Seminars & Colloquia

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SPRING 2023
Tuesdays 3:45pm PST - Broida 1640 and Zoom, unless otherwise noted
Date (Tuesdays) Speaker Affiliation Area of research Title of colloquium Location
April 11, 2023 Barak Zackay Weizmann Institute Astrophysics Novel algorithms and Statistical techniques in search of exoplanets Broida 1640 + Zoom
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 3:30pm Clifford Johnson USC High Energy Theory Wigner Meets ʼt Hooft Near the Black Hole Horizon Broida 1640 
April 18, 2023 Kang-Kuen Ni Harvard Univ Ultracold Molecular Chemistry and Physics Arrays of Individually-Controlled Molecules for Quantum Science Broida 1640 + Zoom
May 2, 2023 Omar Saleh UCSB Material Science Structure and Function in a DNA Liquid Broida 1640 + Zoom
May 9, 2023 Ram Seshadri UCSB Material Science A Brief History, and the Current Landscape of Materials Research at UC Santa Barbara Broida 1640 + Zoom
May 16, 2023 Sloane Wiktorowicz The Aerospace Corporation   Deeper Astrophysics with Polarimetry Broida 1640 + Zoom
May 23, 2023 Vera Gluscevic University of Southern California   Dark Matter Cosmology Broida 1640 + Zoom
May 30, 2023 Ritoban Basu Thakur Caltech/JPL HEX/CM/Astro Observational Cosmology with Superconducting Sensors and innovations in Astrophotonics Broida 1640 + Zoom
June 6, 2023 Aaron Zimmerman UT Austin Astro Gravitational Waves and Searching for the Unexpected Broida 1640 + Zoom

 






WINTER 2023
Tuesdays 3:45pm PST - Broida 1640 and Zoom, unless otherwise noted
Date (Tuesdays) Speaker Affiliation Area of research Title of colloquium Location
January 10, 2023 Haim Beidenkopf Weizmann Institute of Science CMX Topological protection of Weyl fermions visualized on the atomic scale - protection, fragility and cooperation Broida 1640 +Zoom
January 17, 2023 Bruce Macintosh UCSC Astronomy The Gemini Planet Imager Broida 1640 +Zoom
January 24, 2023 Michel Devoret Yale CMX Error Correction of a Logical Quantum Bit Broida 1640 +Zoom
February 7, 2023 Haim Beidenkopf Weizmann Institute of Science CMX Topological protection of Weyl fermions visualized on the atomic scale - protection, fragility and cooperation Broida 1640 +Zoom
Thursday
February 9, 2023		 Andrew Higginbotham Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) CMX Probing and simulating condensed matter with superconducting circuits  
February 14, 2023 Suraj Cheema UC Berkeley CMX Electronic Metamaterials for Energy-Efficient and Energy-Autonomous Electronics Broida 1640 +Zoom
Thursday
February 23, 2023		 Christopher Anderson Stanford CMX Building a quantum internet with photons and electron spins Broida 1640 +Zoom

Monday
February 27, 2023

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 Emily Davis UC Berkeley CMX In pursuit of entanglement: XXZ interactions for spin-squeezing in atomic and solid-state spin ensembles Elings 1605+ Zoom
Thursday
March 2, 2023		 Alfred Zong UC Berkeley CMX Pathways toward unconventional light-induced states in quantum materials Broida 1640 +Zoom
March 7, 2023 Gongjie Li Georgia Tech Astronomy Dynamical Origin and Habitability of Planets -- On the Spin-Axis Variations in Planetary Systems Broida 1640 +Zoom






2022-2023 Fall Department Colloquium Series

 

Tuesdays 3:45pm PST - Broida 1640 and Zoom, unless otherwise noted
Date
(Tuesdays)		 Speaker Affiliation Area of Research Title of Colloquium Location
Sept 27, 2022 Peter Zoller Center for Quantum Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria CMT Programmable Quantum Simulators with Atoms and Ions

Broida 1640 + Zoom

Recording
October 4, 2022 Sebastian Streichan UCSB SLMP Physics of living matter: From Molecule to Embryo

Broida 1640 + Zoom

Recording
October 11, 2022 Jeff Cooke Swinburne University Astro The Keck Wide-Field Imager as Part of the Future Direction of the Keck Observatory

Broida 1640 + Zoom

Recording
October 18, 2022 Aleksandra Walczak ENS, Paris SLMP Prediction in Immune Repertoires Broida 1640 + Zoom
October 25, 2022 Michael Brenner Harvard Applied Math Scientific Uses of Automatic Differentiation

Broida 1640 + Zoom

Recording
November 1, 2022 Timothy Brandt UCSB Astro The Gaia and Extreme AO Revolution: Discovering, Weighing, and Characterizing Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs Broida 1640 + Zoom
November 8, 2022 Xi Dong UCSB HET Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information: Finding Spacetime from Holographic Codes Broida 1640 + Zoom
November 15, 2022 Andrew Cleland     Quantum acoustics: Quantum mechanics with sound Broida 1640 + Zoom
November 22, 2022 N/A N/A      
November 29, 2022 Eberhard Bodenschatz MPI, Gottingen SLM Max Planck Turbulence Facility Broida 1640 + Zoom
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