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IAP 2018 Physics Lecture Series
Professor Scott Hughes, Interim Associate Head of Physics
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Physics Lecture Series IAP 2018
Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 617 253-4855, DENISEW@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Mon | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Quantum condensed matter theory show how entanglement across the many electrons in a solid can let counter-intuitive phenomena, such as fractional charge, emerge
Dr. Itamar Kimchi - Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jan/10 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: Black holes, neutron stars, and ripples in the fabric of spacetime
Ever wonder how black holes and neutron stars snash into one another so hard they disturb spacetime? Come learn about the birth of gravitational-wave astronomy!
Dr. Carl Rodriguez - Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jan/12 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
A very rare process, neutrinoless double-beta decay, could tell us why the universe is made of matter. How can we detect it?
Dr. Julieta Gruszko - Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jan/17 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Correlated fermions: from atom traps to neutron stars".
I will describe studies of short-range correlations between nucleons in nuclei and how they are manifested in a universsal way in various other systems in nature.
Professor Or Hen - Professor of Physics
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Jan/19 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: From Blackholes to Black-Scholes: A Physicist's Adventures in Finance
This talk will aim to give an overview of where financial markets sit within the wider economy, the role of professional investment managerin that ecosystem and how physicists and other quantitatively inclined researchers have come to occupy an increasingly central position within it.
Dr. Neil Constable
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Jan/22 | Mon | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
When topology comes into play, theory predicts a new level of quantum weirdness. How to achieve the situation experimentally and why is it important?
Dr. Sanfeng Wu - Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jan/24 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Numerical simulations of the Standard Model of particle physics can reveal how nature assembles its basic building blocks and predict hard-to-measure nuclesr fusion rates.
Dr. Michael Wagman - Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jan/26 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: Colliding Neutron Stars in the Lab: Ultracold Fermi Gases as Model Matter
Inducing strong interactions in an ultracold gas allows the formation of exotic states of matter with analogies ranging from high-temperature superconductors to neutron stars.
Professor Martin Zwierlein - Professor of Physics
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Jan/29 | Mon | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
As a physicist, you have developed and honed a skill set that has vast potential in a wide variety of professions. Finding a career that is a good match for your talents and passions can feel like a risky and daunting task. This talk will describe a specific approach to cracking the career problem.
Ken Davis PhD '95 - Alum
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Jan/31 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
I will discuss how the efforts to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in the framwork of quantum mechanics strongly suggest that space is an emergent concept.
Dr. Lampros Lamprou - Postdoctoral Fellow
IAP 2018- The Feynman Films
Andy Neely, Manager of the Technical Services Group
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
IAP 2018 The Feynman Films
Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 617 253-4855, DENISEW@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/10 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/12 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/17 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/19 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/22 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/24 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/26 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/29 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
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Jan/31 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
The Feynman Films
Andy Neely - Manager of the Technical Services Group
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Jan/08 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Itamar Kimchi
Quantum condensed matter theory shows how entanglement across the many electrons in a solid can let counter-intuitive phenomena, such as fractional charge, emerge.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/10 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Carl Rodriguez
Ever wonder how black holes and neutron stars smash into one another so hard they disturb spacetime? Come learn about the birth of gravitational-wave astronomy!
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/12 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Julieta Gruszko
A very rare process, neutrinoless double-beta decay, could tell us why the universe is made of matter. How can we detect it?
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/17 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Or Hen
I will describe studies of shot-range correlations between nucleons in nuclei and how they are manifested in a universal way in various other systems in nature.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/19 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Neil Constable
This talk will aim to give an overview of where financial markets sit within the wider economy, the role of professional investment managers in that ecosystem and how physicists and other quantitatively inclined researchers have come to occupy an increasingly central position within it.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/22 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Sanfeng Wu
When topology comes into play, theory predicts a new level of quantum weirdness. How to achieve the situation experimentally and why is it important.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/24 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Michael Wagman
Numerical simulations of the Standard Model of particle physics can reveal how nature assembles its basic building blocks and predict hard-to-measure nuclear fusion reaction rates.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/26 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
The Best Mind Since Einstein
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/29 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Take the World from Another Point of View
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/31 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 6-120 |
Speaker: Lampros Lamprou
I will discuss how the efforts to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in the framework of quantum mechanics strongly suggest that space is an emergent concept.
Session Leaders TBD
Predicted Radiation Precursors to the Collapse of Black Hole Binaries and High Energy Plasma Issues
Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics
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Jan/25 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 26-414 (Kolker Room) |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
The collapse of black hole binaries without a following or a simultaneous emission of high energy electromagnetic radiation has led us to predict that this kind of emission should occur immediately before the collapse. The theoretical model on which this prediction was made involves plasma structures which are assumed to exist around black hole binaries. These can sustain intrinsic plasma collective modes that have characteristic “low” frequencies about equal to the orbiting frequencies of the binary system components. As the collapse approaches, with the loss of angular momentum by emission of gravitational waves from the binary system, it was suggested that intrinsic plasma density oscillations having the frequency of the fluctuating component of the gravitational potential are excited in the surrounding plasma structure. Thus the precursor to the event tentatively identified by the Agile X-ray observatory can be associated with the high energy radiation emission due to the fields produced by excitation of the proposed plasma modes. Following that, the August 17, 2017 event, identified first by the LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves and featuring the inferred collapse of a neutron star binary, gave ample evidence of a precursor of electromagnetic emission preceding the collapse.
See for example
PlPhR 43 289-297
PRL 118 221101
ApJL 847 L20
Sponsor(s): Lab for Nuclear Science, Physics
Contact: Bruno Coppi, 26-547, 617-253-2507, coppi@mit.edu
Remembering Enrico Fermi and the Physics of His Time at U. Chicago
Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics
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Jan/22 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 26-414 (Kolker Room), Bring your lunch! |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Reminisences from friends and collaborators on Enrico Fermi and the physics they were pursuing at Chicago, including presentations by Prof. Jerome Friedman, Prof. Lawrence Rosenson and Prof. Irwin Pless, with Prof. Bruno Coppi as moderator. Commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Pile-1 experiment 12/2/42.
Sponsor(s): Lab for Nuclear Science, Physics
Contact: Bruno Coppi, 26-547, 617-253-2507, coppi@mit.edu
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