Colloquia Archive: 2024-2025

The Physics Colloquia are held on Mondays at 3:30pm - 4:30pm in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building and feature speakers on a broad range of current physics research topics.

 

Date

Speaker

Title

09-09-24

Maria Elena Monzani

A Sparkle In The Dark

09-16-24

Paulo Arratia

Life in Complex Fluids

09-23-24

Jessie Runnoe

Electromagnetic and multi-messenger searches for supermassive black hole binaries

09-30-24

Anatoly Spitkovsky

The inner workings of pulsar magnetospheres

10-07-24

Kendall Mahn

The Tokai to Kamioka Experiment

10-28-24

Peter Armitage

On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism

11-04-24

Heinrich Jaeger

Acoustically Levitated Granular Matte

11-11-24

Jonathan Halcrow

Reasoning about Graphs with Large Language Models

11-18-24

Young Kee Kim

It's all about mass

12-02-24

Ana Maria Rey

Advances in Quantum Simulation and Sensing Using Two Dimensional Ion Crystals

01-13-25

Jigyasa Nigam

Guiding insights from physics for machine-learning driven exploration of atomistic systems

01-22-25

Jacob Zettlemoyer

Discovering New Particles with Neutrino Detectors using Accelerator Facilities at Fermilab

01-27-25

Blake Bordelon

The Physics of Neural Networks: Mean-field Theory of Deep Learning Dynamics

02-03-25

Sam Hedges

Measuring Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with a “Supernova Neutrino Simulator”

02-05-25

Leonid Olifer

Quantifying extreme space weather hazards: space radiation and its impact on our planet

02-10-25

Mariel Pettee

TBA

02-12-25

Andrew Cudd

How neutrino interactions with matter, matter

02-17-25

Afroditi Papadopoulou

Lepton-Nucleus Scattering Measurements for Neutrino Interactions and Oscillations

02-19-25

Jacob Zettlemoyer

Discovering New Particles with Neutrino Detectors using Accelerator Facilities at Fermilab

02-24-25

Lauren Yates

Elucidating the Mysteries of Neutrinos with Liquid Argon Detectors at Fermilab

02-26-25

Alec Linot

Low-dimensional models and stability analysis for controlling unsteady fluid flows

03-03-25

Aishik Ghosh

Probing High-Dimensional Spaces: From Theory Design to Parameter Inference in Particle and Astrophysics

03-10-25

Vanderlei Bagnato

Observation of Relaxation Stages in a Nonequilibrium Closed Quantum System

03-24-25

Tim Kovachy

New Tools for Dark Matter and Gravitational Wave Detection: Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers and Cryogenic Comparisons of Optical Resonators

03-31-25

Omar Saleh

DNA liquids

04-07-25

Peter Abbamonte

Quantum criticality in strange metals

04-14-25

Aleksei Aksimentiev

Seeing the unseen using supercomputers

04-21-25

Lia Medeiros

EHT images of black holes: what we've learned from them and how we can improve them