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Peter Galison, Harvard University

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PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Simple physics of complex “biomachines”: the curious case of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Measurements: For all time, for all people (The dawning of a new age)
Is a Quantum 2.0 Science and Technology Revolution Coming?
The surprising case of CFC-11: Have we fallen off the path to ozone layer recovery?
CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
How nuclear physics can treat cancer - radiotherapy at TRIUMF
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: A New Frontier
Utilizing Physics-Based Models to Manage the Risk of Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Production
Will snow help or hurt sea ice in a warming climate?
Filling in the Map: Arctic Ocean mixing space-time geography & its impacts
Searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider - with precision and innovation
Bacterial growth laws and the origin of dimensional reduction
A post-quantum theory of classical gravity?
Neuromorphic Computing
The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground
Deciphering the Universe's Dark History
Emergent Properties in Light Matter Hybrids
Flying lasers for sound
Statistical mechanics of stem cells
Electron hydrodynamics
The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle
Teaching Students to Think Like Physicists
Building tools and models to characterize biological mechanics at the nanoscale
Bose fireworks
One x-ray source to rule them all
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics
Evolutionary “Design” of Proteins
Self-driven phase transitions in living matter
How the brain computes: A physicist's perspective
The Causes of Atlantic Climate Variability
A stockpile of heat deep in the Arctic interior
Topological Metals
From "Iron man" to refrigerator magnets - Itinerant magnets without magnetic elements
Controlling many-body systems via periodic driving
Table-top precision measurements to test fundamental physics
The Inner Universe of Quantum Materials
The ESA Gaia Mission and dark matter in the Milky Way
Gravity and Entanglement
Mapping Dark Matter on Large and Small Scales with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Whirls in magnets: from skyrmions to magnetic monopoles
Particle Physics at the Lifetime Frontier
Imaging excited state dynamics with sub-nanometer resolution
An asymmetric relationship: Quantum computing and artificial intelligence
Planetary metabolism: Breathing of the Earth
No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition
Fundamental Physics and the Fifth Dimension
Manipulating the Mass of Electrons in Two-dimensional Graphene
High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: The Dawn of Dynamic Structural Biochemistry
Responding to fake news in the post-truth era
A surprising connection between exotic states of matter and a precursor of El Nino
Can you un-stir a creamy cup of coffee? Untangling atmospheric greenhouse gas signatures to reveal what controls emissions
Probed quantum systems on the attosecond time scale
Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems
Physics and chemistry with diatomic molecules near absolute zero
Rethinking Intro Physics Labs
Chaos, thermalization and the dynamics of quantum information: how quantum butterflies produce classical storms
Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
A tale of two states: the complex relationship between superconductivity and magnetism in quantum materials
Physics of Protein Function and Evolution: From Sequence-Structure to Sequence-Ensemble Relationships
Unlocking the Potential of Nature’s Dendrimer: From Serendipitous Discovery to Fundamental Science to Commercialization
Engaging Students in Authentic Scientific Practices in Physics Lab Courses
Casting Light on Antimatter: Fundamental Physics with Bottled Antihydrogen Atoms
Clustronics on Quantum Many-Body Architecture
Do Cuprate Superconductors Harbor Hidden Extra Dimensions
The Coming Revolution in Computational Astrophysics
Modern Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider
The tragic destiny of Mileva Marić Einstein
Follow the Water: Exploration for Habitability and Microbial Life in the Earth’s Deep Subsurface
The Abraham-Minkowski controversy: an ultracold atom perspective
Active Matter: from colloids to living cells
The Jazz of Physics: The Link Between Music and The Structure of the Universe
Majorana Materializes
Cementing Roman Concrete To a Caldera
From Chains to Combs: The Measurement of Optical Frequencies
Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem
Higgs Portals to Dark Matter and Extra Dimensions
The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider - This talk is CANCELLED
Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter’s Butterfly in Graphene
Building with fluids: from fluid flows to tangible structures
A Physics 256 Case Study: Incorporating research-based teaching techniques into an upper-level course
Navigating turbulent environments
Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World
Everyone screws up sometimes – Uncertainty in the real world
Watching the Earth Breathe with the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
Earthquake Scaling from M-9 to M+9 (or what happens in the lab stays in the lab)
Habitability and climate of (exo)planets
The Higgs and beyond: connections and puzzles in particle physics
Optical Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Implications of Earth’s energy imbalance for climate
Applying Quantum Entanglement to Search for New Physics at TeV Energies
Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials –optical lattices and synthetic magnetic fields
Skyrmions: From high energy physics to condensed matter systems
Physics Today … and Yesterday
Searching for other Universes
Physics in the developing egg
Beating Boltzmann?
Internal wave interferometry and its potential role in the Arctic Ocean
Majorana Materializes - This Talk is Cancelled
The final ringdown of black holes and the first detection of gravitational waves
Hydrodynamic quantum analogs: Droplets walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave
Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry Using Lasers, a Magic Room, and Pear-Shaped Nuclei
The elusive Dark Matter in the Universe, from Sky to Underground
Quantum quivering from dissipation and noise
Horizon Dynamics and String Theory
Nanoscale Adventures
Shining (low frequency) light on quantum magnets: Ising spin chains, quantum spin ice, and spin-orbital liquids
Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope
Topological insulators beyond band theory
The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry
Neutrinos: the desperate remedy
Eye in the Sky – How satellites observe our changing atmosphere
The Maps Inside Your Head
Spin crossover in iron and its implications for understanding Earth's mantle
A mathematical history of taffy pullers
Spin Polarized Tunneling and Interface: A step towards molecular spintronics
Catching particle fever
From black holes to badly behaved metals
What “Really” Happens when Gluons Collide?
Searching for New Physics at the LHC: Run 2 Status and Prospects
High temperature superconductivity: progress and prospects
Lattice Dynamics with a big “D”: a case for ultrafast x-ray scattering
Spin-orbital separation in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3
What happened to the ancient Martian atmosphere?
Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes
CANCELLED: The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry
Deep Learning
Quantum Annealing
CANCELLED: Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in correlated electronic systems
Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD): Hedging financial risks and cracking the puzzles of condensed matter physics
Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions
Changes in the sea ice cover in both polar regions: observations, simulations, and theories
Attempts at disentangling biological circuits by controlling them
Quantum Criticality – How It Works, and How It Elucidates Electronic Matter
Arctic Sea Ice – where are we headed?
Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: why us and why now -- the promises of disciplinary engagement
The SQCRAMscope
The Science of Shakespeare
Tangled Granular Matter
Insights into stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells, or A Bug's Life
Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics
Consider the Icicle
The Geodynamo from a Whole-Earth perspective
Studying Monopoles in Spin Ice at Ultra Low Temperatures
Concentrating the Sun: Concentrated Photovoltaics and design challenges at 1000 Suns
Let’s strengthen the voice of scientists in parliament!
Understanding the universe, one rare isotope at a time.
Spooky Action at a Distance: Generating Entanglement in Quantum Dot Circuits
When bosons condense in excited states
Moving Beyond the Current Limits of Time: Single Ion Optical Atomic Clocks and the Quest for the Ultimate Isolated Quantum System
Towards Flawless Flocking: Models and Mechanisms from Animal Groups
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
Complex oxides: a new playground for physics and technology
The Chelyabinsk Airburst and its Implications for the Impact Hazard at the Earth
Higgs Bosons in Condensed Matter Physics
The Lunar Surface: A Dusty Plasma Laboratory
Sloppy models, Differential geometry, and How Science Works
Warming in the Southern Ocean: Mechanisms and Implications
Scaling laws and many-body physics to predict the behavior of multi-drug resistant microbes and cancer cells
Is the electron round?
Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix
The interior structure and dynamics of Mercury: my own sober spin based on gravity and rotation observations.
Small Dots Make it Big: Studying Collective Phenomena in Arrays of Superconducting Islands
The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene
A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Schrödinger’s Mirrors: extending quantum experiments to massive mechanical objects
Earth is a Planet, Too! Paleoclimate is Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics You Can Do at Home
Enhancing Oxide Properties—The Approach of the Modern Alchemist
The other Koenig collections of historic acoustical instruments
Making the most of GRACE: Studying melting icecaps and large earthquakes using satellite gravity
Many body effects in graphene revealed by infrared nano-imaging
Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Quantum devices with diamond defects
Exotic particles of fractional quantum Hall effect
How Cells Control Size
The Discovery of a Higgs-like Boson
The Quest for the Higgs Boson
Helium Rain and Core Erosion in Giant Planets Predicted with Ab Initio Simulations
Quantum Imaging: Spooky images at a distance, and what to do with them
Highly Entangled Quantum Matter
Mimicking the Evolution of Cellular Signaling Networks in the Lab
Inference in biological physics
Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter
Building a dynamic model of the Earth's mantle for the last 500 Million years
The mirror symmetry in super-dense matter and chiral hydrodynamics
The Quest for the Higgs Boson at the LHC - THIS TALK IS CANCELED.
Quantum Opportunities in Gravitational Wave Detection
What Physics Triggers Ocean Phytoplankton Blooms?
Diffractive optics: An old subject teaches us new tricks
On Rabbits, Foxes, Clouds, and Precipitation
Quantum Measurements in the Real World
How deeply cells feel
Colloquium cancelled
A Quantitative Look at Gene Regulation
The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider
Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory
Effective Field Theory and Ultracold Atoms
Molecular Graphene
Solar Variability and Climate
Wave-particle duality at the macroscopic scale
Long Baseline Neutrinos: As Far from a Tabletop Experiment as You Can Get
Dynamics of Giant Planet Atmospheres
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes
Quantum Optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
Physics of virus assembly
Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon
Ultracold Polar Molecules
The LHC's First Year: New Results from the ATLAS Experiment -or- Life at the Zeptoscale
Astrophysics from the Stratosphere
Can acoustics be quantum?
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't?
Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Concepts and Applications
Rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of the falling cat phenomenon go sour
Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters
New approaches in force spectroscopy: from enzyme kinetics to single-molecule centrifugation
Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a microscopic star in the laboratory*
Stoichiometry, Structure, Bonding, and the Electronic Properties of Fe and Co Pnictides
Modelling the interior dynamics and evolution of Earth, Venus, Mars and super-Earths
Probing the String Landscape:Implications, Applications, and Altercations
Satellite Observations and Chemistry Climate Models – A Meandering Path Towards Better Predictions
The Hanbury Brown Twiss effect: from stars to cold atoms
From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
Geometrical Frustration in Solids
Ultra-cold ferromagnetism
How to use your cultural intelligence to your advantage: Navigating the job search process
The Versatility of the World's Strongest Magnetic Fields for Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Patterns of Green in the Desert Brown
Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials
Physics Colloquium Jan. 15, 2009
How networked tools are changing science
Graduate Quantum Mechanics Reform
Tissue Engineering in the Nervous System
Physics Colloquium Nov. 27 2008
Physics Colloquium Dec. 4 2008
Physics Colloquium Oct. 16, 2008
[Physics Colloquium --- Note Special Time:] The High Supersaturation Puzzle
The Assassin of Relativity
Global Change in Water Availability
Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should be Interested
Superconductivity from repulsion
CAN A QUBIT BE YOUR FRIEND? Why a philosopher would want to have a quantum computer
There will be no colloquium on Thursday, October 8th
Many-body physics with arrays of individual atoms
Thoughts on what Dark Matter is (and what it isn’t) and how to Find it
Mapping the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo with Gaia
Physics of your chromosomes
What to do with a near-term quantum computer?
Talk on Nov 26
Electrons in Moiré Superlattices: A playground for correlation and topology
Capturing light induced phase transitions with femtosecond movies
Global high spatial resolution observations of atmospheric composition: TROPOMI
How do clouds affect global warming?
Global warming is larger in the latest climate models than in their predecessors. Do we trust them?
Shining New Light on Dark Matter
Universal dynamics of complex biological communities
Statistical Mechanics for Erosion and Earthquakes
Earthquakes in Cascadia
Machine learning for physics-discovery and climate modeling
The Magic of Atomically Thin Materials
Rare beauty - are we seeing signs of new physics at the LHCb experiment?
Alternatives to Ordered Phases at Zero Temperature
A Modern View of Scattering Amplitudes
Fermilab g-2: Measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon.
Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials Using NV center Microscopy
**THIS TALK IS CANCELLED**Heat waves: observed trends often disagree with modelled trends. Why?
The Power of the Dark Side: Discovering New Physics among Dark Matter and Neutrinos
The Physics of Complexity: Nobel Prizes and Ice Arches
Scalable semiconductor quantum systems
The densest stellar systems: the dynamics of galactic nuclei
Attosecond Quantum Technologies for Probing the Functional Properties of Materials
Mixing up the climate? How the mystery of stratified turbulence is controlling all our futures
SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Australia’s Black Summer Pyrocumulonimbus Super Outbreak Reveals Potential for Increasingly Extreme Stratospheric Smoke Events
Function without Structure: Single-molecule Experiments and Modelling of Disordered Proteins
Self-Organised Localisation
Strongly Driven Quantum Materials
Order Up! Molecular Qubits with a Side of SPAM
Closing the gap between simulating and understanding climate change
Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors
Quantum Error Correction Codes as Exotic Condensed Matter
Measuring and enhancing quantitative reasoning in physics instruction
Predictive ocean dynamics in warming climate
Computational Microscopy
Making Matter from Light: Mott Insulators, Superfluids and Topological Fluids
From Telescopes to Dark Matter & Black Holes
2D TMDs: New Wonder Materials?
Quantum Machine Learning
Small waves, big impact: Atmospheric gravity waves and climate change
Floquet engineering in the era of topological physics and quantum coherent devices
What Do Creativity and Equity Have to Do with STEM Education?
The physics of polar weather patterns
Solid State Detectors for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches
Light, camera, single-molecule transcription action!
Smelling odor motion enhances olfactory navigation
Detecting Dark Matter with Stars and Planets
Statistical Physics of Biological Simplicity
Why are we here? Matter--Antimatter Asymmetry of the Universe
Building our Universe with Qubits
Earth’s Rock and Roll: Rotational Motions in Geodesy and Seismology
The Search for Topological Materials
Taking Earth’s Temperature
Computation in the Calculus-based Intro Physics Course
CANCELED TALK-Efficient deterministic generation of photonic graph states
Measuring Waves and Turbulence in the Ocean: Why and How
CANCELLED Talk on March 30, 2023
CANCELLED - Chiral Charges and Spiral Spins
Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter
The development of quantum error correcting codes
Discoveries in the Deep: The Future of Science at SNOLAB
Control and distribution of entanglement in quantum networks
Earth and Venus: Twins, Yes but, Probably not Separated at Birth
Good qubits and good codes
Recent Adventures in Science Journalism
Flying Through Clouds to Learn About Weather and Climate
Physics as Street Art
Cold, flat, and crowded: Why I spend all my time thinking about graphene
Neutron Star Mergers: New Frontiers in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics
Talk on Nov. 23, 2023
Single molecule colliders at low energy – Nanopores for protein analysis and digital information storage
Can we design and build novel molecular therapeutics for the next viral epidemic?
A journey to the future: “Our Muon Shot"
How Squishy Are Neutron Stars? And Why Does that Matter?
Finding unconventional superconductors via unconventional synthesis
Chemistry Insights into Physics Problems
Quantum Force and Space-Time Topology
Nonequilibrium and Cavity Control of Quantum Matter
Dark Matter and the search for WIMPs
*CANCELLED* Thermodynamics of the climate system
Quantum entanglement in nature
Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes
Physical systems that learn by themselves
Life in Motion: From turbulence to climate
Oppenheimer and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Current Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control
Quantum simulation of cosmological models
Black hole accretion and growth in the Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Era
Not Your Father's (or Mother's!) Quantum Disordered Ground States: Dipoles and Octupoles in Quantum Spin Ice
What’s Hidden Inside Planets? Finding out through observations of magnetic fields
History matters: how the deep past of the oceans informs the ongoing climate change
Mapping neutron stars: inside and out
Quantum timekeeping at the state-of-the-art: towards the next-generation of optical lattice clocks
The ecology and evolution of gut microbial communities
Probing New Physics with Cryogenic Detectors
Thermodynamics of the climate system
Advancing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization in Canadian Astroparticle Physics: The McDonald Institute Approach
Radiation of Extreme Plasma near the Neutron Stars and Black holes
The Physics of Human Aging
The Search for Wavy Dark Matter: Axions ABRACADABRA to DMRadio
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment
Snap, Crackle and Pop: Flares, Variability and Caustics from the Black Hole in M87
**CANCELLED**Learning the shape of the immune and protein universe
Fractionalized electrons in topological materials
Enhancing representation in Physics: Understanding gender gaps in STEM and High School student enrollment choices
Moiré is different: New Twists in the Tale of Strong Correlations
The evolution of interactions between viral pathogens and human adaptive immune systems
The Physics of Neural Time Keeping and Space Mapping
Changing Landscape of Science Dissemination
Using nuclear spins to search for dark matter waves
Building a quantum simulator from stacks and twists
Quantum computing at the speed of light
Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
The Hunt for the Highest-energy Particle Accelerators
The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Neutrinos From the Ground Up
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