2023 Colloquia

Tuesday, January 31, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: How protein motors shape chromosomes
Dr. Edward Banigan, MIT

Tuesday, February 14, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Artificial spin ice: a playground for frustration
Prof. Peter Schiffer, Yale University

Tuesday, February 28, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: L10 -phase FePd thin films with low damping and high thermal stability for semiconductor-compatible high performance memory
Dr. Daniel Gopman, NIST

Tuesday, March 14, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: A topological insulator-based platform for Majorana bound states
Dr. Kristof Moors, Peter Grünberg Institute 9, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Tuesday, March 21, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce It)
Dr. Laura Grego, Union for Concerned Scientists

Tuesday, March 28, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Shape Sculpting and Shapeshifting with Soft Matter
Prof. Timothy Atherton, Tufts University

Tuesday, April 25, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Clogging: the self sabotage of suspension flows
Prof. Alban Sauret, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tuesday, May 2, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Manipulation of non-orthogonal polarization states via optical metasurfaces for classical and quantum applications
Prof. Mu Wang, Nanjing University and APS Editorial Office

Tuesday, August 29, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Illuminating the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves
Dr. Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Tuesday, September 9, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Advances in halocarbon emissions modeling, with impacts on the ozone layer and climate
Prof. Megan Lickley, Georgetown University

Tuesday, September 26, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Success Stories in Computationally-Driven Materials Discovery
Dr. Corey Oses, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday, October 10, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Living Droplets Get to Work
Prof. Eric Dufresne, Cornell University

Tuesday, October 17, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Ring polymers as rheology modifiers and strong gelling agents
Prof. Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, and University of Crete

Tuesday, October 24, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Magneto-Raman Spectroscopy to Identify Spin Structure in Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials
Dr. Angela Hight Walker, NIST

Tuesday, November 7, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Ultrafast dynamical processes in quantum materials.
Prof. Ioannis Chatzakis, Texas Tech University

Tuesday, November 14, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: How an Interest in π-systems Led to a Career in Quantum and Quantum in three Dimensions
Dr. Tina Brower-Thomas, Howard University

Tuesday, December 5, 3:15pm

Physics Colloquium: Topological phase transitions and Magnetoelectric effects in Heterostructures
Dr. Kang L. Wang, University of California, Los Angeles