Physics colloquia are normally held every Monday at 4 pm during the quarter (except holidays). Typically one speaker each quarter is nominated by the graduate students. Speakers are invited to meet with the Society of Physics Students at 12:30 for pizza on the day of the colloquium.
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Physics Colloquia
2021-2022 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
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| May 23 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Understanding New Materials Paul Canfield, Iowa State University |
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| May 16 2022 - 3:00pm | William H. Foege Hall, Vista Cafe (https://washington.zoom.us/j/95540450003?pwd=MnBLQVYranM0VHY2UFVtbjc1TWhXdz09) |
2022 Physics Awards Ceremony Kai-Mei Fu, Aurel Bulgac, Xiaodong Xu, Boris Blinov |
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| May 9 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Piezoaxionic Effect Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter |
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| May 2 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both? Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University |
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| Apr 18 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The synthesis of heavy elements in stellar explosions Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University |
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| Apr 11 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Studying the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World Clement Pryke, University of Minnesota |
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| Apr 4 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Nuclear physics on an astronomical scale:the crash of neutron stars in gravitational-wave astronomy Jocelyn Read, UC Fullerton |
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| Mar 28 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Discrete Charm of Scale Invariance Ubirajara van Kolck, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Arizona |
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| Mar 7 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
What the LHC has revealed about the Standard Model Heather Russell, University of Victoria |
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| Mar 2 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Computing Quantum Structure of A Light-Travelling Proton Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland |
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| Feb 28 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Ann Nelson Professor Lecture: From Planck to Hubble: The Universe as a laboratory for physics across 30 orders of magnitude Marilena Loverde, University of Washington |
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| Feb 14 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Conformal Field Theory in Quantum Gravity and the Lab Shai Chester (Weizmann) |
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| Feb 7 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Flat space holography: from celestial symmetries to asymptotic charge dynamics Ana-Maria Raclariu (Perimeter Institute) |
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| Feb 2 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Quantum many-body physics in the NISQ era Matteo Ippoliti (Stanford) |
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| Jan 31 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Gravity and Effective Field Theory Isabel Garcia Garcia (Kavli) |
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| Jan 26 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics G. Joaquin Turiaci (IAS/Princeton) |
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| Jan 24 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Quantum spacetime and quantum statistics Henry Maxfield (Stanford) |
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| Jan 19 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Topological solitons in gravity Ibou Bah (JHU) |
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| Jan 12 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Symmetry and Topology: from CM to HEP Justin Kaidi (Stony Brook ) |
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| Jan 10 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
The Incredible Inedible Axion John Stout (Harvard) |
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| Jan 5 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Bridging Quantum Many-Body Physics and Quantum Information Theory Isaac Kim (UC Davis) |
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| Jan 3 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Scrambling, chaos, and operator complexity Thomas Scaffidi (U Toronto) |
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| Dec 6 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
From Dirac fermions to topological matter: a common thread in particle and condensed matter physics David Kaplan, University of Washington |
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| Nov 29 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The New Nuclear Arms Race, Its Dangers, and How to Turn it Around Rob Goldston, Princeton |
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| Nov 22 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS) Martin Savage, University of Washington |
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| Nov 15 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum Nanophotonics Hardware: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping Marina Radulaski, UC Davis |
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| Nov 8 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Accelerating Particle Physics Discovery with Artificial Intelligence Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington |
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| Nov 1 2021 - 4:00pm | Zoom |
Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics from atomic to cosmic scales Smitha Vishveshwara, UIUC |
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| Oct 25 2021 - 4:00pm | Zoom |
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: A Scientific Summary John Wettlaufer, Yale University & Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics |
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| Oct 18 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Synthesis, characterization and control of quantum defects for quantum network applications: from deep centers in diamond to shallow impurities in ZnO Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington |
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| Oct 11 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Atoms and Photons: Quantum Technology Meets Fundamental Physics Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University |
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| Oct 4 2021 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Trapped ions at UW: qubits, qudits, entanglement and fun in two dimensions Boris Blinov, University of Washington |
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