Physics

Colloquia

The Department of Physics is a vibrant department with faculty pursuing the frontiers of science, engineering and physics education. The Physics Colloquium hosts speakers pushing the limits of physics to detect new fundamental particles and dark matter, while others are formulating, perceiving and creating devices and materials that transform practical aspects of our daily lives. All are welcome! Mondays at 4 PM in BH168.

Physics Colloquium Spring 2026

Date

Speaker

Institution

Faculty Host

Talk Title

2/2/26James AguirreUniversity of PennsylvaniaACE (Jonathan Pober)Measuring the optical depth to reionization: why it matters, and how radio measurements of high-redshift hydrogen can help
2/9/26Philip MollMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, HamburgCME (Vesna Mitrović)Long-range electron coherence in Kagome metals
2/23/26Jon ButterworthUniversity College LondonHEE (Jennifer Roloff)Future-proofing measurements to probe the energy frontier
3/2/26Isobel OjalvoPrinceton UniversityHEE (Ulrich Heintz)Expecting the Unexpected at the Energy Frontier
3/9/26Efthimios KaxirasHarvard UniversityCMT (Kuehne/Hui)Twistronics: the unconventional behavior of electrons in two-dimensional materials with a twist
3/30/26Dam Thanh SonUniversity of ChicagoCMT (Aaron Hui)The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect
4/6/26Rocky KolbUniversity of ChicagoACT (Stephon Alexander)The Schrödinger Effect: The expanding universe creates particles from the vacuum
4/13/26Arvind MuruganUniversity of ChicagoBIO (Leenoy Meshulam) 
4/20/26Satya Gontcho A GontchoLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryACE (Ian Dell'Antonio) 
4/27/26AO Williams Lecture   
5/4/2026Andrew CupoNortheasternCME (Mitrovic)Ultrafast Optimal Control of Quantum Matter

Current and Upcoming Colloquia