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
2018-2019 Colloquia
| Date and Time | Location | Title/Speaker | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Physics Town Hall meeting Blayne Heckel |
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| Oct 8 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
2018 Nobel Prize mini-symposium: "groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" Qi Zhang, Paul Wiggins and Chip Asbury, University of Washington |
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| Oct 15 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
The Terrestrial Planets of Other Stars David Charbonneau, Harvard University |
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| Oct 22 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Quantum-driven classical optimization Helmut Katzgraber, Microsoft Research |
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| Oct 29 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Dark Matter in Disequilibrium Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University |
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| Nov 5 2018 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
A Photonic Link for Donor Spin Qubits in Silicon Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser University |
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| Nov 19 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Jacobsohn Lecture: Massive black holes and their cosmic backdrop Marta Volonteri, IAP Paris |
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| Nov 26 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Neutrino Properties from Cosmology Marilena Loverde, SUNY Stony Brook |
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| Dec 3 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
You may find yourself with a huge particle collider and 17 elementary particles and you may ask yourself... well, how did I get here? Melissa Franklin, Harvard University |
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| Jan 7 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Interacting Electronic States in Graphene Heterostructures Eric Spanton, UC Santa Barbara |
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| Jan 9 2019 - 3:30pm | PAA 102 |
New tools for probing classical and quantum nanomaterials Arthur Barnard, Stanford University |
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| Jan 14 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials Su-Yang Xu, MIT |
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| Jan 16 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm | PAA 102 |
Tunable quantum phenomena in atomically thin crystals Qiong Ma, MIT |
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| Jan 23 2019 - 3:30pm | PAA 102 |
Visualizing quantum Hall wedding cakes: Topology- and interaction-driven effects in 2D quantum dots Christopher Gutierrez, University of British Columbia |
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| Jan 28 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
New forms of matter with ultracold atoms: spin-orbit coupling and supersolidity Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT |
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| Jan 30 2019 - 3:30pm | PAA 102 |
Hybrid quantum networks: interfacing photons, phonons, and superconducting qubits Mohammad Mirhosseini, Caltech |
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| Feb 4 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Two-dimensional quantum electronics with a twist Matthew Yankowitz, Columbia University |
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| Feb 11 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
(CANCELLED DUE TO THE SNOW) Super-Semi Hybrids for Qubits and Beyond Charles M Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute and Microsoft Research |
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| Feb 25 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Building-Microbial Communities from the Bottom Up Jeff Gore, MIT |
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| Mar 4 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA A-102 |
Supporting the integration of numerical computation in physics education Marcos (Danny) Caballero, Michigan State University |
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| Mar 11 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA 102 |
Twisting and Stretching van der Waals Bilayers: an Atomic-Scale View Abhay Pashupathy, Columbia University |
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| Apr 1 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA-102 |
Deep learning for single-cell biology David Van Valen, California Institute of Technology |
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| Apr 8 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Splitting the electron: Probing electron fractionalization in topological quantum matter Maissam Barkeshli, University of Maryland |
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| Apr 15 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: FASER and New Particle Searches on the Lifetime Frontier Jonathan Feng, University of California, Irvine |
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| Apr 22 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Evolutionary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance Michael Baym, Harvard Medical School |
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| Apr 29 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Physics archaeology: unearthing a 45 year old quantum spin liquid Patrick Lee, MIT |
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| May 6 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Exploring the Dark Sector: Surprising Opportunities at Familiar Mass Scales Natalia Toro, Stanford University |
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| May 13 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Dissecting microbial growth at multiple scales, from atoms to cells Kerwyn C Huang, Stanford University |
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| May 20 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Diffusion in the Quantum Era Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University |
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| Jun 3 2019 - 4:00pm | PAA 102 |
Coulomb gap here, there and everywhere Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota |
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