Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2019 to July 31st, 2020. Previous/next year.
Sep17
Kirill Korolev
Boston University, Physics Department
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 Genealogies in expanding populations reveal new universality classes. (Poster)
Sep24
Gerard ’t Hooft
Institute for Theoretical Physics
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 The Simplicity of Quantum Mechanics (Poster) Host: Kenneth Lane
Oct22
Kim-Vy Tran
Texas A&M University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 ZFOURGE & MOSEL : Emergent Galaxies at z~3.5 (Poster)
Oct29
Lev Tsimring
BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego
 Flower-like patterns in multi-strain bacterial colonies (Poster)
Nov05
Cristopher Moore
Santa Fe Institute and Microsoft Research
 Physics, machine learning, and networks
Nov12
Sam Zeller
Fermilab
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 New Directions in Neutrino Physics (Poster)
Nov19
Dave Demille
Yale University
Chertok Lecture; *Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 A tabletop-scale probe for multi-TeV scale physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron (Poster) Host: Lee Roberts
Dec03
Indara Suarez
Boston University, Physics Department
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Desperately Seeking SUSY
Dec10
Chris Walter
Duke University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 An Introduction to Dark Energy Science and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Poster)
Jan28
Indara Suarez
Boston University, Physics Department
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Desperately Seeking SUSY
Feb04
Jeff Neaton
University of California, Berkeley
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 Novel Materials for Energy Applications from First Principles (Poster) Host: Maria Kamenetska
Feb11
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 Dark Matter Direct Detection – how far we have come and far we have to go (LUX ZEPLIN Experiment) (Poster) Host: Zeynep Demiragli
Feb25
Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 The Second Kind of Impossible (Poster) Host: Kirill Korolev
Mar03
Indara Suarez
Boston University, Physics Department
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Desperately Seeking SUSY
Mar17
Michael Romalis 
Princeton University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Physics Colloquium - Title TBA Host: Christopher Laumann
Mar24
Nima Arkani-Hamed 
IAS
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Physics Colloquium - Title TBA
Mar31
Michael Murrell 
Yale University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Broken Time Reversal Symmetry and the Efficiency of Biological Machines (Poster) Host: Kirill Korolev
Apr07
Steven Lambert
American Physical Society
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Physics inside- Technology and Career Experience with Hard Drives (Poster) Host: Maria Kamenetska
Apr14
David Poland 
Yale University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Physics Colloquium - Title TBA Host: Liam Fitzpatrick
Apr21
Vincenzo Vitelli 
University of Chicago
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 3:00PM.*
 CANCELLED: Physics Colloquium - Title TBA Host: Kirill Korolev
Apr28
James Peebles
Princeton University
*Refreshments are served in the SCI Lounge at 2:45PM.*
 CANCELLED: 40th Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Distinguished Lecture 2020: How Our Universe Grew Host: Lawrence Sulak