| February 2024 |
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| 29 Ken Van Tilburg, Wake Forces (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 30 Digvijay (Jay) Wadekar, New black hole mergers from a search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order harmonics (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 31 Rashmish Mishra, Holographic Phase Transitions in the early Universe (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Andrea Alù, Extreme Control of Light and Sound with Metamaterials (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 2 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Chiara Toldo, Thermodynamics of near-extreme Kerr (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: |
| 5 Glennys Farrar, Breakthough on the origin of UHECRs (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 6 , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 7 Daniel Lecoanet, Understanding Fluid Processes in Astrophysics & Geophysics via Numerical Simulation (9:00 AM - 10:25 AM) + Abstract: , HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Daniel Lecoanet (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Antonio Davide Polosa, The X(3872) oddities and exotic hadrons. (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Marcus DuPont, The Life and Death of Stars (8:00 PM - 9:30 PM) + Abstract: | 8 Will Farr, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics from Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 9 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 12 | 13 Sam Hadden, The Causes and Consequences of Chaos and Instability in Planetary Systems (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 14 Marieke Van Beest, Fermion-Monopole Scattering and Generalized Symmetries (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 15 Andrei Bernevig, Exotic Phases in Moire Systems (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) -- Abstract: I will review the experimental discoveries and amazing puzzles in Twisted Bilayer Graphene and in twisted MoTe2 which culminated with the discovery of long-thought phases of matter such as the Fractional Chern Insulator. We will then show that, theoretically, most of the puzzling properties of TBG can be explained by an exact analytic mapping of the problem to a topological heavy fermion system. This mapping links two seemingly completely different fields but, in retrospect represents a natural way of explaining all the experimental puzzles. In The MoTe2, we will show how the FCI states discovered are more complicated than initially thought, and how a correct description of the intricate nature of the system necessarily involves band mixing, which exponentially increases the difficulty of the problem. | 16 Luca Comisso, Unraveling Space Weather: Explosive Events and the Genesis of Energetic Particles (10:00 AM - 11:15 AM) + Abstract: Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 19 | 20 Nicole Shibley, From the Arctic to Europa: Fluid Dynamics for Earth and Planetary Climates (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 21 , HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Ofer Aharony, Two dimensional QCD as a string theory (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 22 Brad Marston, Waves of Topological Origin in the Fluid Earth System and Beyond (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 23 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
| 26 Anirban Roy, Multi-line Intensity Mapping: A Bridge Between Astrophysics and Cosmology (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Matthew Buican, Some Applications of Free Supersymmetric Fields (2:30 PM - 3:45 PM) + Abstract: | 27 Foteini Oikonomou, News from the search for the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays: Insights from the maximum rigidity distribution and a possible new source class (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 28 Mariangela Lisanti, How to Destroy a Galaxy with Dark Matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 29 Jun Kono, Quantum Vacuum Dressed Materials (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |