Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2022-2023




2022-09-29Early Science from the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Tommaso Treu
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-10-06The Beginning of Helioseismology and Studies of Solar Dynamics

Speaker: Roger K. Ulrich
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-10-13Quantum Simulation, Sensing, and Computation With Ultracold Atoms

Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn
Institution: UC Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-10-20Magnetic Chirality

Speaker: Sang-Wook Cheong
Institution: Rutgers University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-10-27How Our Immune System Learns From a Changing Experience

Speaker: Shenshen Wang
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-11-03Next Generation Control and Acquisitions Platforms for Studying Large-Scale Neural-Behavioral Dynamics in Freely-Behaving Animals

Speaker: Daniel Aharoni
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-11-10Aspects of Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory - a Modern Update

Speaker: Thomas Dumitrescu
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2022-11-17What Does Optimal Teaching and Learning Look Like?

Speaker: Joshua Samani
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-01-12Gravitational Waves: From Discovery to a New Science

Speaker: Barry Barish
Institution: Caltech and UC Riverside
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-01-19Thin-disk galaxy formation in the LCDM cosmology

Speaker: James Bullock
Institution: UC Irvine
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-01-26Cosmology: What we know, what we don't know and our grandest aspirations.

Speaker: Michael Turner
Institution: The University of Chicago, UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-02-02Metals, Strange Metals, and Bad Metals

Speaker: Steven Kivelson
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-02-09Machine Learning Concepts for Inverse Design in Soft and Living Matter

Speaker: Andrea Liu
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-02-16Interaction Induced Magnetism in 2D Semiconductor Moire? Superlattices

Speaker: Xiaodong Xu
Institution: University of Washington
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-02-23SPARC and the High?field Path to Fusion Energy

Speaker: Dennis Whyte
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-03-02Quantum Logic and Precision Measurements with Atoms and Molecules

Speaker: David Leibrandt
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-03-09The Structure of the Nucleon

Speaker: Haiyan Gao
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory and Duke Universit
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-03-16Past, Present and Future Vision for High-Gradient Linear Accelerators and Its Applications to Future High-Energy Physics Machines, Light Sources, and Medical Instruments

Speaker: Sami Tantawi
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-04-06Thermal Infrared and Cosmological Observations from Space

Speaker: Edward (Ned) Wright
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-04-13To Ignition and Beyond!

Speaker: Denise Hinkel
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-04-27Membranes, RNA World and the Origin of Life

Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-05-04Dark Matter Physics With Tiny Galaxies

Speaker: Annika Peter
Institution: Ohio State University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-05-11The Rise of Silicon Quantum Electronics

Speaker: Jason R. Petta
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-05-18The Beauty of Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Zvi Bern
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Recipient of the 2023 Galileo Medal
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-05-25Space is Time: Einstein's Solution to the Origin of Consciousness and Intelligence

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-06-01Visualizing Helical Tunneling of Dirac Fermions

Speaker: Vidya Madhavan
Institution: UIUC
Location: PAB 1-434
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