Events Archive

Nov
23
2013
The Idea of the Quantum: or, How to Avoid the Feeling that You Don't Understand the Quantum Theory
To accept Special Relativity we give up Absolute Time. What do we give up to accept Quantum Theory?  After all these years Heisenberg's 1925 discovery paper for Quantum Theory is still opaque, in contrast to  Einstein's for Special Relativity. In hindsight, to accept Quantum Theory we must give up the Classical Principle, which is hardly ever even stated, for the Quantum Principle.  Today this is naturally inferred from a well-known polarization study of Malus in 1805.  Problems  like "spooky...
Nov
19
2013
Tuning the mechanics of cell-cell adhesion
Nov
18
2013
Baby Galaxies: The First Steps toward the Milky Way
Nov
18
2013
Prof. David Cahill, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Extremes of Heat Conduction in Molecular Materials
  Abstract:...
Nov
18
2013
Annual Astro GR Meeting
One of the aims of the annual Astro-GR meetings is to develop and strengthen the links between the astrophysics and relativity communities by highlighting outstanding scientific issues which can only be resolved through collaboration of these groups. In that spirit this workshop will dwell on questions which are intimately related to the formation, growth, and interaction of black holes with their environments, from cosmological scales all the way to the event horizon. - See more at: http://members.aei.mpg.de/amaro-seoane/astro-gr-atlanta/#Rationale...
Nov
15
2013
Math Physics Seminar: Quantum scissors and single photon states
Sources of single photons (as opposed to sources which produce on average a single photon) are of great current interest for quantum information processing. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not easy to produce a single photon efficiently and in a controlled way. Following earlier progress, recent experimental activity has resulted in the production of single photons by taking advantage of strong inter-particle interactions in cold atomic gases. I will show how the systematic use of the method of steepest descents can be used to understand the dynamics of the single photon source developed here...
Nov
13
2013
Time Crystals
Nov
12
2013
The Neuromechanics of Soft-bodied Locomotion in Caterpillars and Robots
Nov
11
2013
Estimating Our Energy Predicament
Nov
11
2013
Testing Gravity via Lunar Laser Ranging

Pages