Departmental events

August 1st, 2015 to July 31st, 2016. Previous/next year.
Aug10
Evan Weinberg
Novel Approach for the Study of Near Conformal Theories for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Aug14
Michael Kruskal
Search for Dark Matter Production in Association with Bottom Quarks
Aug31
Claudio Chamon/Karl Ludwig
Incoming Graduate Student Orientation
Sep02
Ami Katz
Comprehensive Exams - Part I
Sep04
Ami Katz
Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Sep09
Jeongwan Haah
MIT
Localization from superselection rules in translation invariant systems
Sep16
Hossein Alizadeh
Transverse Chiral Optical Forces by Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Sep16
Ippei Danshita
Bound states of Higgs modes in a superfluid
Sep23
S. Vajna 
BU
Topological classification of dynamical phase transitions Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep30
W. Witczak-Krempa
Harvard
Universal entanglement and dynamics near quantum critical points Host: Thomas Iadecola
Sep30
James Silva
Defining an Energy in the Olami-Feder-Christensen Model
Oct02
Jiang Li
Conjugate adaptive Optics in Widefield Microscopy with a Novel Wavefront Sensor
Oct05
Rashi Verma
Nucleation in Supercooled Liquids
Oct07
Colin Kennedy
MIT
Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian
Oct14
A. Feiguin
Northeastern University
Building and understanding magnetic nano-structures, one atom at a time
Oct19
Xiao Luo
A Precision Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron
Oct20
Alex Long
Search for WWW Production in the Fully Leptonic Channel Using the ATLAS Detector at 8 TeV
Oct27
João Ricardo Santos
Aging Effects on the Statistical and Structural Properties of the Fornix of the Brain
Oct28
Nicholas Kinnaird
Transient Field Effects for Muon g-2 at Fermilab
Oct28
Ian Affleck
University of British Columbia
Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain
Nov02
Nima Dehmamy
First Principles and Effective Theory Approaches in Complex Networks
Nov04
Ted Pudlik
Small Dissipative Bose-Hubbard Systems
Nov04
Gene Mele
University of Pennsylvania
Bending Rules in Graphene Kirigami
Nov09
Alexander Becker
Clustering and Dynamics of Foreign Exchange Markets
Nov11
Ariel Amir
Harvard
Getting in shape: how do microorganisms control their geometry?
Nov18
Fabio Franchini
SISSA
Ergodicity breaking in invariant matrix models
Nov24
Marin Bukov
Prethermal Floquet Steady States and Instabilities in the Periodically Driven, Weakly Interacting Bose-Hubbard Model
Dec02
Jorn Venderbos
MIT
Odd-parity superconductors with two-component order parameters: nematic and chiral; gapped, Dirac and Weyl
Dec04
Bernardo Zubillaga
Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Spin Glasses and Quantum Entanglement
Dec09
Edbert J. Sie 
MIT
Valley-selective optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2
Dec11
Mohammadhossein Alizadeh
New Emergent Optical Forces in Chiral Plasmonics
Dec15
Xuan Gu
Modified Earthquake OFC Model with Asperity and Low Noise
Jan13
COMPS Committee
Comprehensive Exams - Part I
Jan15
COMPS Committee
Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Jan21
Joseph Boales
Nanomechanical Detection of the Spin Hall Effect
Jan22
Clint Richardson
Search for a Fermionic Top Partner Using 13 TeV Data at the LHC
Jan22
Dylan Rankin
Search for W’ Boson Resonances Decaying into a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark in the Leptonic Final State at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the CMS Detector
Jan26
Chris Laumann
U of Washington
Topology and Localization with Long-range Interactions
Jan28
Han Han
Pushing the Limits of Nanofabrication: Using Micromachines to Assemble Nanostructures
Jan28
Anushya Chandran
Perimeter Institute
Shaking up statistical physics in interacting quantum systems
Feb02
Maksym Serbyn
UC Berkeley
Thermalization and many-body localization in disordered quantum systems
Feb11
Ari Turner
Johns Hopkins
Entanglement in Fluctuating Phases
Feb12
Tiago Grangeiro Souza
The Quantum Geometric Tensor: Novel Applications in Isolated Quantum System
Feb18
Samuel Kalish
Interaction between Phonons and Dirac Fermions on the [001] Surface of the Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb1-xSnxSe
Mar09
Haruki Watanabe
University of Tokyo
Filling constraints for spin-orbit coupled insulators in symmorphic and nonsymmorphic crystals
Mar10
Garry Goldstein
Cambridge
Slave boson mean field theories for quantum dimers
Mar14
Antonio Majdandzic
RECOVERY PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN SINGLE AND INTERDEPENDENT NETWORKS
Mar21
Joshua Albert
Indiana University
NEUTRINO SEMINAR:The role of neutrons in searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay and beyond
Mar22
Joseph Hardcastle
Studies on Helicobacter Pylori Motility: Influence of Cell Morphology, Medium Rheology, and Swimming Mechanism
Mar23
Jessica Morrison
Statics and Dynamics of Electrothermal Micromirrors
Mar23
Jinwu Ye
Mississippi State University
Rotated Heisenberg model and its applications to cold atom systems and Kitaev materials with SOC
Mar24
Tadeusz Pudlik
The Open Bose-Hubbard Dimer
Mar24
Louise Suter
Argonne National Laboratory
NEUTRINO SEMINAR: First Oscillation Results from the NOvA Experiment
Mar28
Xuan Gu
Xuan Gu (Tyler) - Modified Earthquake Olami-Feder-Christensen Model with Low Noise, Asperities and Inhibitions
Mar28
Chris Grant
UC Davis
NEUTRINO SEMINAR: Exploring nature with neutrinos <---> Exploring neutrinos with nature
Mar30
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
An Interacting quantum motor
Mar30
Denver Whittington
Indiana University
NEUTRINO SEMINAR: Scintillating Science with Long-Baseline Neutrino Detectors
Apr01
Karl Ludwig/Kenneth Lane/Claudio Chamon
Physics Graduate Program Open House
Apr04
Efe Yigitbasi
Measurement of W and Z-Boson Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Apr04
Anne Schukraft
Fermilab
NEUTRINO SEMINAR: MicroBooNE – A Neutrino Camera
Apr05
Alex Brian Long
WWW Production at the LHC
Apr06
Jeffrey Gustafson
A SEARCH FOR BARYON NUMBER VIOLATION BY TWO UNITS AT THE SUPER-KAMIOKANDE DETECTOR
Apr07
Carsten Madler
Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for the Detection of Proteins
Apr07
James Silva
The Role of Heterogeneity in Long_Range Interacting Systems: From Nucleation to Earthquake Fault Systems
Apr20
Lukas Pritchett
The LHC 2 TeV Diboson Resonances as Composite Vectors
Apr28
Jason Christopher
Long Tailed Trions in Monolayer MoS2: Exploring Many-body Physics through Temperature Dependent Photoluminescence
May02
Mahsa Mokhtarzadeh
Nano-Patterning by Ion Bombardment
May03
Daniel Arcaro
Daniel Arcaro -Precision Measurement of the Drell-Yan Process Using Upgraded Back-end Electronics
May04
Inti Sodemann
MIT
Particle-hole symmetric phases in multicomponent Landau levels
May09
Ching-Hao Wang
A Statistical Physics Approach to Self-Assembly and Computation in Cellular Signal Transduction
May10
Uttam Bhat
Some Curious Properties of Constrained Brownian Motion
May10
Sergei Moroz
University of Colorado
Theory of p+ip Superfluids and the Super Efimov Effect
May10
Nagendra Panduranga
Cascade Failures in Complex Systems: K-Core Percolation in Interdependent Networks Model
May14
Physics Convocation
May18
Lucile Savary
MIT
Disorder-induced entanglement in spin ice pyrochlores
May18
Alex Sherman
Alex Sherman - Vector-like and Standard Model Electroweak Single Production of a Top Quark in Association with a Z Boson
May19
Ashish Bino George
Why are Microbes Chiral?
Jun03
Adam Kaufman
Quantum thermalization through entanglement
Jun07
Asher Mullokandov
Asher Mullokandov - Modeling Efficiency, Stability, and Information Processing in Markets and other Complex Systems
Jun15
Pedram Roushan
Google Inc., Santa Barbara
Chiral groundstate currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Jun22
Gabriel Birzu
Gabriel Birzu - Hidden Phase Transitions in Reaction-Diffusion Waves
Jul07
Gautam Reddy
UCSD
Navigating turbulent environments: the soaring flight of birds
Jul13
Nicholas Lubbers
Inferring Low-Dimensional Representations of Microstructure Using Convolutional Neural Networks (Poster)
Jul15
Jozsef Konczer
Simulating the Universe (an alternative approach) Host: Szabolcs Vajna
Jul21
Han Han
Han Han - BUILDING A NOVEL NANOFABRICATION SYSTEM USING MEMS
Jul30
Tiago Grangeiro Souza
Geodesic Paths and Topological Charges in Quantum Systems