Previous Events
To see the upcoming events and seminars, please check the Events page.
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| Thermodynamics in a gravitational radiation zone | Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Dr Sheng Ran |
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| New views of early star cluster and galaxy formation | Speaker: Prof. Aaron Romanowsky (San Jose State University) |
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| The Quantum and the Cosmos |
The Quantum and the Cosmos
Quantum laws rule the microscopic world. In the Big Bang era, our world was subatomic and governed by quantum phenomena which generated all the cosmic structures, from galaxies to light, around us today. This connection between the… Show more Speaker: Dr. Edward Kolb |
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| The Quantum and the Cosmos |
The Quantum and the Cosmos is part of the American Physical Society Prairie Section Fall 2023 Meeting.
Attendees can visit the meeting website for a full schedule plus information about parking, lodging, APS membership and more.
Speaker: Dr. Edward Kolb |
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| Spirals in Galaxies: A Review | Speaker: Vicki Kuhn |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Dr. Jaewon Lee |
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| Comprehensive Exam: Galaxy Luminosity Functions at z ~ 7 - 10 from JWST | Speaker: Tom Sun |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Professor Tara Finegan |
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| When did the first disk galaxies emerge? | Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan |
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| Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Galaxy Population: Successes and Challenges | Speaker: Teja Teppala |
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| Exploring optical material properties through quantum geometry |
Understanding and manipulating quantum superposition are important quests in quantum materials research. One exciting direction emerging in the field is to use the geometry of quantum states – the so-called quantum geometry – as a means of characterizing quantum… Show more Speaker: Junyeong Ahn, Harvard University |
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| Strong Lensing by Galaxies: Review of the Past, Present & Future | Speaker: Alec Martin |
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| Electron Correlation Effects in Solid-state High Harmonic Generation with First-Principles Calculations |
High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme non-linear phenomenon where strong laser-field pulses interact with a medium to produce coherent and high-frequency harmonics of the incident light. Since its first observation in solids in 2011, pioneering… Show more Speaker: Dr. Didarul Alam, University of Missouri |
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| Candidate Dark Matter Stars observed by JWST | Speaker: Gourab Nandi |
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| 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Attosecond light pulses: taking snapshots of electrons in matter |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to three physicists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. Prof. Carsten Ullrich, MU Dept. of… Show more Speaker: Dr. Carsten Ullrich |
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| Inversion and time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal |
Weyl semimetals are among the materials proposed to have significant potential in informational technologies and to harbor the necessary elements for quantum computing. They host Weyl nodes at specific points in their Brillouin zone, a pair of relativistic… Show more Speaker: Prof. Halyna Hodovanets, Missouri S&T |
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| The Hellings-Downs correlation curve and detection of gravitational waves by pulsar timing array | Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin |
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| Characterizing the true descendants of the first stars | Speaker: Harold Quiroz |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: Epithelial tissues are the first and most abundant tissue type in animals. They can be found in basal organisms like sponges, and they perform a wide range of important biological functions (including gas exchange and nutrient absorption) in humans. These… Show more Speaker: Dr. Dan Bergstralh |
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| Insights into Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe with JWST | Speaker: Prof. Dale Kocevski (Colby College) |
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| Emergent magnetism with continuous control in layered quantum materials |
Matthew Brahlek, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The current challenge to realizing continuously tunable magnetism lies in our inability to systematically change properties such as valence, spin, and orbital degrees of… Show more Speaker: Dr Matthew Brahlek |
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| Towards a unified model for dwarf galaxy formation with UniverseMachine | Speaker: Yunchong Wang (Stanford University) |
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| Undergraduate Summer Astronomy Research Showcase |
* Jayden Francois (Tidal Disruption Events and Their Host Galaxies)
* Logan Chambers (Low Surface Brightness Galaxies)
* Donovan Flagg (Nuclear Astrophysics)
* Julianna Bayless and Ellie Gates (Gravitational Lensing)
Speaker: Undergraduate Students |
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| Philosophical reflections on quantum gravity phenomenology |
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Long-standing common lore in fundamental physics insists that the problem of developing a high-energy theory of quantum gravity (QG) is a job for the theoretical physicist, which is largely unconstrained by empirical data. But QG phenomenology --- focused… Show more Speaker: Dr. Mike Schneider, Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri |
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| Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (II) | Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer |
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| Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (I) | Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer |
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| "Resolving" tension between JWST observations and LCDM | Speaker: Alec Martin |
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| Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion |
Abstract: On small length-scales, the mechanics of soft materials may be dominated by their interfacial properties as opposed to their bulk properties. These effects are described by equilibrium models of elasto-capillarity and wetting. In these… Show more Speaker: Michael Murrell, Yale |
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| Red Stars over PAHs | Speaker: Charles Mentzer |