Lectures

Upcoming Events

Prehistoric quantum bits: experiments testing the fundamental physics of superconducting quantum devices

Dr. John Martinis, UC Santa Barbara and Qolab

May 5 2026, 7:30pm

Kane Hall 130

Past Events

• Design of new protein functions using deep learning (David Baker, University of Washington) - Tue, Oct 28 2025
• CANCELED: Test event with field of interest - Fri, May 30 2025
• Fluid or Solid? The Physics of Shape-Shifting Materials (Chiara Daraio, Caltech) - Tue, May 13 2025
• The Mystery of Dark Matter in the Universe (Katherine Freese, University of Texas Austin) - Tue, Oct 22 2024
• Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST (John C. Mather (2006 Nobel laureate in Physics), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) - Wed, May 8 2024
• More perfect than we imagined:  A physicist’s view of life (William Bialek, Princeton University) - Tue, Oct 17 2023
• My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe from Black Holes and Wormholes to Time Travel and Gravitational Waves (Kip Thorne (2017 Nobel laureate in Physics), California Institute of Technology) - Wed, May 17 2023
• University Faculty Lecture: Rocking the world of physics (David Hertzog, University of Washington) - Wed, Mar 29 2023
• Understanding our Universe from Deep Underground (Arthur B. McDonald (2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Queen’s University) - Tue, Nov 8 2022
• The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe (Adam Riess (2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute) - Wed, Jul 20 2022
• Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses (Dr. Donna Strickland (2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics), University of Waterloo) - Thu, May 19 2022
• Gravity: the biggest open question in fundamental physics (Eric Adelberger, Blayne Heckel, & Jens Gundlach (2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Winners), University of Washington) - Wed, Oct 20 2021
• A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System (William D. Phillips (1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics), National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland) - Tue, May 18 2021
• The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics (Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology) - Wed, Oct 9 2019
• What Really Happened 13.8 Billion Years Ago?  (Dr. Paul Steinhardt) - Wed, May 8 2019
• Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (Lisa Randall, Harvard University) - Wed, May 16 2018
• Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound (Dr. Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) - Tue, Mar 20 2018
• Optical Atomic Clocks (David Wineland, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics) - Tue, Dec 5 2017
• Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier (John Preskill, Caltech) - Thu, May 11 2017
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy, A New Way to Explore the Universe (Rainer Weiss, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics) - Tue, Oct 25 2016
• The Frontier of Fundamental Physics (David Gross, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics) - Wed, May 25 2016
• The Science of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Electro-Optics (Larry Dalton, University of Washington) - Fri, Nov 6 2015
• The Difference Between the Past and the Future (David Albert, University of Washington) - Tue, Oct 27 2015
• 50 Years of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: What We Have Learned, What Questions Remain   (Jim Peebles, Nobel Laureate 2019) - Tue, May 19 2015