic Medium: What is it, and how does it affect the Evolution of Galaxies?"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

While galaxies stand out as the brightest lights observed by telescopes, most of the atoms in the Universe are in...

CFP Colloquium: Koji Yoshimura: New observation of the optical transition from Thorium-229 nuclear clock isomer using X-ray pumping

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Among thousands of nuclei, the isotope Thorium-229 (229Th) is the only nucleus having an extremely low-lying excitation level of only...

Astrophysics Seminar: Chris Hamilton: "It Takes Two: On the Secular and Stochastic Dynamics of the Weird Wide Binaries In the Milky Way"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Thanks to GAIA, ultra-wide stellar binaries have recently reasserted themselves as key probes of the Galactic environment, of dark matter...

HEP Seminar: Yogev Shpilman: “Parametric Resonance in Neutrino Oscillations Induced by Ultra-Light Dark Matter and Implications for KamLAND and JUNO"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) composed of bosons lighter than 1eV is expected to behave as a macroscopic classical field oscillating...

Colloquium: Michelle Driscoll: "Emergent Structure in Soft Materials"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Soft matter physics is at its heart a discipline that studies systems which are nonlinear, disordered, and out-of-equilibrium, making many...

CFP Colloquium: Jeffrey Klimes: ARTEMIS: Toward Measurements of Magnetic Moments in Heavy, Highly Charged Ions

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: The AsymmetRic Trap for measurement of Electron Magnetic moments in IonS (ARTEMIS) utilizes the so-called laser-microwave double-resonance spectroscopy technique...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Jean-Regis Angilella: Asymptotic Study of Hamiltonian Systems Submitted to Colored Noise

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

This talk will present recent results concerning the dynamics of weakly dissipative Hamiltonian systems submitted to stochastic perturbations. The probability...

CFP Colloquium: Chris Overstreet: Precision measurement with atom interferometry

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract:  Precise measurements of atomic, molecular, and optical systems are opening a new experimental window into fundamental physics. The high...

Colloquium: Anne-Marie Madigan: TBA

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Abstract: TBA Speaker: Anne-Marie Madigan, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder Host: TBA

Special HEP Seminar: Michael Virgato: "Dark Matter Capture in Compact Objects"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

The capture of Dark Matter in compact objects has garnered considerable interest over recent years. This renewed interest is driven...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Benjamin Kuznets-Speck: "Rare Events in Noisy Systems and the Forces that Shape Them”

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

Rare reactive events are ubiquitous in noisy complex systems throughout the physical sciences and to large extent determine their function...

Complex Systems Seminar: Xiangyi Meng: " Percolation Theories for Quantum Networks"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

In this talk, I will explain how the problem of entanglement distribution on quantum networks (QN) is traditionally understood by...

HEP Seminar: David Osterman: "Measuring Quasiparticle Diffusion in Superconducting Aluminum Films with a TES and Laser-Scanning Microscopy"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

TES-based dark matter detectors and certain qubit experiments rely on understanding the dynamics of quasiparticles (QP), broken Cooper pairs in...

Colloquium: Margaret Gardel: "Active and Adaptive Living Matter"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

My lab is interested in the active and adaptive materials that underlie control of the shape and movement of biological...

Complex Systems Seminar: Tom Powers: "Flow and Transport in Active Gels"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The defining property of an active fluid is that energy is added to the system at the small length scales...

Astro Seminar: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz:" Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes: What have we Learned and what can we Learn?"

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

The recent advent of numerous wide field transient surveys has led to a large increase in the discovery of tidal...

Colloquium: Rapid Fire Research

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Discover the cutting-edge research of our brilliant graduate students at Rapid Fire Research 2023! Rapid Fire Research is an event...

Complex Systems Seminar: Alexey Snezhko: "Complex Collective Dynamics in Flocks of Actively Spinning Colloids"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Active matter, both synthetic and biological, demonstrates complex spatiotemporal self-organization and the emergence of collective behavior. Active fluids comprised of...

Radio Astro Seminar: Jim Condon: The Star-formation History of the Universe

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Radio Astronomy Seminars

Abstract: The 1.4 GHz radio continuum emission from star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is primarily synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated in the...

Special Complex Systems Seminar: Deniz Eroğlu:"Inferring Network Dynamics from Data: Emergent Hyperlinks and Critical Phenomena"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

A central problem in science concerns forecasting sudden changes in complex systems, which are difficult to anticipate and disrupt the...

HEP Seminar: Ruth Britto: "Cuts of Feynman Integrals"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

While Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes are often very difficult to compute directly, their underlying properties often point to new...

Colloquium: William Oliver: "Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

In this talk, we present a demonstration of “giant artificial atoms” realized with superconducting qubits in a waveguide QED architecture....

Amplitudes and Insights Seminars: Gerald V. Dunne: "Mining Perturbation Theory: Resurgence meets Amplitudes"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Special Events and Invited Talks

What is the best way to extract information from a finite amount of perturbative information? This is a common problem...

Complex Systems Seminar: Sarah Veatch: "Responsive Assembly of Domains at the Plasma Membrane"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Plasma membrane heterogeneity has been tied to a litany of cellular functions and is often explained by analogy to membrane...

PAECRS: Yunwei Lu and Eduardo Alejandro

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy PAECRS

"Optimal control of large quantum systems: assessing memory and runtime performance of GRAPE" Yunwei Lu, PhD Student, Koch Group Quantum optimal control...

Astro Seminar: Misty C. Bentz: "Comparing Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements in Active Galactic Nuclei"

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Supermassive black holes appear to be ubiquitous in galaxy nuclei, and several large-scale galaxy properties have been to found to...

CFP Colloquium: Swati Singh: Mechanical sensors for exploring the dark sector

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: When properly engineered, simple quantum systems such as harmonic oscillators or spins can be excellent detectors of feeble forces...

CMP Seminar: Christoph Strunk: "Supercurrent Diodes and Squeezed Vortices: Insights from Inductance Measurements"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect [1], and its prompt observation in a richvariety of systems, has shown...

Complex Systems Seminar: Stefano Martiniani: "Cortical Circuit Theory of Interareal Communication"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The brain accomplishes perceptual, motor, and cognitive function through interconnected neurons wired in precise functional circuits, and the resulting patterns of...

Astro Seminar: Tamara Bogdanovic: "From Kiloparsec Scales to Merger: Properties of Dual AGNs that Become Gravitational Wave Sources"

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

Observational searches for dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at kiloparsec separations are crucial for understanding the role of galaxy mergers...

CFP Colloquium: Tanya Zelevinsky: Ultracold Molecule Lattice Clocks

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: Ultracold atom technologies have transformed our ability to perform high-precision spectroscopy and apply it to time and frequency metrology....

HEP Seminar: Sam Zeller: "LBNF/DUNE: the Science, the Experiment, the Facility"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

The worldwide particle physics community is currently in the process of launching the most ambitious and exciting accelerator-based neutrino program...

Colloquium: Jack Harris: "Measuring the Knots and Braids of non-Hermitian Oscillators"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

It may seem unlikely that rich mathematical structures still remain to be uncovered in small arrays of classical, linear oscillators....

CMP Seminar: Jack Harris: "Single-phonon Measurements of the Coherences in a Superfluid Optomechanical Device"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

I will describe measurements of individual photons that are scattered from a cavity filled with superfluid helium. We use these...

Complex Systems Seminar: Jose Alvarado: Connecting Active “Hardware” to Biological “Software”

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

The actomyosin cytoskeleton is a naturally occurring active gel found in virtually all mammalian cells. Its ability to contract allows...

Astro Seminar: Kaitlin Kratter: "The Origins of Planets and the Stars they Orbit"

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars

A satisfying theory for star or planet formation should not consider these processes in isolation. Leveraging advances in computations and...

CFP Colloquium: Xing Wu: Where is All the Antimatter? Electron EDM Search in Cold Molecules Edges Closer

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Center for Fundamental Physics Colloquia

Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics accurately describes all fundamental particles discovered so far. However, it is unable to address...

Colloquium: Andrej Kosmrlj:"Pattern Formation in Biological Systems via Mechanical Instabilities and Phase Separation"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Pattern formation is ubiquitous in biological systems. While pattern formations are often associated with Turing-like reaction-diffusion systems, biology also exploits...