Aug01 |
Maira Constantino
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Investigating Effects of Morphology and Flagella Dynamics on Swimming Kinematics of Different Helicobacter Species Using Single Cell Imaging |
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Aug08 |
Garry Goldstein
University of Cambridge
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Pseudoparticle approach to strongly correlated systems |
Host: Claudio Rebbi |
Aug10 |
Marcus Muller
Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen Switzerland
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The many body localization transition: A dynamical phase transition triggered by a quantum avalanche |
Host: Claudio Rebbi |
Aug11 |
Riccardo Zecchina
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Out-of-equilibrium states and quantum annealing speed up in non-convex optimization and learning problems |
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Aug11 |
Asher Mullokandov
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Statistical Physics, Financial and Complex Systems and Networks |
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Aug16 |
Sho Sugiura
University of Tokyo
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Entanglement entropy of finite-temperature pure quantum states and thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Aug17 |
Michael Manighalam
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Continuum limits of Quantum Walks |
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Aug30 |
Ami Katz
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Comprehensive Exams - Part 1 |
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Aug31 |
Kevin Black/Mirtha Cabello
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Incoming Graduate Students Orientation |
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Sep01 |
Ami Katz
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Comprehensive Exams - Part 2 |
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Sep07 |
Charles DeLisi, Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering
Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering - Boston University
Pizza lunch at 12:00pm prior to the talk at 12:30pm
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Special Systems Biology Seminar: A Conversation About Climate Change |
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Sep11 |
Po-Hao Huang
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COUPLED WIRE CONSTRUCTION OF NON-ABELIAN CHIRAL SPIN LIQUIDS |
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Sep12 |
Lei Zhang
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Constructing Ultra-Slow Glasses in Lattice Models for Reversible Computing |
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Sep13 |
Michiel Wouters
University of Antwerp
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Correlations in driven-dissipative quantum systems |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov, Dries Sels |
Sep13 |
Pranay Patil
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Numerical Signatures of Conformal Field Theory |
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Sep15 |
Stefanos Kourtis
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Resonant x-ray spectroscopy of topological semimetals" |
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Sep18 |
Boston University, Physics Department
Monday, September 18th - 12:00pm
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Physics Department Annual BBQ |
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Sep18 |
Chon Kit Pun
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Market Bubbles: Collective Behavior in the Financial Market |
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Sep22 |
Christopher Baldwin
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Interfering directed paths & the sign phase transition" |
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Sep25 |
Cenke Xu
University of California - Santa Barbara
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"Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Perspective of the Symmetry Protected Topological Phase" |
Host: Anders Sandvik |
Sep27 |
Zhicheng Yang
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Iterative Compression-Decimation Scheme for Tensor Network Optimization" |
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Sep28 |
Jason Christopher
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Exploring Strain Physics in 2D Systems |
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Sep28 |
William Shain
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SOLUTIONS TO LINEAR PROBLEMS IN ABERRATED OPTICAL SYSTEMS |
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Oct04 |
Walter Hahn
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
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"Stability of quantum statistical ensembles with respect to local measurements" |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Oct06 |
Kartiek Agrawal
Princeton University
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"Diabatic approach to creating ground states of certain critical models" |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Oct13 |
Roman Mankowsky
Paul Scherrer Institute
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"Coherent optical control and nonlinear probing of strongly correlated materials" |
Host: Wanzheng Hu |
Oct16 |
Sumantra Sarkar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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"Physicochemical Conditions for Self-Replication" |
Host: Robert Marsland |
Oct18 |
Louis Pecora
United States Naval Research Laboratory
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"Cluster Synchronization of Chaotic Systems in Large Networks" |
Host: David Campbell |
Oct20 |
Tamiro Villazon
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Kibble-Zurek Dynamics of a Driven Dissipative System: Universality Beyond the Markovian Regime" |
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Oct23 |
Severine Atis
Harvard University
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"On Growth and Form of Range Expansions at Liquid Interfaces" |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
Oct23 |
Christopher Kachulis
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Boosted Dark Matter at Super-Kamiokande |
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Oct24 |
Ivar Mar
Argonne National Lab
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"Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions" |
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Oct25 |
Hui Shao
Beijing Computational Science Research Center
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"Nearly deconfined spinon excitations in the square-lattice spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet" |
Host: Anders Sandvik |
Oct27 |
Boston University, Physics Department
Costume Contest: 11:45AM; Pumpkin Drop: 12:30PM
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Physics Department Annual Pumpkin Drop |
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Oct27 |
Kin Chung Fong
Raytheon BBN Technologies and Harvard University
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"Putting hydrodynamic into solid state" |
Host: Scott Bunch |
Nov03 |
Ben Machta
Princeton University
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"When and why is a simpler model better?" |
Host: Robert Marsland |
Nov03 |
Alexandre Day
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Learning and Optimizing Quantum Control Landscapes |
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Nov06 |
Masaki Oshikawa
University of Tokyo
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"Polarization, Large Gauge Invariance, and Quantum Hall Effect on Lattice" |
Host: Anders Sandvik |
Nov08 |
Zhen Bi
Pappalardo Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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"Instabilities of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model" |
Host: Zhicheng Yang |
Nov13 |
Adam Iaizzi
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Magnetic Field Effects in Low-Dimensional Quantum Magnets |
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Nov13 |
Zak Frentz
Columbia University
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"Fate and Chance in Microbial Communities" |
Host: Robert Marsland |
Nov17 |
Carlos Bolech
University of Cincinnati
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"A Bosonization Puzzle in Non-linear Transport" |
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Nov20 |
Adrian Whitty
Boston University, Chemistry Department
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"A Quantitative View of RTK Signaling" |
Host: Maria Kamenetska |
Nov20 |
Renzo Tamiro Villazon Scholer
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Kibble-Zurek Dynamics of a Driven Dissipative System: Universality Beyond the Markovian Regime |
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Nov27 |
Janine Sciarappa
Pastry Chef
*Please contact Prof. Rama Bansil (rb@bu.edu) if you would like to attend.
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PY 107 Physics of Food/Cooking Guest Lecture (Poster) |
Host: Rama Bansil, Karl Ludwig |
Nov28 |
Carlos Castro
Ohio State University
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"Design, control, and applications of DNA nanomechanical devices" |
Host: Maria Kamenetska |
Dec01 |
Alexandre Day
Boston University, Department of Physics
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"Learning and optimizing quantum control landscapes" |
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Dec01 |
Alexander Becker
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Asset Contagion as a Source of Systemic Risk in Banking Networks |
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Dec04 |
Ganpathy Murthy
University of Kentucky
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"Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in $\nu=0$ Bilayer Graphene" |
Host: Anushya Chandran |
Dec04 |
Ksenia Bravaya
Boston University, Chemistry Department
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"Simulating electron transfer in biomolecules: magnetosensing by cryptochromes" |
Host: Maria Kamenetska |
Dec06 |
Jason Christopher
Boston University, Department of Physics
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RIVETING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS: EXPLORING STRAIN PHYSICS IN ATOMICALLY THIN CRYSTALS WITH MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS |
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Dec06 |
Rob Noble
ETH Zürich
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"The mode and predictability of intra-tumour evolution" |
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Dec06 |
Rashi Verma
Boston University, Department of Physics
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Nucleation in Supercooled Liquids |
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Dec08 |
Jonathan Wurtz
Boston University, Department of Physics
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"The Cluster Truncated Wigner Approximation in Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems" |
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Dec11 |
Na Xu
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DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM SPIN SYSTEMS |
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Dec14 |
Grad Council
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Holiday Party - Skit Event 2017 |
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Dec15 |
Alex Sherman
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Search for single top quark production in association with a Z boson using the ATLAS detector at 13 TeV |
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Dec15 |
Xi Dai
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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"Properties of Topological semimetals: Chiral magnetic effect and instability under magnetic field" |
Host: Wanzheng Hu |
Dec20 |
Yuan Xin
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Constraints on Flavored 2d CFT Partition Functions |
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Dec20 |
Mikhail Zvonarev
LPTMS, CNRS, Orsay, France
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"Propagation of an impurity through a quantum medium" |
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Jan29 |
Danny Podolsky
Technion
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"Buckling transition and antiferromagnetic liquids in two dimensions" |
Host: Anushya Chandran |
Feb02 |
Pranay Patil
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Quantum Annealing to Solve 3-Regular 3-XORSAT on a Lattice" |
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Feb05 |
Robert Marsland
Boston University, Department of Physics
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“Statistical Mechanics of Microbial Communities” |
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Feb07 |
Mahsa Mokhtarzadeh
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Nano-Patterning by Ion Bombardment |
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Feb12 |
Sagar Vijay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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"Operator Spreading and the Quantum Butterfly Effect in Random Unitary Circuits" |
Host: Philip Crowley |
Feb12 |
Nils G. Walter
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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"Single Molecules Come Into Focus: Understanding RNA-Driven Regulation From First Principles" |
Host: Maria Kamenetska |
Feb15 |
This event is for all BU Physics Undergrads. Pizza will be served at this event.
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Life After a Physics Bachelor's (Poster) |
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Feb16 |
Manuel Buen Abad Najar
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Partially Cannibalistic Dark Matter |
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Feb16 |
Zhicheng Yang
Boston University, Physics Department
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Entanglement Spectrum in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Braiding of Non-Abelian Anyons |
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Feb23 |
Dries Sels
Boston University, Physics Department
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"Draining a superfluid hose" |
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Feb26 |
Jay Sau
University of Maryland
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"Physics of spin-orbit coupled wires in magnetic field: Majorana modes and Lifshitz transitions" |
Host: Anushya Chandran |
Feb26 |
Matthias Schneider
Medical and Biological Physics - Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
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From Physics to Living Systems: Pulses, Fluctuations, Transitions and the Living State. |
Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Feb28 |
Joseph Boales
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Nonlinear Mechanics and Nonlinear Material Properties in Micromechanical Resonators |
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Mar02 |
Pierre E. Jacob
Harvard University
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"Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo with couplings joint work with John O'Leary, Yves F. Atchadé" |
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Mar11 |
Boston University, Physics Department
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Non-thermal Quantum Systems Conference 2018 (Poster) |
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Mar12 |
Benjamin Allen
Emmanuel College
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"Evolutionary dynamics on any population structure" |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
Mar13 |
Immanuel Bloch
Max Planck Institue of Quantum Optics
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Public Lecture: Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a Quantum Simulator (Poster) |
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Mar19 |
Garry Goldstein
University of Cambridge
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"Quantum dimer models for high temperature superconductors" |
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Mar19 |
Daniel Amor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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"The fate of microbial invaders in multi-stable laboratory ecosystems" |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
Mar22 |
This event is for all BU Physics Undergrads. Pizza will be served at this event.
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Life After a Physics Bachelor's |
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Mar23 |
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Graduate Student Open House |
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Mar26 |
Katja Taute
Rowland Institute at Harvard
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“High-throughput 3D tracking enables multiscale analysis of bacterial motility behavior” |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
Mar28 |
Mark Srednicki
UCSB
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"Aspects of ETH in various systems" |
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Mar29 |
Kyle Vigil
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High Numerical Aperture Subsurface Microscopy |
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Mar29 |
Derek Lovley
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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"Electrically Conductive Protein Nanowires: A Revolutionary Electronic Material" |
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Mar30 |
Christopher Kachulis
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Boosted Dark Matter at Super-Kamiokande |
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Apr02 |
Eduardo Fradkin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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"Chiral Phases in Frustrated 2D Antiferromagnets and Fractional Chern Insulators" |
Host: Christopher Laumann |
Apr04 |
Rajita Menon
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Network Topology and Community Function in Spatial Microbial Communities |
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Apr05 |
Dylan Rankin
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Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TEV with the CMS Experiment |
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Apr09 |
Juan Felipe Carrasquilla
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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"Towards learning quantum states with generative models" |
Host: Alexandre Day |
Apr09 |
Vijaya Kolachalama
Boston University School of Medicine
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Biophysics Seminar TBA |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
Apr12 |
This event is for all BU Physics Undergrads. Pizza will be served at this event.
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Life After a Physics Bachelor's (Poster) |
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Apr13 |
Efe Yigitbasi
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Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to b-bbar at 13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment |
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Apr20 |
Mark Mineev-Weinstein
Natal
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"Laplacian Growth" |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Apr23 |
Yi Li
Johns Hopkins University
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"Monopole harmonic superconductivity" |
Host: Anushya Chandran |
Apr23 |
Ashley Carter
Amherst College
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"Studying the dramatic looping of DNA in sperm using single molecule assays" |
Host: Maria Kamenetska |
Apr27 |
Ivan Schuller
University of California, Santa Barbara
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CANCELLED: CM Friday Seminar TBA |
Host: Kevin Smith |
Apr30 |
Sergey Frolov
University of Pittsburgh
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"Status of the Search for Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires" |
Host: Alexander Sushkov |
Apr30 |
Christopher Gabel
Boston University School of Medicine
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"THE BREAKDOWN OF NEURAL CIRCUIT FUNCTION UNDER VOLATILE ANESTHESIA: IN VIVO, MULTINEURONAL IMAGING IN C. ELEGANS" |
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May02 |
Rashi Verma
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A SUPERCOOLED STUDY OF NUCLEATION AND SYMMETRIES |
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May07 |
Carey Nadell
Dartmouth College
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"Cooperation and competition for space in bacterial biofilms" |
Host: Kirill Korolev |
May11 |
Federico Tonielli
University of Cologne, Germany
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"Fate of Orthogonality Catastrophe in driven-open quantum systems" |
Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Jun11 |
Jilin Wang
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Critical Dynamics and Self-organization in Bursts of Brain Rhythms as a Fundamental Hallmark of Physiological Function |
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Jul17 |
Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Amsterdam
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Dynamics of quantum measurement and the measurement problem. |
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Jul19 |
Manuel Buen Abad Najar
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INTERACTING DARK SECTORS IN COSMOLOGY |
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Jul24 |
Keisuke Ishihara
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, & Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
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"Topological transitions of epithelial tissues" |
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Jul25 |
Adolfo Grushin
Institut Neel, CNRS and Universite Grenoble Alpes, F-38042 Grenoble, France
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Large and quantized non-linear responses in chiral topological metals. |
Host: Claudio Chamon |
Jul27 |
Alex Becker
Boston University, Physics Department
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MAXIMUM ENTROPY AND NETWORK APPROACHES TO SYSTEMIC RISK AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE |
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Jul31 |
Tal Einav
Caltech
|
Efficacy of HIV Antibodies: Why Two Arms are Better than One |
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Jul31 |
Joseph Boales
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Nonlinear Mechanics and Nonlinear Material Properties in Micromechanical Resonators |
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Physics (Internal)