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

Colloquia

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

Dr. Samuel Teitelbaum

Arizona State University

Ultrafast X-rays for Materials Physics

Robert Kaindl

Dr. Teitelbaum Link PSF 101 08.21_Teitelbaum_Colloquium Announcement.pdf

Dr. Damien Easson

Arizona State University

Did the Universe Have a Beginning?

Cynthia Keeler

Dr. Easson Link PSF 101 8.28 Easson_Fall 2025 Colloquium Announcement.pdf

Dr. Antia Sanchez Botana

Arizona State University

The Dawn of The Nickel Age of Superconductivity

Onur Erten

Dr. Sanchez Botana Link PSF 101 09.04 Botana_Fall 2025 Colloquium Announcement.pdf

Dr. Petr Sulc

ASU Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics

Designing Self-Assembly in Bionanotechnology: From Minimum Complexity Multicomponent Structures to Therapeutics

Doug Shepherd

Dr. Petr Sulc Link PSF 101 9.11 Sulc_Announcement.png

Dr. Sandhya Susarla

ASU-School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Watching Atoms and Quasiparticles by the Electron Microscopy Lens

Antia Botana

Sandhya Susarla Link PSF 101 9.18 Susarla Announcement.png

ASU-School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

ASU-School of Molecular Sciences

Nanoclusters as Tunable Platforms for Understanding Molecular Qubit Physics

Robert Kaindl

Dr. Justin Earley Link PSF 101

Dr. Nicholas Matlis

Arizona State University

TBD Dr. Matlis Link PSF 101

Dr. Rogier Windhorst

ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration

TBD

Matthew Baumgart

Link PSF 101

Dr. Hanui Zhu

Rice University

Ultrafast Spintronics with Chiral/Axial Phonons

Robert Kaindl

Link PSF 101

Dr. Glennys Farrar

New York University

TBD

Tanmay Vachaspati/William Terrano

Link PSF 101

Dr. Piers Coleman

Rutgers University

TBD Dr. Coleman Link PSF 101

Dr. David Hertzog

University of Washington

TBD Dr. Hertzog Link PSF 101

Dr. Ayana Arce 

Duke University 

TBD Dr. Arce Link PSF 101

Dr. Jim Werner

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory

TBD

Doug Shepherd

Link PSF 101