2024

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech), Laura Blecha (Florida), Jonathan Zrake (Clemson), Matthew Graham (Caltech) Panel Discussion: Contamination, False Positives, Coordination
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Many-body Quantum Optics

    • Pablo Sala (Caltech) Exploring Quantum Many-Body Systems under Decoherence and Measurements
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Ananyo Maitra (CY Cergy, Paris) Discussion: Elasticity and hydrodynamics of active translation symmetry-broken states

2024

Monday, Nov 18, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Maria Charisi (Washington State) Observations of SMBHBs
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Many-body Quantum Optics

    • Michael Kolodrubetz (UT Dallas) Floquet topology and dynamics in cavity QED
  • Small Seminar Room 11:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Discussion: Rates and forecasts CWs vs. anisotropy What do we learn? How do these add constraints?
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Luke Kelley (UCB / LBNL) Pulsar timing arrays, massive black holes, and a surprisingly loud gravitational wave background
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Anton Souslov (Cambridge) Active Solids: Weekly Meet and Greet

2024

Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Maria Charisi (Washington State) EM counterparts and observations of MBHBs, continued
    • Haowen Zhang (Arizona) Trinity population models
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Max Bi (Northeastern) Seminar: Biological Tissues as Active Solids: Emergent Order, Rigidity, and Mechanical Plasticity
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy and Gravity Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • David Grabosky (UCSB) TBD
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Aashish Clerk (U. Chicago) One-way quantum interactions for fun and profit

2024

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech), Laura Blecha (Florida), Jonathan Zrake (Clemson), Matthew Graham (Caltech) Panel Discussion: Contamination, False Positives, Coordination
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Many-body Quantum Optics

    • Pablo Sala (Caltech) Exploring Quantum Many-Body Systems under Decoherence and Measurements
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Ananyo Maitra (CY Cergy, Paris) Discussion: Elasticity and hydrodynamics of active translation symmetry-broken states

2024

Thursday, Nov 21, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Jonathan Zrake (Clemson) TBD
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Fridtjof Brauns (UCSB) Seminar: Control and motility of topological defects in active nematic solids
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM
    • Sean Colin-Ellerin (Berkeley) Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations

2024

Friday, Nov 22, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Discussion: Detection Protocol
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Many-body Quantum Optics

    • Matti Silveri (University of Oulu) Super- and subradiance in transmon arrays beyond two-level approximation
  • Small Seminar Room 11:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Meeting summary and next steps
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee) Tutorial: Simulating Active Matter

2024

Saturday, Nov 23, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Sunday, Nov 24, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Monday, Nov 25, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Darrick Chang (ICFO) "Envisioning the future of atoms and light”
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Anton Souslov (Cambridge) Active Solids: Weekly Meet and Greet

2024

Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Erwin Frey (LMU, Munich) Seminar: TBA
  • Zoom 12:30PM High Energy and Gravity Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Hamza Ahmed (Northeastern U.) TBD
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Xiao Luo (UCSB) Deciphering neutrinos - a path to the hidden world

2024

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Thursday, Nov 28, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Friday, Nov 29, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Saturday, Nov 30, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Sunday, Dec 01, 2024

No talks scheduled.