Physics Colloquium is held on Thursdays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm over Zoom and in-person in the Feynman Lecture Hall, 201 E. Bridge. Attendance is limited. Only those with a valid Caltech ID are permitted to attend in person.
All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.
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• Upcoming Colloquia
• Past Colloquia Recordings & Information
• History of Caltech Physics Colloquium
THURSDAY | Simulating the quantum world on a classical computerSpeaker: Garnet Chan Host: John Preskill Due to technical difficulties, this talk was not recorded. |
THURSDAY | Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter |
THURSDAY | Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN DisksSpeaker: Zhaohuan Zhu Host: Sterl Phinney View talk here |
THURSDAY | The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CvB): Its Distribution on the Surface of the Earth and its Manipulation on Laboratory Scales |
THURSDAY | Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories |
THURSDAY | Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré Conjecture |
THURSDAY | Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science |
THURSDAY | Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star MergersSpeaker: Jorge Noronha Host: Elias Most Christy Lecture View talk here |
THURSDAY | Moiré MaterialsSpeaker: Allan H. MacDonald Host: Nai-Chang Yeh Lauritsen Lecture View talk here |
THURSDAY | Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even pointSpeaker: Michel Devoret Host: John Preskill Biard Lecture *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?Speaker: Axel Brandenburg Host: Sterl Phinney View talk here |
THURSDAY | Magnetic power of neutron starsSpeaker: Andrei Beloborodov Host: Elias Most View talk here |
THURSDAY | Opportunities for Machine Learning in PhysicsSpeaker: Max Welling Host: John Preskill View talk here |
THURSDAY | Topology and "impossible" electronic devicesSpeaker: Andrea Young Host: David Hsieh View talk here |
THURSDAY | Clocks with ultracold moleculesSpeaker: Tanya Zelevinsky Host: Nick Hutzler *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | Neutron Star Mergers: Frontiers in Computational Relativistic AstrophysicsSpeaker: Elias Most Host: Sterl Phinney View talk here |
THURSDAY | Neutron Star MergQuantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the labers: Frontiers in Computational Relativistic AstrophysicsSpeaker: Ronald Hanson Host: Andrei Faraon View talk here |
THURSDAY | 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. |
THURSDAY | Quantum materials on the mesoscaleSpeaker: Phillip Moll Host: Linda Ye View talk here |
THURSDAY | Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physicsSpeaker: Adam Kaufman Host: Nick Hutzler *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-EuclideanSpeaker: Vedika Khemani Host: John Preskill View talk here |
THURSDAY | New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-EuclideanSpeaker: Vedika Khemani Host: John Preskill *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | Quantum Critical Metals and the Fermion Sign ProblemSpeaker: Erez Berg Host: Gil Refael *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | The Magic of Moiré Quantum MatterSpeaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Host: Nai-Chang Yeh Lauritsen Lecture *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasoundSpeaker: Brad Ramshaw Host: Linda Ye *This talk will not be recorded. |
THURSDAY | Talk cancelledSpeaker: Host: |
THURSDAY | The Generalized Landau Paradigmhttps://www.caltech.edu/campus-life-events/calendar/physics-colloquium-20 **This talk will not be shown via Zoom and will not be recorded.** |
THURSDAY | Black holes and random matricesSpeaker: Stephen Shenker Host: David Simmons-Duffin *Mask must be worn for this talk* Bring your own or take one (N95) at the door. |
THURSDAY | Laser cooling and trapping radioactive atoms and moleculeshttps://www.caltech.edu/campus-life-events/calendar/physics-colloquium-24 |
THURSDAY | Quantum matter, clocks, and fundamental physicshttps://www.caltech.edu/campus-life-events/calendar/physics-colloquium-25 Lauritsen LectureSpeaker: Jun Ye |
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THURSDAY | Talk cancelledSpeaker: Host: |
THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 20234:00pm - 5:00pm | Angular Momentum Radiation in Field Theory and GravitySpeaker: Aneesh Manohar Host: Clifford Cheung View talk here |
THURSDAY | Axion Dark Matter and Quantum Measurement: ABRACADABRA to DMRadio |
THURSDAY | Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models |
THURSDAY | Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responseshttps://www.caltech.edu/campus-life-events/calendar/physics-colloquium-31 |
THURSDAY | Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors Speaker: Jeanie Lau Host: Gil Refael |
THURSDAY | Ineffective Field TheoryLauritsen LectureSpeaker: Lisa Randall Host: Mark Wise View talk here |
THURSDAY | Quantum Materials by DesignSpeaker: Andrea Damascelli Host: David Hsieh Talk was not recorded. |