Department Colloquia | Department of Physics and Astronomy

Upcoming Department Colloquia

Apr
21
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Uncovering New Transport Regimes and Light-Induced Phases in Quantum Materials "

Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado – Boulder)

3:00pm - 4:00pm See Zoom link below

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a unique quantum light source with fundamentally new capabilities, by up-converting femtosecond lasers to very short wavelengths. This produces fully spatially and…

Sep
08
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

3:00pm - 4:00pm See Zoom link below

Oct
13
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

3:00pm - 4:00pm See Zoom link below

Nov
10
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

3:00pm - 4:00pm See Zoom link below

Dec
08
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"

3:00pm - 4:00pm See Zoom link below

Past Department Colloquia

Mar
24
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Non-thermal pathways to quantum matter "

Martin Claassen (University of Pennsylvania)

3:00pm - 4:00pm Zoom link below

Quantum materials host a wide range of phenomena that challenge our physical understanding while offering intriguing possibilities for next-generation technologies. A promising direction towards…

Feb
17
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “Pursuing cosmic puzzles with galaxy surveys”

Bhuvnesh Jain (University of Pennsylvania)

3:00pm - 4:00pm Zoom link below

The universe is expanding faster than any reasonable theoretical prediction! This challenge to the standard model of cosmology frames the interpretation of the Dark Energy Survey and other…

Jan
20
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “The String Landscape and the Swampland"

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)

3:00pm - 4:00pm NOTE: FROM NOW ON, ALL COLLOQUIA WILL BEGIN AT 3:00 PM!

String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy. There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these…

Dec
09
2020

Primakoff Lecture: “The Life and Death of Turbulence”

Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign)

4:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom

Turbulence is the last great unsolved problem of classical physics. But there is no consensus on what it would mean to actually solve this problem. In this colloquium, I propose that turbulence is most…

Nov
11
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “Search for CP violation in neutrino oscillation by T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande”

Atsuko Ichikawa (Kyoto University)

4:00pm - 5:00pm Zoom link to follow

Since the discovery of neutrino oscillation in 1998, an overall picture of the flavor-mass mixing in the lepton sector has been build.