Physics Colloquium is held on Thursdays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm over Zoom and in-person in the Feynman Lecture Hall, 201 E. Bridge.
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• Upcoming Colloquia
• Past Colloquia Recordings & Information
• History of Caltech Physics Colloquium
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Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
Speaker: Jack Harris Host: Rana Adhikari View talk here
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Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer
Speaker: Garnet Chan Host: John Preskill Due to technical difficulties, this talk was not recorded.
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Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter
Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti Host: Clifford Cheung View talk here
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Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks
Speaker: Zhaohuan Zhu Host: Sterl Phinney View talk here |
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Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics |
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The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CvB): Its Distribution on the Surface of the Earth and its Manipulation on Laboratory ScalesSpeaker: Mina Arvanitaki Host: Kathryn Zurek View talk here
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Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
Speaker: Lee McCuller Host: John Preskill View talk here |
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Using Nuclear Reactors to Study NeutrinosSpeaker: Pedro Ochoa
Host: Ryan Patterson |
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Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré ConjectureSpeaker: Jim Halverson
Host: Sergei Gukov View talk here
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Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science
Speaker: Dave DeMille
Host: Nick Hutzler |
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Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers
Speaker: Jorge Noronha Host: Elias Most View talk here
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Moiré Materials |
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Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even pointhttps://infrared.cni.columbia.edu Host: John Preskill Biard Lecture *This talk will not be recorded. |
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Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
Speaker: Axel Brandenburg Host: Sterl Phinney |
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Magnetic power of neutron stars |
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Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics
Speaker: Max Welling Host: John Preskill View talk here
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Topology and "impossible" electronic devices
Speaker: Andrea Young Host: David Hsieh View talk here
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Clocks with ultracold molecules
Speaker: Tanya Zelevinsky Host: Nick Hutzler *This talk will not be recorded.
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THURSDAY | Neutron Star Mergers: Frontiers in Computational Relativistic AstrophysicsSpeaker: Elias Most Host: Sterl Phinney View talk here |
THURSDAY | Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the labSpeaker: Ronald Hanson Host: Andrei Faraon View talk here |
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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.Speaker: Matt Pyle Host: Kathryn Zurek *This talk will not be recorded. |
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Quantum materials on the mesoscale
Speaker: Phillip Moll Host: Linda Ye View talk here |
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Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics
Speaker: Adam Kaufman *This talk will not be recorded.Host: Nick Hutzler |
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New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean
Speaker: Vedika Khemani
Host: John Preskill |
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Quantum Critical Metals and the Fermion Sign Problem
Speaker: Erez Berg Host: Gil Refael |
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The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Host: Nai-Chang Yeh
Lauritsen Lecture |
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Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound
Speaker: Brad Ramshaw
Host: David Hsieh |
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TBD
Speaker:
Host: David Hsieh |