Physics Colloquium

All are welcome at the Physics Department Colloquium talks. They occur nearly every Wednesday at 4:00 during the semester, in person in the Marshak Science Building, room 418N, and by zoom.

For details please contact Sriram Ganeshan at sganeshan@ccny.cuny.edu

 

 

FALL 2023 Colloquium Schedule

August 30, 2023
Dr. Derek S. Wang
Research Scientist
IBM Quantum
New York, NY
Title to be announced

September 6, 2023

September 13, 2023
Dr. Charles D. Brown II
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title to be announced

September 20, 2023

September 27, 2023

October 4, 2023

October 11, 2023

October 18, 2023
Dr. Bruno Uchoa
Associate Professor, Ted and Cuba Webb Presidential Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Title to be announced

October 25,  2023

November 1, 2023

November 8, 2023

November 15, 2023

November 22, 2023 - No Colloquium

November 29, 2023

December 6, 2023


 

 

SPRING 2023 Colloquium Schedule

February 1, 2023
Dr. Victor Galitsky
Professor and Chesapeake Chair
Physics Department
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Emergence of Statistical Mechanics via Spontaneous Breaking of Unitarity


February 8, 2023
Dr. Iva Brezinova
Assistant Professor
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Vienna University Technology (TU Wien)
Tackling time-dependent quantum many body systems with reduced density matrices


February 15, 2023
Dr. Felix Parra Diaz
Professor and Head of the Theory Department
Professor of Astrophysical Science
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Theory and computation of magnetic confinement fusion
 

February 22, 2023
Dr. Jennifer Cano
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Affiliate Associate Research Scientist
CCQ, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY
The Search for Topological Materials
 

March 1, 2023
Dr. Matthew Dawber
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Building better functional materials with advanced deposition and x-ray diffraction
 

March 8, 2023
No colloquium, APS March Meeting
 

March 15, 2023
Dr. David Grier
Professor, Department of Physics
Director of the Center for Soft Matter Research
New York University, New York, NY
Tractor Beams and Related Topological Waves
 

March 22, 2023
Dr. Philip S. Lukeman 
Associate Professor 
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences 
St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Multiscale Polyvalent Biosensing using DNA Nanotechnology & Electrochemistry  


March 29, 2023
Dr. Barry Bradlyn
Assistant Professor
The Grainger School of Engineering, Physics
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
A New Spin on Topological Quantum Chemistry
 

April 5, 2023
No colloquium, Spring Recess


April 12, 2023
No colloquium, Spring Recess


April 19, 2023
Dr. Robert Konik
Physicist, Chair, Condensed Matter Physics and
Materials Science Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Title to be announced

SPECIAL EVENT: ASRC Auditorium
The Henry Semat Lecture

April 26, 2023
Dr. Luis Alvarez-Gaume
Professor/Director Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Stony Brook
"News from the Cosmos: the Unsettling Universe"


May 3, 2023
Dr. Shlomo Havlin
Professor
Department of Physics
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
"Independent Networks Yield Novel Physical Phase Transitions"
 

May 10, 2023
Dr. Kevin J. Sung
IBM Quantum
New York, NY
How to get good results from noisy quantum processors


 

FALL 2022 Colloquium Schedule

August 31, 2022
V. Parameswaran Nair
Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics
The City College of the City University of New York
Comments and ideas on gravity and noncommutative spaces


September 7, 2022
Raquel Queiroz
Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Columbia University
New York, NY
A local view on topology


September 14, 2022
Thomas Iadecola
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Simulating Quantum Dynamics at the Dawn of Quantum Computing

September 21, 2022
Susanne Yelin
Professor of Physics in Residence
Department of Physics
Harvard, Cambridge, MA 
Dense arrays: A novel quantum tool


September 28, 2022
Neelima Sehgal
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy Department,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Mapping Dark Matter on Large and Small Scales with the Cosmic Microwave Background


October 12, 2022
Kaden Hazzard
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Rice University, Houston, TX
Programmable quantum matter with real and synthetic dimensions


October 19, 2022
Anthony Pullen
Assistant Professor
Arts and Science
New York University, New York, NY
Realistic inference models for line intensity mapping 
 

October 26, 2022
Manas Kulkarni
International Center for Theoretical Sciences--Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bengaluru - 560 089, India
Non-Hermitian random matrices and open quantum systems


November 2, 2022
Chandra Varma
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
One hundred and eleven years of superconductivity


November 9, 2022
Paul Goldbart
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Random networks, classical and quantal
 

November 16, 2022: By zoom only.  Please contact Prof. Sriram Ganeshan for details: sganeshan@ccny.cuny.edu
Ching-Hua Lee 
Assistant Professor 
Department of Physics 
National University of Singapore 
Realizing topological states on a quantum computer



November 30, 2022
Sang-Hyuk Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Lights, Camera, Action! Shining light on biomolecular dynamics and interactions with optical microscopy



CANCELED: December 7, 2022
Iva Brezinova
Assistant Professor
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Vienna University Technology (TU Wien)
Tackling time-dependent quantum many body systems with reduced density matrices

 

SPRING 2022 Colloquium Schedule

January 17, 2022
IUSL/Optica Physics Colloquium
David Silverstein

Graduate Student working at Biolingual, LLC
From Majorana Particles to Topological Quantum Computers- Bringing Together Theory and Experiment

 

February 2, 2022
Yohannes Abate
Department of Physics and Astronomy 
University of Georgia. Athens, GA 

Probing interactions at the nanoscale

 

February 9, 2022
Moshe Gai
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Stellar Evolution in the Light of Gamma Beams

 

February 16, 2022
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

 

March 2, 2022
Tomer Markovich
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
Rice University, Houston, TX

Odd Viscosity in Active Matter

 

March 9, 2022
Arthur J. van der Est
Professor of Chemistry and
Adjunct Professor of Physics  
Brock University, Ontario, Canada
 
Electron spin polarization in rigid, coupled  triplet-doublet pairs

 

March 23, 2022
Ian Stewart
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
University of Warwick, England

Synchrony and Phase Relations in Network Dynamics



March 30, 2022
Nathalie de Leon
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 

Correlating materials analysis with qubit measurements to systematically eliminate sources of noise

 

April 13, 2022
Shinsei Ryu
Professor of Physics
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Many-body quantum physics through the lens of quantum entanglement

 

The Inaugural Harry Lustig Lecture

April 27, 2022
4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Advanced Science Research Center Auditorium
85 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10031
 

Arthur I. MIller
Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
University College London (UCL)

Can AI be the Next Picasso?

 

 

 

May 4, 2022
Andrew J. Millis
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
Columbia University
CCQ Co-Director, Flatiron Institute
New York, NY

"The 'Mott' metal insulator transition: Is it real, and does it occur in real materials?" 

FALL 2021 Colloquium Schedule

August 25, 2021
Stuart Samuel
Professor Emeritus
Physics Department, 
City College of New York

The Resolution of the Measurement Problem in Unitary Quantum Field Theory

 

September 1, 2021
Joseph Falson
Assistant Professor of Materials Science
Department of APplied Physics and Materials Science
California Instiute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Apparent zero field breakdown of the Fermi liquid in an oxide two-dimensional electron system 

 

September 22, 2021
Leonardo Rastelli
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps in quantum gravity.

 

September 29, 2021
Debanjan Chowdhary
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Continuous Mott Transition in Moiré Heterostructures

 

October 13, 2021
Jacqueline Faherty
Senior Scientist and Senior Education Manager
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

Tales in stellar motion

 

October 20, 2021
Archana Kamel
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Lowell, 

Generating and characterizing correlations in noisy quantum systems

 

October 27, 2021

Zubin Jacob
Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Atomistic Topological Electrodynamics: Optical-N Insulator

 

November 3, 2021

Hitesh J. Changlani
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tallahasee, FL

The quantum many-body problem and what are we doing to solve it

 

November 10, 2021
Dr. Areg Ghazaryan
ISTplus Fellow, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria

Magnetism and superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene

 
 
November 17, 2021
Elaine Li
Professor of Physics
University of Texas-Austin

Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices: a New Material Platform for Quantum Information Science
 
 
December 1, 2021
Marcela Carena
Professor of Physics
University of Chicago
 
 
 
December 8, 2021
Michael Raymer
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Physics
University of Oregon, Eugene OR
 
 
 
December 15, 2021
 
Cheng Chin
Professor, James Franck Institute 
Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics  
University of Chicago 
 

 

Last Updated: 08/07/2023 08:20