Upcoming Events

April
23
Date
Tuesday, April 23, 2024. 3:30pm
Location
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

It is a remarkable fact that in recent years topological concepts have played an increasingly prominent role in quantum condensed matter physics.

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.