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 is held on Thursdays.

Light refreshments will be served at 3:45pm in PSF 186, and Colloquium lecture will begin at 4:00pm 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
08-25	Cindy Keeler	Arizona State University	Three Ways to Build a Spacetime	Cecilia Lunardini	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Keeler.pdf 266.55 KB	Dr. Keeler Colloquium	PSF 101
09-01	Damien Easson	Arizona State University	The Universe Before the Big Bang	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Easson.pdf 178.16 KB	Dr. Easson Colloquium	PSF 101
09-08	Antia Botana	Arizona State University	The Nickel Age of Superconductivity	Onur Erten	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Botana.pdf 230.27 KB	Dr. Botana Colloquium	PSF 101
09-15	Helvi Witek	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	CSI Gravity: Investigating fundamental physics with gravitational waves	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Witek.pdf 224.34 KB	Dr. Witek Colloquium	PSF 101
09-22	Navish Wadhwa	Arizona State University	Do bacterial engines have automatic gearshifts?	Rizal Hariadi	Colloquium_Wadhwa_11x17.pdf 243.46 KB	Dr. Wadhwa Colloquium	PSF 101
09-29	Alex Maloney	McGill University	Quantum Fields, Quantum Gravity, and Black Holes	Cindy Keeler	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Maloney.pdf 163.35 KB	Dr. Maloney Colloquium	PSF 101
10-06	Dalziel Wilson	University of Arizona	Ultracoherent nanomechanical resonators for quantum experiments and precision measurement	Will Terrano	Colloquium Poster - Wilson 11x17.pdf 185.25 KB	Dr. Wilson Colloquium	PSF 101
10-13	No Colloquium
10-20	Ruud Tromp	IBM	Cowley Distinguished Lecture: In-situ imaging and spectroscopy with few-eV electrons	David Smith	Cowley Lecture Flyer-11x17-Tromp.pdf 300.78 KB	Dr. Tromp Cowley Lecture	PSF 101
10-27	Kate Scholberg	Duke University	Scattering in Neutrino Alley	Cecilia Lunardini	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Scholberg.pdf 271.99 KB	Dr. Scholberg Colloquium	PSF 101
11-03	Haidan Wen	Argonne National Lab	Probing ultrafast structural dynamics in quantum materials by x-ray free-electron lasers	Robert Kaindl	Colloquium Flyer-11x17-Wen.pdf 213.06 KB	Dr. Wen Colloquium	PSF 101
11-10	Dmitry Matyushov	Arizona State University	From Gibbs to biology: Maxwell’s demon, nonergodicity, and biological function	Stuart Lindsay	Matyushov Colloquia Flyer 11x17.pdf 254.7 KB	Dr. Matyushov Colloquium	PSF 101
11-17	Maria Chan	Argonne National Lab	Theory-informed AI/ML for Design and Characterization of Energy Materials	Arunima Singh	Colloquium Flyer 11x17 - Chan.pdf 194.33 KB	Dr. Chan Colloquium	PSF 101