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Physics Colloquia

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.

Physics Colloquia Archive

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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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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