Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2016 to July 31st, 2017. Previous/next year.
Sep13
Aparna Baskaran
Brandeis University
 Active Matter: Applying the soft materials paradigm to biology Host: David Campbell
Sep27
Crystal Bailey
Careers Program Manager, American Physical Society
 Breaking the Myth of the “Non-Traditional” Physicist: The Real Story about Employment for Physics Graduates Host: David Campbell
Oct18
George Tsironis
University of Crete
 Complexity and self-localization in classical and quantum superconducting metamaterials
Oct25
Plamen Ivanov
BU
 Network Physiology: from complex dynamics of individual systems to networks of organ interactions and the Human Physiolome
Nov08
David Tanner
Florida
 Advanced LIGO, GW150914, and beyond
Nov15
Anushya Chandran
BU
 Schrodinger’s clowder: entanglement in many-body physics
Nov17
David Huse
Princeton
 Many-body Anderson localization and quantum thermalization
Mar28
Bert Halperin
Harvard University
 Spin superfluidity and graphene in a strong magnetic field Host: David Campbell
Apr04
Michael Manfra
Purdue
Refreshments in SCI Lounge at 2:45pm
 Building a topological quantum computer one atomic layer at a time Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr18
Eleni Katifori
Penn
Refreshments in SCI Lounge at 2:45pm
 Detangling the vascular web: Loops, hierarchies, and the quest for Nature’s design principles Host: Kirill Korolev
Apr25
Mike Kosterlitz
Nobel Laureate 2016 & Farnsworth Professor of Physics, Brown University
37th Edmonds Distinguished Lecture
 Discovery of Topological Defects and Phase Transitions in 2D Host: Lawrence Sulak