Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2021-2022




2021-10-07Where's Waldo in Biology

Speaker: Keisuke Goda
Institution: University of Tokyo
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-10-14Building a quantum world with trapped ions

Speaker: Norbert M. Linke
Institution: University of Maryland
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-10-21Broken symmetries in living matter

Speaker: Nikta Fakhri
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-10-28Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

Speaker: Kate Scholberg
Institution: Duke University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-11-04Attosecond X-ray movies: the frontier of ultrafast science

Speaker: Agostino Marinelli
Institution: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Location: Available via Zoom
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2021-11-18Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Astrophysical Data Sets

Speaker: Cora Dvorkin
Institution: Harvard University
Location: Available via Zoom
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2022-01-27The Hubble tension: hints of new physics?

Speaker: Tommaso Treu
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2022-02-03Searching for dark matter with current detectors and beyond

Speaker: Alvine Kamaha
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB and by Zoom
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2022-02-10Neurophysics of space, time and memory

Speaker: Mayank Mehta
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
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2022-02-17Supermassive black holes, fundamental physics, machine learning, and beyond

Speaker: Tuan Do
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-02-24Designing and probing quasi-particles in flatlands

Speaker: Qianhui Shi
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-03-03Grand Unified Theory of Mind and Brain: Space-Time Approach to 3D Vision

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB and on Zoom
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2022-04-07The Missing Link: Mentorship as The Key to Success

Speaker: Sherard Robbins
Institution: Visceral Change, LLC
Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-04-21Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek
Institution: Caltech
Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-04-28The Journey of the James Webb Space Telescope -- and Ours

Speaker: Alan Dressler
Institution: Carnegie Observatories
Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-05-05Probing the heart of neutrinos in the coldest cubic meter in the Universe

Speaker: Yury Kolomensky
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Location: Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-05-12Solving A Century-Old Problem: Three-Dimensional Atomic Structure of Amorphous Solids

Speaker: Jianwei (John) Miao
Institution: UCLA
Location: 1-434 PAB
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2022-05-19The Biocybernetics of Insect Vision

Speaker: Mark Frye
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
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