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
- Becky Thornton - Assistant to the Chair
- Juliet Speas -Business Operations Specialist
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 |
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Link | PSF 101 | 08.21_Teitelbaum_Colloquium Announcement.pdf | |
Dr. Damien Easson |
Arizona State University |
Did the Universe Have a Beginning? | Cynthia Keeler |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
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Link | PSF 101 | 9.18 Susarla Announcement.png | |
Justin Earley |
ASU-School of Molecular Sciences |
Nanoclusters as Tunable Platforms for Understanding Molecular Qubit Physics | Robert Kaindl |
|
Link | PSF 101 | ||
Dr. Nicholas Matlis |
Arizona State University |
TBD | 
|
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 | 
|
Link | PSF 101 | |||
Dr. David Hertzog |
University of Washington |
TBD | 
|
Link | PSF 101 | |||
Dr. Ayana Arce |
Duke University |
TBD | 
|
Link | PSF 101 | |||
Dr. Jim Werner |
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
TBD | Doug Shepherd |
Link | PSF 101 |
