Spring 2026 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
2026 Colloquium Committee Members
- Mohit Randeria (Chair)
- Yuri Kovchegov
- Sasha Landsman
- Masaki Oshikawa
- Jeanie Lau
- Alex von Hoegen
- Eric Braaten
- Comert Kural
- Geraldine Cochran
- Heather Mei (Graduate Program Representative)
Tuesday, January 13th (10:00 am)
Dissecting the Relationship Between Genome Organization and Transcription Regulation
Speaker: Christopher Bohrer, NIH
Host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, January 13th (3:45 pm)
Photonic Interfaces Across Scales: From Quantum Emitters to Ultrafast Light
Speaker: Maxim Radikovich Shcherbakov, UC Irvine
Host: Mike Chini
Tuesday, January 20th (3:45 pm)
Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes
Speaker: Carlos Floyd, University of Chicago
Host: Michael Poirier
Thursday, January 22nd (3:45 pm)
Probing the Void: the Electroweak Vacuum from the LHC to the Tabletop
Speaker: Miao Hu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Host: Chris Hill
Thursday, January 29th (9:00 am)
Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition
Speaker: Leon Zaporski, MIT
Host: Sasha Landsman
Tuesday, February 3rd (3:45 pm)
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions through Tailored Integrated Photonics
Speaker: Ryota Katsumi, Columbia University
Host: Mike Chini
Thursday, February 5th (3:45 pm)
Speaker: Grace Cummings, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)
Host: Chris Hill
Thursday, February 12th (9:00 am)
Creating the shortest light pulses in the world
Speaker: Meng Han, Kansas State University
Host: Sasha Landsman
Thursday, February 12th (3:45 pm)
The embryo as an active self-organizing machine
Speaker: Rikki Garner, Harvard
Host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, February 17th (3:45 pm)
Beyond Expectations: Machine Learning Anomalies in High-Energy Collisions
Speaker: Benedikt Maier, Imperial College London
Host: Chris Hill
Thursday, February 19th (9:00 am)
Radioactive Molecules and Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics
Speaker: Silviu-Marian Udrescu, University of Chicago
Host: Sasha Landsman
Thursday, February 19th (3:45 pm)
Pushing Silicon to Its Limits: Searching for New Physics and Building the ATLAS Inner Tracker
Speaker: Ian Dyckes, CERN
Host: Chris Hill
Tuesday, February 24th (10:00 am)
Mechanical Organizing Centers in Living Matter
Speaker: Samhita Banavar, Princeton University
Host: Michael Poirier
Tuesday, February 24th (3:45 pm)
Hidden State and Dynamics in Moiré Quantum Matter
Speaker: Yiping Wang, Columbia University
Host: Mike Chini
Thursday, February 26th (9:00 am)
Next-Generation Cavity-inspired Quantum Interfaces for Neutral Atoms
Speaker: Zeyang Li, Stanford University
Host: Sasha Landsman
Tuesday, March 3rd (3:45 pm)
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Host: TBA
Tuesday, March 10th (3:45 pm)
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Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard
Host: Mohit Randeria
Tuesday, March 24th (3:45 pm)
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Speaker: Rachel Henderson, Michigan State University
Host: Geraldine Cochran/PER Group
Tuesday, March 31st (3:45 pm)
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Speaker: Mack Kira, University of Michigan
Host: Sasha Landsman
Tuesday, April 7th (3:45 pm)
Nature's Balancing Act
Speaker: Ken Hicks, Ohio University
Host: Daniel Brandenburg
Tuesday, April 14th (3:45 pm)
TBA
Speaker: Jim Beletic
Host: John Beacom
Tuesday, April 21 (3:45 pm)
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Speaker: Mary Kate Gallagher & Courtney Johnson, OSU Office of Civil Rights Compliance
Host: Physics Community Committee (J. Chini, A. Raab, A. Lucas)
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.