Department Colloquia | Department of Physics and Astronomy

Sep
09
2020

Rittenhouse Lecture

Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Title and online link TBA

Oct
14
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Nov
11
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Dec
09
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Jan
20
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Feb
17
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Mar
24
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Apr
21
2021

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Speaker, title, and online link TBA

Past Department Colloquia

Apr
22
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado)

4:00pm - 5:00pm David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Apr
01
2020

Primakoff Lecture: "The life and death of turbulence "

TALK POSTPONED UNTIL FALL SEMESTER

Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois)

4:00pm - 5:00pm David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

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…

Mar
18
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Magic Angle Graphene: the twist and shout of quantum materials"

TALK POSTPONED UNTIL FALL SEMESTER

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:00pm - 5:00pm David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The understanding of strongly-correlated quantum matter has challenged physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Feb
19
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Quantifying Hidden Order Out of Equilibrium"

Paul Chaikin (New York University)

4:00pm - 5:00pm David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

We introduce a simple idea enabling the quantification of organization in non-equilibrium and equilibrium systems, even when the form of order is unknown: 'It takes less information to describe an ordered…

Jan
22
2020

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Exploring beyond the Standard Model with Lattice QCD"

Amy Nicholson (University of North Carolina)

4:00pm - 5:00pm David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

While the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been enormously successful in describing the world around us, there still remain many important and unanswered questions requiring…