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Join us for lecture series and seminars spearheaded by leading scientific minds, and attend events to strengthen your connection to the college.

John Mather
A tale of two toxins: adaptation through small steps and giant leaps
Noah Whiteman
Tue, 1/10 12:00 pm - Tue, 1/10 1:00 pm
8 Mueller Lab
Science Seminars Biology
John Mather
Final Defense: Topological photonic crystals in one, two and three dimensions
Sachin Vaidya
Final Defense
Thu, 1/12 1:00 pm - Thu, 1/12 2:00 pm
339 Davey Lab
Public Events Physics
John Mather
Canceled: Revealing the Star Formation History of our Solar Neighborhood
Catherine Zucker (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Astronomy Colloquium
Wed, 1/18 3:45 pm - Wed, 1/18 5:00 pm
Davey Lab (538)
Science Seminars Astronomy and Astrophysics
Slava Rotkin
Colloquium: Physics of nanoscale spectral imaging beyond diffraction limit.
Slava Rotkin, Penn State University
Thu, 1/19 3:45 pm - Thu, 1/19 4:45 pm
101 Osmond and Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93946951319?pwd=dFVHR21XbDExR0JQanNBUldENEFvQT09
Science Seminars Physics
Illustration of lock opening access to big data
2023 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science Lecture 1
Nicole Lazar
Frontiers of Science, 2023 Frontiers of Science
Sat, 1/21 11:00 am - Sat, 1/21 12:30 pm
100 Thomas Building
Lecture Series Eberly CollegeAstronomy and AstrophysicsBiochemistry and Molecular BiologyBiologyChemistryMathematicsPhysicsStatistics
Katie Mack.
Katie Mack to present SAGF Lecture
Katie Mack
Mon, 1/23 1:00 pm - Mon, 1/23 2:00 pm
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
Lecture Series Eberly CollegeAstronomy and AstrophysicsPhysics
Jorge Sofo
CAMP: Generalized Quantum Langevin Equation for Transport: The Case for Interband Coherences in the Electrical Conductivity
Jorge Sofo, Penn State University
CAMP Seminar
Mon, 1/23 3:45 pm - Mon, 1/23 4:45 pm
339 Davey
Science Seminars Physics
John Mather
Sensing Ferromagnetic Dynamics with Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Containing Nanodiamonds
Jeffrey Rable
Final Defense
Wed, 1/25 10:00 am - Wed, 1/25 11:30 am
318 Osmond
Faculty Events Physics
John Mather
The Line Emission Mapper Probe Mission Concept
Ralph Kraft (Center for Astrophysics)
Astronomy Colloquium
Wed, 1/25 3:45 pm - Wed, 1/25 5:00 pm
Davey Lab (538)
Science Seminars Astronomy and Astrophysics
Sankar Das Sarma
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Marker Lecture Series
Thu, 1/26 3:45 pm - Thu, 1/26 4:45 pm
101 Osmond and https://psu.zoom.us/j/93946951319?pwd=dFVHR21XbDExR0JQanNBUldENEFvQT09
Lecture Series Physics
Sankar Das Sarma
Condensed Matter Seminar: Graphene Superconductivity
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Marker Lecture Series
Fri, 1/27 10:15 am - Fri, 1/27 12:00 pm
339 Davey Lab
Lecture Series Physics
Alexander Edison
A tale of tails via generalized unitarity
Alexander Edison, Northwestern University
GAPP Seminar
Fri, 1/27 11:00 am - Fri, 1/27 12:00 pm
320 Whitmore
Science Seminars Physics
Illustration of lock opening access to big data
2023 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science Lecture 2
Niel Brandt
Frontiers of Science, 2023 Frontiers of Science
Sat, 1/28 11:00 am - Sat, 1/28 12:30 pm
100 Thomas Building
Lecture Series Eberly CollegeAstronomy and AstrophysicsBiochemistry and Molecular BiologyBiologyChemistryMathematicsPhysicsStatistics
John Mather
A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death
Andrew Vanderburg (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
CEHW Seminar
Mon, 1/30 11:15 am - Mon, 1/30 12:30 pm
Davey Lab (538)
Science Seminars Astronomy and Astrophysics
John Mather
Smectic pair density wave order in EuRbFe4As4
He Zhao, Brookhaven National Lab
CAMP Seminar
Mon, 1/30 3:45 pm - Mon, 1/30 4:45 pm
339 Davey Lab
Science Seminars Physics
John Mather
How and where to restore tropical forests
J. Leighton Reid
Tue, 1/31 12:00 pm - Tue, 1/31 1:00 pm
8 Mueller Lab
Science Seminars Biology
John Mather
JWST: from First Light to First Science
Marshall Perrin (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Astronomy Colloquium
Wed, 2/01 3:45 pm - Wed, 2/01 5:00 pm
Davey Lab (538)
Science Seminars Astronomy and Astrophysics
Riccardo Penco
Colloquium: From black holes to superfluidity: effective theories of point-like particles.
Riccardo Penco, Carnegie Mellon University
Physics Colloquium
Thu, 2/02 3:45 pm - Thu, 2/02 4:45 pm
101 Osmond and Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93946951319?pwd=dFVHR21XbDExR0JQanNBUldENEFvQT09
Science Seminars Physics