Past Events


2024-11-04A Life In Soft-Matter Physics

Speaker:
Institution: UCLA Physics and Astronomy Conference
Location: CNSI
Symposium in Honor of Alex Levine on November 4-6, 2024 at the California Nanoscience Institute (CNSI)
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
2024-10-29Vortex Dynamics in Inertial Fusion and Astrophysics

Speaker: Michael Wadas
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-10-25Exploring piezomagnetic coupling in quantum materials

Speaker: Linda Ye
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-10-17New Frontiers in Topological Quantum Matter

Speaker: M. Zahid Hasan
Institution: Princeton University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-10-11Unusual Magnetic Oscillations in Kagome Mott Insulators

Speaker: Lu Li
Institution: University of Michigan
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
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
2024-10-03How 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
2024-09-27Transfer learning large-scale simulation and kinetic magnetism in moire semiconductor

Speaker: Yang Zhang
Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-08-13NACTI 2024

Speaker:
Institution: UCLA Physics and Astronomy Conference
Location: UCLA
The Physics & Astronomy Department will host the North American Conference on Trapped Ions (NACTI) on August 13-16, 2024. NACTI brings together the North American and international ion-trapping community and highlights the various scientific fields covered by trapped ion research.
2024-07-12Self-organization in collisionless, high-beta turbulence

Speaker: Stephen Majeski.
Institution: Princeton
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
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
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-05-31Advancements and Breakthroughs in C-2W's Field Reversed Configuration Experiment

Speaker: Tim DeHaas
Institution: TAE Technologies, Inc.
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-05-30The Quest for Conscious AI

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: Elegant Mind Club at UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-05-23New Frontiers in Electron Diffraction of Molecular Nanoassemblies

Speaker: Jose Rodriguez
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-05-16The surprising effectiveness of topology in the science of quantum materials

Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath
Institution: Harvard University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-05-10Radiatively cooled kinetic plasma physics in astrophysics and the laboratory

Speaker: Pablo Bilbao
Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-05-09Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays

Speaker: Manuel Endres
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-05-03Experiments on-high-energy-density rotating plasmas: towards laboratory modelling of accretion disks and jets at laser and pulsed-power facilities

Speaker: Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca
Institution: Princeton University
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-05-02Why Networks Matter: Embracing Biological Complexity

Speaker: John Quackenbush
Institution: Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-04-26Two-Dimensional Charge-Density-Wave Quantum

Speaker: Alexander A. Balandin
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
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
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-04-19Detecting and quantifying orbital magnetism in moire quantum matter

Speaker: Yulia Maximenko
Institution: Colorado State University
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-04-18Boundaries, Inclusions, and disorder in active matter

Speaker: Mehran Kardar
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-04-12Slippery and flat: Ultrathin bismuth grown inside atomically-flat van der Waals materials

Speaker: Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi
Institution: UC Irvine
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-04-11Symmetry Protected Topological Phases: Old and New

Speaker: Ryan Thorngren
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-04-10The James Webb Space Telescope: Two Years of Data Are Changing Astronomy

Speaker: Marcia J. Rieke
Institution: University of Arizona
Location: James West Alumni Center, Collins Room
Moossa J. Arman Colloquium in Astronomy
2024-04-05Integer and Fractional Quantum Spin Hall Effects in Twisted Moire Materials

Speaker: Kaifei Kang
Institution: Cornell University
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-03-22Reconstructing non-linear kinetic plasma dynamics from sparse measurements using physics-informed neural networks

Speaker: Zack Pine
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-03-21The Inevitable Quantum Winter?

Speaker: Eric Hudson
Institution: UCLA
Location: Yoo Seminar & Conference Hall (Young Hall 4222C)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-03-07Open questions in Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Wick Haxton
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-03-01Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasma Physics at MIT

Speaker: Jack Hare
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
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
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-02-22The JWST Revolution in Galaxy Formation: It's the Spectra, Stupid!

Speaker: Alice Shapley
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-02-16Bigger is Better: NLO-Boosted Excimer Lasers for Inertial Fusion Energy

Speaker: Conner Galloway
Institution: Xcimer Energy, Redwood City , CA
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-02-15What's inside a black hole?

Speaker: Geoffrey Penington
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2024-02-09Embedding Lorentz transformation symmetry in data-driven reduced plasma models from fully kinetic simulation

Speaker: Madox C. McGrae-Menge
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-02-08Measuring the Effect of Gravity on Antimatter

Speaker: Joel Fajans
Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2024-02-02Beyond the Petawatt: Plasma Optics for Ultra-High-Power Lasers

Speaker: Matthew R. Edwards
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2024-02-01Using Radio Detectors to Discover the Highest Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

Speaker: Abigail Vieregg
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2024-01-26Collective behavior of neural networks and complex systems in disordered superconducting loops

Speaker: Uday Goteti
Institution: UCSD
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-01-25Miniaturizing Big Science with Plasma Accelerators

Speaker: James Rosenzweig
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
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
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2024-01-12Signature of Chiral Superconductivity in Chiral Molecular-Intercalated Two-Dimensional Superconductor

Speaker: Zhong Wan
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2024-01-12Two-stage approach to accelerate the progress of fusion reactor development from science to engineering: Detour or Ultra-fast-track?

Speaker: Yongkyoon IN
Institution: UNIST,Korea
Location: PAB 3-326 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-12-08Integer and Fractional Chern insulators in moire MoTe2

Speaker: Yihang Zeng
Institution: Cornell University
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
CM Seminar
2023-12-08High-Energy-Density Physics Research at General Atomics: Inertial Confinement Fusion and Laboratory Astrophysics

Speaker: Mario Manuel
Institution: General Atomics
Location: PAB 3-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-12-01Tuning the itineracy and topology of correlated states in semiconductor moire lattices

Speaker: Ben Feldman
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-12-01The Fusion Ignition Venture and Gain

Speaker: Omar Hurricane
Institution: Xeimer Energy
Location: PAB 3-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-11-30Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors

Speaker: Peter Maurer
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-11-21Spinning Up Semiconductor Quantum Bits

Speaker: Jason Petta
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-11-17Unconventional charge correlations in new classes of kagome metals

Speaker: Stephen Wilson
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-11-17Frequency-resolved local measurements of phase-space energization applied to MMS observations

Speaker: Emily Lichko
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-11-16The Origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes

Speaker: Erik Petigura
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-11-14Advancing Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

Speaker: Russell Stutz
Institution: Center for Quantum Science & Engineering
Location: Shannon Room (54-134, Eng 4)
CM Seminar
2023-11-13Disrupting qubits at the LPS Qubit Collaboratory

Speaker: Charles Tahan
Institution: Center for Quantum Science & Engineering
Location: Mong Auditorium (Entry level, Engineering 6)
CM Seminar
2023-11-09Cosmology with Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker: Tuan Do
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-11-03Electronic nematic order in the normal state of strontium ruthenate

Speaker: John Harter
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-11-02FASER and the Future of Particle Physics

Speaker: Jonathan Feng
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-10-27Search for topological superconductivity in UTe2

Speaker: Sean Thomas
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: PAB 4-740
CM Seminar
2023-10-27Bigger is Better: NLO-Boosted Excimer Lasers for Inertial Fusion Energy

Speaker: Conner Galloway
Institution: Xeimer Energy
Location: PAB 3-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-10-26Lights, Camera, Action! Filming the Quantum World

Speaker: Sergio Carbajo
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-10-19Early Galaxies and the (re)ionization of Intergalactic Hydrogen

Speaker: Stuart Wyithe
Institution: Australian National University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-10-18Spin and valley orders and superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene

Speaker: Andrey Chubukov
Institution: University of Minnesota
Location: PAB 4-740
CM Seminar
2023-10-13Crystal Growth of Rare Earth Intermetallics: A Platform for Quantum Materials

Speaker: Julia Chan
Institution: Baylor University
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-10-12A Career in Astronomical Instrumentation

Speaker: Ian McLean
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-10-06Time-domain pulsed tunneling spectroscopy of a two-dimensional electronic system

Speaker: Heun Mo Yoo
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-10-06New measurements of H-mode core density fluctuation wavenumber spectra and tests of quasilinear turbulence modeling

Speaker: Quinn Pratt
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 3-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-10-05Quantum Materials for Eventual Quantum Computing

Speaker: Vivien Zapf
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-09-29Negative Triangularity: The Holy Grail for Tokamak Core-Edge Integration?

Speaker: Oak Nelson
Institution: Columbia University
Location: PAB 3-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-09-28The Biggest and Darkest Questions in The Universe

Speaker: Tom Melia
Institution: Kavli IPMU, Tokyo University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-09-26Celebrating the careers of Matthew Malkan, Michael Rich and Jean Turner

Speaker: Matthew, Michael & Jean
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Conference / Symposium
2023-08-31Atomic SET: a new technique for high-resolution potential imaging

Speaker: Dahlia Klein
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-08-16Higher-dimensional topology and fractional states of matter in superconducting systems

Speaker: Wolfgang Belzig
Institution: University of Konstanz
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-08-09Magnetic Hardening in Low-Dimensional Ferromagnets

Speaker: J. Ping Liu
Institution: University of Texas at Arlington
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-08-07Korea Berry-Curvature Physics of Magnons

Speaker: Se Kwon Kim
Institution: KAIST, Korea
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-07-21Optical scanning probe microscopy

Speaker: Thomas Darlington
Institution: Columbia University
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-06-09New regimes of materials science at ultrahigh pressures and densities*

Speaker: Bruce A. Remington
Institution: National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-06-02Novel phases and dynamics of highly frustrated quantum magnets

Speaker: Hitesh Changlani
Institution: Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Location: PAB 4-330/Via Zoom
CM Seminar
2023-06-02High Repetition Rate Mapping of the Regimes of Laminar Collisionless Coupling

Speaker: Bobby Dorst
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330 / Via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-06-01Visualizing Helical Tunneling of Dirac Fermions

Speaker: Vidya Madhavan
Institution: UIUC
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-05-26Scalable Quantum Nanophotonics: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping

Speaker: Marina Radulaski
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-05-26Energy Partition In Collisionless Shocks: A Microphysical Perspective

Speaker: Frederico Fiuza
Institution: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Location: PAB 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-05-25Space is Time: Einstein's Solution to the Origin of Consciousness and Intelligence

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-05-19MemComputing: When memory becomes a computing tool

Speaker: Massimiliano Di Ventra
Institution: University of California San Diego
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-05-18The Beauty of Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Zvi Bern
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Recipient of the 2023 Galileo Medal
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloqulum
2023-05-12Probing quantum phase transitions in molecular crystals and topological Dirac semimetals through Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy ARPES

Speaker: Claudia Ojeda-Aristizabal
Institution: California State University Long Beach
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-05-12Plasma Interactions and Electron Dynamics for Volumetrically Complex Materials

Speaker: Angelica Ottaviano
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminar
2023-05-11The Rise of Silicon Quantum Electronics

Speaker: Jason R. Petta
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2023-05-05Shining light on Lead-Halide Perovskites: what optics can tell about the inner workings of the Solar-Cell-champion material

Speaker: Zhanybek Alpichshev
Institution: IST Austria
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-05-04Dark Matter Physics With Tiny Galaxies

Speaker: Annika Peter
Institution: Ohio State University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-04-28Location and thermal evolution of the pseudogap due to spin fluctuations

Speaker: Mengxing Ye
Institution: KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-04-28Enabling Intelligent High-Repetition-Rate HED Experiments

Speaker: Derek Mariscal
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Location: PAB 4-330 / Via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-04-27Membranes, RNA World and the Origin of Life

Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-04-21Fermiology and electronic symmetry breaking in AV3Sb5 kagome

Speaker: Riccardo Comin
Institution: MIT
Location: VIa Zoom
CM Seminar
2023-04-21RF Sheath Mitigation and RF Wave Coupling Studies for Optimal ICRF Heating

Speaker: Gurleen Bal
Institution: University of California Los Angeles
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminar
2023-04-20Developing New Windows Into the Secret Lives of Cells

Speaker: Eric Betzig
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Location: PAB 1-434
Saxon Lecture
2023-04-14Spread and erase -- How electron hydrodynamics can eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin resistance

Speaker: Thomas Scaffidi
Institution: UC Irvine & University of Toronto
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
2023-04-13To Ignition and Beyond!

Speaker: Denise Hinkel
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2023-04-07Unlocking new physics regimes using ultra- high intensity laser-plasma interactions

Speaker: Alexey Arefiev
Institution: University of California San Diego
Location: PAB 4-330 / Via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-04-06Thermal Infrared and Cosmological Observations from Space

Speaker: Edward (Ned) Wright
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-04-05Quantum Materials in the Time Domain

Speaker: Andrea Damascelli
Institution: Quantum Matter Institute, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
2023-03-24Controlling the nonlinear optics of plasmas with spatiotemporally structured light

Speaker: Jacob Pierce
Institution: UCLA
Location: Room 4-330/Via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-03-17Chirality and Topology in DNA-type Chiral Molecules and Chiral

Speaker: Binghai Yan
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-03-16Past, Present and Future Vision for High-Gradient Linear Accelerators and Its Applications to Future High-Energy Physics Machines, Light Sources, and Medical Instruments

Speaker: Sami Tantawi
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-03-14Dynamically enhancing qubit-photon interactions with anti-squeezing

Speaker: Marius Villiers
Institution: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-03-13Combining high-impedance resonators with crystal-phase defined double quantum dots

Speaker: Jann H. Ungerer
Institution: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-03-09The Structure of the Nucleon

Speaker: Haiyan Gao
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory and Duke Universit
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-03-06Study on turbulent transport and transport barrier formation using perturbation experiment in LHD

Speaker: Tatsuya Kobayashi
Institution: National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
Location: BAPSF Auditorium Room 15-70 1000 Veteran Avenue and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-03-03Novel pairing phenomena in multiband superconductors

Speaker: Peter J. Hirschfeld
Institution: University of Florida
Location: 4-330 PAB
CM Seminar
2023-03-03Magnetized Transport in High Energy Density Plasmas at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Speaker: Peter Heuer
Institution: University of Rochester
Location: PAB room 4-330 and on Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-03-02Quantum Logic and Precision Measurements with Atoms and Molecules

Speaker: David Leibrandt
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-02-23SPARC and the High?field Path to Fusion Energy

Speaker: Dennis Whyte
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-02-22Runaway Electron Seed Detection, Formation, Growth And Suppression In MST

Speaker: Luis Delgado-Aparicio
Institution: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Location: Room 4-330/Via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2023-02-16Interaction Induced Magnetism in 2D Semiconductor Moire? Superlattices

Speaker: Xiaodong Xu
Institution: University of Washington
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-02-10Magnetic and electronic topological states in the kagome-net magnet YMn6Sn6

Speaker: Nirmal J. Ghimire
Institution: George Mason University
Location: Via Zoom
CM Seminar
2023-02-09Machine Learning Concepts for Inverse Design in Soft and Living Matter

Speaker: Andrea Liu
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-02-07Dissipation in magnetic and quantum hybrid spin systems

Speaker: Benedetta Flebus
Institution: Boston College
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-02-02Metals, Strange Metals, and Bad Metals

Speaker: Steven Kivelson
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-02-01Theory of Elementary Particles, Astroparticle Physics, and Phenomenology

Speaker: Damiano F.G. Fiorillo
Institution: Niels Bohr Institutet, Kobenhavns Universitet
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2023-01-31EFT for de Sitter Space

Speaker: Daniel Green
Institution: UCSD
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2023-01-27Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum- Resolved EELS

Speaker: Peter Abbamonte
Institution: University of Illinois UC
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-01-27Large N Partition Functions, Holography, and Black Holes

Speaker: Nikolay Bobev
Institution: KU Leuven
Location: Schwinger Lounge PAB 4-740
TEP Seminar
2023-01-26Cosmology: What we know, what we don't know and our grandest aspirations.

Speaker: Michael Turner
Institution: The University of Chicago, UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2023-01-25Effects of accreting Primordial Black Holes on Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Lorenzo Piga
Institution: INFN, Parma
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2023-01-20Atomic-scale imaging of symmetry-broken electronic phases in kagome superconductors

Speaker: Ilija Zeljkovic
Institution: Boston College
Location: Available Via Zoom
CM Seminar
2023-01-19Thin-disk galaxy formation in the LCDM cosmology

Speaker: James Bullock
Institution: UC Irvine
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-01-13Interactions and topology in a hybrid transition metal dichalcogenide

Speaker: Haim Beidenkopf
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2023-01-12Gravitational Waves: From Discovery to a New Science

Speaker: Barry Barish
Institution: Caltech and UC Riverside
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2023-01-11Axions in the post-inflationary scenario: from strings to miniclusters

Speaker: Giovanni Pierobon
Institution: University of New South Wales
Location: PAB 4-708
TEPAPP Seminar
2023-01-11Exotic Superconductivity in Graphene Multilayers

Speaker: Erez Berg
Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: PAB 4-330
CM Seminar
2022-12-06Holography from Singular Supertranslations on a Black Hole Horizon

Speaker: Sangmin Choi
Institution: Ecole Polytechnique
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-11-29Non-invertible symmetry, holography and branes

Speaker: Ibrahima Bah
Institution: John Hopkins
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-11-23Strong Supernova 1987A Constraints on Bosons Decaying to Neutrinos

Speaker: Damiano F.G. Fiorillo
Institution: Niels Bohr Institutet, Kobenhavns Universitet
Location: PAB 4-708
TEPAPP Seminar
2022-11-17What Does Optimal Teaching and Learning Look Like?

Speaker: Joshua Samani
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-11-15Facts and Fantasies of Angular Momentum

Speaker: Chia-Hsien Shen
Institution: UCSD
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-11-10Aspects of Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory - a Modern Update

Speaker: Thomas Dumitrescu
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-11-08What can we learn from SCFTs with a=c?

Speaker: Monica Kang
Institution: Caltech
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-11-03Next Generation Control and Acquisitions Platforms for Studying Large-Scale Neural-Behavioral Dynamics in Freely-Behaving Animals

Speaker: Daniel Aharoni
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-11-02Probing dark matter microphysics with gravitational waves and cosmology

Speaker: Markus Mosbech
Institution: University of Sydney
Location: PAB 4-708
Tepapp Seminar
2022-11-01The Uses and Abuses of Wormholes

Speaker: Alexander Maloney
Institution: McGill
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-10-27How Our Immune System Learns From a Changing Experience

Speaker: Shenshen Wang
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-10-25Black hole scattering to all orders of spin

Speaker: Andreas Helset
Institution: Caltech
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-10-20Magnetic Chirality

Speaker: Sang-Wook Cheong
Institution: Rutgers University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-10-18Non-Planar Geometries from Tree-Level SYM

Speaker: Shruti Paranjape
Institution: UC Davis
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-10-13Quantum Simulation, Sensing, and Computation With Ultracold Atoms

Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn
Institution: UC Berkeley
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-10-11Eclectic Flavor Symmetries: Emergence, Breakdown, and Phenomenology

Speaker: Alexander Bar
Institution: TUM & UNAM
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-10-06The Beginning of Helioseismology and Studies of Solar Dynamics

Speaker: Roger K. Ulrich
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-09-29Early Science from the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Tommaso Treu
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-09-27From ExFT to non-supersymmetric conformal manifolds

Speaker: Colin Sterckx
Institution: ULB
Location: Zoom/Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-09-20Compact Objects in Gravitational Fields

Speaker: Justin Vines
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2022-06-02Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrids

Speaker: Chetan Nayak
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-05-26Diffractive Optical Networks & Computational Imaging Without a Computer

Speaker: Aydogan Ozcan
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-05-19The Biocybernetics of Insect Vision

Speaker: Mark Frye
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-05-12Solving A Century-Old Problem: Three-Dimensional Atomic Structure of Amorphous Solids

Speaker: Jianwei (John) Miao
Institution: UCLA
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-05-05Probing the heart of neutrinos in the coldest cubic meter in the Universe

Speaker: Yury Kolomensky
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Location: Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-04-28The Journey of the James Webb Space Telescope -- and Ours

Speaker: Alan Dressler
Institution: Carnegie Observatories
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-04-25Understanding the Instabilities Localized in the Edge of Fusion Devices: Laying the groundwork for a pedestal predictive model

Speaker: Ahmed Diallo
Institution: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-04-21Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek
Institution: Caltech
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-04-13The Surface Environments of the Galilean Satellites

Speaker: Katherine de Kleer
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Colloquium
2022-04-11Ultrafast High-Field Science with Plasma Optics

Speaker: Julia Mikhailova
Institution: Princeton University
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-04-07The Missing Link: Mentorship as The Key to Success

Speaker: Sherard Robbins
Institution: Visceral Change, LLC
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-04-05Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures

Speaker: Eliezer Rabinovici
Institution: Racah Institute of Physics
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-04-04The Edge Boundary Layer Of High Temperature, Magnetized Plasmas: A Key Towards Fusion Energy

Speaker: Florian Laggner
Institution: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-03-31Sesame: a Source of Light in the Middle East

Speaker: Eliezer Rabinovici
Institution: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Louis Michel Professor at the IHES, President of the CERN Council
Location: UCLA Faculty Club (formerly Faculty Center); Reception at 4:30 p.m. on the patio
Moossa J. Arman Colloquium
2022-03-29Some gauge theory amplitudes from chiral correlators

Speaker: Natalie Paquette
Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-03-15Surprises in the 2d O(n) model

Speaker: Victor Gorbenko
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-03-14Collisionless Shockwaves in Magnetized High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas

Speaker: Derek Schaeffer
Institution: Princeton University
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-03-08Double Copy Variations

Speaker: Clifford Cheung
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar
2022-03-07Optical-field ionized gases: a new route for studying kinetic plasma instabilities

Speaker: Chaojie Zhang
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-03-03Grand Unified Theory of Mind and Brain: Space-Time Approach to 3D Vision

Speaker: Katsushi Arisaka
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB and on Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-02-28New Insights and Solutions to Long Standing Problems in Nuclear Fusion: Magnetic Island Flux Tunneling, Heteroclinic Bifurcation and Seeding by Non-Linear Three-Wave Coupling

Speaker: Laszlo Bardoczi
Institution: General Atomics
Location: 4-330 PAB
Plasma Physics Seminar
2022-02-24Designing and probing quasi-particles in flatlands

Speaker: Qianhui Shi
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-02-22Spin Impurities, Wilson Lines and Semiclassics

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski
Institution: Stony Brook
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-02-17Supermassive black holes, fundamental physics, machine learning, and beyond

Speaker: Tuan Do
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-02-15What is the ie for the S-matrix?

Speaker: Sebastian Mezra
Institution: Institute For Advanced Study - IAS
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-02-10Neurophysics of space, time and memory

Speaker: Mayank Mehta
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-02-08Harnessing S-duality in N=4 SYM and in gravity

Speaker: Scott Collier
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-02-04Quantum-chemical calculations for ultracold scattering experiments

Speaker: Michal Tomza
Institution: University of Warsaw, Poland
Location: 4-330 PAB
AMO Physics Seminar
2022-02-03Searching for dark matter with current detectors and beyond

Speaker: Alvine Kamaha
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB and by Zoom
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2022-01-27The Hubble tension: hints of new physics?

Speaker: Tommaso Treu
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-01-25Scattering Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theory and a New Duality

Speaker: Lance Dixon
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2022-01-20The Ultra-Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Speaker: James Rosenzweig
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 1-434 PAB
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2022-01-18A definition of primary operators in JT-deformed CFTs

Speaker: Monica Guico
Institution: IPhT CEA/Saclay
Location: Via Zoom at 10am
TEP Seminar
2021-12-07Numerical Evidence For a Haagerup Conformal Field Theory

Speaker: Ying-Hsuan Lin
Institution: Harvard University
Location: P&A Building(PAB) 4-330 Livestream: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/733945563
TEP Seminar
2021-12-02Probing Dark Energy and Inflation with Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Valeri Vardanyan
Institution: Kavli IPMU
Location: Held Virtually
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-12-01UCLA Planetarium celebrates the James Webb Space Telescope Launch

Speaker: UCLA Planetarium
Institution: UCLA
Location: 8th floor of the UCLA Math Sciences building
Planetarium event
2021-11-30On Topological Boundary Conditions in 2+1d

Speaker: Shu-Heng Shao
Institution: IAS
Location: PAB 4-740
TEP Seminar
2021-11-18Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Astrophysical Data Sets

Speaker: Cora Dvorkin
Institution: Harvard University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-11-17Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Speaker: Shirley Li
Institution: Fermilab
Location: Held virtually
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-11-16Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Speaker: Riccardo Penco
Institution: Carnegie Melon University
Location: Livestream: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/733945563 or PAB 4-740 (seating is limited)
TEP Seminar
2021-11-10Detection of terrestrial millicharges

Speaker: Harikrishnan Ramani
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Held virtually
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-11-04Attosecond X-ray movies: the frontier of ultrafast science

Speaker: Agostino Marinelli
Institution: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-11-03New Directions in Dark Matter Direct Detection

Speaker: Carlos Blanco
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Held virtually
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-11-02Berry phase in quantum field theory

Speaker: Po-She Hsin
Institution: UCLA
Location: via zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-10-28Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

Speaker: Kate Scholberg
Institution: Duke University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-10-27Dark photon limits: a cookbook

Speaker: Alexander Millar
Institution: Stockholm University
Location: Held virtually
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-10-26From amplitudes to higher-order corrections to the dynamics of black-hole binaries

Speaker: Michael Ruf
Institution: UCLA
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) 4-740
TEP Seminar
2021-10-21Broken symmetries in living matter

Speaker: Nikta Fakhri
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-10-20Cosmological Constraints on Light (but Massive) Relics

Speaker: Weishuang Linda Xu
Institution: UC Berkeley
Location: held virtually
TEPAPP
2021-10-193-D Large N Vector Models at the Boundary

Speaker: Pierluigi Niro
Institution: UCLA
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) 4-740
TEP Seminar
2021-10-14Building a quantum world with trapped ions

Speaker: Norbert M. Linke
Institution: University of Maryland
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-10-12Emergent symmetries in 3d and compactification from 5d

Speaker: Orr Sela
Institution: UCLA
Location: In person in PAB 4-330 and virtually on Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-10-07Where's Waldo in Biology

Speaker: Keisuke Goda
Institution: University of Tokyo
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-10-06Unravelling the mystery of Dark Matter with Black Holes

Speaker: Anupam Ray
Institution: Tata Institute
Location: Available via Google Meet
TEPAPP
2021-10-05Non-invertible defects of 4d Yang-Mills

Speaker: Justin Kaidi
Institution: Stony Brook
Location: Held in person in PAB 4-330 and virtually on Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-07-19Towards an Ultra-Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Speaker:
Institution:
Location: Via Zoom
Workshop
2021-06-16Detecting Dark Matter in Planets

Speaker: Rebecca Leane
Institution: SLAC
Location: Available via Google Meet
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-06-15How Different is More?: Precision correlators at large R-charge

Speaker: Simeon Hellerman
Institution: IAS
Location: Available Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-06-08Shortcuts to String Amplitudes

Speaker: Eric D'Hoker
Institution: UCLA
Location: Via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-06-03Some recent results in gravitational-wave science

Speaker: Daniel Holz
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-06-02Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Observations

Speaker: Gabriele Franciolini
Institution: University of Geneva
Location: Available via Google Meet
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-06-01Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland

Speaker: Dalimil Mazac
Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-05-27Many-body localization and thermalization: some fundamentals of quantum statistical mechanics

Speaker: David Huse
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-05-26Gravitational Waves from ALP Cosmic String-Wall Networks

Speaker: Anna Simpson
Institution: UCLA
Location: Via Google Meet
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-05-25Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC

Speaker: Ian Moult
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-05-20The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-05-19New Aspects of Vector-Portal Dark Matter

Speaker: Hongwan Liu
Institution: Princeton University & NYU
Location: Via Google Meet
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-05-13Weaving together machine learning, theoretical physics, and neuroscience

Speaker: Surya Ganguli
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-05-06The Golden Age of Neutron Stars

Speaker: Gordon Baym
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-05-05Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Freeze-In

Speaker: Brian Shuve
Institution: Harvey Mudd College
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-05-04RG Flows and Bounds from Chaos

Speaker: Sandipan Kundu
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-04-29Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix

Speaker: Taekjip Ha
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-04-28CMB birefringence from ultra-light axion string networks

Speaker: Mudit Jain
Institution: Rice University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-04-27Massless Particles

Speaker: Steven Weinberg
Institution: UT Austin
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-04-22The physics of virus self-assembly

Speaker: Vinny Manoharan
Institution: Harvard University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-04-16Synthesizing Light

Speaker: Scott Diddams
Institution: NIST & University of Colorado, Boulder
Location: Available via Zoom
AMO Seminar
2021-04-15Electrons in Moire Superlattices: A playground for strong correlations and topology

Speaker: Ali Yazdani
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-04-14Physics beyond the Standard Model in astrophysical environments

Speaker: Anna Suliga
Institution: Niels Bohr Institute
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-04-13The RG Improved Effective Potential from EFT

Speaker: Emily Nardoni
Institution: UCLA
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-04-08High-precision physics and chemistry with ultracold molecules

Speaker: Tanya Zelevinsky
Institution: Columbia University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-04-06Unitarization in Kaluza Klein theory and the Geometric Bootstrap

Speaker: Kurt Hinterbichler
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-04-06The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and how physicists can help reduce it)

Speaker: Fred Lamb
Institution: University of Illinois
Location: Available via Zoom
Moossa J. Arman Colloquium
2021-04-02Quantum logic and precision measurements with atomic and molecular ions

Speaker: David Leibrandt
Institution: NIST & University of Colorado, Boulder
Location: Available via Zoom
AMO Seminar
2021-04-01Biological Physics: Looking for new physics in the living world

Speaker: Alex J. Levine
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-03-305d counter-terms and rigid supergravities

Speaker: Martin Fluder
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-03-29Quantum information science with photons and neutral atoms

Speaker: Wenchao Xu
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-24Machine Learning Applications and Observation of Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Cecilia Tosciri
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Available via Zoom
HEAP Seminar
2021-03-22Probing quantum matters in flatlands

Speaker: Qianhui Shi
Institution: Columbia University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-18The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Alvine Kamaha
Institution: University at Albany, State University of New York
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-17Searching for Dark Matter with 20 Years of Blank Sky Data

Speaker: Joshua Foster
Institution: University of Michigan
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-03-15Cracking neural circuits of a simple brain

Speaker: Mirna Skanata
Institution: New York University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-11A Pathfinder Experiment to Detect Light Bosonic Dark Matter

Speaker: Miguel Daal
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-10How gravity can shape the low-energy frontier of particle physics

Speaker: Lena Funcke
Institution: Perimeter Institute
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-03-09Quantizing 3d gravity in a finite box

Speaker: Per Kraus
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-03-08Resistance is Not Futile: Pinning Down Elusive Vortices in Superconductors

Speaker: Serena Eley
Institution: Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-04Achievement of a burning plasma state

Speaker: Omar Hurricane
Institution: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-03-04Why I Stopped Waiting for Someone Else to Map the Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky
Institution: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-03-03Gauging Baryon and Lepton numbers

Speaker: Clara Murgui
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-03-02Symmetries and Threshold States in 2d Models for QCD

Speaker: Igor Klebanov
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-03-01Innovative Approaches in mm-Wavelength Cosmology: From Inflation to the Epoch of Emerging Frontiers at the Intersection between Photon Sciences, Molecular Dynamics, and Light-Matter Interactions

Speaker: Sergio Carbajo
Institution: Stanford University/SLAC
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-02-25Rotating quantum gases under the microscope

Speaker: Richard Fletcher
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-02-25Innovative Approaches in mm-Wavelength Cosmology: From Inflation to the Epoch of Reionization and Beyond

Speaker: Abigail Crites
Institution: University of Toronto
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-02-23Towards all loop supergravity amplitudes

Speaker: Agnese Bissi
Institution: Uppsala University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-02-22Spintronics with 2D and Topological Materials: Outstanding Opportunities in van der Waals Heterostructures

Speaker: Yunqiu Kelly Luo
Institution: Cornell University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astrophysics Seminar
2021-02-18Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes

Speaker: Andrea Ghez
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Saxon Lecture
2021-02-17Directional dark matter detection and the Cygnus project

Speaker: Ciaran O'Hare
Institution: University of Sydney
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-02-11Introduction to the physics basis for burning plasmas in tokamaks: turbulent-transport

Speaker: Anne White
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-02-10Non-Standard Observables from Black Hole Superradiance

Speaker: Samuel Witte
Institution: University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA)
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-02-09The statistical mechanics of near-extremal and near-BPS black holes

Speaker: Luca Iliesiu
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-02-04Wormholes and entanglement

Speaker: Juan Maldacena
Institution: Princeton University
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-02-03Probing the Landscape of Heavy, Strongly Interacting, and Composite Dark Matter

Speaker: Christopher Cappiello
Institution: Ohio State University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-02-02A CFT distance conjecture"

Speaker: Leonardo Rastelli
Institution: Stony Brook University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-01-28Pushing the limits of hydrodynamics

Speaker: Pavel Kovtun
Institution: University of Victoria
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-01-27New physics and the black hole mass gap

Speaker: Djuna Croon
Institution: TRIUMF
Location: Via Google Meet
TEPAPP Seminar
2021-01-26Supersymmetric Flux Vacua and Calabi-Yau Modularity

Speaker: Richard Nally
Institution: Stanford
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-01-21Grand unification of quantum algorithms

Speaker: Isaac Chuang
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-01-19Real-time gravitational replicas

Speaker: Mukund Rangamani
Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-01-14Affinity maturation of antibodies and the puzzle of HIV spikes

Speaker: Mehran Kardar
Institution: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-01-12Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models

Speaker: Shai Chester
Institution: Weizmann
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2021-01-07Accelerating our understanding of the multi-scale dynamics of high-energy plasmas

Speaker: Paulo Alves
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2021-01-05WZW model revisited

Speaker: Kantaro Ohmori
Institution: Stony Brook University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-12-15Wormholes in AdS3 gravity, random matrix theory, and constrained instantons

Speaker: Kristan Jensen
Institution: San Francisco State University
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-12-10The Modern Amplitudes Program: Supercolliders, Fluid Dynamics, and Black Holes

Speaker: Cliffor Cheung
Institution: Caltech
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-12-08Is SMEFT Enough?

Speaker: Tim Cohen
Institution: University of Oregon
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-12-03Non-reciprocity in collective phenomena: pattern-formation, synchronization and flocking

Speaker: Vincenco Vitelli
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-12-01(The two sides of) the S-matrix Bootstrap

Speaker: Pedro Vieira
Institution: Perimeter Institute
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-12-01Reducing the L-H Transition Power Threshold in ITER: What Can We Learn from Microscopic Transition Physics?

Speaker: Lothar Schmitz
Institution: UCLA
Location: Available via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2020-11-242-Group Global Symmetries in Six Dimensions

Speaker: Thomas Dumitrescu
Institution: UCLA
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-11-19Power and Privilege

Speaker: Sherard Robbins
Institution: Visceral Change, LLC
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-11-17Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes"

Speaker: Mikhail Solon
Institution: UCLA
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-11-12Results from LIGO-Virgo's third observing run

Speaker: Jess McIver
Institution: University of British Columbia
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-11-106D SCFTs and Spin Chains

Speaker: Jonathan Heckman
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-11-05Quantum control of spins in silicon

Speaker: Mark Eriksson
Institution: Wisconsin Quantum Institute and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-11-01Exploring Your Universe

Speaker: UCLA's Free Science Festival
Institution: UCLA
Location: Available online
Workshop
2020-10-29Investigating the energy frontier of Particle Physics while analyzing 40 million proton collisions per second in real time

Speaker: Michalis Bachtis
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-10-27Branes, Islands, and Massive Gravitons

Speaker: Andreas Karch
Institution: University of Texas, Austin
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-10-22The renaissance of jet physics

Speaker: Zhongbo Kang
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-10-20TBA

Speaker: Lampros Lamprou
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-10-15Controlling the quantum states of atoms to probe fundamental physics

Speaker: Paul Hamilton
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-10-13Partition functions of the tensionless string

Speaker: Lorenz Eberhardt
Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Available via Zoom
TEP Seminar
2020-10-08Nuclear Femtography - A new frontier of science and technology

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu
Institution: Jefferson Lab
Location: Available via Zoom
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-06-24Following the Streams of the Gaping Abyss

Speaker: Rodrigo Ibata
Institution: University of Strasbourg
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-06-17 Galaxies growing up in the Epoch of Reionisation

Speaker: Renske Smit
Institution: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-06-16Virasoro bootstrap, universality, and pure gravity

Speaker: Scott Collier
Institution: Harvard
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Virtual TEP Seminar
2020-06-11Zooming in on planet-forming disks with ALMA

Speaker: Ewine van Dishoeck
Institution: Leiden Observatory
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-06-04CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Sera Markoff
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-06-03Exocomets and their effect on planet atmospheres

Speaker: Mark Wyatt
Institution: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-05-28CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Clifford Cheung
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-05-27Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos with the Radar Echo Telescope

Speaker: Steven Prohira
Institution: Ohio State University
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
HEAP Seminar
2020-05-21CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Annika Peter
Institution: The Ohio State University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-05-20Results from T2K

Speaker: Asher Kaboth
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
HEAP Seminar
2020-05-20Is the Dark Matter made of Primordial Black Holes?

Speaker: Gunther Hasinger
Institution: European Space Agency
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-05-14CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Mark Eriksson
Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-05-14Parker Solar Probe: Early Results From the First Four Perihelia

Speaker: Marco Velli
Institution: Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics (IGPP) Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences (EPSS) at UCLA
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
Plasma Seminar
2020-05-07CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Jessica McIver
Institution: LIGO
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-04-30CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu
Institution: Jefferson Lab
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-04-29Detecting local axion dark matter with the CMB

Speaker: Ari Cukierman
Institution: Astrophysics at Stanford University
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
UCLA HEAP Seminar
2020-04-23CANCELLED: Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes -- or how to make atomic-level movies of molecules and materials

Speaker: Bradley Siwick
Institution: McGill University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-04-22Better Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay through Biochemistry

Speaker: Benjamin Jones
Institution: University of Texas, Arlington
Location: Broadcast via Zoom
HEAP Seminar
2020-04-16CANCELLED: TBA

Speaker: Vinvenzo Vitelli
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-04-09Turbulent amplification of cosmic magnetic fields

Speaker: Siyao Xu
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: department members only
Plasma Seminar
2020-04-06Accelerating our understanding of the multi-scale dynamics of high-energy plasmas

Speaker: Paulo Alves
Institution: Stanford Linear Accelerator National Laboratory
Location: department members only
Plasma Seminars
2020-04-06Combining accelerator techniques with scientific imaging

Speaker: Siqi Li
Institution: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Location: department members only
STROBE Seminar
2020-04-02Sensing Quantum Materials with New Electromagnetic Probes

Speaker: Eric Yue Ma
Institution: Stanford University
Location: department members only
2020-03-30From Turbulence to Reconnection to Particle Acceleration: Connecting Fundamental Plasma Processes

Speaker: Luca Comisso
Institution: Columbia University
Location: department members only
Plasma Seminars
2020-03-30New Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials

Speaker: Kayla Nguyen
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: department members only
STROBE Seminar
2020-03-25TBA

Speaker: Rick Greene
Institution: UMD
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2020-03-19Light-driven dynamics of electrons: from spin-transport in solids to the tailoring of free-electron beams

Speaker: Ofer Kfir
Institution: University of Goettingen
Location: department members only
2020-03-19Quadrupling fusion power with free fueling

Speaker: Silvia Espinosa
Institution: NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Location: department members only
Plasma Seminars
2020-03-18CANCELLED: Moossa J. Arman Colloquium: Topics in Computational Intelligence and the Fundamental Theory of Physics

Speaker: Stephen Wolfram
Institution: Wolfram Research
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Moossa J. Arman Colloquium
2020-03-17POSTPONED: Supergravity, what it is (and what it isn't)

Speaker: Daniel Z. Freedman
Institution: MIT
Location: CNSI
Bhaumik Lecture
2020-03-16Confining Plasmas at Arbitrary Collisionalities and Arbitrary Geometries

Speaker: Rogerio Jorge
Institution: University of Maryland at College Park
Location: department members only
Plasma Seminar
2020-03-16Atomic-scale magnetic resonance of quantum spins on a surface

Speaker: Kai Yang
Institution: IBM Almaden Research Center
Location: department members only
2020-03-13CANCELLED: Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS)

Speaker: Krishna Choudhary and Shu Zhang
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
BLYSS Seminar
2020-03-12CANCELLED: Shedding Light on the Nature of Dark Matter

Speaker: Andrew Benson
Institution: Carnegie Institute for Science
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-03-12Visualizing biomolecular interactions at single-molecule and single-cell levels

Speaker: Ruobo Zhou
Institution: Harvard University
Location: PAB 4-330
2020-03-12Non-Linear Ion Acceleration in Collisionless Plasma Shocks: New Perspectives from Kinetic Simulations

Speaker: Colby Haggerty
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminars
2020-03-11CANCELLED: Understanding Cluster Formation and Galaxy Evolution ... ORELSE

Speaker: Lori Lubin
Institution: UC Davis
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-03-10The origin of single transverse-spin asymmetries in high-energy collisions

Speaker: Alexei Prokudin
Institution: Penn State Berks & JLab
Location: PAB 1-434
Nuclear Physics Seminar
2020-03-09POSTPONED: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from Freeze-In

Speaker: Brian Shuve
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Location: PAB 4-708
TEPAPP Seminar
2020-03-09Visualizing correlated and topological quantum phases of matter

Speaker: Berthold Jäck
Institution: Princeton University
Location: PAB 4-330
2020-03-05Formation and Compositions of Planet Interiors and Atmospheres: New Discoveries from Wide-Field Transit Surveys

Speaker: Erik Petigura
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-03-05The Structure of Plasma Turbulence: Anisotropy, Intermittency and Reconnection

Speaker: Alfred Mallet
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminar
2020-03-04From unconventional anomalous Hall effects to axion insulators: unexpected properties and uses of quantum materials

Speaker: Mazhar Ali
Institution: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2020-03-04Surprising impacts of gravity waves

Speaker: Jim Fuller
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-03-02Extreme plasma dynamics in intense laser fields

Speaker: Marija Vranic
Institution: Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminar
2020-02-27Joint Physics & Astronomy Colloquium/STROBE Seminar: Capturing the First Picture of a Black Hole and Beyond

Speaker: Katie Bouman
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Reception 1:30pm
2020-02-26Observation of broken time-reversal symmetry in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2

Speaker: DiDi Wei
Institution: Stanford University
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2020-02-26The Milky Way in the era of large surveys

Speaker: Jo Bovy
Institution: University of Toronto
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-02-25Maximal supersymmetric Yang-Mills and their holographic duals

Speaker: Joe Minahan
Institution: Uppsala
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2020-02-21Measurement of ultra-low level of Thorium-229 Isomer with high intense X-ray beam

Speaker: Koji Yoshimura
Institution: Okayama University
Location: Knudsen 4-134
AMO Seminar
2020-02-21Southern California String Seminar

Speaker: various speakers
Institution: Hosted by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: PAB 4-330
Special TEP Seminar
2020-02-20Global Warming Demystified

Speaker: Jeffrey Bennett
Institution: https://www.jeffreybennett.com/
Location: Bunche Hall 2209A
Special Lecture
2020-02-20The Ghostly Messengers of the Universe

Speaker: Irene Tamborra
Institution: Niels Bohr Institute
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-02-19The key for planet formation: The Circumplanetary Disk

Speaker: Judit Szulagyi
Institution: ETH Zurich
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-02-14Jets at the EIC

Speaker: Miguel Arratia
Institution: UC Riverside
Location: Knudsen 4-134
Nuclear Physics Seminar
2020-02-13Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics

Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Institution: MIT
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-02-12An effective approach to electroweak baryogenesis

Speaker: Jorinde Van de Vis
Institution: DESY
Location: PAB 4-708
TEPAPP Seminar
2020-02-12The key for planet formation: The Circumplanetary Disk

Speaker: Vikram Ravi
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-02-11Universality in the classical limit of gravitational scattering

Speaker: Julio Parra Martinez
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2020-02-06Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and the Quest for the New Standard Model

Speaker: Ian Shoemaker
Institution: Virginia Tech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-02-05Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Will Farr
Institution: StonyBrook/Flatiron
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-02-04Loop Amplitudes and Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2020-01-30The Dynamic Radio Sky

Speaker: Gregg Hallinan
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
2020-01-30Stars Askew in the Heavens! The Centenary of the 1919 Eclipse Expeditions that made Einstein Famous

Speaker: Clifford Will
Institution: University of Florida
Location: PAB 3-703
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-01-29Extreme Quasars During the Cosmic Dawn

Speaker: Xiaohui Fan
Institution: University of Arizona
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-01-29Measuring masses of haloes and voids using lensed cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Srinivasan Raghunathan
Institution: UCLA
Location: Knudsen 4-134
HEAP Seminar
2020-01-28Koszul duality in field theory & holography

Speaker: Natalie Paquette
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2020-01-24Super H-mode: Optimizing the pedestal to raise performance in future fusion reactors

Speaker: Matthias Knolker
Institution: General Atomics, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminars
2020-01-23Hunting dark particles at colliders

Speaker: Stefania Gori
Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-01-22From protostars to adolescence: A tour of young stellar systems

Speaker: Gregory Herczeg
Institution: KIAA/Peking University
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-01-22Exploring the Higgs bosons self coupling at the LHC

Speaker: Luca Cadamuro
Institution: University of Florida
Location: Knudsen 4-134
HEAP Seminar
2020-01-21'Realism' and the physical world: implications of some recent experiments

Speaker: Anthony Leggett
Institution: University of Illinois
Location: CNSI
Bhaumik Lecture
2020-01-21Make it Personal: Strategies for Effective Science Communication

Speaker: Stephanie Hamilton
Institution: Astro-Better
Location: PAB 4-330
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-01-16CANCELLED: Twisting 2d materials: the magic and the mystery

Speaker: Leon Balents
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, reception 3:45-4pm
2020-01-15Galactic Archaeology in the Era of Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys

Speaker: Keith Hawkins
Institution: University of Texas, Austin
Location: PAB 1-434A
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2020-01-14Spinning binary Hamiltonian from scattering amplitudes.

Speaker: Andres Luna Godoy
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2020-01-14Spin polarization of gauge bosons in rotating plasma

Speaker: Andrey Sadofyev
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Knudsen 4-134
Nuclear Physics Seminar
2020-01-10Partonic Structure of the Proton from Large-Momentum Effective Theory

Speaker: Xiangdong Ji
Institution: University of Maryland
Location: Knudsen 4-134
Nuclear Physics Seminar
2020-01-09Gender, Equity, Power Structures and Implicit Bias in STEM

Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons
Institution: UC San Diego
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2020-01-08Scattering Amplitudes and Sum Rules for Massive Spin-2 States

Speaker: Sekhar Chivukula and Elizabeth Simmons
Institution: UCSD
Location: 4-708
TEPAPP Seminar
2020-01-08Crossover of Charge Fluctuations across the Strange Metal Phase Diagram

Speaker: Ali Husain
Institution: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2020-01-08The General AntiParticle Spectrometer @ UCLA: hunting for dark matter signatures with low energy cosmic ray anti nuclei

Speaker: Sean Quinn
Institution: UCLA
Location: Knudsen 4-134
HEAP Seminar
2020-01-07Confinement in 2d adjoint QCD

Speaker: Aleksey Cherman
Institution: University of Minnesota
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-12-13Bhaumik Conference

Speaker: QCD Meets Gravity 2019
Institution: Various speakers
Location: IPAM
Website: http://bhaumik-institute.physics.ucla.edu/conferences-workshops
2019-12-12Why Galaxies Start Pickle-Shaped: An Historical Introduction to Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation

Speaker: Joel Primack
Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Location: PAB 3-703
Special Talk
2019-12-12Integrated optical trapped-ion quantum logic

Speaker: Karan Mehta
Institution: ETH Zurich
Location: PAB 4-330
AMO Seminar
2019-12-10High-Precision Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno
Institution: Max Planck Institute
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Bhaumik Lecture
2019-12-10Plasma injection and jet formation in black holes

Speaker: Noemie Globus
Institution: NYU/CCA
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminars
2019-12-06Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from the XUV to the MIR

Speaker: Jason Jones
Institution: University of Arizona
Location: PAB 4-330
AMO Seminar
2019-12-06Rapid high-fidelity quantum state manipulation in presence of environmental noise

Speaker: Alex Sushkov
Institution: Boston University
Location: PAB 4-330
AMO Seminar
2019-12-05Kicking as a Route to Discovery: Condensed Matter Systems Away From Equilibrium

Speaker: Anshul Kogar
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2019-12-05The Physics of Runaway Electrons in a Tokamak Disruption

Speaker: Xianzhu Tang
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminars
2019-12-05Bell's Theorem: Implications and Misapprehensions

Speaker: Ken Wharton
Institution: San Jose State University
Location: PAB 4-330
AMO Seminar
2019-12-04Superconductivity in Nickelates: Similarities and Differences from Cuprates

Speaker: Michael Norman
Institution: Argonne National University
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2019-12-04Gas dynamics and electromagnetic signatures of gravitational sources

Speaker: Andrew MacFadyen
Institution: NYU
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-12-04Cosmic Ray Propagation for GAPS

Speaker: James Ryan
Institution: UCLA
Location: Knudsen 4-134
HEAP Seminar
2019-12-03Spinning black holes versus higher-spin quantum particles

Speaker: Justin Vines
Institution: AEI
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-12-02Steps toward a first nuclear frequency standard: improving our knowledge about the 229-Th nuclear isomer,

Speaker: Lars Von Der Wense
Institution: JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: PAB 4-330
AMO Seminar
2019-11-27NEID and the new precision era of Doppler exoplanet science

Speaker: Paul Robertson
Institution: UC Irvine
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-11-22Instruments and Statistical Tools to Study Supermassive Black Holes at Event Horizon Scales

Speaker: Junhan Kim
Institution: Caltech
Location: 4-134
HEAP Seminar
2019-11-22All aboard: diversifying your hiring and admission with all intents and purposes

Speaker: Sherard Robbins
Institution: Visceral Change
Location: PAB 1-434
Special Lecture
2019-11-21Quantum decorating: Imaging novel electronic states in defect-engineered 2D materials

Speaker: Christopher Gutierrez
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Reception from 3:45-4:00 p.m.
2019-11-20The Origin and Demographics of Long-Period Giant Planets

Speaker: Brendan Bowler
Institution: University of Texas
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-11-19Cardy formula for higher dimensional CFT from EFT

Speaker: Yifan Wang
Institution: Harvard University
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-11-14Probing Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History

Speaker: Vera Gluscevic
Institution: USC
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, reception from 3:45-4:00 p.m.
2019-11-13The Life Cycle of Hydrogen

Speaker: Erika Hamden
Institution: University of Arizona
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-11-13Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS) Fall Quarter 2019

Speaker: Andrej Pustogow and Seth Pree
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 4-330
Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar
2019-11-12Lorentz symmetry fractionalizations and dualities in (2+1)d

Speaker: Po-Shen Hsin
Institution: Caltech
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-11-07Active Topology

Speaker: Cristina Marchetti
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, reception from 3:15-3:30 p.m.
2019-11-06Discovery of Cool Gas Disk at 10,000 Schwarzschild Radii from the Galactic Center Black Hole

Speaker: Lena Murchikova
Institution: IAS
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-11-05Quantum extremal islands and the information paradox

Speaker: Ahmed Almheiri
Institution: IAS
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-10-31Physics and the HIV Virus

Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Reception from 3:45-4:00 p.m.
2019-10-30Gas dynamics in the Galactic Center

Speaker: Anna Ciurlo
Institution: UCLA
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-10-29N=2 Superconformal field theories from mixed branches and VOAs

Speaker: Mario Martone
Institution: UT Austin
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-10-23The origins of type Ia supernovae

Speaker: Hagai Perets
Institution: Technion
Location: PAB 1-434
TEP Seminar
2019-10-23Xenon1T and Beyond: the search for the heavy and light dark matter Particles

Speaker: Kaixuan Ni
Institution: UC San Diego
Location: PAB 4-134
Nuclear Physics Seminar
2019-10-222+1 Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski
Institution: SCGP
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-10-17Building a quantum computer with neutral atoms

Speaker: David Weiss
Institution: Penn State University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Reception from 3:45-4:00 p.m.
2019-10-16Imaging the Shadow of a Supermassive Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope

Speaker: Michael Johnson
Institution: CfA Harvard
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-10-15A Kaluza-Klein spectrometer from exceptional field theory

Speaker: Emanuel Malek
Institution: Max Planck Institute
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-10-11Model for emissive cathode operation in a large magnetized plasma and controlled generation of plasma flows

Speaker: Matthew Poulos
Institution: UCLA
Location: BaPSF Auditorium (Rehab Building Room 15-70)
Plasma Seminar
2019-10-10On Ising's model of ferromagnetism

Speaker: Peter Armitage
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: PAB 1-434
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
2019-10-09Axion electrodynamics and the quantized topological magnetoelectric effect in topological materials

Speaker: Peter Armitage
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: PAB 4-330
Condensed Matter Journal Club Seminar
2019-10-09Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology

Speaker: Lars Bildsten
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-10-08Stress-testing the Standard Model

Speaker: Aneesh Manohar
Institution: UC San Diego
Location: PAB 4-330
TEP Seminar
2019-10-04Kinetic turbulence in relativistic and radiative plasmas

Speaker: Vladimir V. Zhdankin
Institution: Princeton University
Location: PAB 4-330
Plasma Seminars
2019-10-03How many numbers does it take to determine our Universe?

Speaker: Michael Turner
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: PAB 1-434
Saxon Lecture: Reception from 3:15-3:30 p.m.
2019-10-02SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Speaker: Juna Kollmeier
Institution: Carnegie
Location: PAB 1-434
Astronomy/Astrophysics Colloquium
2019-10-01A loopy excursion: from integrands to scattering amplitudes at higher loop order

Speaker: Enrico Hermann
Institution: SLAC
Location: PAB 4-330
2019-09-23Phase controlled atom-field interaction: from superradience to superabsorption

Speaker: Kyungwon An
Institution: Seoul National University, Korea
Location: PAB 4-330
2019-09-22Black Hole Shadows, Photon Rings, and the Event Horison Telescope Observations

Speaker: Sam Gralla
Institution: University of Arizona
Location: PAB 2-707
2019-09-21Jets, TMDs and Resummation

Speaker: Wouter Waalewijn
Institution: University of Amsterdam & Nikhef
Location: PAB 4-134
2012-12-13Black hole microstate counting from the gravitational path integral

Speaker: Luca Iliesiu
Institution: Stanford University
Location: Schwinger Lounge
TEP Seminar