Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2018 Fall Semester
August 2018
September 2018
- Friday, September 7th
- Chair Sridhara Dasu
- State of the Department
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, September 14th
- Jason Kawasaki, UW-Madison (Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
- Heusler interfaces - opportunities beyond spintronics
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, September 21st
- Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Small, modular & economically attractive fusion enabled by high-field superconductors
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Cary Forest
- Friday, September 28th
- Boris Kayser, Fermilab
- Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles?
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
October 2018
- Friday, October 5th
- Kevin Trenberth, NCAR
- The changing flow of energy through the Earth's Climate System
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, October 12th
- David DeMille, Yale
- A tabletop-scale probe for TeV physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, October 19th
- Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
- The Physics of Divergence: Resurgence and Non-Perturbative Physics
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, October 26th
- William D. Oliver, MIT-Lincoln Labs
- Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW TALK), hosted by Maxim Vavilov
November 2018
- Friday, November 2nd
- Peter Abbamonte, UIUC
- Bose condensation of excitons in TiSe2
- 3:30 pm; 2241 chamberlin hall, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Friday, November 16th
- Aaron Lindenberg, Standford University
- Terahertz frequency topological switches
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jim Lawler
- Friday, November 30th
- David Wineland, U Oregon
- Quantum Information and Computation
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
December 2018
- Thursday, December 13th
- Holiday Colloquium
