Events Calendar

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

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, 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)

-- Abstract: In this talk I will discuss aspects of microscopic degrees of freedom of gravity as motivated by string theory. Although these are expected to be generically quantum mechanical, our goal is to understand a class of such states that are coherent enough to admit classical descriptions in Einstein gravity. The construction of such states corresponds to adding interesting topological structures in spacetime with the help of compact extra dimensions. They manifestly behave as ultra-compact objects, dubbed topological stars, which can also model black hole microstates. I will discuss why it is interesting to understand such objects in a new age of black hole astrophysics.

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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)

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, 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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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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, 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)

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

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

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, 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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2
, 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)