Aut. Qtr. Colloq. committee: R. Blandford (Chair), A. Kapitulnik, R. Laughlin, L. Senatore
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 200
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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" |
Wtr. Qtr. Colloq. committee: A. Linde (Chair), S. Kivelson, B. Lev
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 201
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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” |
Spring Qtr. Colloq. Committee: Monika Schleier-Smith (Chair), P. Hayden, X. Qi
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | HOST | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | TBD |
| 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 | TBD |
| 05/14/2019 | Daniel S. Fisher/SITP Event | Stanford University, AP | Shamit Kachru | TBD |
| 05/21/2019 | Cenke Xu | UC Santa Barbara | Xiaoliang Qi |
TBD |
| 05/28/2019 | Irfan Siddiqi | UC Berkeley | Amir Safavi-Naeini | TBD |
| 06/04/2019 | Reina Maruyama | Yale Univ. | Lauren Tompkins | TBD |
