College of Arts and Sciences

Planets Around Nearby Stars Modern science began with Copernicus speculating that the Earth is a planet and that all the

Nanoparticles in liquid crystals, and liquid crystals in nanoparticles.   Liquid crystals are remarkably sensitive to interfacial interactions. Small perturbations

Active Brownian particles: From individual to collective behavior Single self-propelled particles as well as ensembles of self-propelled particles are examples

Active Matter: from colloids to living cells Collections of self-propelled entities, from living cells to engineered microswimmers, organize in a

Origins, Evolution and Biophysics: an Ephemeral Golden Braid Douglas Hofstradter’s celebrated 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (“GEB”),

Dark Matter Bound States and Indirect Dark Matter Signals Most of the mass density in our universe is not composed

Can theoretical physics help cancer biology? The case of metastatic spread In order to spread from the primary tumor to

An Uncooperative Universe: Large Scale Anomalies in the CMB The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is our most important source of information about

A Cosmic Ray Astrophysicist’s Approach to the Optical Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence   For decades scientists have been searching

Harsh Mathur on the prize in Physics; Michael Hinczewski on the prize in Chemistry; and Alan Tartakoff on the prize

Quantum Spin Liquids The search for truly quantum phases of matter is one of the center pieces of modern research

Nitride Semiconductors: Beyond the Binaries The binary nitride semiconductors and their alloys have led to transformations in both lighting and