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.

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Colloquia

Date Speaker Name Speaker Affiliation Title Host Speaker Photo Flyer Ad Colloquia Recording Location

Matthew Baumgart 

Arizona State University 

Prospecting for Dark Matter in the Mountains of Arizona

Richard Lebed 

Dr. Baumgart Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Baumgart.pdf Link PSF 101

Arunima Singh

Arizona State University

Data-Driven Discovery and Design of Materials’ Surfaces and Interfaces

David Smith

Dr. Singh Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Singh.pdf Link PSF 101

Onur Erten

Arizona State University

Emergent Phases in Quantum Magnets: Fractionalization, fragmentation and New Particles

Antia Botana

Dr. Erten Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Erten.pdf Link PSF 101

Lois Pollack

Cornell University

Where John Spence's vision led my research: Demonstrating new techniques for watching biomolecules at work

David Smith

Dr. Pollack Spence Distinguished Lecture Flyer - 11x17 - Pollack.pdf Link PSF 101

Brian LeRoy

University of Arizona

Designer States in Van der Waals Heterostructures

Onur Erten

Dr. LeRoy Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - LeRoy.pdf Link PSF 101

Bharat Ratra

Kansas State University

Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both

Tanmay Vachaspati

Dr. Ratra Colloquium Flyer - Prof Ratra.pdf PSF 101

Clifford Cheung

Caltech

Scattering Theory Redux: Supercolliders, Fluid Dynamics, and Black Holes

Matthew Baumgart

Dr. Cheung Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Cheung.pdf Link PSF 101

Laura Newburgh

Yale University

Cracking the Challenge of CHIME Calibration

Simon Foreman

Dr. Newburgh Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Newburgh.pdf Link PSF 101

Allen Liu

University of Michigan

Mechanobiology of Membranes: From Mechanotransduction to Artificial Cytoskeleton

Rizal Hariadi

Dr. Liu Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Liu.pdf Link PSF 101

Elaine Li

The University of Texas at Austin

Tailoring Light-Matter Interaction in Moiré Superlattice

Robert Kaindl

Dr. Li Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Li.pdf PSF 101

Antoinette Taylor 

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Generation of Ultrafast Terahertz Radiation Using Vectorial Optoelectronic Metasurfaces

Robert Kaindl

Dr. Taylor Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Taylor.pdf Link PSF 101

Aleksei Aksimentiev

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Seeing the Unseen with Supercomputers

Rizal Hariadi

Dr. Aksimentiev Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Aksimentiev.pdf

Saad Bhamal

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Blob: Topologically Entangled Living Matter

Rizal Hariadi

Dr. Bhamla Colloquium Flyer - 11x17 - Bhamla.pdf Link PSF 101