Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2020-2021




2020-10-08Nuclear Femtography - A new frontier of science and technology

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu
Institution: Jefferson Lab
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-10-15Controlling the quantum states of atoms to probe fundamental physics

Speaker: Paul Hamilton
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-10-22The renaissance of jet physics

Speaker: Zhongbo Kang
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-10-29Investigating the energy frontier of Particle Physics while analyzing 40 million proton collisions per second in real time

Speaker: Michalis Bachtis
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-11-05Quantum control of spins in silicon

Speaker: Mark Eriksson
Institution: Wisconsin Quantum Institute and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-11-12Results from LIGO-Virgo's third observing run

Speaker: Jess McIver
Institution: University of British Columbia
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-11-19Power and Privilege

Speaker: Sherard Robbins
Institution: Visceral Change, LLC
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-12-03Non-reciprocity in collective phenomena: pattern-formation, synchronization and flocking

Speaker: Vincenco Vitelli
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Available via Zoom
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2020-12-10The Modern Amplitudes Program: Supercolliders, Fluid Dynamics, and Black Holes

Speaker: Cliffor Cheung
Institution: Caltech
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-01-07Accelerating our understanding of the multi-scale dynamics of high-energy plasmas

Speaker: Paulo Alves
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-01-14Affinity maturation of antibodies and the puzzle of HIV spikes

Speaker: Mehran Kardar
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-01-21Grand unification of quantum algorithms

Speaker: Isaac Chuang
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-01-28Pushing the limits of hydrodynamics

Speaker: Pavel Kovtun
Institution: University of Victoria
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-02-04Wormholes and entanglement

Speaker: Juan Maldacena
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-02-11Introduction to the physics basis for burning plasmas in tokamaks: turbulent-transport

Speaker: Anne White
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-02-25Innovative Approaches in mm-Wavelength Cosmology: From Inflation to the Epoch of Reionization and Beyond

Speaker: Abigail Crites
Institution: University of Toronto
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-02-25Rotating quantum gases under the microscope

Speaker: Richard Fletcher
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-03-04Achievement of a burning plasma state

Speaker: Omar Hurricane
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-04-01Biological Physics: Looking for new physics in the living world

Speaker: Alex J. Levine
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-04-08High-precision physics and chemistry with ultracold molecules

Speaker: Tanya Zelevinsky
Institution: Columbia University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-04-15Electrons in Moire Superlattices: A playground for strong correlations and topology

Speaker: Ali Yazdani
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-04-22The physics of virus self-assembly

Speaker: Vinny Manoharan
Institution: Harvard University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-04-29Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix

Speaker: Taekjip Ha
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-05-06The Golden Age of Neutron Stars

Speaker: Gordon Baym
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-05-13Weaving together machine learning, theoretical physics, and neuroscience

Speaker: Surya Ganguli
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-05-20The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-05-27Many-body localization and thermalization: some fundamentals of quantum statistical mechanics

Speaker: David Huse
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-06-03Some recent results in gravitational-wave science

Speaker: Daniel Holz
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Available via Zoom
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