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
2019-2020 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
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| Sep 30 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Broad Quantum Emitters Arka Majumdar, University of Washington |
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| Oct 7 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Becoming what you smell Vijay Balasubramanian (U Penn) |
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| Oct 14 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Majorana zero modes: a new kind of ‘particle’, and where it can be found Charlie Marcus (UCPH and Microsoft) |
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| Oct 21 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Nobel Prize Special Edition (Morales & co) Miguel Morales |
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| Oct 28 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Using Nanopores to Watch Enzymes at Work Jens Gundlach |
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| Nov 4 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Collagen: a fascinating responsive material building block from Nature Nancy Forde (SFU) |
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| Nov 18 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
Electronic Correlations in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene Stevan Nadj-Purge (Caltech) |
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| Nov 25 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Magnetic quadrupole moment in crystals Di Xiao |
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| Dec 2 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
The Unbearable Lightness of Neutrinos Diana Parno |
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| Jan 6 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Entangled Butterflies: Chaos in Complex Quantum Systems Brian Swingle, University of Maryland |
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| Jan 8 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
How to Discover New Physics with Cosmological Datasets Marilena Loverde, Stony Brook |
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| Jan 13 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Anomalies: From Magnets to the Nuclear Force Shu-Heng Shao, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton |
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| Jan 15 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
String Theoretic Illuminations of Moonshine Natalie Paquette, Caltech |
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| Jan 22 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Dynamical quantum materials Mark Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen |
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| Jan 27 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Symmetry indicators for topological materials Hoi Chun (Adrian) Po, MIT |
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| Jan 29 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe Katelin Schutz, MIT |
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| Feb 3 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
A Black Hole Perspective on Fundamental Physics: Conformal Field Theory, Quantum Chaos, and Quantum Information Alex Maloney, McGill |
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| Feb 5 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Many Body Effects of Chiral Edge Fermions Biao Lian, Princeton |
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| Feb 10 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Many-Body Quantum Chaos: an Entanglement Perspective Laimei Nie, Chicago |
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| Feb 12 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Searching for New Physics Across the Spectra Masha Baryakhtar, NYU |
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| Feb 19 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
New Physics at the Precision Frontier Ken Van Tilburg, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB |
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| Feb 24 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
Preparing Physics Students for 21st Century Careers: The PHYS21 Report Paula Heron |
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| Feb 26 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA102 |
The Search for Topological Phases of Matter Ashley Cook, UC Berkeley |
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| Mar 9 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
Neural network-like collective dynamics in molecules Arvind Murugan |
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