Colloquium Schedule
Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM.
| Date | Title | Host |
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| 01/16/24 |
Prof. Carlos Silva, University of Montreal | Ordonez |
| 01/23/24 |
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| 01/30/24 |
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| 02/06/24 |
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| 02/13/24 |
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| 02/20/24 |
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| 02/27/24 |
Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System Prof. Dan Rothman, MIT |
Gunaratne |
| 03/05/24 |
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| 03/12/24 |
(Spring Break) | |
| 03/19/24 |
Dr. Hui Wang, RIKEN, Japan | Ordonez |
| 03/26/24 |
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| 04/02/24 |
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| 04/09/24 |
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| 04/16/24 |
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| 04/23/24 |
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| 05/07/24 |
| Date | Title | Host |
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| 08/22/23 |
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| 08/29/23 |
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| 09/05/23 |
Can We Trigger Earthquakes and Control Subsurface Fluids Using Remote Waves? Prof. Yingcai Zheng, UH |
Chen |
| 09/12/23 |
Searching for New Physics with Neutrinos and Liquid Argon Prof. Andy Furmanski, University of Minnesota |
Cherdack |
| 09/19/23 |
Hybrid Quantum-Classic Computing for Future Network Optimization and Machine Learning Prof. Zhu Han, UH |
Chen |
| 09/26/23 |
Prof. Heng Wang from Illinois Institute of Technology | Ren |
| 10/03/23 |
Cracks Break the Sound Barrier Prof. Michael Marder, UT Austin |
Gunaratne |
| 10/10/23 |
Joseph Curtin | Gunaratne |
| 10/12/23 Thursday |
Capitalizing on Schrödinger (Special Colloquium) Prof. Wolfgang Schleich from the University of Ulm, Germany |
Ordonez |
| 10/17/23 |
Prof. Eric Bittner, University of Houston | Bassler |
| 10/24/23 |
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| 10/31/23 |
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| 11/07/23 |
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| 11/14/23 |
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| 11/21/23 |
RESERVED | Timmins |
| 11/28/23 |
Dr. Li Tang, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | Chen |
| Date | Title | Host |
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| 01/17/23 |
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| 01/24/23 |
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| 01/26/23 Thursday |
Constructive approaches to frustrated magnetism: Moiré and Measurements (Special Colloquium) Dr. Zhu-Xi Luo, Harvard University |
Hosur |
| 01/31/23 |
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| 02/07/23 |
Emergence of Quantum Order Dr. Elio Koenig, Max Planck Institute Stuttgart |
Hosur |
| 02/09/23 Thursday |
Theory of Pines' Demon in Multiband Metals (Special Colloquium) Dr. Edwin Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Hosur |
| 02/14/23 |
Topological Magnons Paul McClarty, Max Planck Institute Dresden |
Hosur |
| 02/16/23 Thursday |
Quantum computing: From the Basics to Applications (Special Colloquium) Dr. Rubem Mondaini, Beijing Computational Science Research Center |
Hosur |
| 02/21/23 |
Designing Topological Quantum States in Moiré Materials Dr. Jie Wang, Harvard University |
Hosur |
| 02/28/23 |
From Nanotech to Living Sensors: Unraveling the Spin Physics of Biosensing at the Nanoscale Prof. Clarice Aiello, UCLA |
Ordonez |
| 03/07/23 |
Back to Fundamental QCD - How Do Quarks and Gluons Evolve in Space and Time? Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Vanderbilt University |
Ratti |
| 03/14/23 |
(Spring Break) | |
| 03/21/23 |
Heat Management and Energy Scavenging at Small Scales Prof. Mona Zebarjadi, University of Virginia |
Chen |
| 03/28/23 |
Programmable Quantum Matter Prof. Kaden Hazzard, Rice University |
Ordonez |
| 04/04/23 |
Single Photon Counting and Quantum Information Processing in Imaging Prof. Mini Das, UH |
Chen |
| 04/11/23 |
Turbulence Andre Prosperetti, UH |
Gunaratne |
| 04/18/23 |
High-Entropy Alloys: A New Paradigm for Materials Discovery? Prof. Joseph Poon, University of Virginia |
Chen |
| 04/24/23 Monday |
DNA repair, Droplet Formation and Chaos in Cells (Special Colloquium) Prof. Mogens H. Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute |
Gunaratne |
| 04/25/23 |
That’s Not Physics Prof. Andrew Zangwill, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Shi |
| 05/08/23 Monday |
Spatial Patterning in Dryland Habitats (Special Colloquium) Prof. Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Gunaratne |
| 05/11/23 Thursday |
Unlocking Practical Quantum Advantages on Near-Term Quantum Devices (Special Colloquium) Dr. Abhijit Chakraborty, University of Waterloo |
Ordonez |