Events Archive

Oct

2013

To tie a shoelace into a knot is a relatively simple affair. Tying a knot in a field is a different story, because the whole of space must be filled in a way that matches the knot being tied at the core. The possibility of such localized knottedness in a space-filling field has fascinated physicists and mathematicians ever since Kelvin’s 'vortex atom' hypothesis, in which the atoms of the periodic table were hypothesized to correspond to closed vortex loops of different knot types. Perhaps the most...

Sep

2013

How the Planck constant is better than a kilogram artifact, or how the history of measuring physics constants will lead to a “new” International System of metric units

Sep

2013

3rd Annual SESICB Meeting

We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Annual SESICB Southeastern Regional conference will be held on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Georgia Institute of Technology, located in the midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will be held in Technology Square Research Building, Auditorium, located at 85 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. The meeting will begin...

Sep

2013

Isostatic Lattice: From Jamming to Topological Surface Phonons

Sep

2013

What Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Tell Us About Dark Matter

Dark matter plays an important role in our current understanding of the universe. Low surface brightness spiral galaxies are particularly excellent laboratories for probing the dark matter distribution and placing constraints on theoretical models. I will discuss the observational techniques used to study these galaxies and their dark matter halos. I will also discuss how well current dark matter models describe the observations and suggest how they might need to be updated.

Sep

2013

Vortex Dynamics in Cerebral Aneurysms

Computational fluid dynamic simulations are providing new insights into the connections between patient-specific hemodynamic flows and the initiation, progression and treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Recent studies linking aneurysm rupture to the formation of vortices have motivated the need for a more fundamental understanding of swirling blood flow patterns and their evolution during the cardiac cycle. In this talk, I describe how dynamical systems theory is being used to advance our knowledge of vortex dynamics within cerebral aneurysms.

Sep

2013

Observation of Astrophysical Neutrinos by IceCube

Sep

2013

Models and measurements of myriad molecular motors in muscle -- new directions in force generation.

Sep

2013

Micromechanical studies of protein-DNA interactions and chromosome structure

Sep

2013

Holographic Quantum Matter