Colloquium

Spring 2021

Until further notice, colloquia will be held online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.  For zoom information refer to the talk abstract.

 

All welcome!

 

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Jan 27

SPARC and the High Magnetic Field Path to Fusion Energy

View video.. 		Martin Greenwald (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center) Piers Coleman

Feb 3

 Short Range Correlations in Nucleii   (It takes two to dance).

View video..

Eliezer Piasetzky (Tel Aviv University)

  Larry Zamick

Feb 10

 Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution

View video.. 		Steve Girvin (Yale U. )  SriVatsan Chakram  Sundar

Feb 17

Chiral spintronics: non collinear spin textures with application to Racetrack Memory

View video.. 		Stuart Parkin (Max Planck, Halle)

 Sang Cheong

Feb 24

Hubbard model physics in moire materials

View video.. 		Kin Fai Mak (Cornell U.)  Eva Andrei

Mar 3

Is new physics lurking inside living matter?

View video.. 		Paul Davies (Arizona State U, Tempe)

 Piers Coleman

Mar 10

The Emerging Field of Fast Radio Bursts

View video.. 		J. Xavier Prochaska (U.C. Santa Cruz)   Eric Gawiser

March 17

 Spring Recess (no colloquium)    

Mar 24

Rare isotopes unveil a new era in nuclear science

View video..

Rituparna Kanungo (St Mary's U.)

  Jolie Cizewski

Mar 31

Exploring the stellar graveyard with gravitational waves.

View video.. 		Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)  Andrew Mastbaum

Apr 7

Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement.

View video.. 		Dmitry Abanin (U. Geneva)  Natan Andrei

Apr 14

A galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector for the biggest black holes in the universe

View video.. 		Sarah Burke-Spolaor (W. Virginia)  Chuck Keeton

Apr 21

Supporting Variation in Students’ Needs, Abilities and Interests in Postsecondary STEM Courses

*also PAER seminar

View video.. 		Jackie Chini (U. Central Florida)  Geraldine Cochran

Apr 28

Dark matter constraints from small scale structure

View video.. 		Risa Wechsler (Stanford U. )    Chuck Keeton


Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Piers Coleman.

 

 

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