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

Dr. Cynthia Keeler – Colloquium Committee Chair
Anahi Valencia Martinez – Business Operations Specialist

Date	Speaker Name	Speaker Affiliation	Title	Host	Flyer	Colloquia Recording	Location
08-17	Oliver Beckstein	Arizona State University	From the Wiggling of Atoms to Fundamental Biological Processes via Multiscale Modeling	Doug Shepherd	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Beckstein.pdf 916.18 KB	Link	PSF 101
08-24	Douglas Shepherd	Arizona State University	Exploring the 'Rules of Life' Through Optical Microscopy	Rizal Hariadi	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Shepherd.pdf 1.17 MB	Link	PSF 101
08-31	Rizal Hariadi	Arizona State University	Probing Biomolecular Fluctuations Under Tension with Multi Axial Entropic Spring Tweezer Along Ring-Shaped Origami (MAESTRO)	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Hariadi.pdf 974.79 KB	Link	PSF 101
09-07	Siddharth Karkare	Arizona State University	Photoemission and Bright Electron Beams	Robert Nemanich	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Karkare.pdf 4.67 MB	Link	PSF 101
09-14	Kanu Sinha	Arizona State University	Taming Quantum Fluctuations in Nanoscale Systems: Some Ado About Nothing	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Sinha.pdf 1.34 MB	Link	PSF 101
09-21	Richard Averitt	University of California San Diego	Towards Properties on Demand In Quantum Materials	Robert Kaindl	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Averitt.pdf 582.53 KB	Link	PSF 101
09-28	Thomas Hartman	Cornell University	The Entropy of Hawking Radiation	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Hartman.pdf 160.78 KB	Link	PSF 101
10-05	Liuyan Zhao	University of Michigan	“Seeing” Multipolar Orders with Nonlinear Optics	Onur Erten	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Zhao.pdf 704.18 KB		PSF 101
10-12	No Colloquium
10-26	Bryan Henderson	Arizona State University	Beyond "Active Learning" in the Physics Classroom: How Different Forms of Student-Centered Instruction Can Yield Different Levels of Understanding	Patricia Rankin			PSF 101
11-02	Shinsei Ryu	Princeton University	Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Inhomogeneous Quantum Many-Body Systems	Onur Erten			PSF 101
11-09	Erik Winfree	Caltech	Pattern Recognition by Molecular Self-Assembly	Rizal Hariadi			PSF 101
11-16	Nikhil Malvankar	Yale	Wiring Cells: Controlling Microbial Electron Export via Natural and Synthetic Protein Nanowires	Rizal Hariadi			PSF 101
11-30	Andrew Strominger	Harvard University	Black Holes, the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe	Cindy Keeler			PSF 101