Title: Neural network and genetic basis of acoustic communication behaviors in Drosophila Abstract: Animals use sounds to communicate in a wide range of contexts. In turn, auditory systems must encode relevant sound features to drive appropriate reactions. However, how auditory feature detection emerges in neural networks has been difficult to solve due to challenges in…
Measuring the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Neutron Scattering Cross Section in Germanium
Title: The Production and Dispersal of Heavy Elements in the Early Universe Abstract: In the first billion years after the Big Bang, early generations of stars produced light which ionized intergalactic gas, and the first heavy elements of the periodic table via nuclear fusion and neutron capture. Infrared observations of quasars in…
Interface-Engineered Phases of Superconducting Complex Oxide Thin Films
Development of Electronics and Simulations for the nEDM@SNS Experiment
Title: Why is it So Difficult to Measure Small Forces and Torques Precisely? Abstract: Standard advice to the young experimentalist is to convert the scientific experiment into either a frequency or a null measurement. The speaker of this colloquium has done neither and will share the trouble that he has gotten into in hopes of…
Measurement and quasi-classical modeling of spin density evolution and spin correlation in a Fermi gas
Title: A Brief Tour of Ab Initio Nuclear Many-Body Theory Abstract: The capabilities of ab initio many-body calculations for nuclear structure and reactions have expanded dramatically within recent years. We have seen first converged calculations for nuclei as heavy as Pb208, a first attempt at a mass table up to the iron region, and efforts…