Physics Colloquium

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TBA | TBA

December 4, 2018

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TBA | TBA

Physics Colloquium

November 27, 2018

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Naoko Kurahashi Neilson | Drexel

November 20, 2018

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Matthew Fisher | UCSB

November 13, 2018

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Aharon Kapitulinik | Stanford

November 6, 2018

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

October 30, 2018

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Arpita Upadhyaya

October 23, 2018

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Sir John B. Pendry | Imperial College, London

Vibrations, Quanta & Biology

October 16, 2018

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Martin Plenio | Ulm University

Occam's Razor, Boltzmann's Brain, and Wigner's Friend

October 9, 2018

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Charles H. Bennett | IBM

Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

October 2, 2018

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Juan Maldacena | Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton

Putting to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics

September 25, 2018

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Alberto Belloni | University of Maryland

Towards realizing topological quantum physics in Condensed matter systems

September 18, 2018

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Jay Sau | University of Maryland

The ultimate collision: Neutron stars rattle, shine and sparkle

September 11, 2018

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Sanjay Reddy | University of Washington

So you have a degree in Science. Now what?

May 8, 2018

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Rudolf Tromp | IBM

May 1, 2018

Gravity and Entanglement

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Mark Van Raamsdonk | UBC

Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Exploring Physics through the Arts

April 24, 2018

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Smitha Vishveshwara | UIUC

April 17, 2018

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Zohreh Davoudi | University of Maryland

April 10, 2018

How Fermi Became Fermi

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David Schwartz | Author

Latest Results on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

April 3, 2018

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Chan Joshi | UCLA

New quantum transport phenomena under large electric and magnetic fields

March 27, 2018

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Liang Fu | MIT

What’s New in Nonlinear Optics

March 13, 2018

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Robert Boyd | Rochester/Ottawa

What would Thomas Malthus tell us in the 21st Century?: Experiences in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus from an International Development Perspective

March 6, 2018

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Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm | UMD Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Quantum Chromodynamics in the Exascale Era with the Emergence of Quantum Computing

February 27, 2018

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Martin Savage | UW Seattle

Dark Matter in Collision at the LHC

February 20, 2018

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John Paul Chou | Rutgers

Coherent Neutrino Scattering at the SNS

February 13, 2018

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Matt Green | NC State

The Prospects for Scalable Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits

February 6, 2018

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Rob Schoelkopf | Yale University

Einstein's Equations from Entanglement

2017

November 21, 2017

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Brian Swingle | UMD

Optical Tools for Unraveling Whole-brain Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Behavior

November 14, 2017

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Alipasha Vaziri | Rockefeller University

November 7, 2017

Hidden Momentum

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David Griffiths | Reed College

Searching for the Origin of Matter Using Pear-Shaped Nuclei

October 31, 2017

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Jaideep Singh | Michigan State

Perturbation and Control of Human Brain Network Dynamics

October 17, 2017

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Danielle Bassett | University of Pennsylania

Moore’s Law and the Physics of Manufacturing Nanoscale Devices

October 10, 2017

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Charles Tarrio | NIST Gaithersburg

Phase Transitions and Criticality in Biological Networks: Implications for Genes and Neurons

October 3, 2017

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Michelle Girvan | University of Maryland

Life after grad school for the quantitatively inclined - Big banks, start-ups, and the great in-between

September 26, 2017

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Charles Reyl | Select Equity Group

New Interface between Quantum Optics and Nanoscience: the Bottom-Up Approach and Applications

September 19, 2017

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Min Ouyang | University of Maryland

September 12, 2017

Economic Complexity

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Luciano Pietronero | University of Rome, "La Sapienza”, Italy

Probing General Relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope

September 5, 2017

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Jon McKinney | University of Maryland

A Supersolid of Matter and Light

May 9, 2017

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Tilman Esslinger | ETH Zurich

Teach-In on Science and Activism Part of Civic Engagement Week

April 18, 2017

Topology, Duality and Entanglement in Quantum Matter

April 11, 2017

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Ashvin Vishwanath | Harvard

Controlling the collective properties of solids with light

April 4, 2017

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Andrea Cavalleri | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY

Scientific Innovation and the Energy System

March 14, 2017

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Ellen Williams | UMD

Tensor Networks: A quantum information perspective to many-body physics

March 7, 2017

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Ignacio Cirac | Max Planck Institute

Beyond charge currents: spin and ion currents for future computing technologies

February 28, 2017

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Stuart Parkin | Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

From the Big Bang to the end of the universe, and how we’ll learn more with the James Webb Space Telescope

February 7, 2017

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John Mather | NASA

Jamming in biological tissues

January 31, 2017

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Lisa Manning | Syracuse University

Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

2016

December 13, 2016

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Kate Scholberg | Duke University

Macroscopic Physics, the Higgs Boson, and Cosmological Evolution of Fundamental Parameters

December 6, 2016

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David Kaplan | The Johns Hopkins University

When Waves Meet Chaos: A Clash of Paradigms

November 29, 2016

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Steve Anlage | UMD

Building a Quantum Computer Atom by Atom

November 22, 2016

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Chris Monroe | JQI

Neutrino masses: Where we are, where we are going and why is it important?

November 15, 2016

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Rabindra Mohapatra | UMD

The Ultimate Physical Limits of Privacy

November 8, 2016

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Artur Ekert | Oxford

Topological Insulators – a New State of Matter

November 1, 2016

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Professor Laurens Molenkamp | Wuerzburg

The Paint Branch Lecture: A New Type of Heat Engine, Using LEDs as Refrigerators

October 25, 2016

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Eli Yablonovitch | UC Berkeley

Probing physics and astrophysics with gravitational wave observations

October 18, 2016

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Peter Shawhan | UMD

22nd Annual Shih-I Pai Lecture: "The folding cooperativity of a protein is controlled by the topology of its polypeptide chain"

October 4, 2016

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Carlos Bustamante | UC Berkeley

Signals from a Composite Higgs boson and a Composite Top Quark

September 27, 2016

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Kaustubh Agashe | UMD

Prange Prize: Some Intersections of Art and Science

September 20, 2016

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Frank Wilczek | MIT

The Physics of Hearing: From Basic Physical Principles to Bionic Auditory Prostheses

September 13, 2016

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Matt Goupell | UMD

Down-to-earth searches for cosmological dark matter

September 6, 2016

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Carter Hall | UMD

Discovery of Weyl fermion and topological nodal-line fermions as emergent excitations in topological materials

April 12, 2016

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M Zahid Hasan | Princeton

March 8, 2016

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Raman Sundrum | UMD

March 1, 2016

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Samindranath Mitra | APS

The Remarkable Story of LIGO's Detection of Gravitational Waves

February 23, 2016

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Peter Shawhan | UMD

February 16, 2016

The Quantum Neutron

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Dmitry Pushin | NIST

Quantum Many Body Localization

February 9, 2016

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Sankar Das Sarma | UMD

2015

December 8, 2015

Advancing Science

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Rush Holt | AAAS

Cosmology at the Crossroads

December 1, 2015

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Michael Turner | University of Chicago

Ultracold molecules – a new frontier for quantum physics and chemistry

November 24, 2015

Speaker

Jun Ye | JILA/Boulder

Maximum Entropy and the Inference of Pattern and Dynamics in Ecology

November 17, 2015

Speaker

John Harte | Berkeley

Physics Colloquium

November 10, 2015

Imaging the Earth’s deep interior using seismic waves

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Ved Lekic | UMD

Probing and Controlling Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level

November 3, 2015

Speaker

Immanuel Bloch | MPI for Quantum Optics, Munich

Voyagers in Interstellar Space and Cassini at Saturn

October 27, 2015

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Doug Hamilton | UMD

U.S. Training of Chinese Scientists and Its Impact

October 20, 2015

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Chung S. Yang (IPST Shih-I Pai Lecture) | Rutgers University

Physics and Intelligibility

October 13, 2015

Speaker

Alison Peterman

Molecular machines and other adventures in nanomechanics

October 6, 2015

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Peter Hoffmann | Wayne State

September 22, 2015

Neutral Naturalness

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Zackaria Chacko | UMD

That Spin 0 Boson Changes Everything: The Future of the Energy Frontier in Particle Physics

May 12, 2015

Speaker

Raymond Brock | Michigan State

Physics Colloquium

April 28, 2015

Speaker

Samir Kaul

Symmetry, Anisotropy and Dimensionality: Spin physics in the elemental semiconductors Si, Ge, and P

April 23, 2015

Speaker

Ian Appelbaum | University of Maryland

What Life is Like for a Scientist in Congress

April 21, 2015

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Bill Foster | Congress

Majorana braiding in superconductors: How to operate on a Zen-particle

April 14, 2015

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Carlo Beenakker | Leiden University

Symmetry, Anisotropy and Dimensionality: Spin physics in the elemental semiconductors Si, Ge, and P

April 7, 2015

Speaker

Ian Appelbaum | University of Maryland

Micromechanics: a new quantum technology

March 31, 2015

Speaker

Konrad Lehnert | JILA, Boulder Colorado

CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

2014

March 4, 2014

Speaker

Brian DeMarco | University of Illinois

Physics Colloquium Spring 2014

2012

December 11, 2012

Astronomy

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Steve Kahn | Stanford University

Implanted Computers for Creating Improved Medical Treatments

December 6, 2012

Speaker

Robert Fischell

November 27, 2012

Astrophysics

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Adam Riess | Johns Hopkins University

Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration

November 20, 2012

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Phillip Sprangle | Naval Research Lab

November 13, 2012

The Matter of Our Matter

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Betsy Beise | University of Maryland

Physical Nature of Bacterial Decision Making

November 6, 2012

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Janè Kondev | Brandeis University

October 30, 2012

The Higgs and All That

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LHC Group

Testing Einstein In Space: The Gravity Probe B Detective Story

October 23, 2012

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Francis Everitt | Stanford University

October 16, 2012

Random Walk to Graphene

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Andre Geim | University of Manchester

Hamilton's Diabolical Singularity (Shih-I Pai Lecture)

October 2, 2012

Speaker

Michael Berry | University of Bristol, UK

Numerical simulations of black holes: The Agony and the Ecstasy

September 25, 2012

Speaker

Manuel Tiglio | University of Maryland

Quantum Materials: from superconductors to insulators... and back!

September 18, 2012

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Johnpierre Paglione | University of Maryland

Single Molecule Experiments Reveal the Role that Energy Landscapes Play in Biological Processes

September 11, 2012

Speaker

Arthur La Porta | University of Maryland

Understanding Genomic Networks through Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics

September 4, 2012

Speaker

Michelle Girvan | University of Maryland