Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2023-2024




2023-09-28The Biggest and Darkest Questions in The Universe

Speaker: Tom Melia
Institution: Kavli IPMU, Tokyo University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-10-05Quantum Materials for Eventual Quantum Computing

Speaker: Vivien Zapf
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-10-12A Career in Astronomical Instrumentation

Speaker: Ian McLean
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-10-19Early Galaxies and the (re)ionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen

Speaker: Stuart Wyithe
Institution: Australian National University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-10-26Lights, Camera, Action! Filming the Quantum World

Speaker: Sergio Carbajo
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-11-02FASER and the Future of Particle Physics

Speaker: Jonathan Feng
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-11-09Cosmology with Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker: Tuan Do
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-11-16The Origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes

Speaker: Erik Petigura
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2023-11-30Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors

Speaker: Peter Maurer
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-01-18The quest to see the unseen with LUX-ZEPLIN, the US flagship Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Alvine Kamaha
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-01-25Miniaturizing Big Science with Plasma Accelerators

Speaker: James Rosenzweig
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-02-01Using Radio Detectors to Discover the Highest Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

Speaker: Abigail Vieregg
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-02-08Measuring the Effect of Gravity on Antimatter

Speaker: Joel Fajans
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-02-15What's inside a black hole?

Speaker: Geoffrey Penington
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-02-22The JWST Revolution in Galaxy Formation: It's the Spectra, Stupid!

Speaker: Alice Shapley
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-02-29Shining New Light on Material Properties: Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes

Speaker: Bradley Siwick
Institution: McGill University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-03-07Open questions in Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Wick Haxton
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-03-21The Inevitable Quantum Winter?

Speaker: Eric Hudson
Institution: UCLA
Location: Yoo Seminar & Conference Hall (Young Hall 4222C)
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2024-04-11Symmetry Protected Topological Phases: Old and New

Speaker: Ryan Thorngren
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-04-18Boundaries, Inclusions, and disorder in active matter

Speaker: Mehran Kardar
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-04-25A short history of basic plasma physics devices at UCLA and some of the experiments performed with them

Speaker: Walter Gekelman
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-05-02Why Networks Matter: Embracing Biological Complexity

Speaker: John Quackenbush
Institution: Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-05-09Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays

Speaker: Manuel Endres
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-05-16The surprising effectiveness of topology in the science of quantum materials

Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath
Institution: Harvard University
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-05-23New Frontiers in Electron Diffraction of Molecular Nanoassemblies

Speaker: Jose Rodriguez
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-05-30The Quest for Conscious AI

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: Elegant Mind Club at UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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2024-06-06Recollections of nearly a half-century of research on plasma based acceleration and particle-in-cell simulations at UCLA

Speaker: Warren Mori
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
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