Colloquia Archives
Fall Quarter 2024
Academic Year 2024/2025 Fall colloquium committee: Kapitulnik (chair), Gratta, Shen Colloquiums are held in Hewlett Teaching Center, room 201 at 3:30pm.DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
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10/1/2024 | Giorgio Gratta and Ian Fisher | Stanford University | State of the Departments | |
10/8/2024 | Dimitri Basov | Columbia University | ZX Shen | Shedding nano-light on quantum materials |
10/15/2024 | Adam Burrows | Princeton University | Giorgio Gratta | Video: The Emerging Detailed Theory of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions |
10/22/2024 | Michel Milinkovitch | University of Geneva | Daniel Fisher | How reptiles got their looks: the unreasonable effectiveness of computational models in skin scale and colour patterning |
10/29/2024 | Mikhail Lukin | Harvard University | Xiaoliang Qi | Exploring quantum frontier with programmable atom arrays |
11/5/2024 | CANCELED: Ania Bleszynski-Jayich | UC Santa Barbara | Steven Chu | CANCELED: New Directions in Quantum Sensing and Imaging with Diamond Spins |
11/12/2024 | Jon Levin | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | A conversation about Stanford |
11/19/2024 | David Nelson | Harvard University | Aharon Kapitulnik | Video: Scale Dependent Elasticity and Mutilated Nanosheets |
11/26/2024 | Thanksgiving Break – No Colloquium | |||
12/3/2024 | CANCELED - Alan Heeger | UCSB | Aharon Kapitulnik | CANCELLED - Conducting polymers in biology, bio electronics and medicine |
Spring Quarter 2024
Spring Quarter Colloquium Committee: David Schuster (Chair), Trithep Devakul, Giorgio Gratta.
Colloquiums are held Tuesdays at 3:30 in Hewlett 201.
DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
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4/2/2024 | Feng Wang | UC Berkeley | Tony Heinz | Video: Electron-hole fluid in van der Waals heterostructures |
4/9/2024 | Andrea Liu | University of Pennsylvania | Benjamin Good | Video: Physical systems that can learn by themselves |
4/16/2024 | Joel Fajans | UC Berkeley | Giorgio Gratta | Video: Measuring the Effect of Gravity on Antimatter |
4/23/2024 | Ashvin Vishwanath | Harvard University | Trithep Devakul | Video: The surprising effectiveness of topology in the science of quantum materials |
4/30/2024 | Long Ju | MIT | ZX Shen | Video: Emergent Phenomena in Crystalline Multilayer Graphene |
5/7/2024 | No Colloquium | |||
5/14/2024 | Kyle Dawson | University of Utah | Giorgio Gratta | Video: Cosmology from the First Year DESI BAO Measurements |
5/21/2024 | Caterina Vernieri | Stanford University | Lauren Tompkins | Video: Delving into the Unknown: The Higgs Boson at Future Colliders |
5/28/2024 | John Preskill | California Institute of Technology | Peter Michelson | Video: Learning in a Quantum World |
Winter Quarter 2024
AY 2023/2024 Winter Quarter Colloquium Committee: Aharon Kapitulnik (Chair), Mark Kasevich, Daniel Fisher. Colloquiums are held Tuesdays at 3:30 in Hewlett 201. DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
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1/16/2024 | Steve Kivelson | Stanford University | Aharon Kapitulnik | Video: Fractionalization and emergent gauge symmetries in quantum condensed matter |
1/23/2024 | Asimina Arvanitaki | Perimeter Institute | Savas Dimopoulos | Video: The distribution of the Cosmic Neutrino Background on the surface of the Earth |
1/30/2024 - Canceled, no colloquium. | Canceled: Michel Milinkovitch | University of Geneva | Daniel Fisher | Canceled: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction-Diffusion and Mechanical Models in Vertebrate Skin Patterning |
2/6/2024 | Roger Blandford | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | Video: Extreme Electrodynamics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes |
2/13/2024 | Victoria Kaspi | McGill University | Roger Romani | Video: Fast Radio Bursts |
2/20/2024 | Herman Verlinde | Princeton University. | Xiaoliang Qi | Video: Chaotic quantum dynamics and the quantum geometry of spacetime |
2/27/2024 | Larry Gladney | Yale University | Physics Grad Students | Video: Who Gets to Discover the Unknown - The Rubin LSST Ecosystem and the Future on the Cosmic Frontier |
3/5/2024 | Antoine Browaeys | Institut d’Optique Graduate School - Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS | Monika Schleier-Smith | Video: Exploring many-body problems with arrays of individual atoms |
3/7/2024 (Thursday at 4:30) | Pierre Agostini | The Ohio State University | Special event in conjunction with SLAC Colloquium Series | Video: Attosecond pulse trains, RABBITT and applications |
3/12/2024 | Tova Holmes | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Lauren Tompkins | Video: Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators |
Autumn Quarter 2023
DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
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10/3/2023 | Giorgio Gratta & Ian Fisher | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | State Of The Departments |
10/10/2023 | Mike Crommie | UC Berkeley | ZX Shen | Video: Imaging frozen electrons in a 2D Wigner crystal |
10/17/2023 | Jeongwan Haah | Microsoft | Vedika Khemani | Video: Quantum error correction: a window to complex quantum states and dynamics |
10/24/2023 | Vladan Vuletic | MIT | Monika Schleier-Smith | Video: The Quantum Age: From Bell Pairs to Quantum Computers |
10/31/2023 | Chris Laumann | Boston University | Vedika Khemani | Video: The fine structure of quantum spin ice |
11/7/2023 | Adam Kaufman | CU Boulder | Jon Simon | Video: Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from sampling to clocks to qubits |
11/14/2023 | Yangyang Cheng | Yale Law School | Peter Michelson & Freeman-Spogli Institute | Video: Scientific Collaboration Amidst Shifting US-China Relations |
11/21/2023 | Thanksgiving Break - No Colloquium | |||
11/29/2023 | Peter Abbamonte | University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign (UIUC) | ZX Shen | Video: Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum-Resolved EELS |
Spring Quarter 2023
AY 2022/23
Spring Quarter Colloquium Committee: R. Blandford, V. Khemani (CHAIR), A. Safavi-Naeini. Start time: 3:30 p.m. in Hewlett 200.
Winter Quarter 2022/2023
AY 2022/23
Winter Quarter Colloquium Committee: J. Hoeksema, D. Goldhaber-Gordon (Chair), J. Simon. Start time: 3:30 p.m. in Hewlett 201.
Autumn Quarter 2022
AY 2022/23
Autumn Quarter Colloquium Committee: G. Gratta, M. Kasevich, E. Silverstein (Chair). Start time: 3:30 p.m. in Hewlett 200.
DATE | SPEAKER | InStitution | host | title |
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10/4/2022 | Giorgio Gratta & Ian Fisher | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | Status of the Physics and Applied Physics Departments |
10/11/2022 | Alex Lupsasca and Pamela Davis Kivelson | Vanderbilt University & Stanford | Vedika Khemani | The Science and Art of Black Hole Images |
10/18/2022 | ZX Shen | Stanford University | Eva Silverstein | In Search for the Next Magic Stone |
10/25/2022 | Agostino Marinelli | SLAC | Giorgio Gratta | From free electrons to bound electrons: attosecond science with X-ray free-electron lasers |
11/1/2022 | Jason Hogan | Stanford University | Peter Graham | Long baseline clock atom interferometry |
11/8/2022 | No colloq (Democracy Day) | https://democracyday.stanford.edu/ | ||
11/15/2022 | Ethan Dyer | Google Blueshift | Eva Silverstein | Lessons from scale for large language models and quantitative reasoning |
11/22/2022 | No colloq (Thanksgiving recess) | |||
11/29/2022 | Matthew Evans | MIT | Giorgio Gratta | Cosmic Explorer - a next-gen gravitational-wave observatory |
Spring Qtr. Colloq 2022
Spring Qtr. Colloq. Committee: R. Blandford, S. Clark, B. Lev (chair). Start time: 3:30 p.m. in Hewlett 200.
Winter Qtr. Colloq 2022
Committee: S. Dimopoulos, V. Khemani, A. Linde (chair). Start time: 3:30 pm PST.
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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1/18/2022 | Chao-Lin Kuo CANCELLED (to be rescheduled) | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | |
1/25/2022 | Rahul Nandkishore CANCELLED (to be rescheduled) | CU Boulder | Vedika Khemani | |
2/1/2022 | Feng Wang | UC Berkeley | Tony Heinz | Designing Artificial Quantum Materials with van der Waals Heterostructures |
2/8/2022 | Ken Van Tilburg | New York University | Savas Dimopoulos | Searching for Odd Phenomena with Odd Detectors |
2/15/2022 | Rahul Nandkishore | CU Boulder | Vedika Khemani | Fracton Dynamics |
2/22/2022 | Chao-Lin Kuo | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | Knowing the Unknowable - The Experimental Study of Inflation |
3/1/2022 | Surjeet Rajendran | John Hopkins Universiy | Savas Dimopoulos | A Causal Framework for Non-Linear Quantum Mechanics |
3/8/2022 | Masha Baryakhtar | University of Washington | Savas Dimopoulos | Searching for New Particles in the Sky |
Autumn Qtr. 2021/22 Colloq.
Committee: G. Gratta, R. Laughlin, Z. Shen (chair). Start time: 4:30 pm PST.
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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9/28/2021 | Dan Wilkins | Stanford University | ZX Shen | Seeing to the Event Horizons of Supermassive Black Holes |
10/5/2021 | Surya Ganguli | Stanford University | Mark Schnitzer | Weaving together theoretical physics, machine learning and neuroscience: a tale of neurons, atoms and photons in the service of computation |
10/12/2021 | Peter Armitage | John Hopkins University | ZX Shen/Ton Heinz | On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism |
10/19/2021 | Cynthia Friend | Harvard University | ZX Shen | Can the U.S. Compete in Basic Energy Sciences |
10/26/2021 | David Hertzog | University of Washington | Giorgio Gratta | First Results – and afterthoughts -- from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment |
11/2/2021 | Harold Hwang | Stanford University | ZX Shen | Superconductivity in infinite layer nickelates |
11/9/2021 | Allan MacDonald (Hanna Visiting Scholar) | UT-Austin | ZX Shen | The Magic of Moiré Materials |
11/16/2021 | Aida X. El-Khadra | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | Giorgio Gratta | Finding Beauty: The role of lattice QCD in high energy physics |
11/23/2021 | Thanksgiving recess/no colloq. | |||
11/30/2021 | Giorgio Gratta & Kent Irwin | Stanford University | Shamit Kachru | Safety Culture in the Varian Building |
Spring Qtr. 2020/21 Colloq.
Committee: S. Shenker (Chair), R. Blandford and B. Feldman. Start time: 4:30 pm PST.
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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4/6/2021 | Geoff Penington | UC Berkeley | Stephen Shenker | Black holes, information and wormholes |
4/13/2021 | Wolfgang Ketterle | MIT | Steven Chu | Spin dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices |
4/20/2021 | Maura McLaughlin | West Virginia University | Roger Blandford | The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Knocking at the Gravitational Wave Door |
4/27/2021 | Xiaoxing Xi | Temple University | Peter Michelson | Scientific espionage, open exchange, and American competitiveness |
5/4/2021 | David Hogg | NYU | Roger Blandford | Imaging the dark matter with millions of stars |
5/11/2021 | Andrew Houck | Princeton | Ben Feldman | Circuit QED: From materials to mathematics |
5/18/2021 | Jie Shan | Cornell | Ben Feldman | Electrons in 2D semiconductor moiré superlattices |
5/25/2021 | Takaaki Kajita | University of Tokyo | Roger Blandford | The Hyper-Kamiokande project |
6/1/2021 | Victoria Kaspi | McGill University | Roger Blandford | Fast Radio Bursts: A Cosmological Conundrum or Why I Finally Left the Galaxy |
Wtr. Qtr. 2020/21
Colloq. committee: S. Kivelson (Chair), A. Kapitulnik, and E. Silverstein. Start time: 4:30 pm PST.
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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1/12/2021 | No colloquium | |||
1/19/2021 | No colloquium | |||
1/26/2021 | No colloquium | |||
2/2/2021 | Kent Irwin | Stanford | Eva Silverstein | Searching for Axion Dark Matter Below 1 micro-eV: the Dark Matter Radio |
2/9/2021 | Steve Cowley | Princeton | Steve Kivelson | Getting to a Fusion Pilot Plan |
2/16/2021 | Cristina Marchetti | University of California Santa Barbara | Aharon Kapitulnik | Active Topology |
2/23/2021 | No colloquium | |||
3/2/2021 | No colloquium | |||
3/9/2021 | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero | MIT | Aharon Kapitulnik | The magic of moiré quantum matter |
3/16/2021 | Alexander B. Zamolodchikov | Rutgers University | Eva Silverstein | TTbar Deformations, S-matrix, and Density of States |
Aut. Qtr. 2020/21
Colloq. committee: R. Wechsler (Chair), L. Hollberg and R. Laughlin
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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10/6/2020 | Susan Clark and Vedika Khemani | Stanford University | Leo Hollberg | Frontiers in Cosmic Magnetism and in Many-Body Physics |
10/13/2020 | No colloquium | |||
10/20/2020 | Abby Vierregg | University of Chicago | Risa Wechsler | Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos |
10/27/2020 | Kim Prather | UCSD | Risa Wechsler | Advances in our understanding of the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 |
11/3/2020 | No colloquium | |||
11/10/2020 | Eun-Ah Kim | Cornell | Vedika Khemani | Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter |
11/17/2020 | Daniel Gruen and Kimmy Wu | SLAC | Risa Wechsler | Frontiers in Optical and CMB Survey Cosmology |
11/24/2020 | Thanksgiving break - no colloq | |||
12/1/2020 | Lauren Tompkins | Stanford University | Risa Wechsler | Perspectives on the LHC and new Frontiers in the search for Dark Matter |
Spring Qtr. 2019/20
Colloq. Committee: Eva Silverstein (Chair), S. Hartnoll & M. Schnitzer (AP)
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 200
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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04/07/2020 | POSTPONED Allan MacDonald | Univ. of Texas at Austin | Steve Kivelson | TBD |
04/14/2020 | POSTPONED Wolfgang Ketterle, 2020 Hofstadter lecturer | |||
04/21/2020 | POSTPONED Ehud Altman | UC Berkeley | Sean Hartnoll | TBD |
04/28/2020 | POSTPONED Jeff Gore | MIT | Shamit Kachru | TBD |
05/05/2020 | Douglas Stanford | Stanford University | Sean Hartnoll | New roles for wormholes |
05/12/2020 | POSTPONED Cristina Marchetti | UC Santa Barbara | Aharon Kapitulnik | TBD |
05/19/2020 | POSTPONED Lihong Wang | Caltech | Mark Schnitzer | TBD |
05/26/2020 | POSTPONED Alexander Zamolodchikov | Simons Center at Stony Brook University | Eva Silverstein | TBD |
06/02/2020 | POSTPONED Justin Vandenbroucke | University of Wisconsin at Madison | Giorgio Gratta | TBD |
06/09/2020 | POSTPONED Andrea Cavalleri | Max Planck Institute | TBD | TBD |
Wtr. Qtr. 2019/20
Colloq. committee: M. Schleier-Smith (Chair), B. Cabrera, S. Dimopoulos, T. Heinz, S. Kachru & L. Tompkins
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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01/07/2020 | Amir Yacoby | Harvard University | Aharon Kapitulnik | Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials |
01/14/2020 | Andrew Mackenzie | Max-Planck Institute | Steve Kivelson | Quantum oscillations in solids: past, present and future |
01/21/2020 | Angela Olinto | University of Chicago | Roger Blandford | Space Observatories of the Highest Energy Particles: POEMMA & EUSO-SPB |
01/28/2020 | Abhay Pasupathy | Columbia University | Ben Feldman | Twisty fun in 2D materials |
02/04/2020 | Dorit Aharonov | Hebrew University | Patrick Hayden | Quantum Physics from a computational complexity angle |
02/11/2020 | Manuel Endres | Caltech | Monika Schleier-Smith | Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays |
02/18/2020 | Leo Radzihovsky | University of Colorado at Boulder | Shamit Kachru | Fracton - Elasticity Duality |
02/25/2020 | Asimina Arvanitaki | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Savas Dimopulos | Dark Matter halos from parametric resonance and their signatures |
03/03/2020 | Markus Aspelmeyer | University of Vienna | Mark Kasevich | Quantum Optical Control of Levitated Solids: a novel probe for the gravity-quantum interface |
03/10/2020 | Colloquium canceled |
Aut. Qtr. 2019/20
Colloq. committee: R. Blandford (Chair), B. Feldman, A. Kapitulnik, B. Lev and V. Khemani
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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09/24/2019 | Eric Dunham | Stanford University | Benjamin Lev | "Earthquake and Tsunami Physics" |
10/01/2019 | Monika Schleier-Smith | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light" |
10/08/2019 | Ania Jayich | UC Santa Barbara | Ben Feldman | “Quantum Sensing and Imaging with Diamond Spins” |
10/15/2019 | Steve Girvin | Yale University | Vedika Khemani | "Circuit QED: Quantum Sensing, Information Processing and Error Correction with Microwave Photons" |
10/22/2019 | Liang Fu | MIT | Vedika Khemani | "Thermoelectric Hall effect and nonlinear Hall effect" |
10/29/2019 | Phil Marshall | Stanford University/SLAC | Roger Blandford | "Tension Between Early and Late Universe Measurements of H0: Hint of New Physics?" |
11/05/2019 | Waseem Bakr | Princeton University | Ben Feldman | "Quantum gas microscopy of ultracold fermions in optical lattices" |
11/12/2019 | Roger Blandford & Eva Silverstein | Stanford University | Shamit Kachru | "The Physics and Astrophysics of Black Holes and Horizons" |
11/19/2019 | Joseph Lykken | Fermi National Laboratory | Giorgio Gratta | "The Future of Particle Physics" |
11/26/2019 | THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO COLLOQ. |
Spring Qtr. 2018/19
Colloq. Committee: Monika Schleier-Smith (Chair), P. Hayden, X. Qi
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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04/02/2019 | Ronald Walsworth | Harvard Univ. | Mark Kasevich | "Quantum Diamond Sensors" |
04/09/2019 | Veronika Hubeny | UC Davis | Leonardo Senatore | "Black Holes, Holography, and Entanglement" |
04/16/2019 | Laura Waller | UC Berkeley | David Goldhaber-Gordon | "Computational Microscopy for phase retrieval, super-resolution and 3D imaging" |
04/23/2019 | Jonathan Simon | Univ. of Chicago | Monika Schleier-Smith | "Matter made of Light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fields" |
04/30/2019 | Xiaowei Zhuang, 2019 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecturer | Harvard Univ. | Steve Chu | "Imaging at the genomic-scale: from 3D organization of the genome to cell atlas of the brain" |
05/07/2019 | Donna Strickland | Univ. of Waterloo | Phil Bucksbaum | "From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics" |
05/14/2019 | Daniel S. Fisher/SITP Event | Stanford University, AP | Shamit Kachru | "Physicists and Evolution: Puzzles and Expectations" |
05/21/2019 | Cenke Xu | UC Santa Barbara | Xiaoliang Qi | "Strongly Interacting Synthetic Topological Insulators in High Dimensions" |
05/28/2019 | Irfan Siddiqi | UC Berkeley | Amir Safavi-Naeini | "The Dawn of Superconducting Quantum Processors" |
06/04/2019 | Reina Maruyama | Yale Univ. | Lauren Tompkins | "Testing DAMA's long-standing claim for dark matter detection" |
Wtr. Qtr. 2018/19
Colloq. committee: A. Linde (Chair), S. Kivelson, B. Lev
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 201
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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01/08/2019 | Eugene Demler | Harvard University | Benjamin Lev | "Big Data Perspective on Quantum Matter" |
01/15/2019 | Leonardo Senatore | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | "Field Theory, Geometry and Data in Cosmology" |
01/22/2019 | Raymond Ashoori | MIT | Steve Kivelson | "Using Quantum Tunneling to Discover New Physics in Two-Dimensional Materials" |
01/29/2019 | James K. Thompson | University of Colorado/JILA | Benjamin Lev | "Twists, Gaps, and Superradiant Emission on a Millihertz Transition" |
02/05/2019 | Persi Diaconis | Stanford University, Depts. of Statistics & Mathematics | Steve Kivelson | "Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards" |
02/12/2019 | John Doyle | Harvard University | Monika Schleier-Smith | "Cold and Ultracold Molecules for Quantum Information and Particle Physics" |
02/19/2019 | Shin-ichi Uchida | University of Tokyo | Z-X Shen | "The Road to Higher Tc Superconductivity" |
02/26/2019 | Andre Leclair | Cornell University | Sri Raghu | "New Perspectives on the Riemann Hypothesis" |
03/05/2019 | Hiranya Peiris | University College London and Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm | Risa Wechsler | "Pixels to Physics: The Promise and Challenges of Survey Cosmology" |
03/12/2019 | Mikhail Tikhonov | Washington University at St. Louis | Student host: Alana Papula | “Microbial Ecology as a New Frontier for Theoretical Physics” |
Aut. Qtr. 2018/19
Colloq. committee: R. Blandford (Chair), A. Kapitulnik, R. Laughlin, L. Senatore
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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09/25/2018 | T. Mark Harrison | UCLA | Bob Laughlin | "Nuclear Geochronology and the Age of the Earth" |
10/02/2018 | Daniel Palanker | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | “Photovoltaic Restoration of Sight in Retinal Degeneration" |
10/09/2018 | Julie McEnery | NASA | Peter Michelson | "A High Energy View of the Extreme Universe" |
10/16/2018 | Philip Deutschle | Salinas High School and Hartnell College | Tony Rodriguez, Student Host | "Botswana to Bolivia - The Life of an Itinerant Science Educator" |
10/23/2018 | Michael Nauenberg | Univ. of Calif. at Santa Cruz | Bob Laughlin | "Visiting Newton's Atelier before the Principia, 1679-1684" |
10/30/2018 | Louis Strigari | Texas A&M University | Roger Blandford | "The Dynamic Local Universe" |
11/06/2018 | Stephen Libby | LLNL | Bob Laughlin | "High Energy Density Physics – Theory and Experiment in the Realm of the Superlasers" |
11/13/2018 | Natalia Toro | SLAC | Roger Blandford | "Searching for Dark Sectors Under our Noses: Surprising Opportunities at Familiar Mass Scales" |
11/20/2018 | THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO COLLOQ. | |||
11/27/2018 | Greg Moore | Rutgers University | Leonardo Senatore | "d = 4 N = 2 Field Theory and Physical Mathematics" |
Spring 2017/2018
Committee: Lauren Tompkins (Chair), Steve Kivelson, Patrick Hayden, Monika Schleier-Smith
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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04/03/2018 | Vicky Kalogera - Hofstadter lecturer | Northwestern University | Leo Hollberg | "The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics" |
04/10/2018 | Peter Onyisi | Univ. of Texas | Lauren Tompkins | "Top Quarks: The New Flavor" |
04/17/2018 | James Crutchfield | Univ. of Calif. at Davis | Student-hosted | "Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology" |
04/24/2018 | Markus Greiner | Harvard University | Monika Schleier-Smith | "Ultracold Atom Quantum Simulations: From Exploring Low Temperature Fermi-Hubbard Phases to Many-Body Localization" |
05/01/2018 | Harald Hess | HHMI, Janelia Research Campus | Steve Chu | "Large Volume 3D Imaging by FIBSEM and Cryo-Fluorescence for Cell Biology and Neural Circuits" |
05/08/2018 | Andrei Linde | Stanford University | TBD/Peter Michelson? | "Reverse Engineering the Universe" |
05/15/2018 | Chris Monroe | Univ. of Maryland | Monika Schleier-Smith | "Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions" |
05/22/2018 | Dawn Williams | Univ. of Alabama | Lauren Tompkins | "The IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the Beginning of Neutrino Astrophysics" |
05/29/2018 | Daniel Holz | Univ. of Chicago | Risa Wechsler | "GW170817: Hearing and Seeing a Binary Neutron Star Merger" |
Winter 2017/2018
Committee: Andrei Linde (Chair), Savas Dimopoulos, Benjamin Lev, Shoucheng Zhang
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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01/09/2018 | Helmut Katzgraber | Texas A&M University | Benjamin Lev | "Quantum vs. Classical Optimization: A Status Update on the Arms Race" |
01/16/2018 | Frank Wilczek | MIT | Shoucheng Zhang | "Symmetries of Time" |
01/23/2018 | Mike Romalis | Princeton University | Savas Dimopoulos | "Searches for new physics with nuclear spin precession" |
01/30/2018 | Erez Berg | University of Chicago | Steven Kivelson | "Critical Metals: Lessons from quantum Monte Carlo studies" |
02/06/2018 | Bruce Macintosh | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | "Extrasolar Planets" |
02/13/2018 | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero | MIT | Aharon Kapitulnik | "Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics" |
02/20/2018 | James Sethna | Cornell University | Student hosted colloq. | "Sloppy Models, Differential Geometry, and How Science Works" |
02/27/2018 | Andrei Bernevig | Princeton University | Shoucheng Zhang | "Topological Quantum Chemistry" |
03/06/2018 | Dick Bond | Univ. of Toronto | L. Senatore & A. Linde | "The Entropic Matter(s) of an Ordered Universe" |
03/13/2018 | David Spergel | Princeton University | Andrei Linde | “The Search for Dark Energy and NASA’s WFIRST Mission” |
Spring 2016/2017
Committee: M. Schleier-Smith (Chair), P. Hayden, L. Tompkins
date | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
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04/04/2017 | Sri Raghu | Stanford University | TBD | "Presence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions" |
04/11/2017 | Immanuel Bloch | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | Monika Schleier-Smith | "Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter Using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices" |
04/18/2017 | Kerstin Perez | MIT | Student hosted speaker | "In Search of Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei from Dark Matter" |
04/25/2017 | Phil Lubin | UC Santa Barbara | Steven Chu | "Humanity's First Interstellar Mission" |
05/02/2017 | Steven Pollock | University of Colorado | Carl Wieman | "A Research-validated Approach to Transforming upper-division Physics Courses" |
05/09/2017 | Laura Newburgh | Yale University | Lauren Tompkins | "New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background" |
05/16/2017 | L. Mahadevan | Harvard University | Hari Manoharan | "Morphogenesis: Geometry, Physics and Biology" |
05/23/2017 | Nathalie de Leon | Princeton University | Student hosted colloq. | "Coherent Defects in Diamond" |
05/30/2017 | Michel Devoret | Yale University | Kent Irwin | "Protecting Quantum Superpositions in Superconducting Circuits" |
Winter 2016/2017
Committee: A. Linde (Chair), S. Kivelson, S. Zhang
DATE | SPEAKER | Institution | HOST | TITLE |
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01/10/2017 | Leonid Levitov (Prof. Stanley S. Hanna Visiting Professorship Program) | MIT | D. Goldhaber-Gordon | "Atomic Collapse in Graphene" |
01/17/2017 | Gerry Sussman | MIT | Student hosted colloq. | "Programming: Medium for Clarifying Ideas" |
01/24/2017 | Rai Weiss (Bunyan Lecturer) | MIT | V. Petrosian | "The Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves: Observation of the Mergers of Black Hole Binaries" |
01/31/2017 | Peter Graham | Stanford University | A. Linde | "The Precision Frontier of Particle Physics" |
02/07/2017 | Nathan Seiberg (Prof. Stanley S. Hanna Visiting Professorship Program) | Institute for Advanced Study; Stanley S. Hanna Scholar | S. Shenker | "Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics" |
02/14/2017 | John Martinis | Google and UC Santa Barbara | D. Goldhaber-Gordon | "Quantum supremacy: Checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer" |
02/21/2017 | Rui-Rui Du | Rice University | S. Zhang | "Exploring the Landscape of Interacting Topological Insulators" |
02/28/2017 | Gerald Gabrielse (Hofstadter Lecturer) | Harvard University | L. Hollberg | "Probing the Electron to Test the Most Precise Prediction of the Standard Model and Beyond" |
03/07/2017 | Alan Guth | MIT | A. Linde | "Cosmology and the Arrow of Time" |
03/14/2017 | Renata Kallosh | Stanford University | A. Linde | "From Planck to Escher" |
Autumn 2016/2017
Committee: R. Blandford (Chair), A, Kapitulnik, R. Laughlin, L. Senatore
DATE | SPEAKER | Institution | HOST | TITLE |
---|---|---|---|---|
09/27/2016 | "State of the Departments" colloq. by P. Michelson & M. Fejer | Stanford University | N/A | "State of the Departments" |
10/04/2016 | Stephen Quake | Stanford University | Aharon Kapitulnik | "Single Cell Genomics" |
10/11/2016 | Daniel Harlow | Harvard University | Leonardo Senatore | "Emergent Locality and Gravity from Quantum Error Correction" |
10/18/2016 | Asimina Arvanitaki | Perimeter Instiutute | Leonardo Senatore | "Particle Physics Beyond Colliders" |
10/25/2016 | Shoucheng Zhang | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Discovery of the Majorana Fermion" |
11/01/2016 | Dmitry Budker | Helmholtz Institute Mainz | Giorgio Gratta | "Precession in the Dark: CASPEr and GNOME" |
11/08/2016 | David Pines | Univ. of Illinois | Robert Laughlin | "Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter" |
11/15/2016 | Ali Yazdani | Princeton University | Aharon Kapitulnik | "Spotting the Elusive Majorana Under the Microscope" |
11/22/2016 | Thanksgiving Recess - No Colloquium | |||
11/29/2016 | Vicky Kalogera | Northwestern University | Roger Blandford | "The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics" |
Spring 2015/2016
Committee: M. Schleier-Smith (Chair), G. Gratta, B. Lev, S. Zhang
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
03/29/16 | Fiona Harrison | Caltech | Roger Blandford | "A New View of the High Energy Universe: Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission" |
04/05/16 | Benjamin Lev | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Frontiers in quantum many-body physics and neuromorphic computation with multimode cavity QED" |
04/12/16 | James Kakalios | Univ. of Minnesota | Steve Kivelson | "The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books" |
04/19/16 | Stefano Profumo | UC Santa Cruz | Student host: Ruby Lai | "A Dark Needle in a Bright Haystack: Two Stories of Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter" |
04/26/16 | Theodor Hänsch/Hofstadter Lecturer | Univ. of Munich | Steve Chu | "Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy" |
05/03/16 | Jun Ye | Univ. of Colorado/NIST | Benjamin Lev | "Optical Atomic Clock and Many-body Quantum Physics" |
05/10/16 | Dam Thanh Son | Univ. of Chicago | Shoucheng Zhang | "Dirac Composite Fermions in Quantum Hall Fluids" |
05/17/16 | Mikhail Lukin | Harvard University | Benjamin Lev | "Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science" |
05/24/16 | Umesh Vazirani | UC Berkeley | Patrick Hayden | "Testing Quantum Systems" |
05/31/16 | Amir Yacoby | Harvard University | Kam Moler |
Winter 2015/2016
Committee: R. Blandford (Chair), T. Heinz, L. Hollberg, K. Irwin
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
01/12/16 | Ralf Wessel | Washington University | Student host: Nora Brackbill | "Cortical Vision from Emergent Global Dynamics" |
01/19/16 | Leonardo Senatore | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Effective Field Theory in Cosmology" |
01/26/16 | Tyce DeYoung | Michigan State Univ. | Roger Blandford | "Observations of Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube" |
02/02/16 | Yi Cui | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Batteries: Now and Future" |
02/09/16 | Eric Cornell | Univ. of Colorado | Leo Hollberg | "Can We Find 10 TeV Particles Using Sub Millihertz Spectroscopy? Looking for the Electron's Electric Dipole Moment in Trapped Molecular Ions" |
02/16/16 | Rana Adhikari (intro by Kip Thorne) | Caltech | Roger Blandford | "On the Measurement of Gravitational Waves from the Merger of two Black Holes" |
02/23/16 | Hanoch Gutfreund | Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem | William Little | “The Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years” |
03/01/16 | Konrad Lehnert | Univ. of Colorado | Kent Irwin | "Electromechanics: A New Quantum Technology" |
03/08/16 | Alex Vilenkin | Tufts University | Vahe Petrosian | "Black Holes from Cosmic Inflation" |
Autumn 2015/2016
Committee: A, Linde (Chair), S. Chu, P. Hayden, M. Schnitzer, L. Senatore
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
09/29/15 | SU Phys. Chair Peter Michelson and AP Chair Hideo Mabuchi | Stanford University | N/A | "State of the Departments" |
10/06/15 | Uros Seljak | UC Berkeley | Leonardo Senatore | "The Large Scale Structure of the Universe" |
10/13/15 | Mark van Raamsdonk | Univ. of British Columbia | Patrick Hayden | "Gravity and Entanglement" |
10/20/15 | Shuji Nakamura | Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara | James Harris | "History and Development of Blue InGaN LEDs and Laser Diodes" |
10/27/15 | Jennifer Dionne | Mat. Sci. & Engr. Dept., Stanford University | Patrick Hayden | "Inside Out: Visualizing Phase Transformations and Light-matter Interactions with Nanometer-scale Resolution" |
11/03/15 | Leonard Susskind | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | "Entanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics" |
11/10/15 | Yifang Wang | Institute of High Energy Physics, China | Andrei Linde | "Neutrino Oscillations: Past, Present and Future" |
11/17/15 | Zvi Bern | UCLA | Renata Kallosh | "A Curious Story of Quantum Gravity in the Ultraviolet". |
11/24/15 | THANKSGIVING RECESS | NO COLLOQ. THIS WEEK | ||
12/01/15 | Rebecca Flint | Iowa State University | Student host: Christopher Watson | "Novel Kondo Physics in Non-Kramers Doublets" |
Spring 2014/15
Committee: G. Gratta (Chair), R. Blandford, L. Senatore, + P. Bucksbaum
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
03/31/15 | Guifre Vidal | Perimeter Institute | Xiailiang Qi | "Tensor Network Renormalization" |
04/07/15 | Leslie Rosenberg | Univ. of Washington | Giorgio Gratta | "Searching for Dark-Matter Axions" |
04/14/15 | Tony Remijan | University of Virginia | Roger Blandford | "The Atacam Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) - Revealing New Chemical and Physical Views of the Cosmos" |
04/21/15 | Anton Zeilinger - 2015 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecturer | University of Vienna, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information | Leonard Susskind | "Quantum Entanglement in Higher Dimensions" |
04/28/15 | W. E. (William E.) Moerner | Stanford University (Chemistry Dept.) | Giorgio Gratta | "The Story of Single Molecules, from Early Spectroscopy in Solids to Super-Resolution Nanoscopy in Cells and Beyond" |
05/05/15 | Jeff Kimble | Caltech | Benjamin Lev | "Strong Atom-Light Interactions in Photonic Crystals" |
05/12/15 | Harvey Moseley | NASA | Kent Irwin | "Searching for the First Stars" |
05/19/15 | Senthil Todadri | MIT | Student hosted colloq. | "Topological Insulators beyond Band Theory" |
05/26/15 | David Reitze | Caltech | Giorgio Gratta | "Advanced LIGO: The Coming Dawn of Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy" |
Winter Quarter 2014/15
Committee: S.C. Zhang (Chair), P. Hayden, K. Irwin & S. Block PLEASE NOTE: Wtr. Qtr. colloquia will be held in Hewlett Room 200!
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
01/13/15 | John Martinis | Google/UC Santa Barbara | Kent Irwin | "State Preservation by Repetitive Error Detection in Superconducting Qubits" |
01/20/15 | Heather Knutson | Caltech | Bruce Macintosh | "Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era" |
01/27/15 | Scott Aaronson | MIT | Nathaniel Thomas (student host) | "When Exactly Do Quantum Computers Provide a Speedup?" |
02/03/15 | Joseph Curtin | Joseph Curtin Studios, Ann Arbor, MI | Steve Block | "Can Stradivari’s Sound be Measured?" |
02/10/15 | Alex Wissner-Gross | Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science | Xiaoliang Qi | "Causal Entropic Forces" |
02/17/15 | Vladen Vuletic | MIT | Leo Hollberg | "Strong PhotonPphoton Interactions" |
02/24/15 | Frederico Fiuza | SLAC | Seb Doniach | "Laser-driven Shock Waves: From Cosmic-ray Physics to Medical Applications" |
03/03/15 | Austin Roorda | Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley | Bruce Macintosh | "From Stimulation to Perception: Adaptive Optics for Testing Human Vision on a Cellular Scale" |
03/10/15 | François R. Bouchet | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | Andrei Linde | "Recent Cosmology Results from the Planck Experiment" |
Autumn 2014/15
Committee: A. Linde (Chair), L. Hollberg, B. Macintosh & Young Lee
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
09/30/14 | Welcoming Colloq. by Physics & AP Chairs, P. Michelson & H. Mabuchi | Stanford University | N/A | "State of the Departments" |
10/07/14 | Omar Hurricane | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Giorgio Gratta | "The High-Foot Implosion Campaign & Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility" |
10/14/14 | Lyman Page | Princeton University | Kent Irwin | "ACT and the CMB in Polarization" |
10/21/14 | Sean Hartnoll | Stanford University | TBD | "From Black Holes to Badly Behaved Metals" |
10/28/14 | Gergely Zimanyi | UC Davis | Austin Sendek (student host) | "Full Spectrum Boost in Nanoparticle Solar Cells" |
11/04/14 | Keivan Stassun | Vanderbilt University | Peter Michelson | "Advances in Stellar Astrophysics, Solar Physics, and Exoplanet Science with Large Surveys" |
11/11/14 | John Preskill | Caltech | Lenny Susskind | "Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier" |
11/18/14 | John Doyle | Harvard University | Leo Hollberg | "Order of Magnitude Smaller Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron" |
11/25/14 | NO COLLOQ. - Thanksgiving Recess |
Spring 2013/14
Committee: Steve Shenker (Chr.), Steve Kivelson and Bob Byer
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/01/14 | Peter Armitage | Johns Hopkins University | Steve Kivelson | "THz Investigations of Exotic Quantum States of Matter” |
4/08/14 | Surya Ganguli | Stanford University | Steve Shenker | "A Tour Through Neurophysics: On Singing Birds, Forgetting Synapses, and Turning Heads" |
4/15/14 | Subir Sachdev | Harvard University | Student hosted colloq. | "Unveiling the Order of the High Temperature Superconductors" |
4/22/14 | David Huse | Princeton University | Steve Shenker | "Quantum Thermalization and Many-Body Anderson Localization" |
4/29/14 | Aharon Kapitulnik | Stanford University | Steve Kivelson | "Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors" |
5/06/14 | Rob Myers | Perimeter Institute | Steve Shenker | "New Dialogues: Entanglement, Holography and Renormalization" |
5/13/14 | Margaret Kivelson | UCLA | Steve Shenker | "What Spacecraft Exploration has taught us about Plasmas in the Solar System" |
5/20/14 | Debbie Jin | JILA | Leo Hollberg | "Ultracold Polar Molecules" |
5/27/14 | Matias Zaldarriaga | Institute for Advanced Study | Steve Shenker | "The Cosmic Microwave Background after 50 Years" |
6/03/14 | Charles Marcus | Niels Bohr Institute | Aharon Kapitulnik | "Condensed Matter Physics for Quantum Information" |
Winter 2013/14
Committee: Mark Kasevich (Chr.), Giorgio Gratta and Shoucheng Zhang
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/14/14 | Arun Majumdar | Steve Chu | "Energy & the Industrial Revolution: Past, Present & Future" | |
1/21/14 | Yoshi Yamamoto | Stanford University | Mark Kasevich | "Coherent Computing by OPO Phase Transition" |
1/28/14 | Peter Fierlinger | TU Munich | Giorgio Gratta | "Slow Neutrinos and the Early Universe" |
2/04/14 | Robert L. Byer | Stanford University | Giorgio Gratta | "Laser Accelerator on a Chip (>300MeV/m): A Path to TeV Energy Scale Physics and Table Top Coherent X-ray Sources" |
2/11/14 | Mark Newman | University of Michigan | Shoucheng Zhang | "Epidemics, Influence, and Erdos Numbers: The Physics of Networks" |
2/18/14 | David Pritchard | MIT | Mark Kasevich | "What Should Students Learn, What Do Students Learn, and What Do They Learn It From?" |
2/25/14 | Qi-Kun Xue | Tsinghua University, China | Shoucheng Zhang | "From Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect to Interface Enhanced High Temperature Superconductivity" |
3/04/14 | Sir Michael Berry | University of Bristol | Leonard Susskind | "Hamilton's Diabolical Singularity" |
3/11/14 | Chao-Lin Kuo | Stanford University | TBD | "Inflationary B-modes and BICEP/Keck Experiments" |
3/18/14 | Tali Figueroa-Feliciano | MIT | Patricia Burchat | "What's the Matter with the Universe?" |
Fall 2013/14
Committee: Andrei Linde (Chr.), Leo Hollberg and Yoshi Yamamoto
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/01/13 | Physics Chair Peter Michelson & Applied Physics Chair Hideo Mabuchi | Stanford University | N/A | "State of the Departments" |
10/08/13 | Andrei Linde | Stanford University | N/A | "Planck 2013 and Cosmological Attractors" |
10/15/13 | CANCELLED DUE TO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN | JILA, Univ. of Colorado | Leo Hollberg | "Ultracold Polar Molecules" |
10/22/13 | Leonard Susskind | Stanford University | N/A | "New Concepts for Old Black Holes" |
10/29/13 | Xiaoliang Qi | Stanford University | Andrei Linde | "Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry" |
11/05/13 | Richard Hennig | Cornell University | Student hosted colloq. - Helen Craig | "Computational Discovery and Design of Materials for Energy Technologies" |
11/12/13 | Matthias Troyer | ETH, Zurich | Yoshi Yamamoto | "Quantum Annealing and the D-Wave Devices" |
11/19/13 | E. J. Chichilnisky | Dept. of Neurosurgery and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University | Andrei Linde | "Deciphering a Neural Circuit" |
11/26/13 | Thanksgiving Recess | No Colloq. |
Spring 2012/13
Committee: Xiaoliang Qi (Chr.),Stefan Funk, Ian Fisher, ZX Shen & Bob Byer
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/2/13 | Nicola Spaldin | ETH Zurich | Xiaoliang Qi | Cosmic Strings in Multiferroics |
4/9/13 | Fabiola Gianotti | CERN | Leonard Susskind | The Higgs Boson and other Recent Results from ATLAS |
4/16/13 | Turki al Saud | VP for Research of KACST | Peter Michelson | Large Scale Water Desalination by Solar Energy |
4/23/13 | Sigrid Close | Stanford University | Stefan Funk | Theory and Experiments of Hypervelocity Impact Plasmas |
4/30/13 | Jan Zaanen | Leiden University | Xiaoliang Qi | The string theory – condensed matter flirtation: an eyewitness account |
5/7/13 | Richard Scalettar | University of Calif. at Davis | Student Host: Helen Craig | Magnetism and Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous Systems |
5/14/13 | Aephraim Steinberg | Toronto University | Xioaliang Qi | Quantum Measurement in the Real World |
5/21/13 | Steven Chu | Stanford University | Vahe Petrosian | Biophysics and Bio-medicine in a New Light |
5/28/13 | C. W. Francis Everett | Stanford University | LeoHollberg | The Discovery of Maxwell's Equations |
Winter 2012/13
Committee: Steve Shenker (Chr.), David Goldhaber-Gordon, Ian Fisher, ZX Shen and Bob Byer
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/8/13 | Feng Wang | Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley | Student Host: Helen Craig | Tunable Optical Properties of Graphene |
1/15/13 | Yuki Sato | Rowland Inst., Harvard Univ. | Hideo Mabuchi | Device Engineering with Quantum and/or Artificial Materials |
1/22/13 | Michel Devoret | Yale University | David Goldhaber-Gordon | The Road to the Poles: Quantum Measurements that Steer rather than Collapse |
1/29/13 | Beate Heinemann | Univ. of California at Berkeley | Steve Shenker | The First Three Years at the LHC |
2/5/13 | Kent Irwin | NIST | Peter Michelson | Superconducting Sensors: Probing Cosmology and the Properties of Neutrinos |
2/12/13 | Yi-Fang Wang | IHEP Beijing | Giorgio Gratta | A New Type of Neutrino Oscillation Observed at Daya Bay |
2/19/13 | Surya Ganguli | Stanford University | Steve Shenker | Cancelled due to illness |
2/26/13 | Joe Polchinski | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics | Steve Shenker | The Black Hole Information Paradox -- Alive and Kicking |
3/5/13 | Stefan Westerhoff | University of Wisconsin | Student Host: Helen Craig | The Search for the Origin of Cosmic Rays |
3/12/13 | Zohar Komargodski | Weizmann Institute and IAS | Steve Shenker | New Observations about Quantum Field Theory |
Fall 2012/13
Committee: Andrei Linde (Chr.), Risa Wechsler, Ian Fisher, Z.X. Shen & Bob Byer
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/02/12 | Steve Kahn and Hideo Mabuchi | Stanford Physics and Applied Physics Depts. | N/A | State of the Departments |
10/09/12 | Savas Dimopoulos | Stanford Physics Dept. | A. Linde | "What has the LHC done to theory?" |
10/16/12 | Teun Klapwijk | Delft University of Technology | Z-X Shen | Superconductivity and THz photons |
10/23/12 | Philip Kim | Columbia Univ. | Harold Hwang | Toward Quantum Electronics based on 2-Dimensional Materials and Beyond |
10/30/12 | Daniel Palanker | Dept. of Ophthalmology and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Photovoltaic Retinal Prosthesis for Restoring Sight to the Blind |
11/06/12 | Risa Wechsler | Stanford University | Steve Kahn | Probing the Physics of the Dark Universe with Galaxies |
11/13/12 | Shoucheng Zhang | Stanford University | A. Linde | Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors |
11/20/12 | Thanksgiving Recess | No Colloq. | ||
11/27/12 | Chandra Varma | Univ. of Calif, Riverside | Steve Kivelson | Higgs Bosons in Superconductors |
Spring Quarter 2011/12
Committee: Peter Michelson (Chr.), David Goldhaber-Gordon, Steve Block
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/3/2012 | Jungsang Kim | Duke University | Host: Benjamin Lev | Modular Universal Scalable Ion-trap Quantum Computer (MUSICQC): Engineering a Practical Quantum Computer |
4/10/2012 | Shanti Deemyad | Univ. of Utah, College of Science | Host: Shibing Wang | Non-Trivial Physics of Simple Elements at High Densities: En-Route to Metallic Hydrogen and Insulating Lithium |
4/17/2012 | Geoffrey West - 2012 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecturer | Santa Fe Institute | Host: Leonard Susskind | Universal Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics |
4/24/2012 | Giorgio Gratta | Stanford University | Host: Peter Michelson | Neutrinos from Hell: The Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics |
5/01/2012 | Andreas Heinrich | IBM Almaden | Host: David Goldhaber-Gordon | The Quantum and Classical Properties of Spins on Surfaces |
5/08/2012 | Lorraine Sadler | Sandia Labs | Host: Erzsi Szilagyi | Electro-optic detection of ionizing radiation |
5/15/2012 | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero | MIT | Host: David Goldhaber-Gordon | 2D or not 2D, Quantum Transport and Optoelectronics in Novel Low-Dimensional Materials |
5/22/2012 | Christopher Fuchs | Perimeter Institute | Host: Hideo Mabuchi | Quantum Theory from Quantum Information? (What would Feynman say?) |
5/29/2012 | Walter Gekelman | UCLA | Host: Tom Abel | Magnetic Field Line Reconnection of Flux Ropes |
6/05/2012 | FINALS WEEK | No Colloq. Scheduled |
Winter Quarter 2011/12
Committee: Tom Abel (Chr.), Savas Dimopoulos, Daniel Fisher
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/10/2012 | Stanley Wojcicki | Stanford University | Host: Savas Dimopoulos | Measuring Neutrino Velocity: Current Status and Future Prospects |
1/17/2012 | Seth Shostak | SETI Institute | Student Host: Nicole Ackerman | New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
1/24/2012 | Erez Lieberman-Aiden | Havard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty at Google | Host: David Goldhaber-Gordon | Zooming out: Global structure in the Historical Record and the Human Genome |
1/31/2012 | Bruce Macintosh | Lawrence Livermore National Labs | Host: Tom Abel | Imaging Extrasolar Planets |
2/07/2012 | Ignacio Cirac | Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany | Host: Savas Dimopoulos | Dissipation: A New Tool in Quantum Information Science |
2/14/2012 | Markus Greiner | Harvard University | Host: Mark Kasevich | Synthetic Quantum Matter under the Microscope |
2/21/2012 | Wojciech Zurek | LANL | Host: Savas Dimopoulos | Quantum Theory of the Classical |
2/28/2012 | Scott Ransom | Natl. Radio Astronomy Observatory | Host: Tom Abel | Basic (but cool!) Physics with Millisecond Pulsars |
3/06/2012 | NO COLLOQ. (cancelled) | |||
3/13/2012 | FINALS WEEK - No Colloq. Scheduled |
Fall Quarter 2011/12
Committee: Phil Bucksbaum (Chr.), Steve Shenker & Bob Byer
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
9/27/2011 | Steve Kahn, SU Physics Chair and Hideo Mabuchi, AP Chair | Stanford University | Host: Phil Bucksbaum | "State of the Departments - Physics & Applied Physics" |
10/04/2011 | Giorgio Gratta | Stanford University | Host: Stephen Shenker | "Majorana Fermions and Neutrino Masses" |
10/11/2011 | Siegfried Glenzer | Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab | Host: Phil Bucksbaum | "Mega-joule Experiments on the National Ignition Facility - On the road to produce a microscopic star in the Laboratory" |
10/18/2011 | Mark Schnitzer | Stanford University | Host: Stephen Shenker | "Of Mice, Men and Microscopes: Watching Brain Dynamics at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects" |
10/25/2011 | Andrea Cavalleri | CFEL, Hamburg, Germany | Host: Phil Bucksbaum | "Controlling Quantum Condensed Matter with Light" |
11/01/2011 | Hidenori Takagi | Univ. of Tokyo, Japan | Host: Harold Hwang | "Emergent Phases of Correlated Electrons in Transition Metal Oxides" |
11/08/2011 | Margaret Murnane | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder | Host: Phil Bucksbaum | "Science on the Timescale of the Electron: Coherent keV X-rays from Tabletop Lasers
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11/15/2011 | Yong-Baek Kim | University of Toronto | Host: Steve Shenker | "Topological Phases in Correlated Materials" |
11/22/2011 | THANKSGIVING RECESS- No Colloquium Scheduled | |||
11/29/2011 | Mara Prentiss | Harvard University | Student Host: Limor Spector | New Insights into Homology Recognition and Strand Exchange with Implications for Artificial Self-Assembly and Protein Folding |
12/06/2011 | FINALS WEEK - No colloquium! |
Spring 2010/2011
Committee: Yoshi Yamamoto (Chair.; AP), Doug Osheroff, Roger Blandford
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
03/29/2011 | Yosi Avron | Technion, Israel | Host: Shoucheng Zhang | Baron von Munchhausen and the Cat |
04/05/2011 | Hofstadter lecture by David Mermin | Cornell Univ. | Host: Lenny Susskind | What has Quantum Mechanics to do with Factoring? |
04/12/2011 | Joel Fajans | UC Berkeley | Host: Doug Osheroff | How to Create and Trap Anti-Hydrogen |
04/19/2011 | Ned Wright | UCLA | Host: Roger Blandford | Exploring the Universe with WISE |
04/26/2011 | Bob Schoenlein | LBL | Host: Student host Erzsi Szilagyi | Ultrafast Science and the Next Generation X-Ray Laser Array at the Berkeley Lab |
05/03/2011 | David Wineland | NIST | Host: Yoshi Yamamoto | Trapped-ion Quantum Information Experiments at NIST |
05/10/2011 | Philip W. Phillips | Univ.of Illinois | Student Host: Aaron Streets | Mottness and Holography: Strange Metal from UV-IR Mixing |
05/17/2011 | Rob Schoelkopf - CANCELLED | Yale | Host: Yoshi Yamamoto | Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms with Superconducting Circuits -CANCELLED |
05/24/2011 | Alex Szalay | Johns Hopkins University | Host: Roger Blandford | Extreme Data Intensive Computing in Astrophysics |
05/31/2011 | Wilson Ho | UC Irvine | Host: Doug Osheroff | Visualization of Quantum Mechanics |
Winter 2010/2011
Committee: Seb Doniach (Chair), Leonardo Senatore, Harold Hwang (AP)
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
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01/04/2011 | Andrew MacKenzie | Univ. of St. Andrews | Host: Harold Hwang | Complex Oxides: A New Playground for Physics and Technology |
01/11/2011 | Eric Adelberger | Univ. of Washington | Host: Mark Kasevich | A Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics |
01/18/2011 | Assa Auerbach | Technion, Israel | Host: Seb Doniach | Elementary Particles of Superconductivity |
01/25/2011 | Anthony Leonardo | Janelia Farm Research Campus | Host: Hideo Mabuchi | Guidance Laws Underlying Prey Capture in the Salamander and Dragonfly |
02/01/2011 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | Institute for Advanced Study | Host: Leonardo Senatore | Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes |
02/08/2011 | Gerard Wong | UCLA | Host: Seb Doniach | Condensed Matter Physics and Bacteria |
02/15/2011 | Jelena Vuckovic | Stanford University | Host: Ian Fisher? | Quantum Dots in Optical Nanocavities: From Cavity QED to Device Applications |
02/22/2011 | Chao-Lin Kuo | Stanford University | Host: Steve Kahn | Science with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization |
03/01/2011 | James Rosenzweig | UCLA | Student Host: Limor Spector | Plasma Acceleration: High Energy Physics Meets High Energy Density Physics |
03/08/2011 | Louis Taillefer | Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Host: Harold Hwang | The Two Mysteries of Superconductivity |
03/15/2011 | FINALS WEEK | NO COLLOQ.!!! |
Fall 2010/2011
Committee: Eva Silverstein (Chair), Z.X. Shen and Mark Schnitzer (AP)
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
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9/28/2010 | Tony Tyson | UC Davis | Host: Nicholas Breznay | Mining the Sky for Dark Energy |
10/05/2010 | Kerry Vahala | Caltech | Host: Mark Schnitzer | Cavity Optomechanics |
10/12/2010 | Kent Irwin | NIST | Host: Kam Moler | The Physics of Superconducting Calorimeters: Applications in Nuclear Security |
10/19/2010 | Bert Halperin | Harvard University | Host: S. Zhang | Interferometery in a Quantized Hall State |
10/26/2010 | Phil Bucksbaum | Stanford & SLAC | Host: Z-X Shen | AMO Physics with Ultrafast Short Wavelength Coherent Radiation |
11/02/2010 | Sung-Sik Lee | McMaster University | Host: Eva Silverstein | Emergent Supersymmetry and String in Condensed Matter Systems |
11/09/2010 | Boris Shraiman | KITP/UCSB | Host: Eva Silverstein | Unexpected Physics in Biology |
11/16/2010 | Jeffrey Richman | UCSB | Host: Eva Silverstein | Exploring the TeV Energy Scale at the Large Hadron Collider |
11/23/2010 | THANKSGIVING RECESS | |||
11/30/2010 | Stefan Funk | Stanford University | Host: Steve Kahn | The Extreme Universe Observed in Gamma-rays |
12/07/2010 | FINALS WEEK | NO COLLOQ.!! |
Spring 2009/1010
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
03/30/2010 | Dan Green | Fermilab | Host: Stan Wojcicki | The Status of the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
04/06/2010 | K. C. Cole | USC, School of Journalism | Host: Stan Wojcicki | The Uncle of the Atom Bomb: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up |
04/13/2010 | Hofstadter Colloq. - Joachim Stohr | Director Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC | Host: Doug Osheroff | Birth of the X-Ray Laser: Movies of the Dynamic Worlds of Atoms and Electrons |
04/20/2010 | Marin Soljacic | MIT | Student Host: Nicole Ackerman | WiTricity -- Non-Radiative Wireless Power Transfer |
04/27/2010 | William Borucki | NASA | Host: Tom Abel | Status of the Kepler Mission and Early Discoveries |
05/04/2010 | David J. Pine | New York University | Host: Daniel Fisher | Colloidal Self-Assembly and Replication |
05/11/2010 | JB Straubel | CTO, Tesla Motors | Host: Patricia Burchat | Energy Storage for Electric Vehicles |
05/18/2010 | Michael Turner | Univ. Chicago | Host: Roger Blandford | Inflation: Time for a Change? |
05/25/2010 | Claire Gmachl | Princeton University | Student Host: Nicholas Breznay | Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers |
06/01/2010 | Mark Bowick | Syracuse University | Host: A. Kapitulnik | Two-Dimensional Matter: Order, Curvature and Defects |
Winter 2009/2010
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
01/05/2010 | Bob Laughlin | Stanford Univ. | HOST: Shoucheng Zhang | Here Comes the Sun |
01/12/2010 | John March-Russell | Oxford Univ. | HOST: Savas Dimopoulos | Exploring String Axions and Photini with Astrophysics, Cosmology, and the LHC |
01/19/2010 | Victor Yakovenko | Univ. of Maryland | HOST: Shoucheng Zhang | Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth |
01/26/2010 | Nemanja Kaloper | UC Davis | HOST: Savas Dimopoulos | Out of Darkness: The Quest for Lambda |
02/02/2010 | Eliot Quataert | Univ. of Calif., Berkeley | HOST: Tom Abel | The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics |
02/09/2010 | Philippe Bouyer | Polytechnique in France | HOST: Geert Vrijsen (Student Host) | Simulating Quantum Transport in Atoms and Light |
02/16/2010 | Jan Liphardt | UC Berkeley | HOST: Steve Quake | The Evolving Intersection of Physics and Biology |
02/23/2010 | Thomas Gregor | Princeton Univ. | HOST: Mike Minar | The Onset of Collective Behavior in Cell Populations of the Social Amoebae |
03/02/2010 | Patrick Lee | MIT | HOST: Shoucheng Zhang | An End to the Drought of Quantum Spin Liquid |
03/09/2010 | Albert Fert | Orsay | HOST: Shoucheng Zhang | Spintronics: Recent Developments and Perspective |
03/16/2010 | FINALS WEEK | NO COLLOQ.!!! |
Fall 2009/2010
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
9/29/2009 | Tom Abel | Stanford Univ. | Host: Seb Doniach | Star Formations Then and Now |
10/06/2009 | Hideo Mabuchi | Stanford Univ. | Host: Seb Doniach | From Jaynes-Cummings to Rouse-Zimm: Interdisciplinary Quantum Optics |
10/13/2009 | Irfan Siddiqi | UC Berkeley | Host: Julie Bert (student host) | Quantum Noise in Josephson's "Frictionless" Pendulum |
10/20/2009 | Harold Hwang | Univ. of Tokyo | Host: Z.-X. Shen | Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterointerfaces |
10/27/2009 | Taekjip Ha | Univ of Illinois | Host: Steve Block | Revisiting the Double Helix |
11/03/2009 | Joseph Formaggio | MIT | Host: Giorgio Gratta | Weighing Neutrinos |
11/10/2009 | Eric J. Heller | Harvard Univ. | Host: Hari Manoharan | Stalking the Two-Dimensional Electron |
11/17/2009 | David Awschalom | UCSB | Host: Shoucheng Zhang | Engineering Semiconductors and Engaging Diamonds for Spintronics |
11/24/2009 | THANKSGIVING RECESS | |||
12/01/2009 | Risa Wechsler | Stanford Univ. | Host: Pat Burchat | Galaxy Formation Insights from the Evolution of Structure |
12/08/2009 | Siegfried S Hecker | Stanford Univ. | Host: Seb Doniach | Plutonium Metallurgy: From 5f Electrons to Bombs |
Spring 2008/2009
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/7/2009 | Alex Vilenkin | Tufts University | Host: Lenny Susskind | Measures of the Multiverse |
4/14/2009 | Moti Segev | Technion, Israel | Host: Steve Harris | Anderson Localization of Light |
4/21/2009 | Ron Ruth | SLAC | Host: Pat Burchat | A Miniature Synchrotron using Inverse Compton Scattering: Basic Principles and Initial Experiments |
4/28/2009 | Julie Theriot | Stanford - Biochem. Dept. | Host: Daniel Fisher | Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Movement |
5/5/2009 | Adam Burrows | Princeton University | Host: Tom Abel | How do Stars Explode? Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae |
5/12/2009 | Hari Manoharan | Stanford University | Host: Pat Burchat | Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials |
5/19/2009 | Leonardo Senatore | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | Joint Colloquium SLAC/Stanford | Non-Gaussianities: Probing High Energy Physics with Cosmological Observations Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Refreshments: 4:00pm) Location: Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC |
5/26/2009 | Sidney Nagel | Univ. of Chicago | Host: Daniel Fisher | The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids |
6/02/2009 | Arthur Ramirez | Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz | Host: Doug Osheroff | How Do Organic Semiconductors Work? |
Winter 2008/2009
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/6/2009 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |||
1/13/2009 | Janet Conrad | MIT | Host: Nicole Ackerman | Nu Directions in the Search for New Physics |
1/20/2009 | Rashid Sunyaev | Max Planck Institute, Germany | Host: Tom Abel | The Physics of Cosmological Recombination |
1/27/2009 | Peter Graham | Stanford University | Host: Savas Dimopoulos | Astrophysical Probes of Unification |
2/3/2009 | Nader Engheta | Penn. State | Host: Jon Schuller | Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale |
2/10/2009 | Laura Greene | Univ. of Illinois | Host: Julie Bert | Andreev Reflection in Heavy Fermion Superconductors: Focus on CeCoIn5 |
2/17/2009 | Seth Putterman | UCLA | Host: Giorgio Gratta | Towards XRay and Fusion Mems |
2/24/2009 | Mark Kasevich | Stanford University | Host: Eva Silverstein | Atom Interferometry |
3/3/2009 | Stuart Raby | Ohio State | Host: Savas Dimopoulos | The Puzzle of Charge and Mass |
3/10/2009 | Sandra Faber | UCSC | host: Tom Abel | Galaxy Evolution Over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time |
3/17/2009 | Paul Kushner | Univ. of Toronto | host: Eva Silverstein | Climate Sensitivity and Climate Models |
Fall 2008
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
9/23/2008 | Alexei Kitaev | Caltech | host: Shoucheng Zhang | Topological Quantum Computation |
9/30/2008 | Jun Ye | JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado | host: Bob Byer | Precision Quantum Metrology |
10/7/2008 | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Stanford University | host: Shoucheng Zhang | Transport in Graphene: Analogies between Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Electrons in a Single Layer of Carbon Atoms? |
10/14/2008 | Chetan Nayak | UCSB | host: Eva Silverstein | Topological Quantum Computation |
10/21/2008 | Bill Halperin | Northwestern University | host: Aharon Kapitulnik | Unconventional Pairing and Impurities in Superfluid 3He |
10/28/2008 | Peter Michelson | Stanford University | host: Chao-Lin Kuo | Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope: First Light |
11/04/2008 | Uros Seljak | UC Berkeley | host: Eva Silverstein | Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Observations |
11/11/2008 | Ronald Walsworth | Harvard University | host: Michael Minar | From Astrophysics to Bioimaging: New Applications of Physics Tools |
11/18/2008 | Nergis Mavalvala | MIT | host: Giorgio Gratta | Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales |
11/25/2008 | NO COLLOQUIUM-Thanksgiving Recess | |||
12/02/2008 | Wayne Hu | Univ. of Chicago | host: Chao-Lin Kuo | |
12/09/2008 | No colloq. |
Spring 2008
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/1/2008 | Yi Cui | Stanford University | host: P. Michelson | Nanowire Materials for Energy and Nanoelectronics |
4/8/2008 | Larry Abbott | Columbia University | host: L. Susskind | Hofstadter Lecture: "Who's Afraid of Chaotic Networks? Models of Sensory and Motor Processing in the Face of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity" |
4/15/2008 | Alan Watson | Univ. of Leeds, U.K. | host: P. Michelson | Is the Search for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Over? |
4/22/2008 | Gary Sanders and Brent Ellerbroek | Caltech | host: R. Byer | "The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Telescopes" by Gary Sanders (30 mins.) and "Adaptive Optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope" by Brent Ellerbroek (30 mins.) |
4/29/2008 | Lenny Susskind | Stanford University | host: Eva Silverstein | Negative Curvature |
5/6/2008 | Anthony Mezzacappa | Oak Ridge Natl. Lab | host: G. Gratta | Ascertaining the Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism through High-Performance Computing |
5/13/2008 | Rick Gaitskell | Brown University | host: B. Cabrera | A Noble Endeavor - Looking for Dark Matter |
5/20/2008 | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | ||
5/27/2008 | Matias Zaldarriaga | Harvard University | host: E. Silverstein | Cosmology: Present Status and Future Prospects |
6/3/2008 | Scott Hubbard | Stanford University | host: P. Michelson | Examining the Vision for Space Exploration: Workshop Findings |
Winter 2008
date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/15/2008 | Steve Allen | Stanford Univ. & SLAC | host: E. Silverstein | New Cosmological Constraints from X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters |
1/22/2008 | CANCELLED | |||
1/29/2008 | Ned Wingreen | Princeton Univ. | host: R. Laughlin | Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. coli |
2/5/2008 | Lars Bildsten | UCSB | host: R. Blandford | Explosions in Accreting White Dwarfs: From Novae to Supernovae |
2/12/2008 | Juan Collar | Univ. of Chicago | host: G. Gratta | Something Old, Something New |
2/19/2008 | Mike Deweese | Univ. of CA at Berkeley | host: E. Silverstein | One Physicist's View of the Cortex |
2/26/2008 | Arthur Bienenstock | Stanford Univ. | host: P. Burchat | Other Faces of the American Physical Society |
3/4/2008 | Sam Waldman | Caltech | host: G. Gratta | Looking Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
3/11/2008 | Scott Tremaine | Institute for Adv. Study | host: R. Blandford | The Long-Term Evolution of Planetary Orbits |
Fall 2007
Date | speaker | institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
9/25/2007 | Wendy Freedman | Carnegie Observatories | host: R. Blandford | Measuring Cosmological Parameters |
10/2/2007 | Misha Lukin | Harvard | host: M. Kasevich | Controlling Single Nuclei and Lighting Nanowires: New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science |
10/9/2007 | Shoucheng Zhang | Stanford Univ. | host: Seb Doniach | Quantum Spin Hall Effect |
10/16/2007 | Chuck Steidel | Caltech | host: R. Blandford | Understanding Galaxy Formation: What are we Missing? |
10/23/2007 | Immanuel Bloch | J. Gutenberg-Universitat | host: M. Kasevich | Exploring Quantum Matter with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices |
10/30/2007 | Neal Weiner | New York University | host: S. Dimopoulos | Illuminating Dark Matter |
11/6/2007 | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Stanford | host: S. Kachru | Designer Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Observation of Many Body Physics in a Semiconductor Nanostructure |
11/13/2007 | Dam Thanh Son | Univ. of Washington | host: S. Kachru | Viscosity, Black Holes and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions |
11/20/2007 | NO COLLOQUIUM - | THANKSGIVING | RECESS | |
11/27/2007 | Peter Zoller | Univ. of Innsbrook | host: M. Kasevich | Quantum Information anf Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems |
12/4/2007 | Nigel Goldenfeld | Univ. of Illinois | host: S. Doniach | Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at Yellowstone's Hot Springs |
12/11/2007 | Yuk Yung | Caltech | host: R. Blandford | Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres |
Spring 2007
Date | Speaker | Institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/3/2007 | L. Mahadevan | Harvard Univ. | host: students | Geometric Mechanics: From the Atomic to the Tectonic |
4/10/2007 | Frans Pretorius | Princeton Univ. | host: E. Silverstein | Simulations of Black Hole Collisions |
4/17/2007 | Peter Gorham | Univ. of Hawaii | host: G. Gratta | Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Neutrinos |
4/24/2007 | Rob Phillips | Caltech | host: S. Doniach | The Physics of How Viruses Make New Viruses |
5/1/2007 | John W. Harris | Yale Univ. | host: L. Susskind | Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma in the Laboratory |
5/8/2007 | John Mather | NASA | host: R. Blandford | From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and Beyond |
5/15/2007 | Nathan Seiberg | Inst. for Advanced Study | host: E. Silverstein | Supersymmetry and its Breaking |
5/22/2007 | Eliot Quataert | UC Berkeley | host: E. Silverstein | The Rise and Fall of Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei |
5/29/2007 | Amnon Aharony | Ben Gurion University, Israel | host: A. Kapitulnik | Mesoscopic Physics, Quantum Dots and the Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer |
6/5/2007 | Bonnie Fleming | Yale University | host: G. Gratta | MiniBooNE Oscillation Results |
Winter 2007
Date | Speaker | Institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/16/2007 | Guy Deutcher | Tel Aviv University | host: A. Kapitulnik | "What are the High Tc Cuprates Good for? |
1/23/2007 | John Clarke | UC Berkeley | host: S. Kivelson | "Coupled Flux Qubits with Controllable Interaction" |
1/30/2007 | Alan Title | Lockheed Martin | hosts: P. Burchat & P. Scherrer | "Following the Trail of the Magnetic Field from the Solar Interior through the Heliosphere" |
2/6/2007 | Andy MacKenzie | St. Andrews | host: S. Kivelson | "Quantum Criticality as a Driver for Discovery" |
2/13/2007 | Ian Fisher | Stanford | host: Z.-X. Shen | "Spin-dimer Compounds - Magnon BEC and the role of Crystal Structure" |
2/20/2007 | Jonathan Arons | UC Berkeley | host: R. Blandford | "Cosmic Pevatrons: The Excitation of Pulsar Wind Nebulae" |
2/27/2007 | Greg Boebinger | Natl. High Magnetic Field Lab. | host: S. Kivelson | "Is a Quantum Phase Transition Underlying High-Temperature Superconductivity?" |
3/6/2007 | none |
Autumn 2006
Date | Speaker | Insitution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/3/2006 | Azadeh Tabazadeh | Stanford | host: V. Petrosian | Greenhouse Gas Versus Aerosol Forcing of Climate Change |
10/10/2006 | Mark Schnitzer | Stanford | host: A. Kapitulnik | Biophysical approaches to the study of mammilian brain circuits |
10/17/2006 | Uwe Bergmann | SLAC | host: A. Kapitulnik | Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes' Writings under X-Ray Vision |
10/24/2006 | Aharon Kapitulnik | Stanford | Broken Time Reversal Symmetry States in Novel Superconductors | |
10/25/2006 | Michael Brown | Caltech | host: V. Petrosian | Bunyan Lecture: Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Solar System |
10/31/2006 | Michael Crommie | Berkeley | host: S. Kivelson | Exploring and Manipulating Fullerenes at the Single Molecule Level |
11/7/2006 | Calvin Quate | Stanford | host: R. Byer | Another Era in Imaging -Scanning Probes |
11/14/2006 | Prof. Tony Tyson | UC Davis | host: Peter Michelson | The New Digital Sky: Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
11/21/2006 | None | Thanksgiving Recess | ||
11/28/2006 | Dr. Taekjip Ha | Univ. of Illinois | host: S. Doniach | Single Molecule Views of Nature's Nano-Machines |
12/5/2006 | Dr. Eugene Demler | Harvard Univ. | host: S. Kivelson | Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems: From Electronic Materials to Cold Atoms |
Spring 2006
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/3/2006 | Jim Cronin | Univ. of Chicago | host: Fetter | Hofstadter public lecture, Monday: "Cosmic Rays: A Fascinating Scientific History" |
4/4/2006 | Hofstadter colloquium: "The Pierre Auger Observatory for Highest Energy Cosmic Rays" | |||
4/10/2006 | Joel R. Primack; Nancy Ellen Abrams | UC Santa Cruz; Attorney/Writer | KIPAC & Physics | Special colloquium, Monday, 7:30pm, Hewlett room 200, "The View from the Center of the Universe" |
4/11/2006 | Krishna Rajagopal | MIT | host: Silverstein | "The Condensed Matter Astrophysics of QCD" |
4/18/2006 | Hideo Mabuchi | Caltech | host: Yamamoto | "Measurement, Control and Quantum Information" |
4/25/2006 | Shri Kulkarni | Caltech | host: Silverstein | "Cosmic Explosions: Known and Knowable" |
5/02/2006 | Lance Dixon | SLAC | host: Silverstein | "Twistor Spinoffs for Collider Physics" |
5/09/2006 | Boris Altshuler | Columbia | host: Kapitulnik | "Many-Body Localization" |
5/16/2006 | Raphael Bousso | UC Berkeley | host: Silverstein | "The Cosmological Constant Problem and the Landscape of String Theory" |
5/23/2006 | Daniel Gottesman | Perimeter Institute | host: Silverstein | "Private Key and Public Key Quantum Cryptography" |
5/30/2006 | Christopher Monroe | Univ. of Michigan | host: Yamamoto | "Quantum Networks and Ion Trap Quantum Computers" |
6/6/2006 | Subir Sachdev | Harvard Univ. | host: Silverstein | "Detecting Quantum Duality in the Cuprate Superconductors" |
Winter 2006
Date | Speaker | Institution | host | title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/10/2006 | Daniel Fisher | Harvard Univ | host: Kivelson | "Is evolution understood? Quantitative questions from a statistical mechanic" |
1/17/2006 | Edward Baltz | KIPAC/SLAC | host: Kahn | "Solving the Dark Matter Problem" |
1/24/2006 | Rob Goldston | Princeton Plasma Physics Lab | host: Gratta | "Advances in Magnetic Fusion Science and the ITER Project" |
1/31/2006 | John Tranquada | Brookhaven | host: Kivelson | "Seeing Stripes in High Temperature Superconductors" |
2/07/2006 | Tor Raubenheimer | SLAC | host: Kahn | "The International Linear Collider: Accelerator Physics and Design Challenges" |
2/14/2006 | Jeff Kimble | CalTech | host: Hui Deng | "Quantum Optics with Single Atoms and Photons" |
2/21/2006 | Carol Christian | Space Telescope Science Inst. | host: Kahn | "Science, Satellites, and Foreign policy" |
2/28/2006 | Richard Packard | UC Berkeley | host: Kivelson | "Superfluid weak links: physics and applications" |
3/7/2006 | Ady Stern | Weismann Institute | host: Goldhaber-Gordon | 'Quantum Twists and Slits: Unconventional "anyonic" statistics on the way from Theory-land to Experimental Demonstrations' |
3/14/06 | Miklos Gyulassy | Columbia Univ. | host: Kahn | " The Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC/BNL" |
Autumn 2005
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/4/2005 | Jun Ye | JILA | host: Kasevich | "Precision measurement meets ultrafast science" |
10/11/2005 | Joachim Stöhr | SSRL/SLAC | host: Doniach | "Magnetism and X-Rays: Past, Present and a Vision of the Future" |
10/18/2005 | Leslie Berlin | - | host: Kasevich | "The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley" |
10/25/2005 | Robert Kirshner | Harvard | host: Blandford | "A Blunder Undone: Supernova Cosmology and the Accelerating Universe" |
11/1/2005 | Phuan Ong | Princeton | host: Kivelson | "Vortices and the loss of phase coherence in the high-temperature superconductors" |
11/8/2005 | Seth Putterman | UCLA | host: Adam Cohen | "Energy Concentrating Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence To Crystal Fusion" |
11/14/2005 | David Spergel | Princeton | host: Petrosian | Bunyan Lecture (Monday) "Taking the Baby Picture of the Universe" |
11/15/2005 | Colloquium (Tuesday) "Cosmology from WMAP and Beyond" | |||
11/22/2005 | None | -- | -- | Thanksgiving Recess |
11/29/2005 | Robert Birgenau | UC Berkeley | host: Greven | "High Temperature Superconductivity and Magnetism: Friends or Foes?" |
12/6/2005 | -- | -- | -- | End Quarter Period |
Spring 2005
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Topic | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/29/2005 | Scott Thomas | Stanford | Lenny Susskind | The Meaning of Naturalness | |
4/05/2005 | Z.X. Shen | Stanford | David Goldhaber-Gordon | The Photoelectric Effect Since Einstein | |
4/12/2005 | Steve Quake | Stanford | Imaging Information in DNA | ||
4/19/2005 | C.W. Francis Everitt | Stanford | Blas Cabrera | The Gravity Probe B Flight Mission:A Stanford Physics-Engineering Partnership | |
4/26/2005 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | Harvard | Savas Dimopoulos | Naturalness versus the Landscape, or, Why does the Universe Appear Finely Tuned? | |
5/03/2005 | Sarah Church | Stanford | Pat Burchat | The QUaD CMB Polarization Experiment | |
5/10/2005 | Gerald Gabrielse | Harvard | Giorgio Gratta | One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron: First Fully-Quantum Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment, and a Greatly Improved Value for the Fine Structure Constant | |
5/17/2005 | Jim Eisenstein | Caltech | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Hall Effect | |
5/24/2005 | Peter Galison | Harvard | Sandy Fetter | The Assassin of Relativity | Hofstadter Lecture |
Winter 2005
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/4/2005 | Markus Greiner | JILA Boulder | Mark Kasevich | Fermion Condensates |
1/11/2005 | David Awschalom | UCSB | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Spintronics: Semiconductors, Molecules and Quantum Information Processing |
1/18/2005 | Tom Abel | Stanford University & Kavli Institute | David Goldhaber-Gordon | The First Stars |
1/25/2005 | Dan Rugar | IBM Almaden Research Center | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Single Spin Detection by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy |
2/1/2005 | Jacob Bekenstein | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Bob Wagoner | Gravitation and the bounds on information |
2/8/2005 | Moses Chan | Penn State University | Doug Osheroff | Can a Solid be a Superfluid? |
2/15/2005 | Glenn Starkman | Case Western Reserve University | Savas Dimopoulos | Is the low-l Microwave Background Cosmic? |
2/22/2005 | Maria Spiropulu | CERN | Savas Dimopoulos | **Cancelled** (was: 14 TeV Physics) |
3/1/2005 | Andreas Wallraff | Yale University | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits |
Autumn 2004
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
9/28/2004 | Boris Kayser | Fermilab | S. Wojcicki | The Neutrino World: Present and Future |
10/5/2004 | Burt Richter | SLAC | Peter Michelson | Gambling with the Future: Energy, Environment & Economics in the 21st Century |
10/12/2004 | Jason Ho | OSU | Shoucheng Zhang | The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases |
10/19/2004 | Wolfgang Ketterle | MIT | Mark Kasevich | Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms, Molecules and Fermion Pairs |
10/26/2004 | Bill Atwood | UC Santa Cruz | Peter Michelson | Physics of Violins |
11/2/2004 | Charlie Marcus | Harvard | DGG and Kam Moler | Quantum Circuits |
11/9/2004 | Joe Polchinski | UC Santa Barbara | David Goldhaber-Gordon | Cosmic Superstrings |
11/16/2004 | Jim Eisenstein | Caltech | David Goldhaber-Gordon | **Cancelled** -- Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Hall Effect |
11/16/2004 | Anatoly Spitkovsky | KIPAC, Stanford University | "The Incredible Double Pulsar -- A Laboratory for General Relativity, Nuclear Physics and Relativistic Plasma Physics" | |
11/23/2004 | Marlan Scully | Texas A&M & Princeton | Steve Harris | Coherent Control: From QED to DNA |
11/30/2004 | Ed Lu | NASA | Vahe' Petrosian | Moving, Manipulating and Mining Astroids |
Spring 2003-2004
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
3/29/04 | Carl Wieman | JILA, University of Colorado | 2004 Robert Hoftadter Memorial Lecture |
3/30/04 | Carl Wieman | JILA, University of Colorado | Resonant BEC: a New Macroscopic Quantum System |
4/6/04 | Tom Soifer | Caltech | The Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA's Newest Great Observatory |
4/13/04 | Deborah Jin | University of Colorado | Condensates of Fermionic Atom Pairs |
4/20/04 | Robert Cahn | University of California, Berkeley | Elementary Quantum Mechanics and the Newly Discovered Particles |
4/27/04 | Ian Shipsey | Purdue University | Bringing Hearing to the Deaf Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account |
5/4/04 | Mark Kasevich | Stanford University | Control of Non-Classical States of Matter |
5/11/04 | Barbara Jacak | State University of New York, Stony Brook | A New Kind of Matter at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider? |
5/18/04 | Shoucheng Zhang | Stanford University | Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current |
5/25/04 | Nathan S. Lewis | California Institute of Technology | Title: TBA |
6/1/04 | Blas Cabrera | Stanford University | Title: TBA |
Winter 2003-2004
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
1/6/04 | Geoff Marcy | University of California, Berkeley | Planetary Systems |
1/13/04 | Shamit Kachru | SLAC/Stanford Physics Department | Cosmology on the String Theory Landscape |
1/20/04 | Amir Yacoby | Weizmann Institute | Spin - Charge Separation and Localization in One - Dimension Measured Using Momentum Resolved Tunneling. |
1/27/04 | Howard Georgi | Harvard University | Women and the Future of Physics |
2/3/04 | Misha Lukin | Harvard University | Quantum Control of Photons and Atoms |
2/10/04 | Doug Scalapino | University of California, Santa Barbara | (HTS and Wireless) |
2/17/04 | Stefan Westerhoff | Columbia University | HiRes: Mapping the High Energy Universe |
2/24/04 | Daniel Kleppner | MIT | Is a Boost-Phase Missile Defense System Feasible? |
3/2/04 | Ned Wingreen | Princeton University | E. Coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-Protein Oscillations |
3/9/04 | Dr. John L. Callas | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | The Mars Exploration Rovers: The Corps of Discovery for Mars |
Autumn 2003-2004
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
9/30/03 | Stan Woosley | University of California, Santa Cruz | Gamma-Ray Bursts: Nature's Grandest Explosions |
10/07/03 | Doug Osheroff | Stanford University | Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident |
10/14/03 | Herbert Walther | Max-Planck Inst. for Quantum Optics | Quantum Optics of Single Atoms |
10/21/03 | Tom Baer | CEO/founder, Arcturus, Mt. View | Systems for Microgenomics: Tools for Understanding the Fundamental Physics and Chemistry of Normal and Diseased Cells. |
10/28/03 | Mark Raizen | University of Texas, Austin | New Frontiers in Controlling the Motion of Matter with Light: from Single Atoms to Neurons |
11/04/03 | Steven H. Simon | Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs | The Unexpected Physics in Modern Wireless Communication: Replicas, Diffusions, and Supersymmetry for Fun and Profit |
11/11/03 | Max Tegmark | University of Pennsylvania, MIT | Cosmology with SDSS and WMAP |
11/18/03 | Andy MacKenzie | University of St. Andrews, Scotland | Sr2RuO4 - a superconducting analogue of superfluid 3He? |
11/25/03 | Kevin Lesko | University of California, Berkeley | Title: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Determination of Solar Neutrino Mixing Parameters with Salty Water |
12/02/03 | David P. DeMille | Yale University | Fundamental Physics with Diatomic Molecules: From CP Violation to Quantum Computation Also: Kirkpatrick Award to be presented |
Spring 2002-2003
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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4/1/03 | Phil Bucksbaum | University of Michigan | Ultrafast Optical Control Of Quantum Dynamics |
4/8/03 | Gary Hinshaw | NASA | Taking the Measure of the Universe: Cosmology from the WMAP Mission |
4/15/03 | David G. Stork | Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University | Did the Great Masters "Cheat" Using Optics? The Mysterious Rise in Naturalism in Renaissance Painting |
4/22/03 | Christopher Chyba | Stanford University and SETI | Title: The Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards |
4/29/03 | David Weitz | Harvard University | Title: TBA, Note change in location: Building 420-041, Jordan Hall (Psychology Building) |
5/6/03 | Dan Ralph | Cornell University | Quantum States in Metal Nanoparticles and Single Molecules |
5/13/03 | -TBA- | ||
5/20/03 | Roger Falcone | UC, Berkeley | Title: TBA |
5/27/03 | David Griffiths | Reed College | Teaching, Writing, and Doing Physics |
Winter 2002-2003
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
1/14/03 | J. C. Seamus Davis | University of California, Berkeley | Title TBA |
1/21/03 | Steve Girvin | Yale University | Superconducting Quantum Bits that (Really!) Work |
1/27/03 | Alan Guth | MIT | Hofstadter Lecture on Monday, January 27, 2003 at 8:00 pm |
1/28/03 | Alan Guth | MIT | Title TBA (Hofstadter Lecturer) |
2/4/03 | K.C. Cole | Los Angles Times, UCLA | Lost in the Translation: Writing about Science for the General Public |
2/11/03 | Hitoshi Murayama | University of California, Berkeley | Title TBA |
2/18/03 | TBA | ||
2/25/03 | John Beacom | Fermilab | Frontiers in Neutrino Astrophysics |
3/4/03 | Brian Wandell | Stanford University | Computational Neuroimaging: Measuring the Mind |
3/11/03 | TBA |
Autumn 2002-2003
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
10/1/02 | Joanne Hewett | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | Exploring the Fabric of Spacetime |
10/8/02 | Sergey Brin | Google, Co-Founder & President, Technology | Google: Climbing the Technology Ladder |
10/15/02 | M.M Nieto | Los Alamos National Laboratory | A Mission To Test The Pioneer Anomaly |
10/22/02 | Giorgio Gratta | Stanford University | How Much Does a Neutrino Weigh? |
10/29/02 | Dick Bond | University of Toronto | The Cosmic Microwave Background and Inflation, Then and Now |
11/5/02 | Immanuel Bloch | Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich & Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching | Seeing the Particles Beneath the Waves - Beyond Mean Field, Physics with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices |
11/12/02 | Andrei Linde | Stanford University | Inflation, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe |
11/19/02 | John Wikswo | Vanderbilt University | The Physics of the Heart |
11/26/02 | David Kirkby | University of California, Irvine | Through the Looking Glass: What's the Matter with Antimatter? |
Spring 2001-2002
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
4/2/02 | Hendrik Schoen | Bell Labs | Transport Phenomena in Molecular Crystals |
4/9/02 | Professor Margaret Murnane | University of Colorado | How to Make Atoms Sing and Molecules Dance - Using Shaped Light Pulses to Observe and Control Nature |
4/16/02 | Paul Corkum | National Research Council of Canada | Sub-Laser-Cycle Electron Pulses For Probing Molecular Dynamics |
4/23/02 | Rafi de Picciotto | Lucent's Bell Labs | Title: Resistanceless Ballistic Quantum Wires |
4/30/02 | Gary Williams | University of California, Los Angeles | Luminescence from Laser-Induced Bubbles in Water and Cryogenic Liquids |
5/7/02 | Mark J. Schnitzer | Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies | Title: "New Fiber- and Micro-Optic Approaches to in vivo Brain Imaging" |
5/14/02 | Prof. Gabriel Kotliar | Rutgers University | Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and Predicting The Properties of Plutonium |
5/21/02 | Professor James Gates | University of Maryland | Superstrings: Einstein's Theory at the New Millennium |
5/28/02 | Professor Aharon Kapitulnik | Applied Physics and Physics, Stanford University | Tests for Corrections to Newton's Gravity at sub-mm Scales. |
6/4/02 | No regularly-scheduled Colloquium until Autumn |
Winter Quarter 2001/2002
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
1/15/02 | Barry Barish | Caltech | LIGO and the Search for Gravitational Waves |
1/22/02 | Professor Theodor W. Hänsch | Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, and Sektion Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany | Counting with the Speed of Light |
1/29/02 | Steve Kivelson | University of California, Los Angeles | Locally Crystalline Electron Liquids |
2/5/02 | TBA | ||
2/12/02 | (no colloquium today) | Hofstadter Colloquium and Lecture 2/13 and 2/14 | |
2/13/01 - 4:00 pm Hofstadter Colloquium | Eric Cornell | University of Colorado | Artifice and Equilibrium Experiments with Synthetic and Natural Vortices in a Superfluid Gas |
2/14/01 - 8:00 pm Hofstadter Lecture | Eric Cornell | University of Colorado | Stone Cold Science Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree from Absolute Zero |
2/19/02 | Dr. Arthur Wolfe | University of California, San Diego | Title TBA |
2/26/02 | TBA | ||
3/5/02 | TBA | ||
3/12/02 | TBA |
Autumn Quarter 2001/2002
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/2/01 | Professor David Hertzog | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Title: How the Muon's Spin Challenges the Standard Model | The David Levine and Paul Kirkpatrick Awards will be presented before the lecture. |
10/9/01 | Professor Mike Jura | University of California, Los Angeles | Title: Other Solar Systems | |
10/16/01 | Professor Josh Klein | University of Pennsylvania | Title: Unraveling the Solar Neutrino Problem at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory | |
10/23/01 | Professor Walter Harrison | Stanford University | Title: How Electronic Structure Got Simple | |
10/30/01 | Professor Art Rosenfeld | Commissioner, California Energy Commission | Title: Fixing 2/3 of California's Electricity Problem via Efficiency, Real Time Pricing, and Demand Response | |
11/6/01 | Professor Karl van Bibber | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Title: A Search for Dark-Matter Axions | |
11/13/01 | Dr. Gabriel Aeppli | NEC Research | Title: "Putting the Quantum Back into Magnetism" | |
11/20/01 | Roger Blandford | California Institute of Technology | "New Horizons in Black Hole Astrophysics" | |
11/27/01 | Professor Steve Block | Stanford University | Living Nightmares: Facing the Growing Threat of Biological Weapons |
Spring 2001
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | |
---|---|---|---|---|
4/3/01 | Professor Clifford Johnson | University of Durham | Title: Strings and Branes: New Tools for Tough Problems? | |
4/10/01 | Professor Eli Yablonovitch | University of California, Los Angeles | Title: Electron Spin Resonance Transistors, for Quantum Communication & Computing | |
4/17/01 | Professor Greg Landsberg | Brown University | Title: Out-of-this-World Physics: Probing Quantum Gravity in the Lab | |
4/24/01 | Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang | Stanford University | Title: To Be Announced | |
5/1/01 | To Be Announced | |||
5/8/01 | Professor John Clarke | University of California, Berkeley | Title: To Be Announced | |
5/15/01 | To Be Announced | |||
5/22/01 | To Be Announced | |||
5/29/01 | Professor Michael Roukes | the California Institute of Technology | Title: To Be Announced |
Winter 2001
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1/16/01 | Steve Girvin | Indiana University | Title: Physics of "Which layer?" Uncertainty | |
1/23/01 | Andrei Linde | Stanford University Physics Department | Title: To Be Announced | |
1/30/01 | Marc Kastner | MIT | Title: The Kondo Effect in a Single-Electron Transistor | |
2/6/01 | Nocholas Bigelow | University of Rochester | Title: To Be Announced | |
2/13/01 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | University of California at Berkeley | Title: To Be Announced | |
2/20/01 | Mr. Tom Siegfried | Science Editor of The Dallas Morning News | Title: To Be Announced | |
2/27/01 | Rene Ong | University of California, Los Angeles | Title: The Violent Universe: Extending the Limits of Particle Physics and Astronomy | |
3/6/01 | Lawrence J. Hall | University of California at Berkeley | Title: To Be Announced | |
3/12/01 Monday evening 8:00 p.m. Hofstadter Lecture | Isabelle Grenier | University of Paris | Title: New Views of a Vibrant Universe | |
3/13/01 | Isabelle Grenier Hofstadter Lecturer | University of Paris | Title: Unidentified Gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way: A 25 year old mystery solved? |
Autumn 2000
date | Speaker | institution | title |
---|---|---|---|
10/3/00 | Saul Perlmutter | Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Title: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe - What Next? |
10/10/00 | Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Title: High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Results from the South Pole |
10/17/00 | Pat Burchat | Stanford University | Title: To Be Announced |
10/24/00 | Eric Adelberger | University of Washington | Title: To Be Announced |
10/31/00 | Henry Abarbanel | Department of Physics and Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego | Title: Small Networks of Biological and Electronic Neurons |
11/7/00 | Joel Primack | UC, Santa Cruz | Title: The State of the Universe: Cold Dark Matter and all that |
11/14/00 | Paul McEuen | UC, Berkeley | Title: To Be Announced |
11/21/00 | Roger Romani | Stanford University | Title: To Be Announced |
11/28/00 | Peter Galison | Harvard | Title: To Be Announced |
Spring 2000
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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April 4, 2000; 8:00 PM | Ian R. Fisher | Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA | Symmetry, energy scales and length scales: ways to look at the physics of new materials |
April 11, 2000 | Charles Townes | UC Berkeley | Behavior of Old Stars Observed by Infrared Spatial Interferometry (In conjunction with the Bunyan Lecture the next evening) |
Apr. 18, 2000 | Dr. Raman Sundrum | Stanford University | |
Apr. 25, 2000 | Brian Greene | Columbia University | |
May 2, 2000 | Ed Hines | University of Essex | |
May 9, 2000 | Persi Diaconis | Statistics and Math Departments, Stanford University |