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Spring 2025 Physics Colloquium

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)

Engineering quantum phases of matter through moire materials: The case of Fractional Chern insulators

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

 

 

 

Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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