Spring 2021
All colloquia this semester were online
Tuesday, January 12
Orbital Magnetism in Graphene Heterostructures
Andrea Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, January 19
Fairness, Equity, and Values in Grades and Grading
Andrew Heckler, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Zeke Johnston-Halperin
Tuesday, January 26
Transforming the Preparation of Physics Graduate Teaching Assistants
Emily Alicea-Muñoz, Georgia Tech
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, February 2
Chasing Neutrinos, Nature's Ghost Particles
Mônica Nunes, Syracuse University and Fermilab
Faculty host: Mike Lisa
Tuesday, February 9
Cultivating Institutional Change in University Physics Departments
Gina Quan, San Jose State University
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, February 16
Heat Flow in Quantum Hall States
Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, February 23
Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness
Xiaoxing Xi, Temple University
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, March 2 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, March 9
Quantum Information Technologies: Quantum Computing and the Quantum Internet
Sophia Economou, Virginia Tech
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, March 16 - APS March meeting week
Tuesday, March 23
Physics Does Optimization, Surpassing the Computer Scientists at Their Own Game
Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley
Faculty host: Len Brillson
Tuesday, March 30
Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should be Interested
Steven Simon, Oxford University
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, April 6
Programmable Quantum Simulations with Laser-cooled Trapped Ions
Kazi Rajibul Islam, University of Waterloo & The Institute of Quantum Computing
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, April 13
Guiding The Field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Brittany Kamai, UC Santa Cruz/Caltech
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, April 20
Beyond BCS: An Exact Model for Superconductivity and Mottness
Philip Phillips, UIUC
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Spring 2020/Autumn 2020 Colloquium Committee Members
Zhong - Chair
Brillson
Carpenter
Hill
Johnston-Halperin
Lu
Raby
Skinner
Trivedi
Jahmour Givens - Grad student rep
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
All colloquia this semester will be online
Tuesday, September 1
Complexity & Emergence: The Challenge and Promise of the Collective Properties of Matter
James Analytis, UC Berkeley
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, September 8
Archimedes Brought to Light–Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of Ancient Writings
Uwe Bergmann, Stanford
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, September 15
The Story of Spin in an Extreme Fluid
Jinfeng Liao, Indiana University
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, September 22
Super-resolution Microscopy on Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 29
The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
Burçin Matlu Pakdil, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, October 6
Properties of a Nanocomposite Consisting of a Mixture of a Liquid Crystal and a Magnetic Nanoparticle, and Their Possible Use in MRI
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
Host: Kirsten Casey (Graduate Student)
Tuesday, October 13
Watching Electrons Move at Interfaces: Visualizing Charge and Spin Dynamics Using Ultrafast XUV Spectroscopy
Robert Baker, The Ohio State University, Dept of Chemistry
Faculty host: Jay Gupta
Tuesday, October 20 - Alpheus Smith Lecture
How Thinking Like A Geneticist Helped Me Solve A 25 Year-Old Einstein-Type Problem In String Theory
Sylvester James Gates, Jr., Brown University
Tuesday, October 27
A Case for Integrating Solar Geoengineering into Climate Policy
David Keith, Harvard
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, November 3 - ELECTION DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, November 10
Attomicroscopy: Attosecond Electron Imaging
Mohammed Hassan, University of Arizona
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, November 17
Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From Clocks to Quantum Computers
Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, November 24
Molecular Mechanics of Hearing
Marcos Sotomayor, The Ohio State University, Chemistry and BioChemistry
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, December 1
Four Revolutions in Physics and a Second Quantum Revolution
Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
Faculty host: Yuanming Lu
Tuesday, December 8
Simulating Galaxy Formation: Illustris, IllustrisTNG and Beyond
Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Spring 2020
Tuesday, January 7
Precision Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Ira Rothstein, Carnegie-Mellon University
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, January 14
The Magic of Twisted Atomically Thin Crystals
Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Faculty host: Marc Bockrath
Tuesday, January 21
Massively Parallel Assays, Machine Learning and the BioPhysics of Gene Regulation
Justin Kinney, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, January 28
A Century of Noether's Theorem
Chris Quigg, FermiLab
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, February 4
Viscous Fluid of Electron in Graphene
Andy Lucas, University of Colorado
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, February 11
The Mechanics of Unlocking Our Genes
Michael Poirier, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, February 18
Topoligical Metals
Anton Burkov, University of Waterloo
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, February 25
Climate Change and Tipping Points
Michael Bevis, The Ohio State University, Earth Sciences
Faculty host: Chris Hammel
Tuesday, March 3 - APS MARCH MEETING - No talk
Tuesday, March 10 - SPRING BREAK
Autumn 2019 Colloquium Committee Members
DiMauro - Chair
Bockrath
Braaten
Carpenter
Honscheid
Kagan
Lu
Zhong
Keith McBride - Grad student rep
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
Autumn 2019
Tuesday, August 27
Opto-Optical Modulation: Controlling Absorption and Emission One Femtosecond at a Time
Ken Schafer, LSU
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 3
Toward the Development of Visible Band Astronomical Imaging with Multi-kilometer Baselines
Dave Kieda, University of Utah
Faculty host: Mike Lisa
Tuesday, September 10 - No colloquium
Tuesday, September 17
Why Traditional Labs Fail (and What To Do About It)
Natasha Holmes, Cornell University
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, September 24 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, October 1
Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology
Lars Bildsten, University of California-Santa Barbara
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 8 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, October 15 - will start at 4pm
Moiré Patterns in Two-Dimensional Materials
Allan MacDonald, UT Austin
Faculty host: Marc Bockrath
Tuesday, October 22 - NO COLLOQUIUM due to Smith Lecture
Wednesday, October 23 - SMITH LECTURE
Climate Change and Innovative Paths to a Sustainable Future
Steve Chu, LBNL
Tuesday, October 29 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, November 5
Engineering Correlation and Topology in Two-Dimensional Moiré Superlattices
Feng Wang, UC Berkeley
Faculty host: Marc Bockrath
Tuesday, November 12 - Reschedule for 1/28/20
A Centruy of Noether's Theorem
Chris Quigg, FermiLab
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, November 19
Observation of Radar Echoes from Ultra-High Energy Particle Cascades: Toward Ultra-High Energy Neutrino
Astronomy at 10PeV and Beyond
Steven Prohira, The Ohio State University, CCAPP
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, November 26
Tuesday, December 3 - CANCELLED
Exploring A New Frontier of Quantum Science
Mikhai Lukin, Harvard University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
SP 2019 Colloquium Committee Members
DiMauro - Chair
Bockrath
Braaten
Carpenter
Honscheid
Kagan
Lu
Zhong
Keith McBride - Grad student rep
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
Spring 2019
Tuesday, January 8
Lighting the Way - Perspectives on the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize
Linn Van Woerkom - The Ohio State University
Host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, January 15
Prediction: Will Japan Choose to Build the International Linear Collider (ILC)?
Hasan Padamsee - Cornell University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, January 22
Special colloquium
TBA
Tuesday, January 29
Special colloquium
TBA
Tuesday, February 5
Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait, University of California, Irvine
Faculty host: Antonio Boveia
Tuesday, February 12 - no colloquium
Tuesday, February 19
Mysteries in the Meson System
Ryan Mitchell, Indiana University
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, February 26 - CANCELLED - RESCH FOR SP2020
How Much Time Does a Tunneling Atom Spend in the Forbidden Region?
Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, March 5
A Tabletop-scale Probe for TeV-scale Physics: The Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
David DeMille, Yale University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, March 12 - spring break - no colloquium
Tuesday, March 19
Generalization of the Boltzmann Distribution to Systems Out of Equilibrium
Milo Lin, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, March 26
Ultrafast X-ray Lasers and Making Molecular Movies
Phil Bucksbaum, SLAC/Stanford
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, April 2
Next-generation Doppler Spectrometers
Cullen Blake, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty host: Klaus Honscheid
Tuesday, April 9
The Mysteries of a Two-dimensional Semimetal
David Cobden, Uinversity of Washington
Faculty host: Marc Bockrath
Tuesday, April 16 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, April 23
A New Assessment of Mathematical Reasoning Development in Physics Instruction
Suzanne White Brahmia, University of Washington
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, April 30
Radio Searches for Neutrinos at the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers
Stephanie Wissel, Cal Poly
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
2018 Colloquium Committee Members:
Raby - Chair
Bao
Boveia
Brillson
Ho
Kawakami
Trivedi
Zhong
Keith McBride - Grad student rep
Robin Patterson - Coordinator
Autumn 2018
Tuesday, August 28 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, September 4
Fast Radio Bursts
Victoria Kaspi, McGill University
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, September 11
The Mistaken Identity Case of "The Leading Foreign Scientist"
David Z. Besson, University of Kansas
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, September 18
Quantum Quivering form Dissipation and Noise
Aashish Clerk, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, September 25
Topological Spintronics: from the Haldane Phase to Spin Devices
Nitin Samarth, Penn State
Faculty host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, October 2
Using Gamma Rays and Neutrons to Measure the Elemental Composition of Planetary Bodies
David Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 9
Energy: Where It Comes From and What We Do With It
Peter Rez, Arizona State Univeristy
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, October 16 - No colloquium due to Smith Lecture
Wednesday, October 17 - SMITH LECTURE
Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Rai Weiss, MIT
Tuesday, October 23
Neutrinos: Desparate Remedies, Extreme Experiments
Hirohisa Tanaka, SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 30 - CANCELLED - Resch 3/19/19
Generalization of the Boltzmann Distribution to Systems Out of Equilibrium
Milo Lin, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, November 6
Axion Dark Matter Detection, Direct and Indirect
Yonatan Kahn, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics(KICP) at the University of Chicago
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, November 13
Advances and Discoveries en Route to Magnetically Confined Electron-positron Plasmas
Eve Stenson, Max Plank Istitute for Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany
Faculty host: Len Brillson
Tuesday, November 20
SPHEREx: An All-sky Infrared Spectral Survey Explorer Satellite
James Bock, Caltech
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, November 27 - CANCELLED - Resch 2/5/19
Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait, University of California, Irvine
Faculty host: Antonio Boveia
Tuesday, December 4
Techniques and Materials for Van der Waals Heterostructures
Jim Hone, Columbia Univeristy
Faculty host: Jeanie Lau
Spring 2018
Tuesday, January 9
What Can the Hydrodynamics in Solids Teach Us?
Kin Chung Fong, Raytheon
Host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, January 16
Top Quarks: The New Flavor
Peter Onyisi, Univeristy of Texas
Host: Antonio Boveia
Tuesday, January 23
Tuning the Band Structure of Ruthenates with Strain and Dimensionality
Darrell Schlom, Cornell
Host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, January 30
Physics After the Lab and the Desk: Your Work in PRL
Samindranath Mitra, Editor, Physical Reveiw Letters
Host: Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau
Tao Han, University of PIttsburgh
Host: Linda Carpenter
Luke Roberts, Michigan State
Host: John Beacom
Vacancies, Small Polarons, and Two-dimensional Electron Gases in Complexes Oxides
Anderson Janotti, University of Delaware
Host: Len Brillson
Tuesday, March 20
Exploring the Local Behavior of Magnetic Nanostructures via Lorentz TEM
Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Lab
Host: Chris Hammel
How Cellular Decisions are Encoded in it's Proteome's Physical Chemistry
Ken Dill, Stony Brook University
Host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, April 3
The Theoretical Physics Ecostystem Behind the Higgs Boson Discovery
James Wells, University of Michigan
Host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, April 10
Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem
Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, April 17
Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-flight
Michel Devoret, Yale University
Host: Greg Lafyatis
2017 Colloquium Committee Members:
Connolly - Chair
Bao
Brillson
Bundschuh
Hammel
Ho
Lafyatis
Raby
Trivedi
Walker
Wilkins
Michael Chilcote (.33) Graduate Student Rep
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
Autumn 2017
Tuesday, August 29 - NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, September 5
Dark Energy Survey Year 1:Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak
Lensing
Michael Troxel, CCAP fellow,The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Klaus Hondscheid
Tuesday, September 12
The Science of Climate Change and the Changing Climate of Science
Philip Taylor, Case Western
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, September 19
The Rise and Fall of Weak Scale Physics Scenarios: Beyond the Standard Model landscapes
in the Era of LHC
Linda Carpenter, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, September 26
Network Structures and Logic Determines the Dynamic Repertoire of Biological Networks
Reka Albert, Penn State
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, October 3
Electronic and Optoelecgtronic Phyiscs in the van der Waals Heterojunctions
Philip Kim, Harvard University
Faculty host: Chun Ning Lau/Marc Bockrath
Tuesday, October 10 - Smith Lecture
Entanglement: Einstein's Gift to Quantum Mechanics
Duncan Haldane, Princeton, 2016 Nobel Laureate
Tuesday, October 17
Crystal-Liquid Duality in Lead Halide Perovskites
Xiaoyang Zhu, Columbia University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, October 24
Does the Higgs Boson Portend the End of Particle Physics?
Howard Haber, UC Santa Cruz
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, October 31
Subatomic Swirls: Nuclear Collisions & the Most Vortical Fluid
Michael Lisa, The Ohio State University
Faculty host:: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, November 7
NO COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday, November 14
Skyrmions: Topological Spin Textures in Magnets
Mohit Randeria, The Ohio State University
Faculty host:: Chris Hammel
Tuesday, November 21 - No colloquium due to Thanksgiving holiday
Tuesday, November 28
Cracks in the Dam: Antarctica's Retreating Ice Shelves
Ian Howat, Byrd Polar Research Center
Faculty host:: Amy Connolly
Spring 2017
Tuesday, January 10
Origin of Novel Physical Phenomena in Complex Oxides Probed by Positron Annihilation
Farida Selim, Bowling Green State University
Faculty Host: Leonard Brillson
Tuesday, January 17
Data-driven Models of Stars
David Hogg, NYU
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, January 24
The Mechanism of Molecular Motors
Ahmet Yildiz, UC Berkeley
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, January 31
Understanding and Utilizing CRISPR Technology for Genome and Epigemone Manipulations
Mazhar Adli, University of Virginia
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, February 7 - No colloquium
Tuesday, February 14
Entanglement of 3000 Atoms by One Photon - CANCELLED
Vladan Vuletic, MIT
Faculty host: Greg Lafyatis
Tuesday, February 21
Quantum Black Holes in the Sky
Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute, Canada
Faculty host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, February 28
Black Holes' Last Tango: LIGO and the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
David Reitz, CalTech Ligo
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, March 7 - No colloquium due to Smith Lecture on March 9
Tuesday, March 16 - No colloquium due to spring break
Tuesday, March 21
Rare Isotopes in Stellar Explosions
Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, March 28
Dark Matter and How to Go About It
Rafael Lang, Purdue University
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, April 4
Emergent Complexity in the Universe: An Information-Entropic Approach
Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth
Faculty host:
Tuesday, April 11
Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era
Lisa Everett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, April 18 - NO COLLOQUIUM
2016 Colloquium Committee Members:
Johnston-Halperin - Chair
Brillson
Bundschuh
Gauthier
Hirata
Kovchegov
Peter
Raby
Walker
Zhong
Michael Chilcote (Grad student rep)
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
Tuesday, August 30
The Status of Women in Physics
Joan Herbers, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Members of SWiP
Tuesday, September 6
Plasma-based GeV Lepton Accelerators
Michael Downer, University of Texas at Austin
Facutly host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, September 13
The Quantum Limit of Magnetic Waves
Michael Flatte', University of Iowa
Faculty host: Zeke Johnston-Halperin
Tuesday, September 20
Seeking Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in Antarctica with the Radio Detection Technique
Amy Connolly, The Ohio State University, Physics
Faculty host: Jim Beatty
Tuesday, September 27
Light-Matter Interactions in Engineered Optical Media
Natalia Litchinister, University of Buffalo
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, October 4
Li-ion Synaptic Transistor for Low Power Analog Computing (LISTA)
Alec Talin, Sandia National Laboratory
Faculty host: Len Brillson
Tuesday, October 11
Crafting a Bose Insulator Out of a Superconductor
James Valles, Brown University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, October 18
Academic Innovation and Sustainability-The View from a Dean's Office
Peter Lepage, Cornell University
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, October 25
The Science-Journalism Duality: Behind the Scenes at Scientific American
George Musser, Scientific American
Faculty host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, November 1
Huge, Mind-Bending Quantum State of a Few Particles
Chris Greene, Purdue
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, November 8
Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity and Faculty Gatekeeping
Julie Posselt, University of Southern California
Faculty host: Jon Pelz
Tuesday, November 15
Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Populations, Networks, Landscapes and Other Worlds
Chris Myers, Cornell University
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, November 22
Light-matter Interaction at the Nanoscale
Yi Luo, Hefei National Lab in China and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, November 29 - No colloquium
Spring 2016
Tuesday, January 12
Quantum Networks of Atoms and Photons
Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, January 19
Quantum Sensing and Imaging with Diamond Spins
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, UCSB
Faculty host: Jay Gupta
Tuesday, January 26
"On Ising's Model of Ferromagnetism"
Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty host: Rolando Valdes Aguilar
Tuesday, February 2
Making Perfect (almost) Crystalline Materials for Spintronics-YIG Spin Pumping
Fengyuan Yang, The Ohio State University, Physics
Faculty host: Chris Hammel
Tuesday, February 9
Topological Internal Edge State in Bilayer Graphene
Jun Zhu, Penn State
Faculty host: Jay Gupta
Tuesday, February 23
Structural Insights Into Retroviral RNA Genomes
Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University (Chemistry)
Faculty host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, March 1
The Ecomonic Value STEM Training and Research: Initial Analyses
Bruce Weinberg, The Ohio State Unviersity, Economics
Faculty host: Zeke Johnston-Halperin
Tuesday, March 8
The Science of the Electron Ion Collider: Exploring the Glue that Binds Us All
Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov
Tuesday, March 22
Mechanobiology of a Cellular Uptake Pathway in Developing Tissues
Comert Kural, The Ohio State University, Physics
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, March 29
Deep, Dark, and Elusive: LUX and Direct Dark Matter Searches
Kimberly Palladino, University of Wisconsin
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, April 5
Accelerating the Search for Cosmic Accelerations
Amanda Weinstein, Iowa State University
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, April 12
What Lies Beyond the Standard Model
Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, April 19
Does Classical Entanglement Shift the Quantum-Classical Boundary?
Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester
Facutly host: Dan Gauthier
2015 Colloquium Committee members:
Lisa - Chair
Brillson
Hirata
Jayaprakash
Raby
Schumacher
Ian Froning (Grad student rep)
Robin Patterson, Coordinator
Autumn 2015
Tuesday, September 1
Imaging The Surfaces of Stars
John Monnier, University of Michigan
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, September 8
The Oceans In A Warming World: How Are The Oceans Changing
And What Role Do They Play In Climate Change?
John Marshall, MIT
Faculty host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, September 15
Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics
Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty host: Jay Gupta
Tuesday, September 22
Ultracold Disordered Quantum Gases
Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois
Facutly host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 29
Pentaquarks: Quark Model Revisited
Tomasz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University
Faculty host: Richard Kass
Tuesday, October 6
Neutrinos From Nuclear Reactors: Searches and Surprises
James Napolitano, Temple University
Facutly host: Yuri Kovchegov
Tuesday, October 13
Unraveling the Mysteries of Neutrinos
Stephen Parke, Fermilab
Faculty Host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 20
Fundamental Differences Between Traditional III-V Compounds and Nitride Semiconductors:
Effect On Optoelectronic Devices
Theodore Moustakas, Boston University
Facutly Host: Len Brillson
Tuesday, November 3
Fast Ignition: An Alternate Route to Inertial Confinement Fusion
Scott Wilks, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, November 10
Deciphering the Early Universe: Connecting Theory with Observations
Cora Dvorkin, Harvard
Faculty host: Chris Hirata
Tuesday, November 17
Light Harvesting and Delivery at the Molecular Scale: Oscillator Strength Focusing
and Dexter Coupling Pathways
David Beratan, Duke University
Facutly host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, November 24
The Attosecond Frontier: Studying Motion by Absorption
Zenghu Chang, University of Central Florida
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, December 1
Chemical and Physics Sensing in Cell Under Confinement
Jagesh Shah, Harvard Medical School
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Spring 2015
Tuesday, January 13
The Era of Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider
Scott Thomas, Rutgers University
Faculty Host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, January 20
BOSS: Making of the Largest Map of the Universe
Anze Slosar, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Faculty Host: Klaus Honscheid
Tuesday, January 27
Quantum Chromodynamics at Five Trillion Degrees Kelvin
Mike Strickland, Kent State University
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, February 3
Progress Toward Measuring the Mass of the Neutrino
Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, February 10
Jagesh Shah, Harvard Medical School - Cancelled
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, February 17
Chasing Fast Dynamos in the Plasma Lab
Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Faculty Host: Doug Schumacher
Tuesday, February 24
Nuclear Energy After Fukushima
M.V. Ramana, Princeton University
Facutly Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, March 3
Fundamental Differences Between Traditional III-V Compounds and Nitride
Semiconductors: Effect on Optoelectronic Devices-CANCELLED
Theodore Moustakas, Boston University
Faculty Hosts: Len Brillson and Siddharth Rajan (ECE)
Tuesday, March 10
Probing Grand Unification via Neutrino Oscillations and Proton Decay
Kaladi S. Babu, Oklahoma State University
Faculty Host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, March 17
Spring break
Tuesday, March 24
Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, March 31
How to Measure and Characterize Correlated "Jigglings and Wigglings" in Proteins
Andrea Markelz, University of Buffalo
Faculty Host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, April 7
Don Lamb, University of Chicago
Faculty Host: Chris Orban
Tuesday, April 14
Electron Tunneling in a Noisy Environment and How This Might Impact Human Health
Stuart Lindsay, ASU
Faculty Host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, April 21
Inflation: There's Room at the Bottom
Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Host: John Beacom
Tuesday, April 28
How to Learn to Love the BOSS
Shirley Ho, Carnegie Mellon
Faculty Host: Annika Peter
2014 Colloquium Committee members:
Schumacher, Chair
Bao
Brillson
Freeman
Hammel
Hill
Lisa
Trivedi
Zhong
*Archana Anandakrishnan (student rep)
Robin Patterson, Colloquium Coordinator
Autumn 2014
Tuesday, August 26
Epidemics, Erdos Numbers and the Internet: The Physics of Networks
Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Faculty Host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, September 2
Water Dynamics in Nanoconfined Systems
Michael Fayer, Stanford University
Faculty Host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, September 9
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, September 16
Neurophysics of Space, Time and Memory
Mayank Mehta, UCLA
Faculty host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, September 23
Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation of the Injured Brain
John Corrigan, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, September 30
No colloquium due to Smith Lecture on October 2
Thursday October 2
And Then There Was Mass: From the Higgs To the Unknown
Smith Lecture - Joe Incandela, CERN and UCSB
Tuesday, October 7
Renewable Energy - A Physics Perspective
Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, October 14
2D Materials: Electronic States and Device Application
Randall Feenstra, Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty host: Leonard Brillson
Tuesday, October 21
The Source and Migration of Natural Gass in Shallow Aquifers:
Insights Provided by Gas Geochemistry
Thomas Darrah, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, October 28
Quantum Biology of Bird Navigation
Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, November 4
In Pursuit of Novel Two-Dimensional Electronic Structures by First-Principles Theory
Shengbai Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Faculty Host: Leonard Brillson
Tuesday, November 11
Veterans Day
Tuesday, November 18
Using Research to Investigate and Enhance Learning in Upper-Division Mechanics
Bradley Ambrose, Grand Valley State University
Faculty Host: Gordon Aubrecht
Tuesday, November 25
Probing and Controlling Laser Matter Interactions Using Ultrashort Shaped Pulses
Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University
Faculty Host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, December 2
Tiny Bubbles in the Mine: New Results from Bubble Chamber Dark Matter Searches at
SNOLAB
Eric Dahl, Northwestern/Fermilab
Faculty Host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, December 9
No colloquium
Spring 2014
Tuesday, January 7
2D Materials - Electronic States and Device Application
Randall Feenstra, Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty Host: Leonard Brillson
Tuesday, January 14
Physical Review Letters: The Inside Story
Kevin Dusling, PRL
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov
Tuesday, January 21
Nuclear Matter Studies at RHIC; Where We Are and What's Next
Paul Sorensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, January 28
Nanotechnology and Future of the Hard Disk Drive
Jeff Childress, HGST/Western Digital
Faculty host: Chris Hammel
Tuesday, February 4
Energy Storage for Transportation
Michael Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, February 11
A physicist's (not so) random walk down Wall Street
Damian Handzy, Investor Analytics
Faculty host: MichaeL Lisa
Tuesday, February 18
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, February 25
The Marvelous Success of the Standard Model of Cosmology
Lloyd Knox, UC Davis
Faculty Host: John Beacom
Tuesday, March 4
Seeing Voices: Optical Scanning Applied to Early Recorded Sound Preservation
Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Faculty Host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, March 11
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 18
Scientists and Washington: Like Oil and Water
Benn Tannenbaum, Sandia National Laboratory
Faculty Host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, March 25
Mission "Impossible": Exploring the Properties of Hot QCD Matter
Berndt Mueller, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Faculty Host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, April 1
Listening to the Universe with gravitational waves
Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, April 8
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't?
Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Faculty Host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, April 15
High Energy Density Physics and its Connections to Astrophysics
R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan
Faculty Host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, April 22
OSU Sports Medicine: Exercise as Medicine and Injury Prevention Strategies
Christopher Kaeding, The Ohio State University
Faculty Host: Chris Hill
Autumn 2013
Tuesday, August 27
Laser-plasma accelerators: there's plenty of room at the bottom
Michael Downer, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, September 3
The Higgs mode and quantum criticality in condensed matter
Assa Auerback, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Faculty Host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, September 10
Global Climate Change and Atmospheric Ozone Depletion: Understanding and Perspective
from a Physicist
Qing-Bin Lu, University of Waterloo
Faculty Host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, September 17
Aspects of 21st Century Nuclear Physics
Silas Beane, University of Washington
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, September 24
Assessing thinking like physicists
Eleanor Sayre, Kansas State University
Faculty Host: Gordon Aubrecht
Tuesday, October 1
Levitation by Casimir forces in and out of equilibrium
Mehran Kardar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, October 8
Nanoscale manipulation of light: physical insights and technological opportunities
Naomi J. Halas, Rice University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, October 15
Exploring the extreme universe with Fermi
Julie McEnery, University of Maryland
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 22
A single-molecule view of gene expression
Dan Larson, National Cancer Institute
Faculty host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, October 29
Are the Drip Paintings of Jackson Pollock Fractal?
Harsh Mathur, Case Western Reserve Univeristy
Faculty Host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, November 5
Visual Biological Physics: Watching Single Protein Molecules Behaving and Misbehaving on DNA
Stephen Kowalczykowski, UC Davis
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, November 12
MOOCs, the NRC Report, and Teaching Ohio State Students
David Pritchard, MIT
Faculty Host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, November 19
Attosecond Science and Technology
Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher
Tuesday, November 26
Topological Materials at the Nanoscale
Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University
Faculty Host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, December 3
Spring 2013
Tuesday, January 8
"Medical Initiatives from the Nuclear Community….. Applications of Innovative “Multi-Use” Technologies"
George Wicks, Savannah River National Laboratory
Faculty host: Kramer Akli
Tuesday, January 15
"Time or energy? Biology's function through relaxation, fluctuations, and nonergodicity (to rule them all)"
Dmitry Matyushov, Arizona State University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong
Tuesday, January 22
CANCELLED
TBA
Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, January 29
Tuesday, February 5
"A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases”
Martin Zwierlein, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, February 12
"A Universal Model for Nanoparticle Size Effects"
Helen Farrell, Idaho National Laboratory
Faculty host: Leonard Brillson (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Tuesday, February 19
“Enhancing scientific reasoning abilities in the introductory physics lab course”*
Kathy Koenig, University of Cincinnati
Faculty host: Lei Bao
Tuesday, February 26
“Hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers: the ‘Optical Lasers of the 21stCentury”
Jerry Hastings, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
Faculty Host: Doug Schumacher
Tuesday, March 5
CANCELLED
TBA
Naomi J. Halas, Rice University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, March 12
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 19
"Challenges in particle dark matter theory"
Paolo Gondolo, The University of Utah
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, March 26
"Escape Trajectories from Traditional Condensed Matter"
Gerald T. Seidler, University of Washington
Faculty host: Doug Schumacher
Tuesday, April 2
"Optical tools to monitor electrical activity in neurons"
Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Faculty jost: Comert Kural
Tuesday, April 9
Breaking the Diffraction Barrier of Light: How Microscopes Became Nanoscopes
Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, April 16
CANCELLED
Integrating Attosecond Science with Perturbative Nonlinear Optics
Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa
Faculty host: Douglas Schumacher
Autumn 2012
Tuesday, August 28
The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Chris Hill, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, September 4
Computing with quantum knots: Majorana modes, non-Abelian anyons, and topological quantum computation
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, September 11
Earth Under Pressure: Probing the Deepest Reaches of the Planet
Wendy Panero, School of Earth Sciences, OSU
Faculty host: Jim Beatty
Tuesday, September 18
Scanning tunneling microscope studies of nanostructures built one atom at a time
Jay Gupta, OSU
Faculty host: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin
Tuesday, September 25
High Energy Density Physics: Lighting the Way to Fusion Energy with Intense Lasers
Kramer Akli - The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, October 2
The Two Faces of Stress: From Neuronal Responses to Cognitive Behaviors
Zhen Yan, SUNY Buffalo
Faculty host: Lei Bao
Tuesday, October 9
Testing General Relativity using Atom Interferometry
Jason Hogan, Stanford University
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, October 16
Tuesday, October 23
Weighing the Neutrino: Results from Double-beta Decay Experiments
Lisa Kaufman, Indiana University
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 30
CANCELLED
Breaking the Diffraction Barrier of Light: How Microscopes Became Nanoscopes
Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, November 6
Simulating Anyons on a Quantum Computer
Nick Bonesteel, Florida State University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, November 13
The new messengers from the Universe : "First Light" of the high energy neutrino astronomy
Shigeru Yoshida, Chiba University
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, November 20
Disappearance of Reactor Neutrinos: Daya Bay and Beyond
Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, November 27
Axions, the Anthropic Principle, and the Tilted Universe
David Kaplan, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, December 4
Spinors, Strings and Superconductors: Challenges of new era in Theoretical Physics
Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
2012 Colloquium Committee Members
Heinz, Chair
Bao
Hill
Johnston-Halperin
Trivedi
Vieira
Walker
Tate, Colloquium Coordinator
