Colloquium Archive: 2020/2021 -

 

2025/2026

11/24/25: Carlos Argüelles-Delgado (Harvard), "Searching for New Physics with High-Energy Atmospheric and Cosmic Neutrinos"

11/17/25: Matteo Mitrano (Harvard), “Coherent Optical Control of Quantum Materials”

11/10/25: Päivi Törmä (Aalto U.), “Quantum Geometry and Superconductivity”

11/3/25: Scott Aaronson (UT Austin), “Experimentally Demonstrating the Enormity of Hilbert Space”

10/27/25: Benjamin Jones (UT Arlington), “Single Barium Ion Identification Technologies for Background-Free Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches”

10/20/25: Xiaodong Xu (U. Washington), “Shining Light on Fractional Charges”

10/6/25: Andrea Ghez  (UCLA), "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes” (Loeb Lecture)

9/29/25: Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard), “Measuring Cosmic Sound with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”

9/22/25: Geoff Penington (UC Berkeley), “What Colour is a Black Hole?”

9/15/25: Gabriel Aeppli (Paul Scherrer Institute), “Mapping Artificial and Natural Intelligence”

9/8/25: Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton), “Expecting the Unexpected at the Energy Frontier"

 

2024/2025

4/28/25: Risa Wechsler (Stanford), “Unveiling the Nature of Dark Matter with Small-Scale Cosmic Structure”

4/14/25: Wayne Myrvold (Western University), “Information and its Loss: On Entropy and Landauer’s Principle”

4/7/25: Vidya Madhavan (U Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Ultrafast Measurements of Massive Phase Oscillations of a Condensate” 

3/31/25: Liam McAllister (Cornell), “String theory, the cosmological constant, and the quantization of parameters”

3/24/25: Kin Fai Mak (Cornell), “Simulating high-temperature superconductivity in a triangular moiré lattice”

3/10/25: Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics), “Tensor Network States in Quantum Physics”

3/3/25: Tova Holmes (U Tennessee), “Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators”

2/24/25: Ivan Smalyukh (U Colorado), “Knotted chiral meta matter: from meta-atoms to sustainable bricks”

2/10/25: David Mazziotti (U Chicago), "Bootstrapping the Electronic Structure of Quantum Molecules and Materials"

2/3/25: Steven Kivelson, "Theory of Superconductivity in the Cuprate “High Temperature Superconductors" − A Progress Report"

1/27/25: Raymond Pierrehumbert (U Oxford), "Lifting the Veil on SubNeptune Structure and Evolution

11/25/24: Mikhail Lukin (Harvard), "New Frontier of Quantum Computing"

11/18/24: Phiala Shanahan (MIT), "The building blocks of the Universe: proton and nuclear structure from the Standard Model"

11/4/24: Dam T. Son (U Chicago), "The Emergent "Graviton" of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"

10/28/24: Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia U), "Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"

10/21/24: Andrew Geraci (Northwestern), "Hunting for Fifth-Forces, Dark Matter, and the Quantum Nature of Gravity with Tabletop Quantum Sensors"

10/7/24: Sergio Palomares Ruiz (IFIC), "Looking Inside the Earth with Neutrinos"

9/30/24: Aleksi Vuorinen (U Helsinki), "Neutron Stars as Extreme Laboratories for Elementary-Particle Matter"

9/23/24: Jordan Cotler (Harvard), "Decoding Chaos: from Classical to Quantum"

9/16/24: Ariel Amir (Weizmann Institute), "Diffusive Relays and How They Stop"

9/9/24: Jun Ye (JILA/NIST/U Colorado), "Dawn of Nuclear Clock: Precision Metrology Meets Nuclear Physics"
 

2023/2024

04/01/24: Eslam Khalaf (Harvard), "From quantum Hall to Hubbard physics in twisted bilayer graphene: a unified framework for strongly correlated topological bands"

03/25/24: Andre Geim (U. Manchester), "Wonder Materials" (Loeb Lecture)

03/18/24: Surya Ganguli (Stanford), "Neurophysics: Revealing the Emergence of Cognition from the Collective Dynamics of Interacting Neuron"

03/04/24: Jacob Barandes (Harvard), "New Foundations for Quantum Theory"

02/26/24: Amin Doostmohammadi (U. Copenhagen), "Active Topological Defects and Universal Symmetries in Living Biological Matter"

02/12/24: Julia Mundy (Harvard), "Design of Novel Oxide Quantum Materials"

02/05/24: Jun Ye (U Colorado, Boulder), "Building Atomic Clocks for Fundamental Physics"

01/29/24: Clay Cordova (U. Chicago), "Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory"

01/22/24: Andrew Leifer (Princeton), "Neural Signal Propagation Atlas of C. Elegans"

11/27/23: Sebastien Bubeck (Microsoft), "The Revolutions of Small and Large Language Models"

11/20/23: Hiranya Peiris (U Cambridge), "Prospects for Understanding the Physics of the Universe"

11/13/23: Jean Dalibard (Collège de France), "Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases" (Loeb Lecture)

11/06/23: Stephane Mallat (École normale supérieure), "Learning Multiscale Physics from Data by Inverse Renormalization"

10/30/23: Peter Maurer (U. Chicago), "Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors "

10/23/23: Dries Sels (NYU), "Quantum Chaos and Its Imprints on Our World: Is MBL There When Nobody is Looking?"

10/16/23: Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv U.), "Interaction-Free Measurements and the Past of a Quantum Particle"

10/02/23: Michel Devoret (Yale), "Error Correction of a Logical Quantum Bit Beyond the Break-Even Point"

09/25/23: Anastasia Volovich (Brown U.), "The Art of Scattering Amplitudes"

09/11/23: Matthew Schwartz (Harvard), "Machine Learning and the Future of Particle Physics"
 

2022/2023

9/12/2022: Louis Deslauriers (Harvard), “Students may be learning (even) more than they think: Lessons from science education research”

9/26/2022: Jason Koskinen (Niels Bohr Institute U. of Copenhagen), “Big questions, small particles, and a gigaton of ice at the South Pole”

10/3/2022: Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC), “A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation - The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists”

10/17/2022: Shimon Kolkowitz (U. Wisconsin-Madison), “Testing relativity in the laboratory with optical lattice atomic clocks”

10/24/2022: Silke Paschen (Vienna U. of Technology), “Quantum phases driven by strong correlations”

10/31/2022: Giulia Semeghini (Harvard), “Programmable Atom Arrays: A New Frontier in Quantum Science and Engineering”

11/7/2022: Adam Kaufman (JILA, NIST (U. Colorado, Boulder)), “Programmable Control Of Indistinguishable Particles from Sampling to Clocks to Qubits”

11/21/2022: Riccardo Comin (MIT), “Fermiology of the 2D Kagome Lattice”

11/28/2022: Cora Dvorkin (Harvard), “The Universe as a Lab for New Physics Across Cosmic Times”

1/23/2023: Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell), “Realizing Non-Abelian Statistics Using Graph Gauge Theory on a Quantum Processor”

1/30/2023: Aaron Vincent (Queen's U.), “Dark Matter in the Sun and Stars”

2/6/2023: Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia), “Neutrino Physics in the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Era”

2/13/2023: N. Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins), “On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism”

2/27/2023: Jun Ye (JILA, NIST (U. Colorado)), “Tunable Interactions & Entanglement: New Ingredients for Atomic Clocks”

3/6/2023: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke), “The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics”

3/20/2023: Asimina Arvanitaki - Loeb Lecture (Perimeter Institute), “The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales”

3/27/2023: Naoko Neilson (Drexel U), “Neutrino Astronomy: From Dream to Reality”

4/3/2023: Danna Freedman (MIT), “Chemistry for the Current Quantum Revolution”

4/10/2023: Dmitri (Mitya) Chklovskii (Flatiron Institute), “What does a neuron do? A new model for Neuroscience and AI”

4/17/2023: Kenneth Burch (Boston College), “Post Pandemic Tool for Quantum Materials and vice-versa”
 

2021/2022

5/2/2022: Saul Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), “Scientific Critical Thinking: A Missing Ingredient in Science Education”

4/25/2022: David Hsieh (CalTech), “Strongly Driven Quantum Materials”

4/18/2022: Kurahashi Neilson (Drexel U), “Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole with IceCube “

4/11/2022: Pedro Machado (Fermilab), “The Large Neutrino Collider “

4/4/2022: Jun Zhu (Penn State), “Many-body ground states and collective excitations of a tunable 2D system”

3/28/2022: Norman Yao (Harvard), “Quantum Matter Under Driving and Pressure: from Time Crystals to Metrology “

3/21/2022: Julia Yeomans (Oxford), “Active Matter: “Evading the Decay to Equilibrium”

3/7/2022: Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann), “How to Break Ohm’s Law”

2/28/2022: Edward Farhi (MIT), “From Particle Physics to Quantum Computing “

2/14/2022: Kate Kirby (APS), “DEI Programs at APS: Addressing the Physics Culture “

2/7/2022: Priyamvada Nataraja Yale), “New Challenges to the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm “

1/31/2022: Monika Aidelsburger (U Munich), “Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms – From Hubbard Models to Gauge Theories”

11/29/2021: Jie Shan (Cornell), “Electrons in 2D Moiré Superlattices”

11/22/2021: Ranga Dias (U Rochester), “Towards Ambient Superconductivity in Hydride-Based Materials”

11/15/2021: Jean Philippe Bouchaud (CFM), “Crises Tipping Points: From Statistical Physics to Social Sciences“

11/8/2021: Paul McEuen (Cornell), “Microscopic Robots?!”

11/1/2021: Sara Seager (MIT), “Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases”

10/25/2021: Rachel Ivie (AIP), “Beyond Representation: Data to Improve Equity in Physics and Astronomy“

10/18/2021: Netta Engelhardt (MIT), “The Black Hole Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy”

9/27/2021: Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew U, Jerusalem), “Emergence of Object Representations in Brain Sensory Hierarchies”

9/20/2021: Lucile Savary (CNRS), “Magnets meet Metals" 

9/13/2021: Abraham Loeb (Harvard), “The Galileo Project: In Search for Technological Interstellar Objects“
 

2020/2021

5/3/2021: Peter Galison (Harvard), “Visit of a Century: Einstein’s 1921 Encounter with Harvard”

4/19/2021: Martin Bazant (MIT), “Beyond Six Feet: A Guideline to Control Indoor Airborne Transmission of COVID-19”

4/12/2021: Trevor David Rhone (RPI), “Data-Driven Studies of Magnetic van der Waals Materials”

4/5/2021: Janet Conrad (MIT), “Of Elephants and Oscillations”

3/29/2021: Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard), “Bringing Together Quantum Chemistry and Physics with Ultracold Molecules”

3/22/2021: Dmitri Basov (Columbia), “Live From New York: Programmable Quantum Materials”

3/15/2021: Maria Fyta (U Stuttgart), “Nanometer-Sized Holes Opened in Materials for Molecular Detection”

3/8/2021: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (UNH), “Large Scale Structure from Microphysics”

2/22/2021: Isaac Chuang (MIT), “Grand Unification of Quantumalgorithms”

2/8/2021: David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford), “Can You Make a Magnet out of Carbon?”

01-25-21: Xiaoxing Xi (Temple U), "Scientific Espionage, Open Exchange, and American Competitiveness"

11-30-20: Lara Benfatto (Sapienza U), "Manipulating Matter with Light: The Case of Superconductors"

11-16-20: David Bensimon (UCLA), "Temperature Independence of Somitogenesis and Critical Slowing Down"

11-09-20: Joe Checkelsky (MIT), "Synthesizing “Toy Model” Quantum Materials"

11-02-20: Jesse Thaler (MIT), "Collision Course: Particle Physics Meets Machine Learning"

10-26-20: Leonard Susskind (Stanford), "Some Thoughts about String Theory and the World"

10-19-20: Ben Mazin (UC, Santa Barbara), "Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Astrophysics, Biophysics, and Dark Matter Detection"

10-05-20: Eric Heller (Harvard), "Blochbusting: The Missing Theory of Resistivity in Normal Metals and Superlattices"

09-21-20: Martin White (UC, Berkeley), "Modeling Large-Scale Structure for the Golden Era of Cosmological Surveys"

09-14-20: Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt U), "Advancing Diversity at the PhD Level in Physics"