Colloquium Archive
Archived Colloquia by Semester:
Past Seminars
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 PRB, Smith Seminar Room
Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2025 Colloquium Committee Members
- Eric Braaten (Chair)
- Mohit Randeria
- Sasha Landsman
- Terry Walker
- Roland Kawakami
- Tom Humanic
- Michael Poirier
- Geraldine Cochran
- Sayak Biswas (Graduate Program Representative)
Tuesday, September 2nd (3:45 pm)
Data Science in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum
Speaker: Julie Butler, University of Mount Union
Host: Chris Orban
Tuesday, September 9th (3:45 pm)
Gravitational Wave Detection with Atomic Interferometry
Speaker: Peter Graham, Stanford
Host: Stuart Raby
Tuesday, September 16th (3:45 pm)
Physics Education in the Age of AI
Speaker: Noah Finkelstein, Colorado
Host: Geraldine Cochran
Tuesday, September 30th (3:45 pm)
A Strange New Universe: Where Bizarre Quantum Particles Rules
Speaker: Jainendra Jain, Penn State University
Host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, October 7th (3:45 pm)
Creating and Measuring the Elusive Majorana Fermions
Speaker: Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, October 14th (3:45 pm)
Creating and Exploring Bose-Einstein Condensates of Dipolar Molecules
Speaker: Sebastian Will, Columbia University
Host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, October 21st (3:45 pm)
State of the Physics Department Colloquium
Tuesday, October 28th (3:45 pm)
Hidden charm pentaquarks -- 10 years later
Speaker: Tomasz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University
Host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, November 4th (3:45 pm)
Investigating Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics using Tabletop and Free Electron Lasers
Speaker: Nora Berrah, UConn
Host: Sasha Landsman
Tuesday, November 18th (3:45 pm)
Entanglement phase transitions
Speaker: Brian Skinner, Ohio State University
Tuesday, December 2nd (3:45 pm)
From Interstellar Space to the Sun’s Embrace: Cosmic Ray Journeys through the Heliosphere
Speaker: Jamie Rankin, Princeton
Host: John Beacom
Tuesday, December 9th (3:45 pm)
Speaker: Suzanne White Brahmia, University of Washington
Host: Geraldine Cochran
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 PRB, Smith Seminar Room
Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2025 Colloquium Committee Members
- Eric Braaten (Chair)
- Mohit Randeria
- Sasha Landsman
- Terry Walker
- Roland Kawakami
- Tom Humanic
- Michael Poirier
- Geraldine Cochran
- Sayak Biswas (Graduate Program Representative)
Tuesday, January 7th (3:45 pm)
Sustaining Space, and Launching a Space Career
Speaker: Therese Jones, NASA
Host: WaGMiP
Thursday, January 9th (11:00 am)
New physics at our fingertips: two vignettes of quantum materials
Speaker: Tessa Cookmeyer, UC Santa Barbara
Faculty Host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, January 14th (3:45 pm)
Learnability transitions in open quantum systems
Speaker: Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Princeton
Faculty Host: Ilya Gruzberg
Thursday, January 16th (11:00 am)
From Quantum to Classical Fields and Back
Speaker: Guido Festuccia, University of Uppsala
Faculty Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, January 21st (3:45 pm)
Ergodicity breaking in quantum dynamics
Speaker: Rahul Nandkishore, UC Boulder
Faculty Host: Ilya Gruzberg
Thursday, January 23rd (11:00 am)
Speaker: Nicolas Regnault, Flatiron Institute
Faculty Host: Ilya Gruzberg
Tuesday, January 28th (3:45 pm)
Universal Constraints on Quantum Many-Body Systems from Thought Experiments
Speaker: Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP, Univ, Tokyo
Faculty Host: Ilya Gruzberg
Thursday, January 30th (11:00 am)
Hidden Naturalness at Colliders and in Cosmology
Speaker: Matthew Low, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, February 4th (10:30 am)
Controlling THz Light-Matter Coupling to Manipulate Layered Quantum Materials
Speaker: Alexander von Hoegen, MIT
Faculty Host: Fengyuan Yang
Tuesday, February 4th (3:45 pm)
From Quarks to Neutron Stars: The Condensed Matter Physics of Quantum Chromodynamics
Speaker: Yuki Fujimoto, Berkeley
Faculty Host: Yuri Kovchegov
Thursday, February 6th (10:30 am)
Imaging Emergent Phases of Matter in 2D Materials
Speaker: Trevor Arp, UC Santa Barbara
Faculty Host: Fengyuan Yang
Thursday, February 6th (3:45 pm)
Probing strongly interacting matter at the highest densities
Speaker: Tyler Gorda, University of Frankfurt
Faculty Host: Yuri Kovchegov
Tuesday, February 11th (10:00 am)
Nanoscale Imaging of Potential Landscapes with the Atomic SET
Speaker: Dahlia Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Faculty Host: Fengyuan Yang
Tuesday, February 11th (3:45 pm)
Exploring the Universe with Effective Theories
Speaker: Varun Vaidya, University of South Dakota
Faculty Host: Yuri Kovchegov
Thursday, February 13th (10:30 am)
Visualizing and engineering quantum states of matter in vdW materials
Speaker: Minhao He, Princeton University
Faculty Host: Fengyuan Yang
Thursday, February 13th (3:45 pm)
The Geometry of Particle Physics
Speaker: Tim Cohen, CERN Theory Department
Faculty Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, February 18th (3:45 pm)
Neutron stars, topological phases and lattice fermions
Speaker: Srimoyee Sen, Iowa State University
Faculty Host: Yuri Kovchegov
Thursday, February 20th (11:00 am)
Dark particles and where to find them
Speaker: Ryan Plestid, California Institute of Technology
Faculty Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, February 25th (3:45 pm)
Effective Field Theory Surprises for Black Holes
Speaker: Grant Remmen, NYU
Faculty Host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, March 18th (3:45 pm)
Autonomous Real-time Decision-making in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
Speaker: Niharika Sravan, Drexel
Host: Jared Gdanski
Tuesday, March 25th (3:45 pm)
Student Life Disability Services: Creating Access Together
Speaker: Heidi Aune and Jamonae Scarborough
Host: APS IDEA
Tuesday, April 1st (3:45 pm)
State of the Physics Department
Speaker: Chair, Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, April 8th (3:45 pm)
Generation of elliptically polarized high order harmonics
Speaker: Andreas Becker
Faculty Host: Sasha Landsman
Tuesday, April 15th (3:45 pm)
A Path to Wellness in Physics at FRIB: How Our Program Began
Speaker: Rachel Younger
Faculty Host: Geraldine Cochran
Tuesday, April 22nd (3:45 pm)
Preparing for the Thorium-229 revolution
Speaker: Gilad Perez
Faculty Host: Stuart Raby
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 PRB, Smith Seminar Room
Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2024 Colloquium Committee Members
- DiMauro L (Chair)
- Brandenburg D
- Boveia A
- Cochran G
- Hughes K
- Kawakami R
- Kural C
- Skinner B
- Grafstrom B (Grad rep.)
Tuesday, August 27th
Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions using Light
Speaker: Tony Heinz, Stanford University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 3rd
Navigating Personal and Professional Dynamics in Graduate School
Speaker: APS-IDEA, Adrienne Wilson
Faculty host: n/a
Tuesday, September 10th
Speaker: Edward Thomas, Auburn
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 17th
Speaker: Ken Schafer, LSU
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 24th
Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies
Speaker: Chung-Pei Ma, Berkeley
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, October 1st
State of the Physics Department
Speaker: Chair, Vice Chairs, Department Manager
Faculty host: n/a
Tuesday, October 8th
From Schrödinger's cat to emergent gauge theories in topological matter
Speaker: Ruben Verresen, Chicago
Faculty host: Yuan-Ming Lu
Tuesday, October 15th
Modeling Instruction, student engagement, and neurobiological impacts
Speaker: Eric Brewe, Drexel University
Faculty host: Geraldine Cochran
Tuesday, October 22nd
Chasing the Ghost Particle: Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube
Speaker: Brian Clark, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Kaeli Hughes
Tuesday, October 29th
Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding
Speaker: Job Dekker, University of Massachusetts
Faculty host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, November 12th
The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke
Faculty host: Antonio Boveia
Tuesday, November 19th
The nonlinear lattice polarizability: where nonlinear optics and structural control meet
Speaker: Jeffrey Moses, Cornell
Faculty host: Michael Chini
Tuesday, November 26th
Compact-object astrophysics with gravitational waves
Speaker: Sylvia Biscoveanu, Northwestern University
Faculty host: John Beacom
Tuesday, December 3rd
Manifestations of the Berry Phase: From Fractional Charge to Wireless Rectification
Speaker: Liang Fu, MIT
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 PRB, Smith Seminar Room
Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2024 Colloquium Committee Members
- DiMauro L (Chair)
- Brandenburg D
- Boveia A
- Cochran G
- Hughes K
- Kawakami R
- Kural C
- Skinner B
- Grafstrom B (Grad rep.)
Spring 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Computationally unraveling life's events below light's diffraction limit
*this colloquium will be held in 4138 PRB at 11:00 am
Speaker: Steve Pressé, Arizona State University
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Special Colloquium- Nobel Ceremony and Speech
Introduction by: Lou DiMauro
Faculty host: n/a
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Towards next-generation physical and logical qubits in superconducting circuits
Speaker: Chen Wang
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Killing them softly: targeting cell mechanics to sensitize cancer cells to programmed cell death.
Speaker: Umida Djakbarova, OSU
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Bridging Microwave and Optical Quantum Worlds Using Nanomechanics
Speaker: Han Zhao
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Moving the Barrier to Practical Quantum Computing on Two Fronts
Speaker: Yanzhu Chen, Virginia Tech
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Static and ultrafast engineering of low-dimensional quantum materials
Speaker: Ryo Noguchi, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Fengyuan Yang
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Probing fundamental symmetries through neutrino oscillations
Speaker: Zoya Vallari, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Steering electrons with lightwaves: from petahertz electronics to quantum spectroscopy
Speaker: Christian Heide, Stanford University
Faculty host: Fengyuan Yang
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Accelerator Searches for Sub-GeV Dark Sectors
Speaker: Cameron Bravo, Stanford University
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
A dual-species Rydberg array
Speaker: Kevin Singh, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Visualizing Josephson Current with an Atomic Magnetometer
Speaker: Shaowen Chen, Harvard
Faculty host: Fengyuan Yang
Tuesday, February 22, 2024
Intertwined degrees of freedom in layered materials
Speaker: Jin Hu, University of Arkansas
Faculty host: Fengyuan Yang
Tuesday, February 22, 2024
Shining High- *and* Low-Energy Light on Dark Matter: A Multi-Pronged Approach
Speaker: Matthew Szydagis, University at Albany
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Probing Highly Tunable Electronic Properties of Layered Quantum Materials
Speaker: Jyoti Katoch, Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty host: Fengyuan Yang
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Quantum machine learning: from near-term to fault-tolerance
Speaker: Junyu Liu, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Neutrinos: Ghosts, Anomalies and Portals to the Dark Sector
Speaker: Mark Ross-Lonergan
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Searching high and low for dark matter with liquid noble detectors
Speaker: Scott Haselschwardt
Faculty host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Autonomous Real-time Decision-making in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
Speaker: Niharika Sravan, Drexel University
Faculty host: Jared Gdanski
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Science to Words
Speaker: Kenneth Chang, New York Times
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Spin-orbit torque in magnetic van der Waals heterostructures: exchange interactions and non-uniform spin ordering
Speaker: Kelly Luo, University of Southern California
Faculty host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Sensemaking: From social positioning to gesture
Speaker: David T. Brookes, CSU Chico
Faculty host: Geraldine Cochran
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 Physics Research Building,
Robert Smith Seminar Room - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2023 Colloquium Committee Members
- Kawakami - Chair
- Lisa
- Lu
- Randeria
- Kural
- DiMauro
- Brandenberg
- Braaten
- Jared Gdanski, graduate student representative
Fall 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Ambitions for theory in the physics of life
Speaker: Bill Bialek
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Speaker: Matthew Fisher
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Exploring the nature of neutrino mass with nEXO
Speaker: Michelle Dolinski
Host: Jared Gdanski
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Autonomous Real-time Decision-making in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
Speaker: Niharika Sravan
Host: Jared Gdanski
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: Mapping the Structure of the Universe with a Galaxy Redshift Survey
Speaker: Ashley Ross
Faculty host: Klaus Honscheid / John Beacom
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Challenges for Building a Resilient Free-Space Quantum Network
Speaker: Anil Patnaik
Faculty host: Chris Orban
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
The competition of magnetism and topological states of matter in quantum materials probed through angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Speaker: Claudia Ojeda-Aristazabal
Faculty host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Journey to Unveil Proton Spin Structure: From Current Insights to the EIC Frontier
Speaker: Maria Zurek
Faculty host: Daniel Brandenburg
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Glacial Optics: Cold Cutting Edge
Speaker: Tristan Duke
Faculty host: Harris Kagan
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
National Security, Fusion Futures, and Disruptive Technology – A View from LLNL
Speaker: Kim Budil
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Anisotropic Strain as a Probe for Exotic Orders in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Linda Ye
Faculty host: Roland Kawakami
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
From Single Molecules to Cellular Decision Making: Connecting the Scales Using Mechanical Force
Speaker: Taekjip "TJ" Ha
Faculty host: Comert Kural
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
No Talk - Week of Thanksgiving
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Limit Shape Phase Transitions
Speaker: Alexander Abanov
Faculty host: Yuanming Lu
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The XYZ Affair: Tales of the Third (and Fourth) Hadrons
Speaker: Rich Lebed
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in Robert Smith Seminar Room
1080 Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium
2023 Colloquium Committee Members
- Kawakami - Chair
- Lisa
- Lu
- Randeria
- Kural
- DiMauro
- Brandenberg
- Braaten
- Jared Gdanski, graduate student representative
Spring 2023
Thursday, Feb 9, 2023 (3pm)
The Next Generation of Neutrino Astrophysics
Speaker: Kaeli Hughes
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023 (1pm)
Parametric controls and modular quantum computing in superconducting quantum circuits
Speaker: Michael Hatridge
Faculty host: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ron Reano
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Speaker: Elisabeth Krause
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Thursday, Feb 16, 2023 (11am)
Cosmic Neutrinos at the Highest Energies
Speaker: Stephanie Wissel
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Thursday, Feb 16, 2023 (3pm)
Supporting Variation in Students’ Needs, Abilities and Interests in Postsecondary Physics and Beyond
Speaker: Jackie Chini
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023 (11am)
The Cost of Graduate Education in Physics
Speaker: Geraldine Cochran
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023
Precision Cosmology : from CMB to 21cm
Speaker: Zhilei Xu
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 (11am)
Attosecond Electronics: Laser Waveform Control of Electron Dynamics in Materials
Speaker: Michael Chini
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro
Thursday, Feb 23, 2023 (3pm)
Expanding the horizons of survey cosmology with new methods, models and probes
Speaker: Eric Huff
Faculty host: Amy Connolly
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
Direct Time- and Momentum-Resolved Imaging of the Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors
Speaker: Alice Kunin
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro
Thursday, March 2, 2023 (11am)
Increasing the complexity of quantum devices
Speaker: Anasua Chaterjee
Faculty hosts:Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin & Ron Reano
Thursday, March 2, 2023 (3pm)
Thinking About Race and Marginalized Communities in Physics: A Path Towards RAISE
Speaker: Ramón S. Barthelemy
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 @ 11am
-Pure gravity and the bootstrap
Speaker: Nathan Benjamin
Faculty host: Samir Mathur
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Investigating Ultrafast Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules with Inner-shell Ionization
Speaker: Ruaridh J.G. Forbes
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Thursday, March 9, 2023 (3pm)
SMEFT: the modern paradigm for particle physics data interpretation
Speaker: Michael Trott
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Catching Electrons in the Act: Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Energy and Charge Transfer
Speaker: Oliver Gessner
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Topological Stars from Quantum Gravity
Speaker: Pierre Heidmann
Faculty host: Eric Braaten & Samir Mathur
Thursday, March 23, 2023 (11am)
Effectively employing quantum field theory
Speaker: Brian Henning
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Thursday, March 23, 2023 (2pm)
Probing topological states of spin and light: hedgehogs, skyrmions, optical vortices, and beyond.
Speaker: Chen-Ting Liao
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 @11am
The origin of high-energy particles in our Universe: Update from the multi-messenger observations
Speaker: Nahee Park
Faculty host: Keith McBride
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory
Speaker: Ida Zadeh
Faculty host: Samir Mathur & Eric Braaten
Thursday, April 6, 2023 @1:15pm
Structure and ultrafast dynamics at aqueous-oxide interfaces
Speaker: Eric Borguet
Faculty host: DiMauro and Singer
Monday, April 10, 2023 @4pm
Imaging ultrafast molecular dynamics with electron diffraction
Speaker: Martin Centurion
Faculty host: DiMauro and Singer
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Fall 2022
Friday, December 9--- Special Seminar* 12:30pm
Illuminating Dark Matter With Cosmic Probes
Speaker: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Faculty host: Annika Peter
Tuesday, December 6
An x-ray laser view of atomic and electronic dynamics
Speaker: Linda Young
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro
Tuesday, November 29
Black Holes as Extreme Quantum Information Processors
Speaker: Brian Swingle (Brandeis University)
Faculty host: Yuan-Ming Lu
Tuesday, November 15
The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and how physicists can help reduce it)
Speaker: Laura Grego (MIT)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, November 8
Imaging Atomically Thin Quantum Material Devices at the Nanoscale
Speaker: Jairo Valasco (UC Santa Cruz)
Faculty host: Jeanie Lau
Tuesday, November 1
Building a quantum repeater network using atomic quantum interconnects, 10:00am
Speaker: Eden Figueroa (Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Faculty hosts: Zeke Johnston-Halperin and Ron Reano
Emergence of a new non-relativistic magnetic class: the discovery of altermagnets, 3:45pm
Speaker: Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Faculty host: Chris Hammel
Tuesday, October 25
Lattice QCD, Light-Front Quantization, and Ken Wilson
Speaker: Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland)
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov
** Different date and time! ** -- Wednesday, October 19, 1:30pm
From new quantum laws to design of quantum technologies
Speaker: Davide Girolami (Politecnico di Torino)
Faculty host: Zeke Johnston-Halperin and Ron Reano
Tuesday, October 18
Quantum Oscillations of Electrical Resistivity in an Insulator
Speaker: Lu Li (University of Michigan)
Faculty host: Yuan-Ming Lu
** Different date and time! ** -- Thursday, October 6, 11am
Quantum computing over the rainbow
Speaker: Olivier Pfister (University of Virginia)
Faculty host: Zeke Johnston-Halperin and Ron Reano
Tuesday, September 27
Topological phases and new scientific frontiers with Rydberg atom arrays- Zoom Recording
Speaker: Mary James (Reed College)
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, September 20
What Does Access Really Mean? Findings from the AIP TEAM_UP Report - Zoom Recording
Speaker: Mary James (Reed College)
Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
Tuesday, September 13
Soil as Source and Sink of Greenhouse Gases - Zoom Recording
Speaker: Prof. Rattan Lal (OSU)
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, August 30
Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with isobar collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - Zoom Recording
Speaker: Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Lab)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
2022 Colloquium Committee Members
- Lisa - Chair
- Lu
- Ho
- Trivedi
- Heinz
- Kagan
- Valdes-Aguilar
- Braaten
- Daniel Tuthill - Graduate Student Representative
Tuesday, January 18
First results from the Fermilab muon g-2 experiment
Speaker: Renee Fatemi
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, January 25
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herroro (MIT)
Faculty host: Jason (Tin-Lun) Ho
Tuesday, February 1
The black hole information paradox
Speaker: Samir Mathur (OSU)
Faculty host: Jason (Tin-Lun) Ho
Tuesday, February 8
Atomistic Simulations of Point Defects in Semiconductors – Their Behavior and Consequences
Speaker: Joel Varley (Lawrence Livermore)
Faculty host: Leonard J. Brillson
Tuesday, February 15
Exotic Heavy Hadrons at LHCb
Speaker: Vanya Belyaev (ITEP Moscow)
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday, February 22
RHIC and the Electron-Ion Collider: Our Quest to Understand the Structure of Visible Matter in our Universe
Speaker: Alex Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, March 1
Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Speaker: Zach Meisel (Ohio University)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, March 8
Speaker: Scott Manalls (MIT)
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh
Tuesday, March 15
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 22
TBA
Speaker: Joachim Frank, Annual Alpheus Smith Lecture | Department of Physics (osu.edu)
Faculty host: Michael Poirier
Thursday, March 24 -- non-standard time, 3:00pm
Studying Nuclear structure Across Scales from JLab to the EIC
Speaker: Dien Nguyen (Thomas Jefferson National Lab)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Monday, March 28
Frontiers in Low-Energy Nuclear Science at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Speaker: Andrea Richard (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, March 29
Old Divisions and New Realms: Physics Across Borders
Speaker: Yangyang Cheng (Yale)
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Thursday, March 31
Discoveries and Applications with Polarized Photons
Speaker: Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Lab)
Faculty host: Michael Lisa
Tuesday, April 5
Quantum Matter, Clock, and Fundamental Physics
Speaker: Jun Ye (JILA)
Faculty host: Jason (Tin-Lun) Ho
Tuesday, April 12
Neutral modes in quantum Hall effect: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Speaker: Mitali Banerjee (EPFL, Lausanne, Zurich)
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, April 19
X-ray coherent lensless imaging and ptychography at Synchrotron sources
Speaker: Manuel Guizar Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Faculty host: Rolando Valdes Aguilar
2021 Colloquium Committee
- Zhong - Chair
- Ho
- Trivedi
- Brillson
- Heinz
- Hill
- Lisa
- Skinner
- Valdes-Aguilar
- Nieberding, graduate student representative
Tuesday, August 31
Going with the flow — exploring the nuclear phase diagram at the highest temperatures and densities
Chun Shen, Wayne State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz
Tuesday, September 7
The Search for Ancient Life on Mars Began with a Safe Landing
Andrew E. Johnson, Jet Propulsion Lab
Faculty host: John Beacom
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, September 14
Are there bounds on the superconducting transition temperature?
Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
Faculty host: Chris Hammel
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, September 21
A Direct Geometric Probe of Singularities in Band Structure
Charles Brown, UC Berkeley
Faculty host: Dan Gauthier
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, September 28
Towards Living Synthetic Matter
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Faculty host: Brian Skinner
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, October 5
Machine Learning Quantum Emergence
Eun-ah Kim, Cornell University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, October 12
Introduction to Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Microwave Photons
Steve Girvin, Yale
Faculty host: Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
Tuesday, October 19
Floquet-engineering topological Dirac bands in an optical lattice
Ian Spielman, JQI and University of Maryland
Faculty host: Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, October 26
Strongly Driven Quantum Materials
David Hsieh, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, November 2 - Election Day
No Colloquium
Tuesday, November 9
Experimental exploration of Dirac magnons and excitons in a honeycomb magnet
Radu Coldea, University of Oxford
Faculty host: Rolando Valdés Aguilar
Zoom Recording
Tuesday, November 16
Collective excitations in two-dimensional magnetic atomic crystals and moiré superlattices
Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan
Faculty host: Rolando Valdés Aguilar
Tuesday, November 23
Towards a more diverse and equitable physics graduate program
Danny Caballero, Michigan State University
Faculty host: Rolando Valdés Aguilar
Tuesday, November 30
Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium
Vedika Khemani, Stanford University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi
Tuesday, December 7
Looking Forward to Forward Physics
Jonathan Feng, University of California Irvine
Faculty host: Christopher Hill
2021 Colloquium Committee
- Zhong - Chair
- Ho
- Trivedi
- Brillson
- Heinz
- Hill
- Lisa
- Skinner
- Valdes-Aguilar
- Nieberding, graduate student representative
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
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
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
Tuesday, March 10 - Spring Break
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 University, 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
Faculty 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
Faculty 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
Faculty 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
Faculty 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
Faculty 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
Studying the Turbulent Amplification of Magnetic Fields in Laboratory and
Astrophysical Plasmas Using High-Intensity Laser Experiments
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 University
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
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, 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 host: 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 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