Seminar

Dr. Joshua S. Dillon; University of California, Berkeley

21 cm cosmology promises to become a revolutionary new 3D probe of our universe. With it, we can uncover the astrophysics of the "Cosmic Dawn"—the era of the first stars and galaxies—and test our standard model of cosmology with exquisite precision. Realizing the potential of 21 cm cosmology requires overcoming considerable challenges; the 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen is buried under astrophysical foregrounds that are orders of magnitude brighter.

Dr. Varda F. Hagh, University of Chicago

Traditionally, the properties of bulk materials such as elastic moduli or plasticity have been understood from the characteristic scales and symmetries of underlying ordered structures, e.g., atomic crystals or colloidal lattices. However, disordered materials, such as glasses or granular media, have great untapped potential: they can exist in a multitude of metastable states that are distinguished by their microstructure.

Presenter: Xi Dai (PhD Candidate, Physics and Astronomy – Quantum Information)

Landau-Zener tunneling, which describes the transitions in a two-level system during the passage through an anti-crossing, is a model applicable to a wide range of physical phenomena. Dissipation due to coupling between the system and environment is an important factor in determining the transition rates. Using a superconducting tunable capacitively shunted flux qubit, we observe the crossover from weak to strong coupling to the environment.

PHYS 10 Town Hall

A talk by Dr. Natasha Holmes

Ann S. Bowers
Assistant Professor in Physics Education Research at Cornell University

Speaker: Fabian Grusdt, LMU Munich

Student Seminar - Tom Nyugen, 2A Honours Physics

The field of machine learning has witnessed unprecedented growth and has been increasingly adopted by various industries to automate and optimize decision-making processes. In this presentation, we will explore the fundamental concepts and techniques in machine learning, including supervised and unsupervised learning.

How To Conference

Join Samantha Lange and come and learn about what conferences are and what they're primarily for as well as their formats, with more information on how to manage anxiety, exhaustion, and making the best of your time as an undergraduate student.

I hear it all the time: ‘to improve the recruitment and advancement of women and minorities in STEM, we need to change department culture. But I’m not hearing people discuss what department culture actually is. How can we assess, improve, or navigate a thing we don’t know?

Quantum Matters Seminar Series

Young-June Kim, University of Toronto