Physics Seminar presents
Gravitational Wave Observations and the Physics of Neutron Stars

N-823

Guest Speaker: Simone Dall’Osso of SUNY Stony Brook The first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary black hole made by Advanced LIGO has opened the era of GW astronomy. Sources for the current detectors are catastrophic events involving neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH), isolated or in binaries, in which huge

Physics Seminar: Quantum materials: insights from near field nano-optics

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Presented by Prof. Dmitri Basov Columbia University New York, NY, USA Abstract In 1944 Hans Bethe reported on “the diffraction of electromagnetic radiation by a hole small compared with the wave-length” . This seminal paper was among the early precursors to a new and vibrant area of research: near field nano-optics. I will discuss recent

Physics Seminar

Namm 823

The Physics Department and Center for Theoretical Physics will be having a seminar Thursday, October 18 at 12:00 pm in Namm Room 823.  Faculty and students are welcome. Title Superconducting proximity effect in two-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor structures Abstract Progress in the emergent field of topological superconductivity relies on the synthesis of new material combining superconductivity, low

Physics Seminar

Namm 823

Title: Quantum Many-Body Physics of Qubits Professor Leonid Glazman Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Abstract: The ongoing development of superconducting qubits has brought some basic questions of many-body physics to the research forefront, and in some cases helped solving them. I will address two effects in quantum condensed matter highlighted by the development of a

Physics Seminar: Control of light-matter interaction in 2D materials

N-823

Presented by: Prof. Vinod Menon of City College of CUNY New York, NY Two-dimensional (2D) Van der Waals materials have emerged as a very attractive class of optoelectronic material due to the unprecedented strength in its interaction with light. In this talk I will discuss approaches to enhance and control this interaction by integrating these