Three alpha particles traveling from left to right in a dark matter tracking detector. The uppermost one undergoes Rutherford scattering.

Three alpha particles traveling from left to right in a dark matter tracking detector. The uppermost one undergoes Rutherford scattering.

Blast wave and splash when a stationary gas is hit by a moving particle from the left.

Graphene sheet after electron beam lithography.

Event display from the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Histogram showing the evolution of a valence-bond solid state of a quantum magnet.

Graphene on silicon dioxide.

The interior of the Super-Kamiokande water tank lined with 11,100 photomultiplier tubes.

Upcoming Events

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Detection of Orbital Fluctuations Above the Structural Transition Temperature in the Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides
Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Feb 13, 12:00PM, SCI 352

Particle and Fields Seminar
TBA
Jared Kaplan, Stanford University, SLAC
Feb 13, 12:30PM, PRB 595

Graduate Student Council Event
Colloquium Lunch
Feb 14, 12:30PM, SCI 350

Physics Department Colloquium
Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest
David Nelson, Harvard University
Feb 14, 3:30PM, SCI 109

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising chain
Michael Kolodrubetz, Princeton University
Feb 16, 1:00AM, SCI 328