Past Events

We will review the science underlying the recent award of the Nobel Prize to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for developing the foundations of modern artificial intelligence using tools from physics.  This award has generated some misplaced controversy, with (some...

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered the Higgs boson and confirmed the predictions for many of its properties given by the “Standard Model” of particle physics. However, this does not mean that particle physics is solved. Mysteries that...

Abstract: Neutrinos, the only neutral elementary fermions, have provided many surprises.  Flavor oscillations reveal the non-conservation of the lepton flavor number and demonstrate that neutrino masses are finite; yet they are surprisingly much smaller than those of other fermions (by...

Abstract: Quasicrystals are exotic materials  with  symmetries once thought to be  impossible  for matter.  This talk will describe the decades-long  adventures searching for them in nature and other exotic environments that continues to this day,  resulting in one of the...

Abstract:  Dark matter is a feebly interacting particle that is thought to compose 85% of the matter content of the Universe. One potential candidate for the dark matter is the axion, a particle so light it exhibits wave-like behavior...

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