Physics & Astronomy Events



May 2024

Why Networks Matter: Embracing Biological Complexity

Speaker: John Quackenbush (Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Location: PAB 1-434
Experiments on-high-energy-density rotating plasmas: towards laboratory modelling of accretion disks and jets at laser and pulsed-power facilities

Speaker: Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca (Princeton University)
Date: Friday, May 3, 2024 12:30PM-1:30PM
Plasma Seminar
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
The surprising effectiveness of topology in the science of quantum materials

Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard University)
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Location: PAB 1-434
Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays

Speaker: Manuel Endres (California Institute of Technology)
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Location: PAB 1-434
The Quest for Conscious AI

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka (Elegant Mind Club at UCLA)
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Location: PAB 1-434

June 2024

Recollections of nearly a half-century of research on plasma based acceleration and particle-in-cell simulations at UCLA

Speaker: Warren Mori (UCLA)
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:00PM-5:00PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Location: PAB 1-434