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Physics Colloquium is held on Thursdays from 4:00–5:00 PM, in person in the Feynman Lecture Hall (201 East Bridge) and via Zoom. Talks are designed for a broad audience, and all are welcome to attend.
Physics Colloquium Talks
- October 2 | Speaker: Nick Hutzler, Caltech | Title: Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei | View the recording on YouTube
- October 9 | Speaker: Ian Moult, Yale | Title: Energy Correlators at the Collider Frontier | Host: Clifford Cheung | View the recording on YouTube
- October 16 | Speaker: Ben Safdi, UC Berkeley | Title: The search for axion dark matter | Host: Elias Most | View the recording on Youtube
- October 23 | Speaker: Sara Seager, MIT | Title: From Lab to Cosmos - Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth | Host: Elias Most | View the recording on Youtube
- October 30 | Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba, Fermilab | Title: Hunting the Unexpected: Anomaly Detection and Real-Time Triggers at the Large Hadron Collider | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View the recording on Youtube
- November 6 | Speaker: Igor Pikovski, Stevens Institute of Technology | Title: Demystifying Graviton Detection | Host: John Preskill | View the recording on Youtube
- November 13 | Speaker: Barak Zackay, Weizmann Institute | Title: The Quest to Improve Gravitational-Wave detection, Parameter Inference Algorithms, and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics | Host: Sterl Phinney | View the recording on Youtube
- November 20 | Speaker: Ana Asenjo Garcia, Columbia | Title: Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems | Host: Gil Refael | View the recording on Youtube
- December 4 | Speaker: Jo Dunkley, Princeton | Title: Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background | Host: Kimmy Wu | View the recording on Youtube
- December 11 | Speaker: Dan Kasen, UC Berkeley | Title: Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors | Host: Sterl Phinney | *Christy Lecture | View the recording on Youtube
- January 15 | Speaker: Soonwon Choi, MIT | Title: Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing | Host: John Preskill | *Biard Lecture | View the recording on Youtube
- January 22 | Speaker: Harry A. Atwater, Caltech | Title: StarShot – from Metaphotonics to Spacecraft | Host: Rana Adhikari | View the recording on Youtube
- January 29 | Speaker: Rachel Rosen, Carnegie Mellon University | Title: Oh no, not de Sitter! | Host: Clifford Cheung | View the recording on Youtube
- February 5 | Speaker: Katerina Chatziioannou, Caltech | Title: A decade of black hole observations with gravitational waves | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- February 12 | Speaker: Andrei Faraon, Caltech | Title: Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- February 19 | Speaker: Yuri Levin, Columbia | Title: Exotic dynamics of neutron star interiors | Host: Sterl Phinney | View the recording on Youtube
- March 5 | Speaker: Ilija Zeljkovic, Boston College | Title: Atomic-Scale Imaging of Symmetry-Broken Electronic States in Kagome Superconductors | Host: Linda Ye | View the recording on Youtube
- March 12 | Speaker: Kimmy Wu, Caltech | Title: Cosmology from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background | Host: Jamie Bock | View the recording on Youtube
- April 2 | Speaker: Markus Greiner, Harvard | Title: Quantum Simulation of the Unknown: Observation of Pseudogap Physics in the Fermi–Hubbard Model at Ultralow Temperatures | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- April 9 | Speaker: Robert Huang, Caltech | Title: Quantum Intelligence | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- April 16 | Speaker: Daniel Podolsky, Condensed Matter & Materials Physics, Technion | Title: Can Antiferromagnetic Order Survive Lattice Melting? | Host: Gil Refael | View the recording on Youtube
- April 23 | Speaker: William Oliver, MIT | Title: Quantum Interconnects and Modularity via Waveguide QED | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | View the recording on Youtube
- April 30 | Speaker: Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Caltech | Title: Optical Atomic Clocks in the Age of Quantum Information Processing | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- May 7 | Speaker: Shahal Ilani, Weizmann Institute of Science | Title: The Quantum Twisiting Microscope - Visualizing Waves in Quantum Matter | Host: Gil Refael | View the recording on Youtube
- May 14 | Speaker: Holger Müller, UC Berkeley | Title: Optical Cavities for Bioimaging, Atom Interferometers, and Trapping Molecules | Host: Rana Adhikari | View the recording on Youtube
- May 21 | Speaker: David Hertzog, University of Washington | Title: Particles of the Moment | Host: Nick Hutzler | View the recording on Youtube
- May 28 | Speaker: Ruben Verresen, University of Chicago | Title: A Topological Quantum Computer, Inside a Gauge Theory, Inside a Quantum Computer | Host: Robert Huang | View the recording on Youtube
- October 3 | Speaker: David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Title: Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- October 10 | Speaker: Dolev Bluvstein, Harvard | Title: Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier | Host: Manuel Endres | View talk here
- October 17 | Speaker: Danna Freedman, MIT | Title: Chemical design of quantum system | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- October 24 | Speaker: Eric Hudson, UCLA | Title: Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- October 31 | Speaker: Evelyn Tang, Rice University | Title: Robust dynamics and function in stochastic topological systems | Host: Rob Phillips | View talk here
- November 7 | Speaker: Josh Bendavid, MIT | Title: Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View Talk here
- November 14 | Speaker: M Coleman Miller, University of Maryland | Title: From neutron stars to dense matter | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- November 21 | Speaker: Linda Ye, Caltech | Title: Novel electronic phases from frustration | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- December 5 | Speaker: Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago | Title: Faraday's Challenge: Batteries and Wires | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | View talk here | *Biard Lecture
- December 12 | Speaker: Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University | Title: Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- January 16 | Speaker: Nuno Loureiro, MIT | Title: Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities | Host: Elias Most | View talk here
- January 23 | Speaker: Mohammad Hafezi, UMD | Title: A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials | Host: Gil Refael | View talk here
- January 30 | Speaker: Javier Duarte, UCSD | Title: From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View talk here
- February 6 | Speaker: James Analytis, UC Berkeley | Title: Entanglement Randomness | Host: Linda Ye | View talk here
- February 13 | Speaker: Lance Dixon, SLAC | Title: The DNA of Particle Scattering | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- February 20 | Speaker: Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard | Title: Entangling Ultracold Molecules | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- February 27 | Speaker: Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University | Title: Causality and Positivity Constraints on Theory Space | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- March 6 | Speaker: Shu-Heng Shao, MIT | Title: What's Done Cannot Be Undone: Non-Invertible Symmetries | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- March 13 | Speaker: Jesse Thaler, MIT | Title: Centaur Science: Particle Physics meet Machine Learning | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- April 10 | Speaker: Jonathan Simon, Stanford | Title: Probing Photonic Quantum Matter with Cats | Host: Nick Hutzler
- April 17 | Speaker: Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford | Title: Feedback control of open quantum systems: Looking back, looking forward | Host: Rana Adhikari
- April 24 | Speaker: Fred Lamb, UIUC | Title: The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons: What You Can Do | Host: Elias Most | *Christy Lecture
- May 1 | Speaker: Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard | Title: The Return of Anyons: From twisted layers to quantum platforms | Host: John Preskill | *Lauritsen Lecture
- May 8 | Speaker: Priya Natarayan, Yale | Title: Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe | Host: Elias Most
- May 15 | Speaker: Kohta Murase, Pennsylvania State University | Title: Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos | Host: Elias Most
- May 29 | Speaker: Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington | Title: Fractional Quantrum Anomalous Hall Effect | Host: Gil Refael
- October 5 | Speaker: Jack Harris, Yale | Title: Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators | Host: Rana Adhikari | View talk here
- October 12 | Speaker: Garnet Chan, Caltech | Title: Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer | Host: John Preskill
- October 19 | Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton | Title: Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- October 26 | Speaker: Zhaohuan Zhu, UNLV | Title: Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- November 2 | Speaker: Julia Gonski, SLAC | Title: Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View talk here
- November 9 | Speaker: Mina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute | Title: The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CvB): Its Distribution on the Surface of the Earth and its Manipulation on Laboratory Scales | Host: Kathryn Zurek | View talk here
- November 16 | Speaker: Lee McCuller, Caltech | Title: Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- November 30 | Speaker: Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, UC Irvine | Title: Using Nuclear Reactors to Study Neutrinos | Host: Ryan Patterson | View talk here
- December 14 | Speaker: Jim Halverson, Northeastern University | Title: Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré Conjecture | Host: Sergei Gukov | View talk here
- January 4 | Speaker: David DeMille, University of Chicago | Title: Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- January 11 | Speaker: Jorge Noronha, UIUC | Title: Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers | Host: Elias Most | View talk here | *Christy Lecture
- January 18 | Speaker: Allan H. MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin | Title: Moiré Materials | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- January 25 | Speaker: Michel Devoret, Yale | Title: Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even point | Host: John Preskill | *Biard Lecture was not recorded.
- February 1 | Speaker: Axel Brandenburg, Nordita & KITP | Title: Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized? | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- February 8 | Speaker: Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University | Title: Magnetic power of neutron stars | Host: Elias Most | View talk here
- February 15 | Speaker: Max Welling, University of Amsterdam | Title: Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- February 22 | Speaker: Andrea Young, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Topology and "impossible" electronic devices | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- February 29 | Speaker: Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University | Title: Clocks with ultracold molecules | Host: Nick Hutzler | *Talk was not recorded.
- March 7 | Speaker: Elias Most, Caltech | Title: Neutron Star Mergers: Frontiers in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- April 4 | Speaker: Ronald Hanson, QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft | Title: Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab | Host: Andrei Faraon | View talk here
- April 11 | Speaker: Matt Pyle, University of California, Berkeley | Title: Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs. | Host: Kathryn Zurek | *Talk was not be recorded.
- April 18 | Speaker: Phillip Moll, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter | Title: Quantum materials on the mesoscale | Host: Linda Ye | View talk here
- April 25 | Speaker: Adam Kaufman, JILA/NIST | Title: Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics | Host: Nick Hutzler | *Talk was not recorded.
- May 2 | Speaker: Vedika Khemani, Stanford | Title: New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean | Host: John Preskill | *Talk was not recorded.
- May 9 | Speaker: Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute | Title: Quantum Critical Metals and the Fermion Sign Problem | Host: Gil Refael | *Talk was not recorded.
- May 16 | Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT | Title: The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | *Lauritsen Lecture | *Talk was not recorded.
- May 23 | Speaker: Brad Ramshaw, Cornell University | Title: Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound | Host: Linda Ye | *Talk was not recorded.
- October 6 | Speaker: Senthil Todadri, MIT | Title: Towards a theory of strange quantum metals | Host: Jason Alicea | View talk here
- October 13 | Talk cancelled
- October 20 | Speaker: John McGreevy, UC San Diego | Title: The Generalized Landau Paradigm | Host: Xie Chen | *Talk was not recorded.
- October 27 | Speaker: Stephen Shenker, Stanford | Title: Black holes and random matrices | Host: David Simmons-Duffin | View talk here |
- November 3 | Speaker: Liang Jiang, University of Chicago | Title: Bosonic Quantum Information Processing | Host: Gil Refael | View talk here
- November 10 | Speaker: Ania Jayich, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Quantum sensing and imaging with diamond spins | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- November 17 | Speaker: Andrew Jayich, UCSB | Title: Laser cooling and trapping radioactive atoms and molecules | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- December 1 | Speaker: Jun Ye, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder | Title: Quantum matter, clocks, and fundamental physics | Host: John Preskill | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- January 5 | Speaker: Crystal Noel, Duke University | Title: Tests of quantumness with trapped ions | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- January 12 | Talk cancelled
- January 19 | Speaker: Aneesh Manohar, UC San Diego | Title: Angular Momentum Radiation in Field Theory and Gravity | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- January 26 | Speaker: Dmitri Basov, Columbia University | Title: Shedding nano-light on quantum materials | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | View talk here | *Biard Lecture
- February 2 | Speaker: Lindley Winslow, MIT | Title: Axion Dark Matter and Quantum Measurement: ABRACADABRA to DMRadio | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- February 9 | Speaker: Guy Gur-Ari, Google Research | Title: Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- February 16 | Speaker: Nicole Benedek, Cornell University | Title: Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responses | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- February 23 | Speaker: Jeanie Lau, Ohio State University | Title: Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors | Host: Gil Refael | View talk here
- March 2 | Speaker: Ilya Mandel, Monash University | Title: Black Holes in binaries | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- March 9 | Speaker: Lisa Randall, Harvard | Title: Ineffective Field Theory | Host: Mark Wise | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- April 6 | Speaker: Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia | Title: Quantum Materials by Design | Host: David Hsieh | Talk was not recorded.
- April 13 | Speaker: Richard Townsend, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Title: Oscillating Stars in Bloom: Asteroseismology and Wave Transport Phenomena | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here | *Christy Lecture
- April 20 | Speaker: Clay Cordova, University of Chicago | Title: Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory | Host: David Simmons-Duffin | View talk here
- April 27 | Speaker: Dan Hooper, University of Chicago | Title: The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess | Host: Kathryn Zurek | View talk here
- May 4 | Speaker: Jason Dexter, University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA | Title: Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- May 11 | Speaker: Vikram Ravi, Caltech | Title: The Deep Synoptic Array: the origins of fast radio bursts | Host: Dimitri Mawet | View talk here
- May 18 | Speaker: Mikael Rechtsman, Pennsylvania State University | Title: Nonlinear Topological Photonics | Host: Gil Refael | View talk here
- May 25 | Speaker: Tony Hey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK | Title: Feynman and Computation | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- June 1 | Speaker: Michael Murrell, Yale University | Title: Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion | Host: Rob Phillips | Talk was not recorded.
- October 7 | Speaker: Geoffrey Penington, UC Berkeley | Title: Black holes, information and wormholes | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- October 14 | Speaker: Chris Polly, Fermilab | Title: First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab's Muon Campus | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- October 21 | Speaker: Steve Girvin, Yale University | Title: Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution | Host: John Preskill | View talk here | *Christy Lecture
- October 28 | Speaker: Prineha Narang, Harvard | Title: Away from Equilibrium: Shining New Light on Quantum Matter | Host: Jason Alicea | View talk here
- November 4 | Speaker: Terry Rudolph, PsiQuantum and Imperial College London | Title: Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- November 11 | Speaker: Vidya Madhavan, UIUC | Title: Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermion | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- November 18 | Speaker: Michael Zaletel, UC Berkeley | Title: Electrically charged skyrmions and superconductivity | Host: Xie Chen | View talk here
- December 2 | Speaker: Jie Shan, Cornell University | Title: Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices | Host: David Hsieh | *Talk was not recorded
- January 13 | Speaker: Peter S. Collopy, Caltech | Title: Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- February 3 | Speaker: Caterina Vernieri, Stanford | Title: Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View talk here
- February 10 | Speaker: Marilena Loverde, University of Washington | Title: Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets | Host: Katerina Chatziioannou | View talk here
- February 17 | Speaker: Eric Cornell, JILA, University of Colorado | Title: 14 Billion years on, what can learn about Original Imperfection? | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here | *Biard Lecture
- February 24 | Speaker: John Doyle, Harvard | Title: Cold and ultra-cold molecules for quantum science | Host: Nick Hutzler | *Biard Lecture was not recorded
- March 3 | Speaker: Peter Zoller, University of Innsbrook | Title: Programming' Quantum Simulators with Atoms and Ions | Host: John Preskill | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- April 7 | Speaker: Sergei Gukov, Caltech | Title: Machine learning and knots | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- April 28 | Speaker: Matthew Reece, Harvard | Title: Broken Symmetry Clues for Fundamental Physics | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- May 5 | Speaker: Benjamin Lev, Stanford | Title: Playing with quantum toys: Atomic Newton's cradles and Archimedes' screws | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- May 12 | Speaker: Senthil Todadri, MIT | Title: Towards a theory of strange quantum metals | Host: Jason Alicea
- May 19 | Speaker: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware | Title: Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- May 26 | Speaker: Matthew Fisher, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era | Host: Jason Alicea | View talk here
- October 1 | Speaker: Thomas Hartman, Cornell University | Title: Bootstrapping quantum gravity | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- October 8 | Speaker: Norman Yao, UC Berkeley | Title: Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- October 15 | Speaker: Netta Engelhardt, MIT | Title: The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy | Host: Sean Carroll | View talk here
- October 22 | Speaker: Vladan Vuletić, MIT | Title: Search for Dark Matter with Atomic Precision Spectroscopy | Host: Manuel Endres | View talk here
- October 29 | Speaker: Akira Furusawa, University of Tokyo | Title: Caltech, quantum teleportation, and GKP qubits | Host: Jeff Kimble | View talk here
- November 5 | Speaker: Joyce Yen, University of Washington | Title: Effective Evaluation Practices: Evidence from research on bias and its consequences | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | *Talk was not recorded
- November 12 | Speaker: Mike Manfra, Purdue University | Title: Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics | Host: Jason Alicea | View talk here
- November 19 | Speaker: Katherine Bouman, Caltech | Title: Capturing the First Image of a Black Hole & Designing the Future of Black Hole Imaging | Host: Gregg Hallinan | View talk here
- December 3 | Speaker: Haruki Watanabe, University of Tokyo | Title: Multipole moments and fractional corner charges of insulating materials | Host: Xie Chen | View talk here
- January 7 | Speaker: Marin Soljačić, MIT | Title: Enabling Novel Light Phenomena at the Subwavelength Scale | Host: Xie Chen | *Talk was not recorded | View links referenced in the talk here
- January 14 | Speaker: Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford | Title: Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- January 21 | Speaker: Hiroko Watanabe, Tohoku University | Title: Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- January 28 | Speaker: Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University | Title: Predicting the universe today from looking at the past with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope | Host: Sterl Phinney | *Talk was not recorded.
- February 4 | Speaker: Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria | Title: Pushing the limits of hydrodynamics | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- February 11 | Speaker: Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study | Title: Quantum Field Theory and Beyond | Host: Xie Chen | View talk here
- February 18 | Speaker: Philip Kim, Harvard | Title: Stacking van der Waals atomic layers: quest for new quantum materials | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | View talk here
- February 25 | Speaker: Cristian Peña, Fermilab | Title: Precision Instrumentation Enabled Physics at the LHC & QIS Enabled Discovery for High Energy Physics | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View talk here
- March 4 | Speaker: Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, MIT | Title: Designer Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Science | Host: Nick Hutzler | View talk here
- March 11 | Speaker: Manuel Endres, Caltech | Title: Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- April 1 | Speaker: Max Tegmark, MIT | Title: AI for physics & physics for AI | Host: Sean Carroll | View talk here
- April 8 | Speaker: Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech | Title: Unveiling Our Dynamic Infrared Sky | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- April 15 | Speaker: Cristina Marchetti, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Active Topology | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | *Talk will not be recorded.
- April 22 | Speaker: Louis Taillefer, Université de Sherbrooke and CIFAR | Title: The Dark Phase of Quantum Matter | Host: David Hsieh | View talk here
- April 29 | Speaker: Yonit Hochberg, Hebrew University | Title: New Directions for Light Dark Matter | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- May 6 | Speaker: Daniel Baumann, University of Amsterdam | Title: The Cosmological Bootstrap | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- May 13 | Speaker: Kim Boddy, UT Austin | Title: Searching for Dark Matter Interactions throughout Cosmic History | Host: Rana Adhikari | View talk here
- May 20 | Speaker: Roger Blandford, Stanford | Title: Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?: The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- May 27 | Speaker: Oskar Painter, Caltech | Title: Cavity acoustodynamics: insight into quantum noise in materials and opportunities for quantum computing | Host: John Preskill | View talk here
- June 3 | Speaker: Victor Galitski, University of Maryland | Title: Emergence of Statistical Mechanics via Spontaneous Breaking of Unitarity | Host: Gil Refael | View talk here
- June 10 | Speaker: David Simmons-Duffin, Caltech | Title: Carving out Theory Space | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- October 3 | Speaker: Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder | Title: Fractonicity from elasticity | Host: Jason Alicea | View talk here
- October 10 | Speaker: Dimitri Mawet, Caltech | Title: New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- October 10 | Speaker: James Cooley, Mevion Medical Systems | Title: Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment | Host: Ryan Patterson | View talk here
- October 24 | Speaker: Gray Rybka, University of Washington | Title: The ADMX Search for Dark Matter Axions | Host: Rana Adhikari | View talk here
- October 31 | Speaker: Barbara Jacak, UC Berkeley | Title: Exploring QCD Matter | Host: Brad Filippone | View talk here | *Lauritsen Lecture
- November 7 | Speaker: Tracy Slatyer, MIT | Title: Testing Dark Matter Interactions Through Cosmic History | Host: Cliff Cheung | View talk here
- November 14 | Speaker: Laura Cadonti, Georgia Institute of Technology | Title: Looking through the Gravitational Wave Window on the Universe | Host: Rana Adhikari | View talk here
- November 21 | Speaker: Barak Zackay, IAS | Title: Detecting Gravitational Waves Using the public LIGO-VIRGO data: Doubling the sample of Binary Black Hole Mergers | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here
- December 5 | Speaker: Sara Walker, Arizona State University | Title: Life is what? | Host: Sean Carroll | View talk here
- January 9 | Speaker: Guenther Dissertori, ETH Zürich | Title: Instruments for the exploration of the Universe and the brain | Host: Maria Spiropulu | View talk here
- January 16 | Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University | Title: Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves | Host: Rana Adhikari | View talk here
- January 23 | Speaker: Zvi Bern, UCLA | Title: From Scattering Amplitudes to Gravitational Waves | Host: Clifford Cheung | View talk here
- January 30 | Speaker: Nikta Fakhri, MIT | Title: Arrow of time in fluctuations of living systems | Host: Rob Phillips | View talk here
- February 6 | Speaker: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz | Title: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy | Host: Sterl Phinney | View talk here | *Christy Lecture
- February 13 | Speaker: Ibrahim Cissé, MIT | Title: Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells | Host: Rob Phillips | View talk here
- February 20 | Speaker: Ken Libbrecht, Caltech | Title: The Physical Dynamics of Ice Crystal Growth | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | View talk here
- February 27 | Speaker: Eric Cornell, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder | Title: The Three-Legged Stool | Host: Brad Filippone | *Biard Lecture was canceled.
- March 5 | Speaker: Netta Engelhardt, MIT | Title: The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy | Host: Sean Carroll | *Talk was canceled.
- April 2 | Speaker: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago | Title: From single to statistical: gravitational-wave populations | Host: Yanbei Chen | *Talk was canceled.
- April 9 | Speaker: John Preskill, Caltech | Host: Mark Wise | *Talk was canceled.
- April 16 | Speaker: Vladan Vuletić, MIT | Host: Manuel Endres | *Talk was canceled.
- April 23 | Speaker: Angel Rubio | Host: Gil Refael | *Talk was canceled.
- April 30 | Speaker: Jason Alicea, Caltech | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh | *Talk was canceled.
- May 7 | Speaker: Andrew Mills, Flatiron Institute | Host: David Hsieh | *Talk was canceled.
- May 14 | Speaker: Krysta Svore, Microsoft | Host: John Preskill | *Talk was canceled.
- May 21 | Speaker: Tom Hartman, Cornell University | Host: Hirosi Ooguri | *Talk was canceled.
- May 28 | Speaker: Marin Soljačić, MIT | Host: Xie Chen | *Talk was canceled.
- October 4 | Speaker: Edward Farhi, Google/MIT | Title: What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer | Host: John Preskill
- October 11 | Speaker: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University | Title: Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope | Host: Jason Alicea
- October 18 | Speaker: Nevin Weinberg, MIT | Title: When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations | Host: Rana Adhikari
- October 25 | Speaker: Felix von Oppen, Freie Universität Berlin | Title: Elements of a topological quantum computer | Host: Gil Refael
- November 1 | Speaker: Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University | Title: Gigapixel Maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background | Host: Jamie Bock
- November 8 | Speaker: William Newton, Texas A&M University | Title: The extent and observable properties of nuclear pasta in neutron star crusts | Host: Sterl Phinney
- November 15 | Speaker: Gabriel Orebi Gann, UC Berkeley | Title: Let There be Light: unlocking the secrets of the Universe with neutrinos | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- November 29 | Speaker: Kate Scholberg, Duke University | Title: Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino | Host: Brad Filippone
- December 6 | Speaker: Douglas Stanford, Stanford University | Title: Black holes and random matrices | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- January 10 | Speaker: David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute | Title: Fundamental limits on the thermodynamics of circuits | Host: Sean Carroll
- January 17 | Speaker: Markus Greiner, Harvard University | Title: Ultracold atom quantum simulations: Exploring low temperature Fermi-Hubbard phases | Host: Manuel Endres | *Biard Lecture
- January 24 | Speaker: Jason Petta, Princeton University | Title: Spinning up a silicon-based quantum processor | Host: Gil Refael
- January 31 | Speaker: Si Xie, Caltech | Title: Precision Timing at the LHC and Beyond
- February 7 | Speaker: Aleksandra Walczak, Ecole Normale Supérieure | Title: Prediction in immune repertoires | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- February 14 | Speaker: David Van Valen, Caltech | Title: Deep learning for single-cell biology | Host: Rob Phillips
- February 21 | Speaker: Andrea Young, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Correlations in moire flat bands: topological order, symmetry breaking, and superconductivity | Host: Xie Chen
- February 28 | Speaker: David Wallace, USC | Title: Firewalls and decoherent histories | Host: Sean Carroll
- March 7 | Speaker: Washington Taylor, MIT | Title: Physics and Energy | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- April 4 | Speaker: Ranny Budnik, Weizmann Institute | Title: Dark Matter direct detection at a crossroads | Host: Sunil Golwala
- April 11 | Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT | Title: Grad Students' Choice: Topological order and topological excitation | Host: Jason Alicea/Ashmeet Singh
- April 18 | Speaker: Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard University | Title: Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms | Host: Manuel Endres
- April 25 | Speaker: Rachel Ivie, American Institute of Physics | Title: Beyond Representation: Data to Improve the Situation of Women and Minorities in Physics and Astronomy | Host: Jason Alicea
- May 2 | Speaker: Xie Chen, Caltech | Title: Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
- May 9 | Speaker: Antoine Browaeys, Institut d'Optique, Paris | Title: Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms | Host: Manuel Endres
- May 16 | Speaker: Lina Necib, Caltech | Title: Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia | Host: Sean Carroll
- May 23 | Speaker: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University | Title: What have we learned about binary neutron stars since the discovery of GW170817? | Host: Sterl Phinney
- May 30 | Speaker: Natalia Toro, SLAC | Title: Exploring the Dark Sector: Surprising Opportunities at Familiar Mass Scales | Host: Clifford Cheung
- September 28 | Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University | Title: Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging | Host: David Hsieh
- October 5 | Speaker: Renato Renner, ETH Zurich | Title: Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales? | Host: Fernando Brandao
- October 12 | Speaker: Matt Dobbs, McGill University | Title: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) First Light | Host: Sunil Golwala
- October 19 | Speaker: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University | Title: Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science | Host: Manuel Endres
- October 26 | Speaker: Steve Giddings, UC Santa Barbara | Title: Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics | Host: Rana Adhikari
- November 2 | Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University | Title: Quantum matter without quasiparticles: strange metals and black holes | Host: David Hsieh | *Biard Lecture
- November 9 | Speaker: James Crutchfield, UC Davis | Title: Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology | Host: Sean Carroll
- November 16 | Speaker: Chen-Yu Liu, Indiana University | Title: Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay | Host: Brad Filippone
- November 30 | Speaker: Mohammad Hafezi, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland | Title: Topological photonics: from classical to quantum | Host: Gil Refael
- January 4 | Speaker: David Simmons-Duffin, Caltech | Title: The conformal bootstrap: magnets, boiling water, and quantum gravity | Host: Fiona Harrison
- January 11 | Speaker: David Hsieh, Caltech | Title: Signatures of a 3D quantum liquid crystal
- January 18 | Speaker: Clifford Cheung, Caltech | Title: Unification from Scattering Amplitudes
- January 25 | Speaker: Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study | Title: Fuzzy dark matter and the small-scale structure problem | Host: Sterl Phinney
- February 1 | Speaker: Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago | Title: From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- February 8 | Speaker: William Irvine, University of Chicago | Title: The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity | Host: Jason Alicea
- February 15 | Speaker: Anne Schukraft, Fermilab | Title: Neutrinos - small particles, big science | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- February 22 | Speaker: Alexei Kitaev, Caltech | Title: A toy quantum black hole
- March 1 | Speaker: Daniel Harlow, MIT | Black Holes, Holography, and Quantum Error Correction | Host: John Preskill
- March 8 | Speaker: Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Title: NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station | Host: Sterl Phinney
- April 5 | Speaker: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University | Title: 19th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- April 12 | Speaker: Nicholas Hutzler, Caltech | Title: Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polar Molecules | Host: Fiona Harrison
- April 19 | Speaker: Lulu Qian, Caltech | Title: A cargo-sorting DNA robot | Host: Sean Carroll
- April 26 | Speaker: Brian Metzger, Columbia University | Title: 20th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Radioactive Glow of Freshly-Synthesized Heavy Nuclei from a Neutron Star Collision | Host: Sterl Phinney
- May 3 | Speaker: Ann E. Nelson, University of Washington | Title: Low Energy Baryogenesis and Beauty | Host: Clifford Cheung
- May 10 | Speaker: Charles Kane, U of Penn | Title: Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter | Host: Jason Alicea
- May 17 | Speaker: Xiaoliang Qi, Stanford University | Title: Grad Students' Choice: The entanglement glue for spacetime | Host: Jason Alicea
- May 24 | Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis, Rutgers University | Title: Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- May 31 | Speaker: Rana Adhikari, Caltech | Title: All the Black Holes in the Universe
- September 29 | Speaker: William Joseph Weber, Università di Trento | Title: The LISA Pathfinder mission: first results and implications for an orbiting gravitational wave observatory | Host: Sterl Phinney
- October 6 | Speaker: Matthew P.A. Fisher, KITP/UC Santa Barbara | Title: Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition | Host: Jason Alicea
- October 13 | Speaker: Zahid Hasan, Princeton | Title: New Topological Phases of Matter : Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions | Host: David Hsieh
- October 20 | Speaker: Kathryn Zurek, LBNL | Title: Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- October 27 | Speaker: Boris Shraiman, KITP/UC Santa Barbara | Title: Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis | Host: Alexei Kitaev
- November 3 | Speaker: Tracy Slatyer, MIT | Title: Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky | Host: Sean Carroll
- November 10 | Speaker: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University | Title: Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors | Host: David Hsieh
- November 17 | Speaker: Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study | Title: Quantum mechanics and geometry of spacetime | Host: John Preskill
- December 1 | Speaker: Sara Seager, MIT | Title: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds | Host: Chris Martin | *Biard Lecture
- January 5 | Speaker: Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC Berkeley | Title: Detecting and coupling quantum objects with quantum light | Host: Rana Adhikari
- January 12 | Speaker: Ryan Patterson, Caltech | Title: The next questions in neutrino physics
- January 19 | Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics | Title: How I learned to stop worrying and to love both instantons and anti-instantons | Host: Sergei Gukov
- January 26 | Speaker: Dimitri Mawet, Caltech | Title: Imaging and remote sensing of other worlds | Host: Fiona Harrison
- February 2 | Speaker: David Pines, Santa Fe Institute and UC Davis | Title: Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter | Host: Thomas Rosenbaum
- February 9 | Speaker: Scott Aaronson, University of Texas at Austin | Title: Quantum Supremacy | Host: Rana Adhikari
- February 16 | Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute | Title: Particle Physics Beyond Colliders | Host: Mark Wise
- February 23 | Speaker: Dam Son, University of Chicago | Title: The quasiparticle of the quantum Hall fluids | Host: Jason Alicea
- March 2 | Speaker: Patrick Lee, MIT | Title: Can superconductivity survive at very low electron density? | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh
- March 9 | Speaker: Justin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania | Title: New Approaches to Dark Matter | Host: Sean Carroll
- April 6 | Speaker: Beverley McKeon, Caltech | Title: Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes | Host: Sean Carroll
- April 13 | Speaker: Manuel Endres, Caltech | Title: Quantum many-body control | Host: Fiona Harrison
- April 20 | Speaker: Michael Roukes, Caltech | Title: Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
- April 27 | Speaker: Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | Title: Quantum simulations: From condensed matter to high energy models | Host: John Preskill
- May 4 | Speaker: Anna Grassellino, Fermilab | Title: The Physics and Material Science of Modern Particle Accelerators | Host: Maria Spiropulu
- May 11 | Speaker: Michelle Dolinski, Drexel University | Title: Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay | Host: Brad Filippone
- May 18 | Speaker: Gary Horowitz, UCSB | Title: The Remarkable Power of General Relativity | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- May 25 | Speaker: Henriette Elvang, University of Michigan | Title: The Physics of Soft Particles | Host: Clifford Cheung
- June 1 | Speaker: Risa Wechsler, Stanford University | Title: Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys | Host: Sunil Golwala
- October 1 | Speaker: Holger Müller, UC Berkeley | Title: Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector | Host: Rana Adhikari
- October 8 | Speaker: Eugene Mele, U Penn | Title: The Winding Road to Topological Insulators | Host: Jason Alicea
- October 15 | Speaker: Jim Fuller, Caltech | Title: The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars | Host: David Stevenson
- October 22 | Speaker: Eric Mazur, Harvard | Title: Confessions of a converted lecturer | Host: Gil Refael
- October 29 | Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford | Title: Experiments Big and Small | Host: Clifford Cheung
- November 5 | Speaker: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute | Title: Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity | Host: Mark Scheel
- November 12 | Speaker: Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech | Title: Special Division Seminar -See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves | Host: Fiona Harrison
- November 19 | Speaker: Brian Swingle, Stanford | Title: Einstein's Equations From Entanglement | Host: Sean Carroll
- December 3 | Speaker: Jorge Cham, PhD Comics | Title: Science communication and the making of The PHD Movie 2 | Host: Jason Alicea
- January 7 | Speaker: Yuri Levin, Monash University | Title: Magnetic toys in the sky | Host: Rana Adhikari
- January 14 | Speaker: Omer Tamuz, Caltech | Title: What does a typical dynamical system look like? | Host: Fiona Harrison
- January 21 | Speaker: Stefan Leichenauer, UC Berkeley | Title: Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Information | Host: Sean Carroll
- January 28 | Speaker: Claudia de Rham, Case Western | Title: What can we learn from modifying gravity? | Host: Sean Carroll
- February 4 | Speaker: Anyes Taffard, UC Irvine | Title: The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier| Host: Maria Spiropulu
- February 11 | Speaker: Rafael Yuste, Columbia | The Novel Neurotechnologies: simultaneous 3D all-optical imaging and activation of neurons in living brains | Host: Michael Roukes
- February 18 | Speaker: Cumrun Vafa, Harvard | Title: Fundamental Lessons From String Theory | Host: Hirosi Ooguri
- February 25 | Speaker: Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Research Campus | Title: Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution | Host: Michael Roukes
- March 3 | Speaker: Michael Crommie, UC Berkeley | Title: Imaging Relativistic Fermions in Atomically- Engineered Graphene Potentials | Host: Nai-Chang Yeh
- March 31 | Speaker: Steven Block, Stanford | Title: Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time | Host: David Hsieh
- April 7 | Speaker: Charles M. Marcus, The Niels Bohr Institute | Title: The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware | Host: Michael Roukes
- April 14 | Speaker: Maria Zuber, MIT | Title: Internal Structure of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission | Host: Sunil Golwala
- April 21 | Speaker: Patrick Huber, Virginia Tech | Title: Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards | Host: Ryan Patterson
- April 28 | Speaker: Liam McAllister, Cornell | Title: String Theory and the CMB | Host: Chris Martin
- May 5 | Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley | Title: When a Symmetry Breaks | Host: Clifford Cheung
- May 12 | Speaker: Ana Maria Rey, JILA | Title: Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers | Host: Jason Alicea
- May 19 | Speaker: Fernando Brandao, Caltech | Title: Quantum Physics of Information | Host: Fiona Harrison
- May 26 | Speaker: Daniel Lidar, USC | Title: Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits | Host: Maria Spiropulu