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Spring 2023 Colloquia

Spring 2023 Archive

Our department colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at the graduate level.

Date/HostSpeaker/InstitutionTitle/Abstract
1/26 (Kolodrubetz)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Zoe Yan, Princeton UniversityQuantum many-body physics with ultracold molecules
2/6 (Kolodrubetz)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Emily Davis, UC BerkeleyIn pursuit of entanglement: XXZ interactions for spin-squeezing in atomic and solid-state spin ensembles
2/9 (Kolodrubetz)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Hebin Li, Florida International UniversityExploring Many-Body Interaction and Correlation in Atoms
for Quantum Information Science
2/13 (Kolodrubetz)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Rescheduled from 2/1
Weijian Chen, Washington UniversityNon-Hermitian quantum dynamics near exceptional points
2/16 (Chen)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Ivan Vasko, UC BerkeleyBroadband electrostatic turbulence in space plasma
2/20 (Kesden)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Shuo Zhang, Bard College

A Brief History of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole

2/23 (Kesden)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Diego Munoz, Northwestern University

Distorted Disks and a New Paradigm of Binary-Disk Interaction

2/27 (Kesden)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Hector Okada da Silva, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Adventures in strong field gravity

3/2 (Chen)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Cheng Sheng, UT ArlingtonMulti-scale Ionospheric and Thermospheric Disturbances During Geomagnetically Active Times
3/7 (Kesden)
10:00 a.m., SCI 3.214A
Patrick Breysse, New York University

Mapping the Distant Universe Using Every Photon

3/7 (Chen)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Ming Zhang, Florida Institute of TechnologySeeing the Heliosphere
3/9 (Kesden)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Aaron Smith, Harvard University

Cosmic Structure Formation in the Early Universe

3/20 (Chen)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Dong Lin, NCAR/HAOAurorae, Geomagnetic Storms, and Space Weather
3/22 (F. Zhang)Benjamin Wieder, MITMaking Sense of Topological Solid-State Materials with Concepts from Quantum Field Theory: Axion Electrodynamics and Beyond
3/27 (Chen)
3:00 p.m., SCI 3.214A
Qingyu Zhu, NCARImproving the predictability of the thermosphere-ionosphere system: from a perspective of Joule heating
4/12 (Lumata)Ian Mitchelle S. de Vera, Saint Louis UniversityBiophysical and Structural Approaches to Confirm the Druggability of Orphan Nuclear Receptor Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease and Schizophrenia
4/26 (Malko)Sid Sampat, University of RochesterBig Lasers in Inertial Confinement Fusion
5/1 (Kolodrubetz)Bei Zeng, HKUSTQuantum Neural Networks: Unlocking New Possibilities in Quantum Information Theory
5/3 (X. Zhang)Chih-Ping Wang, UCLAImpact of foreshock transients on the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere

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Quantum Information Science Initiative Seminars page

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