2020 Colloquia

• The Cosmic Nursery of Black Holes and Galaxies
  Prof. Sadegh Khochfar, University of Edinburgh
  December 1, 2020
• Non-reciprocity in collective phenomena: pattern-formation, synchronization and flocking.
  Prof. Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Chicago
  November 17, 2020
• El Niño as a Topological Insulator: A Surprising Connection Between Climate, and Quantum Physics
  Prof. Brad Marston, Brown University
  October 20, 2020
• A new spin on magnetism with applications in information processing
  Prof. Andy Kent (New York University)
  October 6, 2020
• Facilitating thinking and learning in and beyond the physics classrooms
  Prof. Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
  September 29, 2020
• Towards quantum computation with topological qubits
  Jukka Vayrynen, Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara
  February 27, 2020
• Universal dynamics far from thermodynamic equilibrium
  Joaquin Rodriguez Nieva, Stanford University
  February 25, 2020
• Real-space and reciprocal-space topology in solid-state matters
  Gen Yin, UCLA
  February 20, 2020
• Topological semimetals and their quantum responses
  Guoqing Chang, Princeton University
  February 18, 2020
• Unveiling and probing new phenomena in magnetic systems
  Benedetta Flebus, UCLA
  February 13, 2020
• Design principles for networked flow systems
  Prof. Eleni Katifori, University of Pennsylvania
  February 11, 2020
• Guiding Principles for Engineering Quantum Matter far from Equilibrium
  Martin Claassen, Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute
  February 6, 2020
• Spin-orbit torque: using relativity to extract angular momentum from crystals and make new quantum devices
  Vivek Amin, NIST and UMD
  January 30, 2020
• Universal Quantum Entanglement in ‘Dirty’ Quantum Magnets
  Itamar Kimchi, JILA, NIST, and CU Boulder
  January 28, 2020