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Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium
Academic Year 2025/2026
Winter Colloquium Committee: Lauren Tompkins (chair), Zhi- Xun Shen, & Vedika Khemani
| DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/13/2026 | Savas Dimopoulos | Stanford University | Lauren Tompkins | Superradiant Interactions of Cosmic Relics |
| 1/20/2026 | Daniel Palanker | Stanford University | Kent Irwin | Prosthetic Vision with a Photovoltaic Substitute for the Lost Photoreceptors |
| 1/27/2026 | Frances Hisgen | Senior Research Program Manager, Hoover Research | Peter Michelson | International Scientific Collaboration and Research Security Policy Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty |
| 2/3/2026 | Charles Bennett | IBM Research Division | Vedika Khemani | Can we reason about our place in the universe without defining “us”, or Which of Occam's Razors should Wigner use to shave his quantum Friend? |
| 2/10/2026 | Surya Ganguli | Stanford University | Vedika Khemani | |
| 2/17/2026 | Monika Aidelsburger | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) | Vedika Khemani | Quantum simulation – Engineering & Understanding Quantum Systems Atom-by-Atom |
| 2/24/2026 | Ekin Dogus Cubuk | Google DeepMind | Zhi-Xun Shen | |
| 3/3/2026 | Adiel Stern | Weizmann Institute of Science | Aharon Kapitulnik | News From The Fractional Arena |
| 3/10/2026 | Liang Fu | MIT | Zhi-Xun Shen |
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Academic Year 2025/2026
Spring Colloquium Committee: Giorgio Gratta(chair), David Goldhaber-Gordon, Steven Kivelson & Harold Hwang
| DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/7/2026 | ||||
| 4/14/2026 | Shivaji Sondhi | University of Oxford | Giorgio Gratta | |
| 4/21/2026 | Simon Caron-Hot | McGill University, Montréal | Douglas Stanford | |
| 4/28/2026 | ||||
| 5/5/2026 | ||||
| 5/12/2026 | Shamit Kachru | Stanford Emeritus | Giorgio Gratta | |
| 5/19/2026 | Senthil Todadri | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Monika Schleier-Smith | |
| 5/26/2026 | ||||
| 6/2/2026 | ||||
| 6/9/2026 | Markus Aspelmeyer | University of Vienna | Giorgio Gratta |