The Department of Physics Colloquia feature outstanding guest speakers from all over the world presenting cutting-edge research. Our students in particular are encouraged to attend, although the seminars are open to the public.

Arrive early to claim your seat at these not-to-be-missed events!

Colloquia are held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in BH168, with exceptions noted below. Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.

Celebrating a career spanning five decades, the Physics Department honored Professor Chun-I Tan for his service to Brown

Professor Emeritus of Physics Herbert Fried passed away at the age of 94 on November 18, 2023.

As part of the Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series, Stephon Alexander explains how the search for answers to deep cosmological puzzles parallels jazz improvisation.

For the Love of Physics: A Celebration of Music, Art and Nature

The Physics Department will feature Professor Roberto De Renzi in a Special Colloquium on Monday, November 13, 2023, at 2 PM.

Physics PhD student Rutendo Jakachira received a 2023 Google Fellowship in Health Research and secondary area in Algorithmic Fairness for her research on pulse oximetry. Congratulations, Rutendo!

Physics Alum Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, 3 October, 11:45 CEST at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.

Brown University is pleased to announce the Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow Program.

"Effects of charge doping on Mott insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling"

R. Sekhar Chivukula, Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego and the chair of the Executive Committee of the Division of Particle Physics (DPF) at the American Physical Society (APS), recently announced the funding of the Division of Particle Physics (DPF) Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award in honor of former Department Chair Meenakshi Narain.