Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia
The Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia are held Tuesdays at 4:30 P.M. in Room 201 of the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center. Light refreshments are served in the Varian Building lobby at 4:15 P.M.
Past Events
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) is a relic of the pre-CMB era which encodes a trove of information about the early Universe and the neutrino sector dating back to when the Universe was…
Since this is a hastily arranged “in-house” colloquium, I plan to make it partially pedagogic concerning a body of thought that…
The characteristic excitation of a metal is its plasmon, which is a quantized sound wave in its valence electron density.…
US-China relations constitute the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world today, and science and technology are at the heart of these troubled ties.
Abstract: Quantum information science seeks to exploit the collective behavior of a…
Condensed-matter systems provide alternative “vacua” exhibiting emergent low-energy properties dramatically different from those of the standard model.