Past Events 2020


January 2020

"The General AntiParticle Spectrometer @ UCLA: hunting for dark matter signatures with low energy cosmic ray anti nuclei", Sean Quinn (UCLA), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, HEAP Seminar

"Crossover of Charge Fluctuations across the Strange Metal Phase Diagram", Ali Husain (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Scattering Amplitudes and Sum Rules for Massive Spin-2 States", Sekhar Chivukula and Elizabeth Simmons (UCSD), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 4:30PM - 5:30PM, TEPAPP Seminar

"Gender, Equity, Power Structures and Implicit Bias in STEM", Elizabeth Simmons (UC San Diego), Thursday, January 9, 2020, 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Spin polarization of gauge bosons in rotating plasma", Andrey Sadofyev (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Spinning binary Hamiltonian from scattering amplitudes", Andres Luna Godoy (UCLA), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, TEP Seminar

"Galactic Archaeology in the Era of Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys", Keith Hawkins (University of Texas, Austin), Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"'Realism' and the physical world: implications of some recent experiments", Anthony Leggett (University of Illinois), Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Bhaumik Lecture

"Hunting dark particles at colliders", Stefania Gori (UC Santa Cruz), Thursday, January 23, 2020, 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Koszul duality in field theory & holography", Natalie Paquette (Caltech), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, TEP Seminar

"Measuring masses of haloes and voids using lensed cosmic microwave background", Srinivasan Raghunathan (UCLA), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, HEAP Seminar

"Extreme Quasars During the Cosmic Dawn", Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Stars Askew in the Heavens! The Centenary of the 1919 Eclipse Expeditions that made Einstein Famous", Clifford Will (University of Florida), Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"The Dynamic Radio Sky", Gregg Hallinan (Caltech), Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

February 2020

"Loop Amplitudes and Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT", Eric Perlmutter (Caltech), Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, TEP Seminar

"Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves", Will Farr (StonyBrook/Flatiron), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and the Quest for the New Standard Model", Ian Shoemaker (Virginia Tech), Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Universality in the classical limit of gravitational scattering", Julio Parra Martinez (UCLA), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, TEP Seminar

"The key for planet formation: The Circumplanetary Disk", Vikram Ravi (Caltech), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"An effective approach to electroweak baryogenesis", Jorinde Van de Vis (DESY), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 4:30PM - 5:30PM, TEPAPP Seminar

"Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics", Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT), Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"The key for planet formation: The Circumplanetary Disk", Judit Szulagyi (ETH Zurich), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

CANCELLED: Anonymous Hall Transport in Chiral Superconductors", James Sauls (Northwestern University), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"The Ghostly Messengers of the Universe", Irene Tamborra (Niels Bohr Institute), Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Global Warming Demystified", Jeffrey Bennett (https://www.jeffreybennett.com/), Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 7:00PM - 8:00PM, Special Lecture

"Southern California String Seminar", Various speakers (hosted by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics), Friday, February 21, 2020 - 9:00AM - 6:00PM, TEP Seminar, Program schedule

"Measurement of ultra-low level of Thorium-229 Isomer with high intense X-ray beam", Koji Yoshimura (Okayama University), Friday, February 21, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, AMO Seminar

"Maximal supersymmetric Yang-Mills and their holographic duals", Joe Minahan (Uppsala), Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 4:00PM, TEP Seminar

"The Milky Way in the era of large surveys", Jo Bovy (University of Toronto), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 3:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Observation of broken time-reversal symmetry in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2", DiDi Wei (Stanford University), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 4:00PM, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Joint Physics & Astronomy Colloquium/STROBE Seminar: Capturing the First Picture of a Black Hole and Beyond", Katie Bouman (California Institute of Technology), Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 2:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

March 2020

"Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from (Axion) Cosmic Strings", Yanou Cui (UCR), Monday March 2, 2020 - 3:00PM, TEAPP Seminar

"Extreme plasma dynamics in intense laser fields", Marija Vranic (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon), Monday, March 2, 2020 - 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Surprising impacts of gravity waves", Jim Fuller (Caltech), Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"The Structure of Plasma Turbulence: Anisotropy, Intermittency and Reconnection", Alfred Mallet (University of California, Berkeley), Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Formation and Compositions of Planet Interiors and Atmospheres: New Discoveries from Wide-Field Transit Surveys", Erik Petigura (UCLA), Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Visualizing correlated and topological quantum phases of matter", Berthold Jäck (Princeton University), Monday, March 9, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, STROBE Seminar

POSTPONED: "Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Freeze-In", Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd), Monday, March 9, 2020 - 3:00PM - 4:00PM, TEPAPP Seminar

"The origin of single transverse-spin asymmetries in high-energy collisions", Alexei Prokudin (Penn State Berks & JLab), Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Nuclear Physics Seminar

CANCELLED: "Understanding Cluster Formation and Galaxy Evolution ... ORELSE", Lori Lubin (UC Davis), Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Non-Linear Ion Acceleration in Collisionless Plasma Shocks: New Perspectives from Kinetic Simulations", Colby Haggerty (University of Chicago), Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Visualizing biomolecular interactions at single-molecule and single-cell levels", Ruobo Zhou (Harvard University), Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 2:00PM - 3:00PM, STROBE Seminar

"Shedding Light on the Nature of Dark Matter", Andrew Benson (Carnegie Institute for Science), Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

CANCELLED: "Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS)", Krishna Choudhary and Shu Zhang (UCLA), Friday, March 13, 2020 - 12:00PM - 1:00PM, BLYSS Seminar

"Atomic-scale magnetic resonance of quantum spins on a surface", Kai Yang (IBM Almaden Research Center), Monday, March 16, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM

STROBE Seminar, Location: department members only

"Confining Plasmas at Arbitrary Collisionalities and Arbitrary Geometries", Rogerio Jorge (University of Maryland at College Park), Monday, March 16, 2020 - 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"POSTPONED: Supergravity, what it is (and what it isn't)", Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT), Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Bhaumik Lecture

"CANCELLED: Moossa J. Arman Colloquium: Topics in Computational Intelligence and the Fundamental Theory of Physics", Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research), Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Colloquium

"Quadrupling fusion power with free fueling", Silvia Espinosa (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Light-driven dynamics of electrons: from spin-transport in solids to the tailoring of free-electron beams", Ofer Kfir (University of Goettingen), Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 2:00PM - 3:00PM, STROBE Seminar

"TBA", Rick Greene (UMD), Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Sensing Quantum Materials with New Electromagnetic Probes", Eric Yue Ma (Stanford University), Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 2:00PM - 3:00PM, STROBE Seminar

"Combining accelerator techniques with scientific imaging", Siqi Li (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Monday, April 6, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, STROBE Seminar

"Accelerating our understanding of the multi-scale dynamics of high-energy plasmas", Paulo Alves (Stanford Linear Accelerator National Laboratory), Monday, April 6, 2020 - 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Turbulent amplification of cosmic magnetic fields", Siyao Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Plasma Seminar

Past Events 2019

January 2019

“Towards a consensus about SmB6, a topological Kondo insulator candidate" By Priscilla F.S. Rosa, Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 1:30pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Duality and emergent symmetries in two-dimensional electron systems"by Michael Mulligan (UC Riverside), Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

February 2019

"Indirect Searches for Axion Dark Matter with Radio Telescopes" by Sam Witte (University of Valencia), Monday, February 4, 2019 - 3:00pm, TEPAPP Seminar

"Soft gravitational radiation from high energy collisions: a progress report" by Gabriele Veneziano (CERN), Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Massive Neutrinos in Galaxy Clusters and Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?" by Simeon Bird (UC Riverside), Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 4:30pm, TEPAPP Seminar

"Observation of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue," by Johnathan Drori (Weizmann Institute of Science), Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm, AMO Seminars

“Spin And Charge Transport Through Correlated States In 2D Materials and Heterostructures” by Jeanie Lau (The Ohio State University), Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Achieving a large density of hydroxyl radicals in a magnetic trap," by Hao Wu (JILA - University of Colorado Boulder), Friday, February 8, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm, AMO Seminars

"Are there higher order corrections to Chiral Magnetic (vortical) Effects?" by Defu Hou (Central China Normal University, China), Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials" by Su-Yang Xu (MIT), Monday, February 11, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Quantization of heat flow in the fractional quantum Hall regime" by Mitali Banerjee (Columbia University), Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"States of Space - Searching for a Quantum Spin Liquid" by Arthur Ramirez (UC Santa Cruz), Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

“Probing Fundamental Theories Through Proton Decay in Large Underground Detectors” by Volodymyr Takhistov (UCLA), Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminar

"Fractional Chern insulators in graphene heterostructures" by Eric Spanton (UCSB), Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Cold and ultracold molecules for quantum information and particle physics"by John Doyle (Harvard University), Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Phase patterned atom interferometry: measuring Tune Out in lithium," by Eric Copenhaver (UC Berkeley), Friday, February 22, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, AMO Seminars

"Emergent nonequilibrium dynamics of complex solids" by Matteo Mitrano (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Monday, February 25, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Two applications of the infrared factorization of IR dynamics." by Massimo Porrati (NYU), Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Measurement of the neutrino cross section with IceCube using Earth absorption" by Sally Robertson (LBNL), Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminar

"Light-Matter Interaction in Charge Density Waves" by Anshul Kogar (MIT), Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

“Quantum computation for chemistry and materials” by Jarrod McClean (Google), Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

March 2019

"Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics" by Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study), Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Bhaumik Lectures

"Solvable sectors in conformal field theory and applications to holography" by Silviu Pufu (Princeton University), Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 10:30am to 11:30am, TEP Seminars

"Fusion concept exploration and basic plasma shock research on the Plasma Liner Experiment at Los Alamos," by Scott Hsu (Director, ARPA-E Fusion Research Program, DOE), Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Intricacies of the dark universe" by Kaliopi Petraki (NIKEH and LPTHE), Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Unraveling the Structure of Dark Matter throughout Cosmic History" by Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University), Monday, March 11, 2019 - 10:30am to 11:30am, TEP Seminars

"Quantum Physics and Quantum Engineering in Atomically Thin Crystals" by Qiong Ma (MIT), Monday, March 11, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Introduction to Thermionic Energy Conversion," by Eric S. Clark (Modern Electron), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm, Plasma Seminars

"Visualizing a relativistic quantum Hall liquid in a graphene quantum dot" by Christopher Gutierrez (University of British Columbia) Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Novel Tools in Effective Field Theory: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Dark Matter" by Ian Moult (UC Berkeley/LBNL), Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:00am, TEP Seminars

Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS) Winter 2019, Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar

"Controlling magnetism in a Mott insulator by optical pumping" by David Hsieh (Caltech), Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Hydrodynamics of Entanglement" by Mark Mezei (SUNY Stony Brook), Monday, March 18, 2019 - 10:30am to 11:30am, TEP Seminars

"Ultrafast Optical Control of Quantum Materials" by Edbert Sie (Stanford University), Monday, March 18, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Matter Physics Seminar

Ultrafast Optical Control of Quantum Materials by Edbert Sie (Stanford University), Monday, March 18, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Journal Club

Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar Winter 2019, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar

"Exploration and manipulation of the insulator-metal transition through low-temperature nano-optics" by Alexander McLeod (Columbia University), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"Small, modular & economically attractive fusion enabled by high-field superconductors," by Dennis Whyte (MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center), Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:30am, Plasma Seminars

TBA, Masayuki Ono (PPPL), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Plasma Seminars

April 2019

"Towards Scalable Quantum Computation with Trapped Ions," Jeremy Sage (Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:00am, AMO Seminars

"A lecture on Conformal Supergravity” by Sergio Ferrara (UCLA), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Superconductivity and ferroelectricity in strontium titanate and related compundso" by Kamran Behnia (PSL Research University), Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"A second lecture on Conformal Supergravity" by Sergio Ferrara(CERN,INFN,UCLA), Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 10:30am, Special TEP Seminar

"Nonequilibrium physics and information processing in living systems" by Yuhai Tu (IBM), Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Opportunities and Challenges of Plasma Waves for Magnetic Fusion," by Masayuki Ono (PPPL, Princeton University), Monday, April 29, 2019 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"TBA" Walter Goldberger, Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Black hole finite size effects, Hawking radiation, and binary inspirals" Walter Goldberger (Yale), Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

May 2019

" The Saga of Indirect Dark Matter Searches in Photons Split by a Million in Energy: Interpretations of X-ray lines and Gamma-ray Bumps" by Kev Abazajian (UCI), Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:30pm, TEPAPP Seminars

"Nonlinear Quantum Dynamics in a Disordered Magnet" by Thomas Rosenbaum (Caltech), Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Shocks, Superconvergence, and a Stringy Equivalence Principle” by David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech), Friday, May 3, 2019 - 11:00am, TEP Seminar

“Precision Jet Substructure with the ATLAS Detector at 13 TeV” by Benjamin Nachman (LBNL), Friday, May 3, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Flavor Mixing of Quarks and Neutrinos" by Harald Fritzch (LMU), Monday, May 6, 2019 - 3:00pm, TEPAPP Seminar

"From Scattering Amplitudes to Classical Observables" by David Kosower (Saclay), Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Probing magnetic phenomena using Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) Center in Diamond" BY Benedetta Flebus(UT Austin), Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Direct Multipixel Imaging of an exo-Earth with a Solar Gravitational Lens Telescope" by Slava G. Turyshev (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, and UCLA), Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 4:30pm, TEPAPP Seminar

"Dynamics of electron plasma vortices subject to external strain flows," by Noah Hurst (UC San Diego), Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Arbitrary spin-1 state manipulations and squeezed metrology in a spin-1 BEC," by Matthew Boguslawski (Georgia Institute of Technology), Monday, May 13, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:00am, AMO Seminar

"Toward scalable quantum computing in the quantum optical frequency comb," by Olivier Pfister (University of Virginia), Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm, AMO Seminars

"MHD-driven plasma jets relevant to thermonuclear fusion, MHD instability, and magnetic reconnection," by Byonghoon Seo (Caltech), Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Quantum Diagnostics: from single cells to single molecules " by Dino Di Carlo (UCLA), Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"The origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic-ray dipole" by Noemie Globus (NYU/CCA), Monday, May 20, 2019 - 3:00pm, TEPAPP Seminar

"A Deep Learning Revolution for Science" by Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Monday, May 20, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Moossa J. Arman Physics Colloquium: Science and Innovation

"Two Dimensional de Sitter Gravity" by Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (UC Santa Barbara), Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"The Hunt for Cosmic Strings and Dark Matter in Quantum Materials " by Sinéad Griffin (Berkeley Lab), Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Gravity and its Quantum Origins" by Leonard Susskind (Stanford), Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 6:00pm, Bhaumik Lectures

“The IceCube Upgrade” by Dawn Williams (University of Alabama), Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminar

"Determining Metastable Ion Lifetime and History Using Wave-Particle Interaction and Laser-Induced Fluorescence," by Feng Chu (University of Iowa), Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in a Subatomic Quantum Fluid" by Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University), Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS) Spring 2019, Friday, May 31, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Bhaumik Luncheon Seminars

June 2019

"Precision phenomenology at hadron colliders" by Xiaohui Liu, Monday, June 3, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Bootstrapping Inflationary Fluctuations" by Guilherme Pimentel (University of Amsterdam), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 12:00pm, Special TEP Seminar

"Trapped ion optical clocks and tests of the equivalence principle," by Ekkehard Peik (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm, AMO Seminars

Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar Spring 2019, Monday, June 10, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Investigations of Fundamental Plasma Physics in LAPD: Alfvén Wave Parametric Instabilities / Plasma and Radio Wave Generation by Electron Beams," by Seth Dorfman (Space Sciences Institute & UCLA), Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Microfabricated devices for vacuum and gas phase environments," by Yogesh Gianchandani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Monday, June 17, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm., Plasma Seminars

July 2019

Jets, TMDs and Resummation By Wouter Waalewijn (University of Amsterdam & Nikhef), Monday, July 15, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Black Hole Shadows, Photon Rings, and the Event Horizon Telescope Observations" by Sam Gralla (University of Arizona), Thursday, July 25, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Special Seminar

August 2019

"Superconductivity and tuned quantum critical points in the helical AFM compound CrAs" By Tuson Park, Friday, August 9, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Journal Club

"The inner life of protons: QCD at work from the LHC to IceCube" By Juan Rojo (VU University), Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Distortions in the cosmic microwave background" by Federico Bianchini (University of Melbourne), Monday, August 19, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminar

"Noncentrosymmetric superconductivity" By Huiqiu Yuan, Zhejiang University, Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Condensed Matter Physics Journal Club Seminars

September 2019

Conference: MorrisFest 2019, Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:00pm to Saturday, September 7, 2019 - 5:00pm

"Phase controlled atom-field interaction: from superradiance to superabsorption," by Kyungwon An (Seoul National University, Korea), Monday, September 16, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm, AMO Seminars

“Detecting small scale B-mode signals from the cosmic microwave background” by Dr. Chang Feng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminars

"Plasma in Extreme Conditions" by Marija Vranic (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Monday, September 30, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Plasma Seminars

October 2019

"A loopy excursion: from integrands to scattering amplitudes at higher loop order" by Enrico Herrmann (SLAC), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, TEP Seminar

"TBA" by Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie), Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"How many numbers does it take to determine our Universe?" by Michael Turner (The University of Chicago), Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 4:00pm, Saxon Lecture

"Kinetic turbulence in relativistic and radiative plasmas," Vladimir V. Zhdankin (Princeton University), Friday, October 4, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Plasma Seminars

"Stress-testing the Standard Model" by Aneesh Manohar (UCSD), Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology" by Lars Bildsten (UCSB), Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"On Ising's model of ferromagnetism" by Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University), Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Axion electrodynamics and the quantized topological magnetoelectric effect in topological materials" by Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University), Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Model for emissive cathode operation in a large magnetized plasma and controlled generation of plasma flows," by Matthew Poulos (UCLA), Friday, October 11, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Plasma Seminars

"A Kaluza-Klein spectrometer from exceptional field theory" by Emanuel Malek (Max Planck Institute), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm, TEP Seminar

“From PeV to GZK: Recent Findings in Cosmic Rays” by Pierre Sokolsky (University of Utah), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, HEAP Seminars

"XENON1T and beyond: the search for the heavy and light dark matter Particles"BY Kaixuan Ni, UCSD, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 2:00pm to Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 12:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Imaging the Shadow of a Supermassive Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope" by Michael Johnson (CfA), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Building a quantum computer with neutral atoms" by David Weiss (Penn State University), Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 4:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Electrolyte Gating of Complex Oxides By Chris Leighton, Monday, October 21, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

"2+1 Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory " by Zohar Komargodski (SCGP), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

Xenon1T and Beyond: the search for the heavy and light dark matter Particles BY Kaixuan Ni (UCSD), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"The origins of type Ia supernovae" by Hagai Perets (Technion), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"The origins of type Ia supernovae" by Hagai Perets (Technion), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"N=2 Superconformal field theories from mixed branches and VOAs" by Mario Martone (UT Austin), Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Gas dynamics in the Galactic Center" by Anna Ciurlo, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Physics and the HIV Virus" by Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA), Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 4:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

November 2019

"Quantum extremal islands and the information paradox" by Ahmed Almheiri (IAS), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

"Discovery of Cool Gas Disk at 10,000 Schwarzschild Radii from the Galactic Center Black Hole" by Lena Murchikova (IAS), Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Active Topology" by Cristina Marchetti (UCSB), Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 4:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Lorentz symmetry fractionalizations and dualities in (2+1)d'" by Po-Shen Hsin (Caltech), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 4:00pm, TEP Seminar

Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS) Fall 2019, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 12:00pm, Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar

"Initial Conserved Charges in Nuclear Geometry" By Mauricio Martinez Guerrero, North Carolina State University, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Nuclear Physics Seminar

"The Life Cycle of Hydrogen" by Erika Hamden (University of Arizona), Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Electrical control of interlayer exciton dynamics and transport in twisted semiconducting atomically thin heterostructures" By Luis A. Jauregui (UCI), Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar

"Probing Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History" by Vera Gluscevic (USC), Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 4:00pm, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Cardy formula for higher dimensional CFT from EFT" by Yifan Wang (Harvard University), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 4:00p, TEP Seminar

"The Origin and Demographics of Long-Period Giant Planets," Brendan Bowler (University of Texas), Wednesday, November 20,2019 - 3:30pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Quantum decorating: Imaging novel electronic states in defect-engineered 2D materials" by Christopher Gutierrez (UCLA), November 21, 2019, 4:00pm, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

"Quantum decorating: Imaging novel electronic states in defect-engineered 2D materials" by Sherard Robbins (Visceral Change), Friday, November 22, 2019, 11:00am, Special Lecture

"NEID and the new precision era of Doppler exoplanet science" by Paul Robertson (UC Irvine), Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 3:00pm, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

December 2019

"Steps toward a first nuclear frequency standard: improving our knowledge about the 229-Th nuclear isomer" by Lars von der Wense (JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder), Monday, December 2, 2019, 11:00am, AMO Seminar

"Spinning black holes versus higher-spin quantum particles" by Justin Vines (AEI), Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 4:00PM, TEP Seminar

"Cosmic Ray Propagation for GAPS" by James Ryan (UCLA), Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 12:00pm, HEAP Seminar

"Gas dynamics and electromagnetic signatures of gravitational sources" by Andrew MacFadyen (NYU), Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 3:30PM, Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium

"Superconductivity in Nickelates: Similarities and Differences from Cuprates" by Michael Norman (Argonne National University), Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 4:00PM, Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar.

"Bell's Theorem: Implications and Misapprehensions" by Ken Wharton (San Jose State University), Thursday, December 5, 2019, 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Seminar

"The Physics of Runaway Electrons in a Tokamak Disruption" by Xianzhu Tang (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Thursday, December 5, 2019, 1:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"Kicking as a Route to Discovery: Condensed Matter Systems Away From Equilibrium" by Anshul Kogar (UCLA), Thursday, December 5, 2019, 4:00PM, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Rapid high-fidelity quantum state manipulation in presence of environmental noise" by Alex Sushkov (Boston University), Friday, December 6, 2019, 10:00AM, Seminar

"Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from the XUV to the MIR" by Jason Jones (University of Arizona), Friday, December 6, 2019, 12:00PM, Seminar

"QCD Meets Gravity 2019", various speakers, Dec. 9-13, 2019, Workshop

"Plasma injection and jet formation in black holes" by Noemie Globus (NYU/CCA), Tuesday December 10, 2019, 2:00PM, Plasma Seminar

"High-Precision Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics" by Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute), Tuesday December 10, 2019, 4:00PM, Bhaumik Lecture

"Integrated optical trapped-ion quantum logic" by Karan Mehta (ETH Zurich), Thursday December 12, 2019, 10:00AM, AMO Seminar

"Why Galaxies Start Pickle-Shaped: An Historical Introduction to Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation" by Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz), Thursday December 12, 2019, 1:00PM, special talk