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STROBE 2024 NSF Site Review: Audit Results and Lessons Learned

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Join us for a presentation about the recent STROBE NSF Site Review that took place in January 2024. From an institute perspective, this presentation will cover the entire timeline of the review, the types of inquiries and CU's response to the review team, and best practices and tips for working with reviewers. Discussion and question/answer will follow the presentation. All are welcome!

Realization of a Quantum-Optical Spin Glass

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Abstract: Spin glasses—large-scale networks of spins with deeply frustrated interactions—are canonical examples of complex matter. Although much about their structure remains uncertain, they inform the description of a wide array of complex phenomena, ranging from magnetic ordering in metals with impurities to aspects of evolution, protein folding, climate models, and combinatorial optimization. Indeed, spin glass theory forms a mathematical basis for neuromorphic computing and brain modeling.

Postdoctoral and Early-career Association of Researchers-Boulder Monthly Seminar: JILA edition

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Please join us for a special edition of our PEAR Boulder monthly seminar series on Tuesday, April 30th at 11 am MT (1 pm ET) in conference room 1-1107 or online at https://nist.zoomgov.com/j/1601226156?pwd=aWpSMklZRWNxWGxLWXFmVVdRMEQrU….

We have two speakers from JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), Jacob S. Higgins and Kyungtae Kim, both from Prof. Jun Ye’s research group. JILA is a joint institute between NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder.

Life after JILA speaker series - Ben Brubaker

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Speaker bio: Ben Brubaker is a New York City-based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science as a staff writer for Quanta Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Scientific American, and Physics Today, and elsewhere. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at JILA before moving into science writing.
 

 

Reception at 5:30 at the Sink. We'll meet at the hbar at 5:15 to head over.

The life & flow of polarons: from nonequilibrium formation and relaxation to equilibration in the thermodynamic limit

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Abstract: Polarons, quasiparticles composed of an electronic excitation and the material deformation these cause in a solid or liquid, are ubiquitous. Understanding and controlling their formation, nonequilibrium relaxation, and motion are essential in developing next-generation photocatalysts, energy conversion devices, and even superconductors. In this talk, I introduce some of our recent theoretical advances that enable us to probe the exact quantum dynamics of Holstein polarons subject to dispersive phonon baths in small lattice models to the thermodynamic limit.