Physics Colloquium
Winter & Spring – 2025
Location: Willamette Hall, Room 100
February 27: Geri Richmond – Department of Energy
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Host: Ben McMorran
March 13: Yvonne Gao – National University of Singapore
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Host:Nik Zhelev
April 3: David Cahill – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Host: Kayla Nguyen
April 10: Mike Brown – Caltech
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Abstract: TBA
Host: Yvette Cendes
April 17: Cristina Marchetti – University of California Santa Barbara
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Host: Jacob Hass
April 24: Melissa Franklin – Harvard
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Host: Laura Jeanty
May 8: Sean Watson – Lawrence Livermore
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Host: Jim Brau
May 22: Floor Broekgaarden – University of California San Diego
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Host: Yvette Cendes
Physics Colloquium Archive
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Fall 2024 |
Winter 2025 |
Spring 2025 |
| October 3 – Richard TaylorTitle: State of the Department | Title: | Title: |
| October 10 – Dietrich BelitzTitle: Long-Range Correlations and Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in Non-Equilibrium Fluids | Title: | Title: |
| October 17 – David AllcockTitle: Oregon Ions – A brief history | Title: | Title: |
| October 24 – Mark RaizenTitle: Isotopes in Medicine, and Meeting Rutherford’s Challenge | Title: | Title: |
| October 31 – Dhiman RayTitle: Deep Learning Augmented Simulation of Biomolecules | Title: | Title: |
| November 7 – Leenoy MeshulamTitle: Bridging scales in biological systems – from octopus skin to mouse brain | Title: | Title: |
| November 14 – Akshay MurthyTitle: Understanding and Eliminating Sources of Loss in Superconducting Qubits | Title: | Title: |
| November 21 – Julien GuyTitle: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument First Year Results: Cosmic Expansion History with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations | Title: | Title: |
| December 5 – Matt GrahamTitle: Driving Electronics with Micro-Defects and Femto-Spin Flips | Title: | Title: |
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Fall 2023 |
Winter 2024 |
Spring 2024 |
| September 28 – Richard Taylor Title: State of the Department | January 18 – Reina MaruyamaTitle: | April 4 – David WinelandTitle: Atomic Clocks and Einstein’s relativity |
| October 5 – John TonerTitle: Birth, Death, and Flocking: The Hydrodynamics of Dry Active matter | January 25 – Mustafa AminTitle: | April 11 – Matthew JemielitaTitle: Antibody Design and Optimization with Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering |
| October 12 – Spencer ChangTitle: General New Physics Observables at Colliders | February 1 – Leenoy MeshulamTitle: | April 18 – Francis HalzenTitle: IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy |
| October 19 – Rob PhillipsTitle: | February 8 – Flip TanedoTitle: Why we have not discovered dark matter: a theorist’s apology | April 25 – Miranda Holmes – CerfonTitle: Modeling particles programmed by DNA |
| October 26 – Carol PattyTitle: Exploring the Magnetosphere of an Ice Giant: Probing Uranus is No Laughing Matter | February 14 – Tracy SlatyerTitle: Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars | May 2 – Kyle WelchTitle: Physical Review Letters: A Peek Behind the Cover |
| November 2 – Leif KarlstromTitle: The intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of Earth surface topography | February 22 – Herman BatelaanTitle: | May 9 – Varda HaghTitle: Finding order in disorder through permutation symmetry |
| November 9 – Marianna SafranovaTitle: | February 29 – Christopher MonroeTitle: Quantum Computing Systems with Individual Atoms | May 16 – Fahad MahmoodTitle: Revealing emergent phenomena in correlated topological materials using femtosecond light |
| November 16 – Sid NagelTitle: Disorder is different | March 7 – Tova HolmesTitle: | May 23 – Jessica HoehnTitle: Embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion in our physics classes |
| November 30 – Mark RaizenTitle: Isotopes, Maxwell’s demon, and The Pointsman Foundation | March 14 – Tien-Tien YuTitle: Exploring the Quantum Universe: Pathways to Innovation and Discovery in Particle Physics | May 30 – Zeb RocklinTitle: Fundamental Physics of Flexible Structures |
| June 6 – Johannes PollanenTitle: Hybrid quantum phononics with superconducting qubits |
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