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
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