Colloquia
The Department of Physics hosts colloquia every semester. Each semester speakers from around the world from various physics topics are asked to give a talk on relevant and innovative research. Colloquia are held on Thursdays.
Light refreshments will be served at 3:15pm outside PSF 101, and Colloquium lecture will begin at 3:30pm in PSF 101.
For more information about the Colloquia, please contact
- Onur Erten – Interim Colloquium Committee Chair
- Samantha Munguia - Assistant Director of Operations
Colloquia
| Date | Speaker Name | Speaker Affiliation | Title | Host | Speaker Photo | Colloquia Recording | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehran Kardar |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Boundaries, Inclusions, and Disorder in Active Matter | Matt Baumgart |
|
PSF 101 | ||
Niayesh Afshordi |
University of Waterloo |
Quantum Black Holes and the Conundrum of Cosmic Causality | Tanmay Vachaspati |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Arnold Mathijssen |
University of Pennsylvania |
Collective Functionalities Emerging in Living Active Matter | Doug Shepherd |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Ralph Chamberlin |
Arizona State University |
Nanothermodynamics: There’s Plenty of Room on the Inside | ASU |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Nandini Trivedi |
Ohio State University |
Fractionalized Electrons and Fractionalized Spins in Quantum Materials | Onur Erten |
|
PSF 101 | ||
Nora Berrah |
University of Connecticut |
Probing Molecular Dynamics from Within with Free Electron Lasers | Robert Kaindl |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Kimberly Boddy |
University of Texas, Austin |
Pursuing Dark Matter Across the Cosmos | Matt Baumgart |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Yuhai Tu |
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Living Systems: The Free Energy Cost of Biological Functions | Navish Wadhwa |
|
Link | PSF 101 | |
Benjamin Safdi |
University of California, Berkeley |
The Search For Axion Dark Matter | Tanmay Vachaspati |
|
Link | Zoom | |
Dr. Nan Yao |
Princeton University |
Seeing the Unseen: Imaging Discoveries from Natural Quasicrystals to Quantum Interfaces | Jimmy Liu |
|
Link | Zoom | |
Mariangela Lisanti |
Princeton University |
Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter | Matt Baumgart |
|
Zoom | ||
Chong-Yu Ruan |
Michigan State University |
A New Femtosecond Microscopy Platform: From Technological Innovation to Materials Discovery | Robert Kaindl |
|
PSF 101 | ||
Nestor J. Zaluzec |
University of Chicago |
Cowley Distinguished Lecture: Metrology With Electron Beams | David Smith |
|
PSF 101 |