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
2017-2018 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
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| Oct 2 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Superfluid Mixtures, Molecules, and Interferometry with ultracold atomic gases Subhadeep Gupta, University of Washington |
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| Oct 9 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Nobel Prize 2017: Exploring the New Frontier of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Fred Raab, LIGO Hanford |
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| Oct 16 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
"The Great Collider in China" - A Future Accelerator to Study the Higgs Boson and to Explore Nature at the Energy Frontier Xinchou Lou, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China and UT Dallas |
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| Oct 23 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Neutron particles and neutron waves Charles Clark, NIST, JQI |
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| Oct 30 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The conformal bootstrap: magnets, boiling water, and quantum gravity David Simmons-Duffin, Caltech |
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| Nov 6 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Why is scientific reasoning so hard, and what can we do about it? Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University |
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| Nov 20 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Creation of the heavy elements seen in the light and gravitational waves of a neutron star merger Daniel Kasen, UC Berkeley and LBNL |
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| Nov 27 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Scale-Invariant transport near quantum critical point in a cuprate superconductor Arkady Shehter, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
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| Dec 4 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum information processing with trapped atomic ions David Wineland, NIST, Boulder |
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| Jan 8 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
From quantum computation to quantum signal processing: the power of a single qubit Isaac Chuang, MIT |
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| Jan 22 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Anisotropies in the flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays Edivaldo Moura Santos, University of Sao Paolo/Chicago |
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| Jan 29 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The UW MRSEC: Molecular Engineering Materials Center Daniel Gamelin, Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington |
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| Feb 5 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Magic State Distillation: Towards a Universal Quantum Computer Matt Hastings, Microsoft Research |
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| Feb 12 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Physics and chemistry with diatomic molecules near absolute zero Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University |
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| Feb 26 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Fractional quantum Hall effect as a window to new dualities in quantum field theory Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago |
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| Mar 5 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
What Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars Kate Scholberg, Duke University |
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| Mar 26 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Tuning the degrees of freedom in 2D materials Cory Dean, Columbia University |
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| Apr 2 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Fractionalizing the Hofstadter Butterfly: fractional Chern insulators in graphene superlattices Michael Zaletel, Princeton University |
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| Apr 9 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE): Learning physics by practicing it Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers |
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| Apr 16 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Dualities in Quantum Hall Physics Andreas Karch, University of Washington |
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| Apr 23 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Floquet quantum states: topological transitions, steady states, and surprising implications Gil Refael, Caltech |
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| Apr 30 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
A new approach to simulating the Universe Andrew Pontzen (Jacobsohn Memorial Lecturer), University College London |
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| May 7 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Watching mutations and evolutionary dynamics in live cells and in real time Thomas E. Kulman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| May 14 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys Risa Wechsler, Stanford University |
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| May 21 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Color and shape: Control and measurement of single-photon pulses Brian J. Smith, University of Oregon and University of Oxford |
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