All are welcome at the Physics Department Colloquium talks. They occur nearly every Wednesday at 4:00 during the semester. During this Fall 2020 semester we are meeting online:
Here are the talks.
September 2, 2020
Jonathan Simon
Neubauer Family Associate Professor
Department of Physics
James Franck Institute, and the College
University of Chicago
Making quantum matter from light
September 9, 2020
Michael Fogler
Professor, Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
Collective modes of twisted van der Waals materials
September 16, 2020
Tankut Can
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Theoretical Sciences
Graduate Center, CUNY
Dynamics of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks
September 23, 2020
Jay Deep Sau
Associate Professor
Department of Physics, Joint Quantum Institute and Condensed Matter Theory Center,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA
Search for Non-Abelian Majorana particles as a route to topological quantum computation
September 30, 2020
Lukasz Fidkowski
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
How dynamical quantum systems forget
October 7, 2020
Onur Erten
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Arizona State University
Superconductivity in nickelates: similarities to and differences from cuprates and heavy fermions
October 14, 2020
Smitha Vishveshwara
Professor, Department of Physiccs
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics from atomic to cosmic scales
October 21, 2020
Vincent G. J. Rogers
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Iowa
The History of Science, a Physicist's Perspective
October 28, 2020
Shanhui Fan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford Photonics Research Center
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Synthetic dimension in photonics
November 4, 2020
Rosalba Perna
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Stony Brook University, NY
Binary compact object mergers in the gravitational wave era
November 11, 2020
Ronald Koder
Associate Professor of Physics
The City College of the City University of New York
Utilizing disorder in natural and designed proteins and enzymes
November 18, 2020
Herman Z. Cummins Lecture VI
Vahid Sandoghdar
Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Max Planck Institute
Chair in nano-optics, plasmonics and biophotonics in the Department of Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Efficiency in the interaction of light and matter: from nano-quantum optics to nanobiophotonics
November 25, 2020
No Colloquium
December 2, 2020
Tony Liss
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
The City College of New York
What have we learned from the LHC?
December 9, 2020
Michael Levin
Associate Professor
Dept. of Physics, James Franck Institute, and the College
University of Chicago
A new world of topology in driven quantum systems
