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Peter Galison, Harvard University Visualizing Space/Time/Matter: Physics, Film, History In a motivated if zig-zag walk, my work tacks through physics, film, and history. The long 20th-century history of the material world of experimental microphysics—following the competing traditions of image-making and statistical arguments that competed, joining in the last quarter of… Read More

Nicolas Yunes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Uncovering extreme matter when gravity waves The recent gravitational wave observations of the collision of neutron stars have given us a glimpse into a realm where gravity and matter are both strongly-interacting and wildly dynamical. These waves carry a wealth of information about the… Read More

John Lajoie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory The Electron Ion Collider: A Unique New Microscope for Matter The visible world around us is made up of atoms, with protons and neutrons forming the nuclei at their core. Together, protons and neutrons make up most of the mass of everything we see… Read More

Dapeng “Max” Bi, Northeastern University Decoding The Origins of Fluidity in Multicellular Systems Organisms continually adapt to mechanical forces at the cellular and tissue levels, a process crucial for sustaining vital life functions. In physiological processes, such as cancer progression and embryonic development, tissues are often poised near solid-like and… Read More

Julian Sonner, University of Geneva The chaotic inner workings of quantum black holes Black holes are an experimental fact of life, one of the simplest and most robust consequences of our classical understanding of the gravitational force. Yet, they are among the most extreme and mysterious objects known to science. Read More

Jesse Spencer-Smith, Vanderbilt University Science and the Frontier of AI In the past 18 months, the structures of nearly all known proteins (over 200 million) were predicted by an AI technology, Alphafold, completely reshaping protein structure research. 2.2 million possible new materials were predicted by an AI tool, GNoME. And… Read More

Jenny Greene, Princeton University Stumbling over (red) accreting black holes with JWST The first year of operations of the James Webb Space Telescope has been incredibly exciting in many respects, but one field experiencing new vigor is the search for the highest redshift accreting black holes. I will discuss the… Read More

Matt Strassler, Harvard University Exploring The Foundations of our Quantum Cosmos. The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 marked a major milestone in our understanding of the universe, and a watershed for particle physics as a discipline. What’s known about particles and fields now forms a nearly complete short… Read More

Paul Romatschke, University of Colorado Boulder Life on an Endless Hill: Making Sense of Up-Side-Down Potentials in Quantum Mechanics and High Energy Physics In classical physics, unbounded (or “up-side-down”) potentials do not allow for a stable ground state. As a consequence, unbounded potentials have often been dismissed as not viable… Read More

Christine Aidala, University of Michigan Spin-Momentum Correlations, Aharonov-Bohm, and Color Entanglement in Quantum Chromodynamics After the development of QCD in the last quarter of the 20th century, we are now in an exciting new era in which much more quantitative QCD calculations can be tested against increasingly sophisticated experimental measurements. Read More

Dale Kocevski, Colby College Insights into Early SMBH Growth from JWST. The capabilities of JWST are now allowing us to measure the host demographics of AGN beyond cosmic noon and detect lower luminosity quasars out to the epoch of reionization. I will discuss recent AGN-related results from the CEERS Survey… Read More