Physics Colloquium
Winter 2026
Location: Willamette Hall, Room 100
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| Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Frank von Hippel | Princeton |
| Thursday, May 21, 2026 | Jayanth Banavar | Oregon |
| Thursday, April 30, 2026 | Ivan Deutsch | UNM |
| Thursday, April 16, 2026 | Chris Monahan | Colorado College |
| Thursday, April 9, 2026 | Valerie Sahakian | University of Oregon |
| Thursday, April 2, 2026 | Yuhsin Tsai | Notre Dame |
| Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Jun Allard | UC-Irvine |
| Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Raffaella Margutti | UC-Berkeley |
| Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Heidi Schellman | Oregon State University |
| Thursday, February 5, 2026 | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | UC-Santa Cruz |
| Thursday, January 29, 2026 | Jiefei Zhang | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 | Mochi Liu | Aquabyte |
| Thursday, January 8, 2026 | Hartmut Haeffner | Berkeley |
Physics Colloquium Archive
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Fall 2024 |
Winter 2025 |
Spring 2025 |
| October 3 – Richard Taylor Title: State of the Department | January 23: Emily Hager – Boston University
Title: Cellular collective behavior in spatially complex environments |
April 3: David Cahill – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: Current Understanding and Unsolved Problems in the Thermal Conductivity of Materials |
| October 10 – Dietrich Belitz
Title: Long-Range Correlations and Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in Non-Equilibrium Fluids |
January 30: Nathan Belliveau – University of Washington
Title: Electrifying Secrets of Directed Cell Migration |
April 10: Mike Brown – Caltech
Title: TBA |
| October 17 – David Allcock
Title: Oregon Ions – A brief history |
February 6: Kelsey Hallinen – Princeton University Title: Distinct nanocolony morphologies drive bacterial responses in complex environments | April 17: Cristina Marchetti – University of California Santa Barbara
Title: TBA |
| October 24 – Mark Raizen
Title: Isotopes in Medicine, and Meeting Rutherford’s Challenge |
February 13: Rahul Chajwa – Stanford University
Title: Suspensions with Internal Degrees of Freedom: From the Lab to the Ocean |
April 24: Melissa Franklin – Harvard
Title: TBA |
| October 31 – Dhiman Ray
Title: Deep Learning Augmented Simulation of Biomolecules |
February 20: Hungtang Ko – Princeton University
Title: Macroscopic active matter: from insect collectives to robot swarms |
May 1: Jake Searcy – University of Oregon
Title: TBA |
| November 7 – Leenoy Meshulam
Title: Bridging scales in biological systems – from octopus skin to mouse brain |
February 27: Geri Richmond – Department of Energy
Title: Stewardship of the Research and Innovation Needs for the Nation’s Energy Security |
May 8: Sean Walston – Lawrence Livermore
Title: Feynman’s Theory of Fission Chains |
| November 14 – Akshay Murthy
Title: Understanding and Eliminating Sources of Loss in Superconducting Qubits |
March 6: Meera Ramaswamy
Title: Bridging Scales in Soft and Living Matter: From microscale structure and interaction to emergent macroscale function |
May 15: Manuel Buen Abad – University of Maryland
Title: Dark Sectors as windows into New Physics |
| November 21 – Julien Guy
Title: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument First Year Results: Cosmic Expansion History with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations |
May 22: Floor Broekgaarden – University of California San Diego
Title: Gravitational Wave Paleontology: a New Frontier to Explore the Formation, Lives, and Deaths of Massive Stars Across Cosmic Time |
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| December 5 – Matt Graham
Title: Driving Electronics with Micro-Defects and Femto-Spin Flips |
May 29: David Craig – Oregon State University
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Fall 2023 |
Winter 2024 |
Spring 2024 |
| September 28 – Richard Taylor
Title: State of the Department |
January 18 – Reina Maruyama
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April 4 – David Wineland
Title: Atomic Clocks and Einstein’s relativity |
| October 5 – John Toner
Title: Birth, Death, and Flocking: The Hydrodynamics of Dry Active matter |
January 25 – Mustafa Amin
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April 11 – Matthew Jemielita
Title: Antibody Design and Optimization with Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering |
| October 12 – Spencer Chang
Title: General New Physics Observables at Colliders |
February 1 – Leenoy Meshulam
Title: |
April 18 – Francis Halzen
Title: IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy |
| October 19 – Rob Phillips
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February 8 – Flip Tanedo
Title: Why we have not discovered dark matter: a theorist’s apology |
April 25 – Miranda Holmes – Cerfon
Title: Modeling particles programmed by DNA |
| October 26 – Carol Patty
Title: Exploring the Magnetosphere of an Ice Giant: Probing Uranus is No Laughing Matter |
February 14 – Tracy Slatyer
Title: Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars |
May 2 – Kyle Welch
Title: Physical Review Letters: A Peek Behind the Cover |
| November 2 – Leif Karlstrom
Title: The intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of Earth surface topography |
February 22 – Herman Batelaan
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May 9 – Varda Hagh
Title: Finding order in disorder through permutation symmetry |
| November 9 – Marianna Safranova
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February 29 – Christopher Monroe
Title: Quantum Computing Systems with Individual Atoms |
May 16 – Fahad Mahmood
Title: Revealing emergent phenomena in correlated topological materials using femtosecond light |
| November 16 – Sid Nagel
Title: Disorder is different |
March 7 – Tova HolmesTitle: | May 23 – Jessica Hoehn
Title: Embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion in our physics classes |
| November 30 – Mark Raizen
Title: Isotopes, Maxwell’s demon, and The Pointsman Foundation |
March 14 – Tien-Tien Yu
Title: Exploring the Quantum Universe: Pathways to Innovation and Discovery in Particle Physics |
May 30 – Zeb Rocklin
Title: Fundamental Physics of Flexible Structures |
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June 6 – Johannes Pollanen Title: Hybrid quantum phononics with superconducting qubits |