Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2023 Fall Semester
August 2023
- Monday, August 21st
- Siera Riel , REU student, McGill University
- Design and Testing of a Laser Thermal Propulsion Facility
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall, hosted by Alex Squitieri
September 2023
- Friday, September 8th
- NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
- Friday, September 15th
- Emma Brann, Samuel Hori, Alysa Rogers, Sarah Perdue, UW–Madison physics
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship intro session
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin, hosted by Soyeon Choi, Shivani Lomte, Sarah Perdue
- Thursday, September 21st
- Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
- Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum , hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, September 29th
- Andrew Geraci, Northwestern
- Hunting for “fifth forces”, axions, and dark matter with optomechanical and spin-based sensors
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Mark Saffman
October 2023
- Friday, October 6th
- Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India and Physics Department and WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Neutrino Tomography: A journey into the interior of Earth
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Prof. Francis Halzen
- Wednesday, October 11th
- Eugene Simon Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute – University of Copenhagen
- Macroscopic Objects in a Quantum Regime
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum , hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, October 20th
- Jim Gates, University of Maryland
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Friday, October 27th
- Hooman Davoudiasl , Brookhaven National Laboratory
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Lisa Everett and Aki Hashimoto
November 2023
- Friday, November 3rd
- Kohta Murase, Penn State
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Lu Lu
- Friday, November 10th
- Nicole Vassh , TRIUMF
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Thursday, November 16th
- David D. Awschalom, Director – Chicago Quantum Exchange, University of Chicago
- The Quantum Revolution: Emerging Technologies at the Atomic Scale
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum , hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, November 17th
- Kathryn Zurek , Caltech
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Lisa Everett
December 2023
- Friday, December 1st
- Kendall Mahn , Michigan State University
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Friday, December 8th
- Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
- tbd
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241, hosted by Ke Fang / Albrecht Karle
- Thursday, December 14th
- John Nichol, University of Rochester
- Under the hood: microscopic noise characterization in semiconductor quantum dots
- 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum, hosted by Mark Eriksson