Spectropolarimetry (specpol) is a powerful, albeit underutilized, tool that offers insights into the geometry and shape of unresolved astrophysical sources. This technique holds particular ...

Salvatore Calabrese is an assistant professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering of Plant Sciences at Texas A&M University. The Rosa Lab hosts his seminar As global warming and shifting rainfall ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

A new-found interest in the field of protein science has focused on the capacity of certain proteins to polymerize into labile, cross- fibrils. Formation of labile polymers has been observed for ...

The shapes around us contain information. Morphometrics, methods that quantify shape, can reveal patterns reflecting underlying biological phenomena. In this seminar, I will begin with a primer to ...

Megan Bontrager's group at the University of Toronto is elucidating the environmental drivers of local adaptation—in which populations perform best in their home environments, as well as the selective ...

Friedemann Samrock, of ETH Zürich, will present his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT on Dec. 7, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.

The Origin of the Metallicity Gradient in Sagittarius Stellar Stream ...

Jennifer Balch is the Director of NSF’s newest data synthesis center, the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL), at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is an Associate ...

Kevin Schlaufman will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...

Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...