Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2024-2025




2024-10-03How heavy is the W boson? Measuring the mass of about 80 times the mass of a proton with a 14,000 ton scale

Speaker: Michalis Bachtis
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-10-10From new materials to new quantum device paradigms: topological amplifiers, Moire THz phasers, and beyond

Speaker: Gil Refael
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-10-17New Frontiers in Topological Quantum Matter

Speaker: M. Zahid Hasan
Institution: Princeton University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-10-31Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Speaker: David Schlegel
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-11-07Using Statistical Inference in Physics

Speaker: Philip Nelson
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-11-14From Gluon Scattering to Binary Black Holes

Speaker: Mikhail Solon
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-11-21Through the looking glass: Breaking symmetries with light

Speaker: Anshul Kogar
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-01-30Shedding nano-light on quantum materials

Speaker: Dmitri Basov
Institution: Columbia University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-02-06That's Not Physics

Speaker: Andrew Zangwill
Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-02-13Waves of Topological Origin in the Fluid Earth System and Beyond

Speaker: Brad Marston
Institution: Brown University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-02-20Accelerating progress toward Fusion Energy

Speaker: Troy Carter
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-03-06Challenges and Opportunities in Communicating STEM

Speaker: Brandon Brown
Institution: University of San Francisco
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-03-13Magnetic topological insulators: from fundamental physics to a quantum standard of resistance

Speaker: Charles Gould
Institution: University of Wurzburg
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-04-03Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Stephen Shenker
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-04-10Black holes from the Big Bang

Speaker: Alex Kusenko
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-04-17Examining Earth's fast radiative feedbacks using machine-learning-based emulators of the climate system

Speaker: William Collins
Institution: LBL
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-04-24Opening Pandora's Box: JWST reveals the Hidden Content of a Super Star Cluster

Speaker: Jean Turner
Institution: LBL
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-05-01Discoveries at Hadron Colliders - On the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of CERN and of other round dates

Speaker: Thomas Muller
Institution: Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-05-08Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even point

Speaker: Michel Devoret
Institution: Yale
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-05-15Quantum Error Correction on Quantinuum's Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers

Speaker: Michael Mills
Institution: Quantinuum
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-05-22Charting Quantum Frontiers: Unveiling Nature's Essence through First-Principles Simulation of Fundamental Forces

Speaker: Christian Bauer
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-05-29The Magma Ocean and Silicate Dynamos

Speaker: Lars Stixrude
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-06-05Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits

Speaker: Harry Putterman
Institution: Amazon AWS
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium