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
2024-2025 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
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| Mar 10 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
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| Mar 3 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Visualizing strongly interacting quantum phases of matter Ali Yazdani, Princeton University |
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| Feb 24 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
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| Feb 12 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Adventures in optical clocks: quantum engineering, fundamental physics, and new frontiers Tobias Bothwell, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
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| Feb 10 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum Systems Built of Neutral Atoms and an Optical Cavity Zhenjie Yan, UC Berkeley |
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| Feb 3 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum simulation with excited bands of the Bose and Fermi Hubbard Model Coraline Fujiwara, University of Toronto |
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| Jan 29 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Ultracold Molecules: From Quantum Chemistry to Quantum Computing Alan Jamison, University of Waterloo |
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| Jan 27 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Site-selective cavity readout and fault-tolerant connection of neutral atom arrays Josiah Sinclair, MIT |
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| Jan 22 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Making and probing Bose-Einstein condensates of polar molecules Ian Stevenson, Columbia University |
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| Jan 13 2025 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Engineering quantum systems: from many-body physics to scalable quantum computing Maxwell Parsons, University of Washington |
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| Dec 9 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA C-520 |
Error correction and engineering with oscillatory biological systems Sahand Rahi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
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| Dec 2 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
FASER: New Eyes for the LHC Jonathan Lee Feng, UC Irvine |
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| Nov 25 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Nobel Colloquium: De novo protein design David Baker (2024 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry), UW Institute for Protein Design & Biochemistry |
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| Nov 18 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Dynamic landscapes during cellular growth and diversificatio Gautam Reddy, Princeton University |
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| Nov 4 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Probing Axions and Dark Matter theories at high-intensity accelerator experiments Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Oct 28 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Universe We Cannot See Vera Gluscevic, University of Southern California |
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| Oct 21 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Quantum Universe Slava Mukhanov, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
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| Oct 14 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Feedback is a gift: unlocking new properties of quantum matter through non-equilibrium driving and control Mark Rudner, University of Washington |
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| Oct 7 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Cosmic Quest for Neutrino Mass Marilena Loverde, University of Washington |
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| Sep 30 2024 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Three-state Potts nematicity and where to find them Jiun-Haw Chu, University of Washington |
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