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Physics Colloquia

Physics Colloquia, Fall 2021

Fridays at 3:30 p.m., online

                                                                                   
Sept 3Yafis Barlas, University of NevadaCorrelated and Topological Phases in Flat Bands of Two-Dimensional Crystals
Sept 10Avi Loeb, Harvard UniversityThe Galileo Project: In Search of Technological Interstellar Objects
Tuesday Sept 14, Planetary Hall 263, NoonSpecial Event: Max Joshua, Blue Skies Space Ltd.The Twinkle Space Mission: an update on the international collaborative exoplanet survey
Thursday Sept 16, Planetary Hall 263, NoonSpecial Event: Kaitlin Rasmussen, University of MichiganConstraining the Drake Equation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Life
Sept 17Pedram Roushan, Google Inc. Santa BarbaraGoing Beyond Classical Computation with Superconducting Qbits
Sept 24Craig DeForest, Southwest Research InstitutePUNCH it! Unifying Solar Physics and Solar Wind Physics
Oct 1Dilek Yildiz, NISTJoule Meets Van der Waals: Non-Contact Energy Dissipation on a Topological Insulator Surface
Oct 8Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia UniversityHigh-Precision Physics and Chemistry with Ultracold Molecules
Oct 15Peter Siegfried, George Mason UniversityElectronic and magnetic topological states in the Kagome-net magnet YMn6Sn6
Oct 22Jean-Damien Pillet, Ecole PolytechniqueGuiding Dirac Fermions in Graphene with a Carbon Nanotube
Nov 4Liuyan Zhao, University of MichiganTBA

Physics Colloquia, Spring 2021

Fridays at 3:30 p.m.

   
January 29Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Unbearable Lightness of Neutrinos
February 5Erik Henriksen, WUSTL2d Crystalline Donors and Acceptors: How a Quantum Spin Liquid Leads to Modulation Doping in Atomically-Thin Heterostructures
February 12Matthew Yankowitz, U. WashingtonTunable Correlated and Topological States in Twisted Graphene Heterostructures
February 19Mohammad Hafezi, U. MarylandTopological Physics: From Photons to Electrons
February 26Sonal Jain, U. ColoradoAn Ultraviolet Perspective of the Dynamic Atmosphere of Mars: Highlights from six Years of Observations from the MAVEN Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph
March 5Christoph Englert, Naval Research LaboratoryAchieving a Measurement Precision of 0.000002% or Better:
Control What You Can, Track What You Can’t
March 12Vikram Deshpande, U. Utah

Engineering Topological Materials: The Case of Topological Insulators and Carbon Nanotubes 

March 26Marlou Slot, NIST

Patterning Atomic Flatland: Electronic Lattices Crafted Atom by Atom

April 2Joseph Stroscio, NIST

Combining STM, AFM, and Magnetotransport Measurements for In-Operando Studies of Quantum Materials

April 9Benjamin Feldman, Stanford U.Mapping Flavor Polarization and Competing Chern Insulators in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
April 16McArthur Jones, Naval Research Laboratory

Whole Atmosphere Coupling Embodied by Trace Species Variability during Atmospheric Dynamical Disturbances