Agenda updated on 3/27/2018
NOTE: This event happened in the past. To view the agenda for the 2016 Rising Stars event, please click here.
Monday, April 23, 2018
| 8:00 pm | Networking Reception for Workshop Participants |
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
All events located in the Pappalardo Room (4-349) unless otherwise noted
| 8:30 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Welcome from Physics Department Head and Workshop Chair Peter Fisher, Department Head of Physics Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Associate Professor of Physics and Workshop Chair |
| 9:30 – 10:45 am | 12 Research Talks
"Super-Massive Black Holes and Large-Scale Structure" "The Dynamic Outer Solar System" "Brown Dwarf Distances and Atmospheres: Spitzer Parallaxes and the Keck/NIRSPEC Upgrade" "A Multiphase Look at Galaxy Nuclei in High Resolution" "Most Peculiar Objects in the Universe" "Ground-Based CMB Measurements: Spectral Distortions, Readout Technologies" |
| 10:45 – 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | Research Talks (continued)
"A Fermi-Degenerate 3D Optical Lattice Clock" "Unraveling in vivo Magnetosensing" "What Crystals can tell us about the Nature of the Universe" "Shining Light on Topological Dirac Materials" "The Electronic and Optical Properties of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Materials" "The Search for Time Reversal Symmetry-Breaking States in Condensed Matter Systems" |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch with guest speaker Prof. Sara Seager (Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Science) |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Panel 1: The Job Search and Interview Process Panelists: Profs. Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia), Prineha Narang (Harvard), and Tracy Slatyer (MIT) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 pm | Coffee break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Panel 2: The First Few Years of a Faculty Career (Mentoring, Promotion, and Tenure) Panelists: Profs. Peter Fisher (MIT), Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook), and Jessie Shelton (Illinois) |
| 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Small Groups Discussion w/ Junior Faculty Junior Faculty: Profs. Nikta Fakhri (MIT), Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia), Prineha Narang (Harvard), Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook), and Jessie Shelton (Illinois) |
| 6:00 – 8:30 pm | Dinner with Guest Speaker Prof. Rainer Weiss (Professor of Physics, Emeritus, 2017 Nobel Laureate) Samberg Conference Center, 6th Floor, Dining Rooms 3+4 |
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
All events located in the Pappalardo Room (4-349) unless otherwise noted
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | 12 Research Talks
"Tests of Quantum Measurement with Superconducting Qubits" "A Change in Stripes for Liquid Crystal Shells – Controlling Elasticity to Order Nanomaterials" "Emergent Phases and Gauge Fields in Correlated Systems" "Search of a Lifetime: Long-Lived Particles at the ATLAS Experiment" "Dark Matter Direct Detection with LUX and LZ" "Neutrino Oscillation in DUNE" |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:45 pm | Research Talks (continued)
"Invisible Worlds: Low-Temperature Rare-Event Searches and the Hunt for Physics Beyond the Standard Model" "The Beauty of the Higgs Boson" "Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology" "Can Muon Probe Existence of New Physics?" "Empirical Determination of the Velocity Distribution of Dark Matter" "Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information and Thermodynamics" |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch with Guest Speaker Prof. Anna Frebel (Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Associate Professor of Physics) |
| 1:00 – 2:00pm | Panel 3: Public Speaking and Communication Panelists: Profs. Anna Frebel (MIT), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT), and Sara Seager (MIT) |
| 2:00 – 3:00pm | Panel 4: Work-Life Balance (Time Management, Career and Family) Panelists: Profs. Ed Bertschinger (MIT Institute Community and Equity Officer), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT), and Lindley Winslow (MIT) |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Group Photo |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | Adjourn |