Events

Prospects for Observing Exoplanets in the Coming Years with JWST

11:30 am – 12:30 pm (CDT)Hawking Auditorium

Speaker: Caroline Morley (University of Texas, Austin)Host: Stephanie Ho

As exoplanet astronomers, we currently stand at a threshold: with current and near-future discoveries from TESS, we have now discovered many of the nearby planets we share our neighborhood with. The Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, as well as dedicated ground-based efforts, have provided a taste of the diversity of atmospheres these worlds have. The... read more  »

• Astronomy

Linearized Supergeometry of 11D,N =1⁄8 Superspace

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M108

Speaker: Anindya Sengupta (Texas A&M University)Host: Falk Hassler

In 1978, Cremmer, Julia, and Scherk wrote down a (component) theory of eleven-dimensional Supergravity. Soon, in 1980, Brink and Howe gave a superspace formulation of this theory. The component theory required that dynamical fields to be on-shell for the closure of 11D,N=1 Supersymmetry. The same on-shell requirement followed from the Bianchi identities... read more  »

• High Energy Theory

Black Holes in the Early Universe

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)Hawking Auditorium

Speaker: Dan Hooper (University of Chicago)Host: Doojin Kim

Cosmology textbooks typically assume that the early universe was dominated by relativistic particles. But if even a relatively small number of black holes were created after inflation, they would make up an increasingly large fraction of the total energy density as space expands. I’ll argue that it is well-motivated to scenarios in which the early uni... read more  »

• HEPEC

Reasons to Remain Excited About WIMPs

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)Streaming Live

Speaker: Dan Hooper (Fermilab and University of Chicago)Host: Louis Strigari

Although weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) have long been the leading class of candidates for the dark matter of our universe, the lack of a confirmed detection of these particles has left many in the scientific community increasingly skeptical of their existence. In this talk, I will ask the following questions: How surprised should we be th... read more  »

• Colloquium

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: Ankang Liu (TAMU)Host: A. Finkelstein

• Condensed Matter

Worldsheet Correlators in AdS3

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)Streaming Live

Speaker: Lorenz Eberhardt (Institute for Advanced Study)Host: Falk Hassler

We revisit the computation of string correlation functions in AdS3 with pure NS-NS flux from a worldsheet point of view. These correlators contain all the perturbative information about the spacetime CFT and the existence of winding strings in AdS3 makes them very rich. We propose a solution to the problem of computing these correlators. The winding cor... read more  »

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)

Speaker: Yoni Kahn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Host: Doojin Kim

Virtual Seminar: Zoom Link TBA

• HEPEC

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)

Speaker: John Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)Host: Rupak Mahapatra

• Colloquium

Millikan, Geim and COVID-19 aerosol

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: Igor F. Lyuksyutov (TAMU)

• Condensed Matter

TBA

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Severin Lüst (Harvard University)Host: Falk Hassler

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)

Speaker: Peizhi Du (Stony Brook University)Host: Doojin Kim

Virtual Seminar: Zoom Link TBA

• HEPEC

OPEN

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: TBA

• Condensed Matter

Game Day Physics vs. Alabama

11:30 am – 1:30 pm (CDT)Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy (MIST)

The Texas A&M University Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to see our pendulum and experience our other demos! More information here.

• Game Day Physics

TBA

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Geoff Penington (University of California, Berkeley & IAS)Host: Falk Hassler

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Yue Zhao (The University of Utah)Host: Doojin Kim

• HEPEC

Physics Show

10:00 am – 11:30 am (CDT)

• Physics Shows

Localization and delocalization in kicked quantum matter

4:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: David Weld (UCSB)Host: Ar. Abanov

A sizable fraction of the vast field of condensed matter physics consists of the exploration of the effects of spatial periodicity on quantum mechanics.  It is now widely recognized that the effects of temporal periodicity give rise to a related array of phenomena, and that the interplay of temporal and spatial periodicity with many-body interactio... read more  »

• Condensed Matter

TBA

11:30 am – 12:30 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Rob Kennicutt (Texas A&M University & University of Arizona )Host: Jonelle Walsh

• Astronomy

TBA

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: James Liu (University of Michigan)Host: Falk Hassler

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Fei Huang (University of California, Irvine)Host: Doojin Kim

• HEPEC

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: Biao Lian (Princeton)Host: Ar. Abanov

• Condensed Matter

TBA

11:30 am – 12:30 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Kayhan Gultekin (University of Michigan)Host: Jonelle Walsh

• Astronomy

TBA

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania)Host: Falk Hassler

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (University of California, San Diego)Host: Doojin Kim

Virtual Seminar: Zoom Link TBA

• HEPEC

Physics Show

10:30 am – 12:00 pm (CDT)

• Physics Shows

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MPHY 213

Speaker: Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)Host: Ar. Abanov

• Condensed Matter

TBA

11:30 am – 12:30 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Griffin Hosseinzadeh (Center for Astrophysics & University of Arizona)Host: Stephanie Ho

• Astronomy

TBA

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (CDT)MIST M102

Speaker: Daniel Robbins (University of Albany)Host: Falk Hassler

• High Energy Theory

TBA

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)MIST M108

Speaker: Tarak Maity (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)Host: Doojin Kim

Virtual Seminar: Zoom Link TBA

• HEPEC