Physics & Astronomy Colloquium 2025-2026




2025-10-02String Theory and the Dark SectorC

Speaker: Cumrun Vafa
Institution: Harvard
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-10-09Climate DIYnamics

Speaker: Jonathan Aurnou
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-10-30AI & Mathematical Skills (AIMS) to support student success: from research to implementation in STEM courses at UCLA

Speaker: Yifan Lu, Shanna Shaked, K. Supriya
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-11-06From Black Holes to Neutron Stars: Modeling the Extreme Plasma Physics of Spacetime Collisions

Speaker: Elias Most
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-11-13The High-Q Frontier: Nonlinear Optics in the Age of Integration

Speaker: Kerry Vahala
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-11-20Choosing to Collide

Speaker: Nathaniel Craig
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2025-12-04Laboratory Astrophysics with Laser-Driven Plasmas

Speaker: Derek Schaeffer
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-01-08Opportunities at the intersection of kinetic simulations of plasmas and machine learning

Speaker: E. Paulo Alves
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-01-14Designing the Accelerated Quantum Supercomputer: AI-First, Real-Time Required

Speaker: Krysta Svore
Institution: NVIDIA Quantum Computing
Location: University Club, Morrison Room
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-01-22Searching for Anyon in Quantum Materials

Speaker: Philip Kim
Institution: Harvard University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-01-29A 100-year SETI retrospective: what have we learned about the existence of alien civilizations?

Speaker: Ben Zuckerman
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-02-05Simulating Fundamental Physics Using Quantum Computers

Speaker: Martin Savage
Institution: University of Washington
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-02-12Superconductivity in Layered Nickelates

Speaker: Harold Y. Hwang
Institution: Stanford
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-02-19"Learnable" Phases of Quantum Matter

Speaker: Sagar Vijay
Institution: UCSB
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-03-05Possible Observational Constraints on Fundamental Physics

Speaker: Tim Maudlin
Institution: NYU
Location: PAB 4-330
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-04-02Measurement-altered Quantum Matter

Speaker: Jason Alicea
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-04-09The Mathematics of Human Population Growth and CO2 Emissions

Speaker: Victor Yakovenko
Institution: UMD
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-04-23The wisdom of the swarm: physics and behavior

Speaker: L. Mahadevan
Institution: Harvard
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-04-30Pairing and Superfluidity in a Fermi Gas

Speaker: Martin Zwierlein
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-05-21The Statistical Physics of Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise

Speaker: Alexander Robel
Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2026-05-28Quarks to Nuclei: Computing the Structure of Matter

Speaker: Phiala Shanahan
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium