Events Calendar
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
If you would like to attend any Physics and Astronomy events online, please contact the front office at 505 277-2616 for registration and passcode information.
Friday January 22, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The String Landscape and the Swampland |
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| Presenter: | Cumrun Vafa is Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. His primary area of research is string theory, which promises to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/88a59b38-13c4-42ec-be87-375f1cd83246 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday January 29, 2021
| 10:30 am | Title: | Next generation localization microscopy - or - how and why to ruin a perfectly good microscope. |
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| Presenter: | Yoav Shechtman, Tecnion | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/a2d97fd0-bf5e-4332-b3b8-d925dd26b215 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday February 5, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A simple model of many-particle quantum entanglement: how it describes black holes and superconductors |
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| Presenter: | Subir Sachdev | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/5b7d97d8-6c78-43c8-b099-d7e9efb57a7e | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday February 12, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Planet We Could Not Imagine |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Kane, UC Riverside | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/e4eb6e2d-45eb-4e6d-ba69-6d211bee29a0 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday February 19, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | High-Capacity Optical and Millimeter-Wave Communications using Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams |
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| Presenter: | Alan Willner, USC | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/0182b7f1-4294-4f35-b8d3-3ec6cbbdb9db | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday February 26, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Future of Cosmology |
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| Presenter: | Joseph Silk, IAP/JHU | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/7da548b5-ea13-4d5e-ac02-d9c94813410b | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday March 5, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Determining the Universe's Initial Conditions |
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| Presenter: | David Spergel, Simons Foundation | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/d557d668-a94e-4dde-b833-4e77d846c886 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday March 12, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Direct detection of Dark Matter -- theoretical perspective |
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| Presenter: | Maxim Pospelov, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/17baaaeb-1dc1-458b-8c6c-f3d47c0cbe54 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday March 26, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Physics of Sea Level |
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| Presenter: | Jerry X. Mitrovica is the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He did important early work showing that tectonic plates heave, tilt, and fall in addition to drifting across the surface of the planet. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/d8c4dbf0-887c-4394-a799-e99e7c1c0c33 | |
| Location: | TBD | |
Friday April 2, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | New atom interferometers for fundamental physics |
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| Presenter: | Holger Mueller, UC Bekeley | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Keith Lidke | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday April 9, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? |
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| Presenter: | Alan Guth, MIT | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/efde7402-7a6b-4abd-8b6c-cb5d4ac7c0d9 | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday April 16, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Electrons and Photons under Elementary Confinement in Time and Space |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Dr. Alfred Leitenstorfer, Head, Konstanz Center for Applied Photonics (CAP) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / web.microsoftstream.com/ video/ 46e51d17-89dc-440e-8313-aeaf13ad2d06 | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday April 23, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits |
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| Presenter: | William D. Oliver is jointly appointed a Lincoln Laboratory Fellow in the Advanced Technology Division and a Professor of the Practice in the MIT Physics Department. He also serves as the Associate Director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics.Dr. Oliver works with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory and the Engineering Quantum Systems Group at MIT, where he provides programmatic and technical leadership for programs related to the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies for quantum information science applications. His interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/wVrIvG9zNAo | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday April 30, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Collision Course: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning |
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| Presenter: | Jesse Thaler. Associate Professor of PhysicsDirector, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/Qpd43ik_pXM | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday May 7, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector for the biggest black holes in the universe |
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| Presenter: | Sarah Burke-SpolaorAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Physics and AstronomyWest Virginia University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Individuals with disabilities who need an auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in P&A events should contact the Physics and Astronomy Department (phone: 505 277-2616, email: