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Physics Colloquium

Colloquia time and location: 3:10 pm, McLennan Physics MP102 with coffee beforehand at 2:45 pm in MP110.

Starting Fall 2022, the Physics Colloquium will start at a new time of 3:10 pm (instead of 4:10 pm). Colloquium speakers will either present in-person or online, and both formats will be live streamed. Whether the colloquium speaker is presenting in-person or online, we will hold an in-person coffee, starting at 2:45 in MP110, and then move to MP102 for the 3:10 pm start of the colloquium.

Even if the colloquium speaker is presenting remotely, we will use MP102 as a room to watch the live stream, for those attendees who want to watch the live stream as a group.

For all colloquia, attendees are free to watch the live stream from another location. 

Recordings of the colloquia will be posted.

Our colloquium series reflects the diverse research interests and pursuits of the department. Please forward your suggestions for speakers to Colloquium Chair Paul Kushner (email: paul.kushner@utoronto.ca) or to Colloquium Secretary Joane Magnaye (email: jmagnaye at physics.utoronto.ca). To get up-to-date announcements about upcoming colloquia, please subscribe to the Colloquium mailing list (see link below).

Links

  • Online Physics Colloquia - related material archive from 2005 - 2019. From 2020 onward see button "related materials" below.
    All physics colloquia held at the University of Toronto will now be available online. If you'd like just the PDF file, you can download the PDF file only (if available). To view the voice-synchronized version, just click on the *.ppt file for the talk, and click on open at the prompt. If you have difficulty opening the file in your browser, you can download both *.ppt file and *.mp3 file in your computer under the same directory.
  • The talks are also live streamed to the Youtube Channel.
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  • Directions to the Department of Physics

Past Events

related materials
04
Apr 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Andrea Liu
Physical systems that learn by themselves
28
Mar 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Nicholas Rodd
Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes
21
Mar 2024
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Subir Sachdev
Quantum entanglement in nature
14
Mar 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Morgan O’Neill
*CANCELLED* Thermodynamics of the climate system
07
Mar 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Dan Hooper
Dark Matter and the search for WIMPs
29
Feb 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Prineha Narang
Nonequilibrium and Cavity Control of Quantum Matter
15
Feb 2024
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Herman Batelaan
Quantum Force and Space-Time Topology
08
Feb 2024
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Fazel Tafti
Chemistry Insights into Physics Problems
01
Feb 2024
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Harold Hwang
Finding unconventional superconductors via unconventional synthesis
25
Jan 2024
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Frits Paerels
How Squishy Are Neutron Stars? And Why Does that Matter?
18
Jan 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Patrick Meade
A journey to the future: “Our Muon Shot"
11
Jan 2024
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Steven Plotkin
Can we design and build novel molecular therapeutics for the next viral epidemic?
30
Nov 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Single molecule colliders at low energy – Nanopores for protein analysis and digital information storage
23
Nov 2023
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
TBA
Talk on Nov. 23, 2023
16
Nov 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Elias R. Most
Neutron Star Mergers: New Frontiers in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics
02
Nov 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Greg McFarquhar
Flying Through Clouds to Learn About Weather and Climate
26
Oct 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Shruti Puri
Good qubits and good codes
19
Oct 2023
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Sergio de la Barrera
Cold, flat, and crowded: Why I spend all my time thinking about graphene
12
Oct 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Tatiana Erukhimova
Physics as Street Art
05
Oct 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Ivan Semeniuk
Recent Adventures in Science Journalism
28
Sep 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Scott King
Earth and Venus: Twins, Yes but, Probably not Separated at Birth
21
Sep 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Sophia Economou
Control and distribution of entanglement in quantum networks
14
Sep 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 102
Jodi Cooley
Discoveries in the Deep: The Future of Science at SNOLAB
06
Apr 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Fazel Tafti
CANCELLED - Chiral Charges and Spiral Spins
30
Mar 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Shruti Puri
CANCELLED Talk on March 30, 2023
23
Mar 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Matthew Alford
Measuring Waves and Turbulence in the Ocean: Why and How
16
Mar 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Sophia Economou
CANCELED TALK-Efficient deterministic generation of photonic graph states
09
Mar 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Taking Earth’s Temperature
02
Mar 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood
Computation in the Calculus-based Intro Physics Course
16
Feb 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Jennifer Cano
The Search for Topological Materials
09
Feb 2023
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Heiner Igel
Earth’s Rock and Roll: Rotational Motions in Geodesy and Seismology
02
Feb 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Shailesh Chandrasekharan
Building our Universe with Qubits
01
Feb 2023
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Health Sciences Building, HS 610, 155 College Street ( South Side of College)
Peter Shor
The development of quantum error correcting codes
26
Jan 2023
3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Seyda Ipek
Why are we here? Matter--Antimatter Asymmetry of the Universe
19
Jan 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Ilya Nemenman
Statistical Physics of Biological Simplicity
12
Jan 2023
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Rebecca Leane
Detecting Dark Matter with Stars and Planets
01
Dec 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Achillefs Kapanidis
Light, camera, single-molecule transcription action!
24
Nov 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 102
Miriam Diamond
Solid State Detectors for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches
17
Nov 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Thierry Emonet
Smelling odor motion enhances olfactory navigation
03
Nov 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Tim Woollings
The physics of polar weather patterns
27
Oct 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Jennifer Adams
What Do Creativity and Equity Have to Do with STEM Education?
20
Oct 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Gil Refael
Floquet engineering in the era of topological physics and quantum coherent devices
13
Oct 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Aditi Sheshadri
Small waves, big impact: Atmospheric gravity waves and climate change
06
Oct 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Anatole von Lilienfeld
Quantum Machine Learning
29
Sep 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Andrew T. S. Wee
2D TMDs: New Wonder Materials?
22
Sep 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Ting Li
From Telescopes to Dark Matter & Black Holes
15
Sep 2022
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Yonatan Kahn
Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter
07
Apr 2022
4:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Laura Waller
Computational Microscopy
31
Mar 2022
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Jonathan Simon
Making Matter from Light: Mott Insulators, Superfluids and Topological Fluids
24
Mar 2022
4:10 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Shang-Ping Xie
Predictive ocean dynamics in warming climate
17
Mar 2022
4:10 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Suzanne White Brahmia
Measuring and enhancing quantitative reasoning in physics instruction
10
Mar 2022
10:10 a.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Xie Chen
Quantum Error Correction Codes as Exotic Condensed Matter
03
Mar 2022
4:10 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Frank Pollmann
Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors
17
Feb 2022
4:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Tiffany Shaw
Closing the gap between simulating and understanding climate change
10
Feb 2022
4:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Wes Campbell
Order Up! Molecular Qubits with a Side of SPAM
03
Feb 2022
4:10 p.m.
online event
David Hsieh
Strongly Driven Quantum Materials
27
Jan 2022
11 a.m.
online event
Matthew Philip Mccullough
Self-Organised Localisation
20
Jan 2022
4:10 p.m.
online event
Claudiu Gradinaru
Function without Structure: Single-molecule Experiments and Modelling of Disordered Proteins
13
Jan 2022
4:10 p.m.
online event
David Peterson
Australia’s Black Summer Pyrocumulonimbus Super Outbreak Reveals Potential for Increasingly Extreme Stratospheric Smoke Events
02
Dec 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Juna Kollmeier
SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
25
Nov 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Colm-cille Caulfield
Mixing up the climate? How the mystery of stratified turbulence is controlling all our futures
18
Nov 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Margaret Murnane
Attosecond Quantum Technologies for Probing the Functional Properties of Materials
04
Nov 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Scott Tremaine
The densest stellar systems: the dynamics of galactic nuclei
28
Oct 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Jelena Vuckovic
Scalable semiconductor quantum systems
21
Oct 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
G.W. Kent Moore
The Physics of Complexity: Nobel Prizes and Ice Arches
14
Oct 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
The Power of the Dark Side: Discovering New Physics among Dark Matter and Neutrinos
07
Oct 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
**THIS TALK IS CANCELLED**Heat waves: observed trends often disagree with modelled trends. Why?
30
Sep 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Amir Yacoby
Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials Using NV center Microscopy
23
Sep 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Chris Stoughton
Fermilab g-2: Measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon.
16
Sep 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Henriette Elvang
A Modern View of Scattering Amplitudes
01
Apr 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Harry Cliff
Rare beauty - are we seeing signs of new physics at the LHCb experiment?
25
Mar 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Laure Zanna
Machine learning for physics-discovery and climate modeling
18
Mar 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Michael Bostock
Earthquakes in Cascadia
11
Mar 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Eva Andrei
The Magic of Atomically Thin Materials
04
Mar 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Victor Tsai
Statistical Mechanics for Erosion and Earthquakes
11
Feb 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Jeff Gore
Universal dynamics of complex biological communities
04
Feb 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Natalia Toro
Shining New Light on Dark Matter
28
Jan 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Mark Zelinka
Global warming is larger in the latest climate models than in their predecessors. Do we trust them?
21
Jan 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Jennifer Kay
How do clouds affect global warming?
14
Jan 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Pepijn Veefkind
Global high spatial resolution observations of atmospheric composition: TROPOMI
07
Jan 2021
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Nuh Gedik
Capturing light induced phase transitions with femtosecond movies
03
Dec 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Ali Yazdani
Electrons in Moiré Superlattices: A playground for correlation and topology
26
Nov 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Talk on Nov 26
19
Nov 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
What to do with a near-term quantum computer?
12
Nov 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Leonid Mirny
Physics of your chromosomes
29
Oct 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Mariangela Lisanti
Mapping the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo with Gaia
22
Oct 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Katherine Freese
Thoughts on what Dark Matter is (and what it isn’t) and how to Find it
15
Oct 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Online: https://zoom.us/j/91394040191?pwd=dTh0emNIeXREM3I3bm1mMW1Kd2VnUT09
Antoine Browaeys
Many-body physics with arrays of individual atoms
08
Oct 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
There will be no colloquium on Thursday, October 8th
01
Oct 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Howard Wiseman
CAN A QUBIT BE YOUR FRIEND? Why a philosopher would want to have a quantum computer
24
Sep 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Andrey Chubukov
Superconductivity from repulsion
17
Sep 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
online event
Steven Simon
Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should be Interested
12
Mar 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Anton Zilman
Simple physics of complex “biomachines”: the curious case of the Nuclear Pore Complex
05
Mar 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Alan Migdall
Measurements: For all time, for all people (The dawning of a new age)
27
Feb 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Stephen Montzka
The surprising case of CFC-11: Have we fallen off the path to ozone layer recovery?
20
Feb 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Michael Raymer
Is a Quantum 2.0 Science and Technology Revolution Coming?
13
Feb 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Kendrick Smith
CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
06
Feb 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Cornelia Hoehr
How nuclear physics can treat cancer - radiotherapy at TRIUMF
30
Jan 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Mark Zoback
Utilizing Physics-Based Models to Manage the Risk of Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Production
23
Jan 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Rouven Essig
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: A New Frontier
16
Jan 2020
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Meigan Aronson
Alternatives to Ordered Phases at Zero Temperature
09
Jan 2020
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street Room 102
Melinda Webster
Will snow help or hurt sea ice in a warming climate?
05
Dec 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Stephanie Waterman
Filling in the Map: Arctic Ocean mixing space-time geography & its impacts
28
Nov 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Jonathan Oppenheim
A post-quantum theory of classical gravity?
21
Nov 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Tulika Bose
Searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider - with precision and innovation
14
Nov 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Tracy Slatyer
Deciphering the Universe's Dark History
07
Nov 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Terry Hwa
Bacterial growth laws and the origin of dimensional reduction
31
Oct 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Nigel Smith
The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground
24
Oct 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Ivan Schuller
Neuromorphic Computing
17
Oct 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Andrea Cavalleri
Emergent Properties in Light Matter Hybrids
10
Oct 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Sidhartha Goyal
Statistical mechanics of stem cells
03
Oct 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Mishkatul Bhattacharya
Flying lasers for sound
26
Sep 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Thomas Scaffidi
Electron hydrodynamics
19
Sep 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room 102
Cheng Chin
Bose fireworks
04
Apr 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Carl Wieman
Teaching Students to Think Like Physicists
28
Mar 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Chen-Yu Liu
The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle
21
Mar 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Nancy Forde
Building tools and models to characterize biological mechanics at the nanoscale
14
Mar 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Sam Vinko
One x-ray source to rule them all
07
Mar 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Pascale Garaud
Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics
28
Feb 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Martin Savage
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
14
Feb 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Dmitri Chklovskii
How the brain computes: A physicist's perspective
07
Feb 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Amy Clement
The Causes of Atlantic Climate Variability
31
Jan 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Joshua W. Shaevitz
Self-driven phase transitions in living matter
24
Jan 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Rama Ranganathan
Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins
17
Jan 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Anton Burkov
Topological Metals
10
Jan 2019
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Mary-Louise Timmermans
A stockpile of heat deep in the Arctic interior
06
Dec 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Emilia Morosan
From "Iron man" to refrigerator magnets - Itinerant magnets without magnetic elements
29
Nov 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Ludwig Mathey
Controlling many-body systems via periodic driving
22
Nov 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Eric Hessels
Table-top precision measurements to test fundamental physics
15
Nov 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Mark van Raamsdonk
Gravity and Entanglement
08
Nov 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
David Hogg
The ESA Gaia Mission and dark matter in the Milky Way
01
Nov 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Premala Chandra
The Inner Universe of Quantum Materials
25
Oct 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Neelima Sehgal
Mapping Dark Matter on Large and Small Scales with the Cosmic Microwave Background
18
Oct 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Achim Rosch
Whirls in magnets: from skyrmions to magnetic monopoles
11
Oct 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
David Curtin
Particle Physics at the Lifetime Frontier
04
Oct 2018
4:10 a.m. - 5:10 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Peter Wittek
An asymmetric relationship: Quantum computing and artificial intelligence
27
Sep 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Martin Gruebele
Imaging excited state dynamics with sub-nanometer resolution
20
Sep 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St.George Street MP 102
Eric Cornell
No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition
13
Sep 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Scott Denning
Planetary metabolism: Breathing of the Earth
05
Apr 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
John Cook
Responding to fake news in the post-truth era
29
Mar 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Feng Wang
Manipulating the Mass of Electrons in Two-dimensional Graphene
22
Mar 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Antoine Venaille
A surprising connection between exotic states of matter and a precursor of El Nino
15
Mar 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Simon Scheuring
High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: The Dawn of Dynamic Structural Biochemistry
08
Mar 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Raman Sundrum
Fundamental Physics and the Fifth Dimension
01
Mar 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Anna Michalak
Can you un-stir a creamy cup of coffee? Untangling atmospheric greenhouse gas signatures to reveal what controls emissions
15
Feb 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Paul Corkum
Probed quantum systems on the attosecond time scale
08
Feb 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Natasha Grace Holmes
Rethinking Intro Physics Labs
01
Feb 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Vidya Madhavan
Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems
25
Jan 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Tanya Zelevinksy
Physics and chemistry with diatomic molecules near absolute zero
18
Jan 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Asimina Arvanitaki
Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
11
Jan 2018
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Ehud Altman
Chaos, thermalization and the dynamics of quantum information: how quantum butterflies produce classical storms
07
Dec 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Rafael Fernandes
A tale of two states: the complex relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in quantum materials
30
Nov 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Hue Sun Chan
Physics of Protein Function and Evolution: From Sequence-Structure to Sequence-Ensemble Relationships
23
Nov 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
John R. Dutcher
Unlocking the Potential of Nature’s Dendrimer: From Serendipitous Discovery to Fundamental Science to Commercialization
16
Nov 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Heather Lewandowski
Engaging Students in Authentic Scientific Practices in Physics Lab Courses
09
Nov 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Makoto Fujiwara
Casting Light on Antimatter: Fundamental Physics with Bottled Antihydrogen Atoms
02
Nov 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Mack Kira
Clustronics on Quantum Many-Body Architecture
26
Oct 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Matthew Schwartz
Modern Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider
19
Oct 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Saul Teukolsky
The Coming Revolution in Computational Astrophysics
12
Oct 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Philip Phillips
Do Cuprate Superconductors Harbor Hidden Extra Dimensions
05
Oct 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Duncan O'Dell
The Abraham-Minkowski controversy: an ultracold atom perspective
28
Sep 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Pauline Gagnon
The tragic destiny of Mileva Marić Einstein
21
Sep 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 102
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Follow the Water: Exploration for Habitability and Microbial Life in the Earth’s Deep Subsurface
06
Apr 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Stephon Alexander
The Jazz of Physics: The Link Between Music and The Structure of the Universe
30
Mar 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Jason Alicea
Majorana Materializes
23
Mar 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Cristina Marchetti
Active Matter: from colloids to living cells
16
Mar 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Tiziana Vanorio
Cementing Roman Concrete To a Caldera
09
Mar 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
John Bernard
From Chains to Combs: The Measurement of Optical Frequencies
02
Mar 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Roger Melko
Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem
09
Feb 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Matthew Schwartz
The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider - This talk is CANCELLED
02
Feb 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Marcela Carena
Higgs Portals to Dark Matter and Extra Dimensions
26
Jan 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Philip Kim
Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter’s Butterfly in Graphene
19
Jan 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Robert Boyd
Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World
12
Jan 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Pierre-Tomas Brun
Building with fluids: from fluid flows to tangible structures
05
Jan 2017
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Andrew Meyertholen
A Physics 256 Case Study: Incorporating research-based teaching techniques into an upper-level course
08
Dec 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Massimo Vergassola
Navigating turbulent environments
01
Dec 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
David Lockner
Earthquake Scaling from M-9 to M+9 (or what happens in the lab stays in the lab)
24
Nov 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Colin Goldblatt
Habitability and climate of (exo)planets
17
Nov 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
David Bailey
Everyone screws up sometimes – Uncertainty in the real world
10
Nov 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
David Crisp
Watching the Earth Breathe with the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
03
Nov 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Steven Cundiff
Optical Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
27
Oct 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Maria Spiropulu
The Higgs and beyond: connections and puzzles in particle physics
20
Oct 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Kevin Trenberth
Implications of Earth’s energy imbalance for climate
13
Oct 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Mohit Randeria
Skyrmions: From high energy physics to condensed matter systems
29
Sep 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
J. Michael Roney
Applying Quantum Entanglement to Search for New Physics at TeV Energies
22
Sep 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street MP 102
Wolfgang Ketterle
Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials –optical lattices and synthetic magnetic fields
07
Apr 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Barbara Levi
Physics Today … and Yesterday
31
Mar 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Thomas Peacock
Internal wave interferometry and its potential role in the Arctic Ocean
24
Mar 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Matthew Johnson
Searching for other Universes
17
Mar 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Eric Hudson
Beating Boltzmann?
10
Mar 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Jason Alicea
Majorana Materializes - This Talk is Cancelled
03
Mar 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Stanislav Shvartsman
Physics in the developing egg
25
Feb 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
John Bush
Hydrodynamic quantum analogs: Droplets walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave
18
Feb 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 103
Aaron Zimmerman
The final ringdown of black holes and the first detection of gravitational waves
11
Feb 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Aashish Clerk
Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise
04
Feb 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Gilles Gerbier
The elusive Dark Matter in the Universe, from Sky to Underground
28
Jan 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Jaideep Singh
Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a Magic Room, and Pear-Shaped Nuclei
14
Jan 2016
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Marie D'Iorio
Nanoscale Adventures
03
Dec 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Eva Silverstein
Horizon Dynamics and String Theory
19
Nov 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Scott Dodelson
Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope
12
Nov 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Peter Armitage
Shining (low frequency) light on quantum magnets: Ising spin chains, quantum spin ice, and spin-orbital liquids
05
Nov 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Senthil Todadri
Topological insulators beyond band theory
29
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
JoAnne Hewett
The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry
22
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Renata Wentzcovitch
Spin crossover in iron and its implications for understanding Earth's mantle
15
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Hirohisa Tanaka
Neutrinos: the desperate remedy
08
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Vijay Balasubramanian
The Maps Inside Your Head
01
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Pieternel Levelt
Eye in the Sky – How satellites observe our changing atmosphere
24
Sep 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Jean-Luc Thiffeault
A mathematical history of taffy pullers
17
Sep 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60. St. George Street, MP 103
Jagadeesh Moodera
Spin Polarized Tunneling and Interface: A step towards molecular spintronics
02
Apr 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Mark Levinson and Monica Dunford
Catching particle fever
19
Mar 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Freddy Cachazo
What “Really” Happens when Gluons Collide?
12
Mar 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sean Hartnoll
From black holes to badly behaved metals
05
Mar 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Marjorie Shapiro
Searching for New Physics at the LHC: Run 2 Status and Prospects
26
Feb 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Suchitra Sebastian
High temperature superconductivity: progress and prospects
12
Feb 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jeroen van den Brink
Spin-orbital separation in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3
05
Feb 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
David Reis
Lattice Dynamics with a big “D”: a case for ultrafast x-ray scattering
22
Jan 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Karin Dahmen
Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes
15
Jan 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
David Brain
What happened to the ancient Martian atmosphere?
04
Dec 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
JoAnne Hewett
CANCELLED: The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry
27
Nov 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Geoffrey Hinton
Deep Learning
13
Nov 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alan Nathan
Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions
06
Nov 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Steven Kivelson
CANCELLED: Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in correlated electronic systems
30
Oct 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Luca Capriotti
Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD): Hedging financial risks and cracking the puzzles of condensed matter physics
23
Oct 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Matthias Troyer
Quantum Annealing
16
Oct 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sharad Ramanathan
Attempts at disentangling biological circuits by controlling them
09
Oct 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ian Eisenman
Changes in the sea ice cover in both polar regions: observations, simulations, and theories
02
Oct 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Qimiao Si
Quantum Criticality – How It Works, and How It Elucidates Electronic Matter
25
Sep 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Christian Haas
Arctic Sea Ice – where are we headed?
18
Sep 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Bahen Centre (BA) 1190
Noah Finkelstein
Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: why us and why now -- the promises of disciplinary engagement
11
Sep 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Benjamin Lev
The SQCRAMscope
03
Apr 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dan Falk
The Science of Shakespeare
27
Mar 2014
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Scott Franklin
Tangled Granular Matter
06
Mar 2014
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Giorgio Gratta
Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics
27
Feb 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Norbert F. Scherer
Insights into stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells, or A Bug's Life
13
Feb 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Stefan Myrskog
Concentrating the Sun: Concentrated Photovoltaics and design challenges at 1000 Suns
06
Feb 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Stephen Morris
Consider the Icicle
30
Jan 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jan Kycia
Studying Monopoles in Spin Ice at Ultra Low Temperatures
23
Jan 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Peter Olson
The Geodynamo from a Whole-Earth perspective
16
Jan 2014
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jason Petta
Spooky Action at a Distance: Generating Entanglement in Quantum Dot Circuits
05
Dec 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jens Dilling
Understanding the universe, one rare isotope at a time.
28
Nov 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ted Hsu
Let’s strengthen the voice of scientists in parliament!
21
Nov 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Andreas Hemmerich
When bosons condense in excited states
14
Nov 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Naomi Leonard
Towards Flawless Flocking: Models and Mechanisms from Animal Groups
07
Nov 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alan Madej
Moving Beyond the Current Limits of Time: Single Ion Optical Atomic Clocks and the Quest for the Ultimate Isolated Quantum System
31
Oct 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Francis Halzen
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
24
Oct 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Peter Brown
The Chelyabinsk Airburst and its Implications for the Impact Hazard at the Earth
03
Oct 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Andy Mackenzie
Complex oxides: a new playground for physics and technology
26
Sep 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Chandra Varma
Higgs Bosons in Condensed Matter Physics
19
Sep 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Mihaly Horanyi
The Lunar Surface: A Dusty Plasma Laboratory
12
Sep 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jim Sethna
Sloppy models, Differential geometry, and How Science Works
04
Apr 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sarah Gille
Warming in the Southern Ocean: Mechanisms and Implications
28
Mar 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Philippe Cluzel
Scaling laws and many-body physics to predict the behavior of multi-drug resistant microbes and cancer cells
21
Mar 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Mathieu Dumberry
The interior structure and dynamics of Mercury: my own sober spin based on gravity and rotation observations.
14
Mar 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Taekjip Ha
Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix
07
Mar 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ed Hinds
Is the electron round?
28
Feb 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Nadya Mason
Small Dots Make it Big: Studying Collective Phenomena in Arrays of Superconducting Islands
14
Feb 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene
07
Feb 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Martin Zwierlein
A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases
31
Jan 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Matthew Huber
Earth is a Planet, Too! Paleoclimate is Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics You Can Do at Home
24
Jan 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Markus Aspelmeyer
Schrödinger’s Mirrors: extending quantum experiments to massive mechanical objects
17
Jan 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
David Pantalony
The other Koenig collections of historic acoustical instruments
10
Jan 2013
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Darrell Schlom
Enhancing Oxide Properties—The Approach of the Modern Alchemist
29
Nov 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Frederik Simons
Making the most of GRACE: Studying melting icecaps and large earthquakes using satellite gravity
22
Nov 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dimitri Basov
Many body effects in graphene revealed by infrared nano-imaging
15
Nov 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Mark Srednicki
Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
08
Nov 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Lily Childress
Quantum devices with diamond defects
01
Nov 2012
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jainendra Jain
Exotic particles of fractional quantum Hall effect
25
Oct 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP)102
Wallace Marshall
How Cells Control Size
18
Oct 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Pierre Savard
The Discovery of a Higgs-like Boson
11
Oct 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Burkhard Militzer
Helium Rain and Core Erosion in Giant Planets Predicted with Ab Initio Simulations
04
Oct 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Matthew Strassler
The Quest for the Higgs Boson
27
Sep 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sergio Peisajovich
Mimicking the Evolution of Cellular Signaling Networks in the Lab
20
Sep 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Paul Lett
Quantum Imaging: Spooky images at a distance, and what to do with them
13
Sep 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Xiao-Gang Wen
Highly Entangled Quantum Matter
05
Apr 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Philip Nelson
Inference in biological physics
29
Mar 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Shijie Zhong
Building a dynamic model of the Earth's mantle for the last 500 Million years
22
Mar 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Subir Sachdev
Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter
15
Mar 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dmitri Kharzeev
The mirror symmetry in super-dense matter and chiral hydrodynamics
08
Mar 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Nergis Mavalvala
Quantum Opportunities in Gravitational Wave Detection
01
Mar 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Graham Feingold
On Rabbits, Foxes, Clouds, and Precipitation
16
Feb 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Beate Heinemann
The Quest for the Higgs Boson at the LHC - THIS TALK IS CANCELED.
09
Feb 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
David Tanner
Diffractive optics: An old subject teaches us new tricks
02
Feb 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Raffaele Ferrari
What Physics Triggers Ocean Phytoplankton Blooms?
26
Jan 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Aephraim Steinberg
Quantum Measurements in the Real World
19
Jan 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Colloquium cancelled
12
Jan 2012
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dennis Discher
How deeply cells feel
01
Dec 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dam Thanh Son
Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory
28
Nov 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics, MP 103
Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider
24
Nov 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ido Golding
A Quantitative Look at Gene Regulation
17
Nov 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Hari Manoharan
Molecular Graphene
10
Nov 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Eric Braaten
Effective Field Theory and Ultracold Atoms
03
Nov 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Joanna Haigh
Solar Variability and Climate
27
Oct 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Yves Couder
Wave-particle duality at the macroscopic scale
20
Oct 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Scott Oser
Long Baseline Neutrinos: As Far from a Tabletop Experiment as You Can Get
13
Oct 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Tapio Schneider
Dynamics of Giant Planet Atmospheres
06
Oct 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennna Physics (MP) 102
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes
29
Sep 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alexandre Blais
Quantum Optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
22
Sep 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Roya Zandi
Physics of virus assembly
15
Sep 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Kenneth Burch
Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon
14
Apr 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Deborah Jin
Ultracold Polar Molecules
07
Apr 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Tom LeCompte
The LHC's First Year: New Results from the ATLAS Experiment -or- Life at the Zeptoscale
31
Mar 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ned Wingreen
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't?
24
Mar 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Barth Netterfield
Astrophysics from the Stratosphere
17
Mar 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Adam Showman
Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters
10
Mar 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Andy Ruina
Rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of the falling cat phenomenon go sour
03
Mar 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Gabriel Kotliar
Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Concepts and Applications
17
Feb 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Konrad Lehnert
Can acoustics be quantum?
10
Feb 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Paul Tackley
Modelling the interior dynamics and evolution of Earth, Venus, Mars and super-Earths
03
Feb 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Wesley Wong
New approaches in force spectroscopy: from enzyme kinetics to single-molecule centrifugation
27
Jan 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Siegfried Glenzer
Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a microscopic star in the laboratory*
20
Jan 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Robert Cava
Stoichiometry, Structure, Bonding, and the Electronic Properties of Fe and Co Pnictides
13
Jan 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Anne Douglass
Satellite Observations and Chemistry Climate Models – A Meandering Path Towards Better Predictions
02
Dec 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Keith Dienes
Probing the String Landscape:Implications, Applications, and Altercations
25
Nov 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Eitan Grinspun
From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
18
Nov 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Chris Westbrook
The Hanbury Brown Twiss effect: from stars to cold atoms
11
Nov 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Arthur Ramirez
Geometrical Frustration in Solids
11
Mar 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Joseph H. Thywissen
Ultra-cold ferromagnetism
09
Feb 2010
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Minelle Mahtani
How to use your cultural intelligence to your advantage: Navigating the job search process
05
Mar 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ehud Meron
Patterns of Green in the Desert Brown
26
Feb 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Lincoln Carr
Graduate Quantum Mechanics Reform
12
Feb 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Toni Taylor
Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials
05
Feb 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dr. Beobinger
The Versatility of the World's Strongest Magnetic Fields for Physics, Chemistry and Biology
29
Jan 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Molly Shoichet
Tissue Engineering in the Nervous System
22
Jan 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Michael Nielsen
How networked tools are changing science
15
Jan 2009
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alan Guth
Physics Colloquium Jan. 15, 2009
04
Dec 2008
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TBA
Dr. Ian Fisher
Physics Colloquium Dec. 4 2008
27
Nov 2008
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TBA
Physics Colloquium Nov. 27 2008
16
Oct 2008
4 a.m. - 5 a.m.
TBA
Physics Colloquium Oct. 16, 2008
13
Oct 2006
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 202
Thomas Peter, ETH
[Physics Colloquium --- Note Special Time:] The High Supersaturation Puzzle
This week's colloquium will take place at a special time and location.
14
Sep 2006
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Peter Galison, Harvard University
The Assassin of Relativity
20
Apr 2006
4:10 p.m. - 5:55 p.m.
MP102
Syukuro Manabe
Global Change in Water Availability
Event series  Physics Colloquium