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
2022-2023 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Strong interaction matter in the universe Achim Schwenk, TU Darmstadt |
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| May 22 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Signals of a Quantum Universe Daniel Green, University of California San Diego |
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| May 15 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Searching for new forces at micron scale and other fun tricks with levitated microsphere Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University |
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| May 8 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
A new approach to measuring neutrino mass Elise Novitski, University of Washington |
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| May 1 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
From quarks to nuclei: computing the Standard Model Phiala Shanahan, MIT |
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| Apr 24 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Local quantum probes of quantum matter Amir Yacoby, Harvard |
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| Apr 17 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum Materials: A View from the Lattice Joe Checkelsky, MIT |
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| Apr 10 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Bosonic Quantum Information Processing Liang Jiang, University of Chicago |
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| Apr 3 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The fine structure of quantum spin ice Chris Laumann, Boston University |
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| Mar 27 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Mar 8 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Simulating Nuclear Physics from Nature's Fundamental Interactions: From Classical Computations to Quantum Simulations Zohreh Davoudi, University of Maryland |
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| Mar 6 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
How to wake a sleeping elephant: Insights into quark (and gluon) confinement from the buzz of wee partons Raju Venugopalan, BNL |
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| Mar 2 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-110 |
Nuclear Astrophysics with Numerical Relativity David Radice, Penn State |
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| Feb 27 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Ghostly Messengers of the Cosmos Irene Tamborra, Niels Bohr Institute |
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| Feb 22 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Cosmic Laboratories for Nuclear Physics Almudena Arcones, Darmstadt |
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| Feb 13 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The secret lives of quarks: from the lab to neutron stars Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, University of Illinois |
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| Feb 6 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Electron transport in Weyl and Dirac semimetals Anton Andreev, University of Washington |
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| Jan 30 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The “Who Ordered That” Collider Nathaniel Craig, UC Santa Barbara |
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| Jan 23 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Physics Is More Than Problem-solving: Building Inclusivity and Belonging by Practicing Professionalism Marty Baylor, Carleton College |
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| Jan 9 2023 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
LIGO past, present, and future David Shoemaker, MIT |
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| Dec 5 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Radioactive atoms and molecules for nuclear science Ronald Garcia Ruiz, MIT |
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| Nov 30 2022 - 3:45pm | PAA A-102 |
Creating Matter (Without Antimatter!) in the Laboratory Jason Detwiler, University of Washington / CENPA |
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| Nov 28 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Twists and turns of superconductivity from a repulsive interaction Andrey V. Chubukov, University of Minnesota |
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| Nov 21 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Discovering the Dark Universe with Artificial Intelligence Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington |
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| Nov 14 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
`Programming' Quantum Simulators with Atoms and Ions Peter Zoller, Center for Quantum Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria |
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| Nov 9 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Direct measurement of neutrino mass with sub-eV sensitivity by KATRIN Sanshiro Enomoto, University of Washington |
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| Nov 7 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Searches for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter Direct Interactions 2015 Nobel Laureate Art McDonald, Gray Chair, Emeritus, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
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| Oct 31 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University |
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| Oct 24 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Axionic ripples in the sky Renée Hložek, University of Toronto |
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| Oct 17 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
2022 Nobel Prize Colloquium Jason Detwiler & Boris Blinov, University of Washington |
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| Oct 12 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Learning the shape of the immune and protein universe Armita Nourmohammad, University of Washington |
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| Oct 10 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Search for the Elusive Majorana Fermion Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Oct 3 2022 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Neutrino Physics in the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Era Georgia Karagiorgi, Columbia University |
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