Geometric mechanics of periodic thin surfaces: fancily speaking, the coupling of Killing fields on periodic submanifolds

4:00 – 5:00 pm, IFS Seminar Room (WIL472) Speaker: Wenqian Sun Abstract: Thin-walled corrugated structures are ubiquitous in both nature and engineering, ranging from plant ...

Revealing Magnetic Fields in Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs via Auroral Radio Emission

4:00 – 5:00 pm, IFS Seminar Room (WIL472) Speaker: Kevin Ortiz Ceballos Abstract: Magnetic fields shape the atmospheres, space environments, and long-term evolution of exoplanets and brown dwarfs, yet remain ...

Topological phases of condensed matter quantum systems

4:00 – 5:00 pm, IFS Seminar Room (WIL472) Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski Abstract: Recently there has been a convergence of ideas from quantum condensed matter, quantum field theory, and quantum information theory in the study of topological ...

Free energy fluctuations in continuous and discrete SK spin glass models Speaker: Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin (UO Math) Abstract: Questions about spin glasses often involve an optimization problem in a discrete space, but many of these problems become more tractable when we consider a continuous ...

Searching for millicharged particles at the LHC and beyond

Speaker: Matthew Citron (University of California Davis) Date: Monday November 3, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Arising in hidden sector models of dark matter, millicharged ...

Salt-finger convection in oceans, and “missing mixing” problems in stars

Speaker: Adrian Fraser (University of Colorado) Date: Monday October 20, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Stars of all sizes and ages are plagued by missing mixing ...

Extreme Astrophysics with Relativistic Transients

Speaker: Tanmoy Lasker (University of Utah) Date: Monday, September 29 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: As the most energetic explosions in the Universe, relativistic astrophysical transients ...

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A Multi-Wavelength Exploration of Transient Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes

Speaker: Megan Masterson (MIT Kavli Institute) Date: Monday June 23, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: Our expectations for how matter accretes onto ...

Real-time Anomaly Detection at the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University) Date: Monday June 2, 2025 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall (IFS Seminar Room) Abstract: During Run-3 at the LHC, the search for new physics has significantly expanded. Development ...