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 |
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| 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 23 2019 - 4:00am to 5:00am | 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 |
TBA Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT |
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| Feb 11 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA-102 |
TBA Maissam Barkeshli, University of Maryland |
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| Mar 4 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
TBA Danny Caballero, Michigan State University |
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| Mar 11 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm | PAA A-102 |
TBA Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University |