Physics Colloquium Spring 2026 |
Date | Speaker | Institution | Faculty Host | Talk Title |
| 2/2/26 | James Aguirre | University of Pennsylvania | ACE (Jonathan Pober) | Measuring the optical depth to reionization: why it matters, and how radio measurements of high-redshift hydrogen can help |
| 2/9/26 | Philip Moll | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg | CME (Vesna Mitrović) | Long-range electron coherence in Kagome metals |
| 2/23/26 | Jon Butterworth | University College London | HEE (Jennifer Roloff) | Future-proofing measurements to probe the energy frontier |
| 3/2/26 | Isobel Ojalvo | Princeton University | HEE (Ulrich Heintz) | Expecting the Unexpected at the Energy Frontier |
| 3/9/26 | Efthimios Kaxiras | Harvard University | CMT (Kuehne/Hui) | Twistronics: the unconventional behavior of electrons in two-dimensional materials with a twist |
| 3/30/26 | Dam Thanh Son | University of Chicago | CMT (Aaron Hui) | The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect |
| 4/6/26 | Rocky Kolb | University of Chicago | ACT (Stephon Alexander) | The Schrödinger Effect: The expanding universe creates particles from the vacuum |
| 4/13/26 | Arvind Murugan | University of Chicago | BIO (Leenoy Meshulam) | |
| 4/20/26 | Satya Gontcho A Gontcho | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | ACE (Ian Dell'Antonio) | |
| 4/27/26 | AO Williams Lecture | | | |
| 5/4/2026 | Andrew Cupo | Northeastern | CME (Mitrovic) | Ultrafast Optimal Control of Quantum Matter |
