Upcoming Events

April
26
Date
Friday, April 26, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location
Varian 312
Speaker:
Alexander Kusenko

Black holes formed in the early universe can make up all or part of dark matter.  I will review some scenarios for their formation, especially those that arise from common models of physics…

April
30
Date
Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 3:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Condensed matter physics has witnessed emergent quantum phenomena driven by electron correlation and topology.

May
14
Date
Tuesday, May 14, 2024. 3:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Over a five-year period, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will spectroscopically classify nearly 40 million galaxies and quasars over 1/3 of the sky and to redshifts z < 3.…

May
21
Date
Tuesday, May 21, 2024. 3:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

May
28
Date
Tuesday, May 28, 2024. 3:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

We live in a quantum world, yet we are classical beings, and sometimes our classical nature impedes our ability to interact with, learn from, and understand the underlying quantum…