Events Calendar

 February 2023        
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Andrei Gruzinov, Statistical Mechanics of Star Clusters? (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

31
, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps, Fireworks, and Gravitational Waves (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Ibrahima Bah, Topological stars in gravity (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Kota Katsumi, Collective Excitations in Quantum Materials Probed by Light: The Higgs Mode in Superconductors (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

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Robert Cava, Working at the boundary where Solid State Chemistry, Mineralogy and Materials Science Meet Materials Physics (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Oren Slone, Dark sectors, kinetic theory, and astrophysical probes (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Eli Waxman, Strong NIR emission following a long duration GRB: Neutron Star merger or Dust sublimation? (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

-- Abstract: The prolonged near infrared (NIR) emission observed following the long duration gamma-ray burst GRB211211A is inconsistent with afterglow emission from the shock driven into the circum-stellar medium (CSM), and with emission from a possible underlying supernova. It has therefore been suggested that the observed NIR flux is the signature of a "kilonova" - a radioactive ejecta produced in a binary neutron star merger. An alternative explanation will be presented in this talk. I will show that the NIR flux is consistent with thermal emission from dust, heated by UV and X-ray radiation produced by the interaction of the GRB jet plasma with the CSM. Such NIR emission was predicted by Waxman & Draine for GRBs residing near or within massive molecular clouds, and may be detectable in other long bright GRBs.

8
, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Kim Berghaus, The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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9
, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Eli Waxman, ULTRASAT: Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Hot Transient Universe (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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10
Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Sultan Hassan, Bridging the Gap between Cosmic Dawn and Reionization favors Faint Galaxies-dominated Models (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

14
, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Lam Hui, Black hole perturbation theory: Love numbers and nonlinear ring-down (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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15
, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Alberto Nicolis, Cosmology as a weak gravitational field and the trans-Planckian problem (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

David Spergel, CMB as a Probe of Astrophysics and the Early Universe (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

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Aishwarya Kumar, Hybrid Quantum Science with Neutral Atoms in Superconducting Resonators (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

20
, President's Day - University Closed

(12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

21
, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Tomer Yavetz, Stream Fanning and Bifurcations: Observing Fundamental Dynamics in Stellar Stream Morphology (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

(2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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(10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)

, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Gil Refael, Floquet Engineering in the Era of Topological Physics and Quantum Coherent Devices (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Xucheng Gan, Millicharged Relics Reveal Massless Dark Photons (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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28
, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, No Astro Seminar (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

1
, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Joaquin Turiaci, Black hole spin-statistics (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Arvind Murugan, Learning without Neurons (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)