Previous Events
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| Water Ice and Spin Ice: Ground States and Topological Defects |
Our planet is called Earth, but based on the surface composition, perhaps it should have been called Water. Despite the ubiquitous presence on our planet, water's solid form, ice does not readily enter the ground state upon cooling, owing to residual disorder of… Show more Speaker: Prof. John Cumings, University of Maryland College Park |
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Speaker: Marco Govoni |
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| Loop extrusion, chromatin crosslinking, and the geometry, topology and mechanics of chromosomes and nuclei |
The chromosomes of eukaryotic cells are based on tremendously long DNA molecules that must be replicated and then physically separated to allow successful cell division. I will discuss what we have learned about chromosome structure from our group's biophysical… Show more Speaker: John F. Marko, Northwestern University |
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| Exploring anyons and black holes-like dynamics in flatland |
The world and the Universe we live in are composed of fermions and bosons. The quantum statistics of these particles overwhelmingly governs what we see around us. But one could wonder, can other kinds of quantum particles exist? I will begin this… Show more Speaker: Smitha Vishveshwara, UIUC |
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| Strongly-interacting systems: from fractional quantum Hall effect to field-theoretic dualities |
Quantum systems with strong interaction exist in many branches of physics and present a challenge for theory. We will discuss some recent methods to solve the problem, focusing on one particular example: the fractional quantum Hall fluid. Many phenomena… Show more Speaker: Prof. Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago |
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| Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War |
A nuclear war between any two nations, such as India and Pakistan, with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas, could inject 5 Tg of soot from the resulting fires into the stratosphere, so much smoke that the resulting climate… Show more Speaker: Dr. Alan Robock, Rutgers University |