Physics Club: 2023-2024

Jack Harris, Yale University

Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators (April  29, 2024)

Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania

Leigh Page Prize Lectures: The Emergence of Topological Quantum Matter (April 23, 2024); Symmetry, Topology  and Electronic Phases of Matter (April 24, 2024); and Topology of the Fermi Sea  (April 25, 2024)

Gianfranco Bertone, University of Amsterdam

Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter (April 15, 2024)

Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute

Hyperbolic geometry and information acquisition in biological systems (April 1, 2024)

Eugenio Coccia, Institute for High Energy Physics & Gran Sasso Science Institute

The Einstein Telescope: a 3rd generation GW observatory in Europe (March 25, 2024)

Aaron Zimmerman, University of Texas at Austin

Gravitational waves  and searching for  the unexpected (March 4, 2024)

Roger Melko, University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute

Language  Models for Quantum Simulation (February 26, 2024)

Anne Sickles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nature’s Hottest Fluid: Measuring the  Innner Workings of the Quark Gluon Plasma (February 19, 2024)

Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska

The Physics of Football (February 12, 2024)

Kyle Leach, Colorado School of Mines

Hunting for Ghosts using Rare-Isotope Doped Superconducting and Optomechanical Sensors (Feburary 5, 2024)

Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University

On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism (January 29, 2024)

Andrea Damascelli, Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia

Quantum Materials by Design (January 22, 2024)

Karsten Heeger & Sarah Demers, Yale University

2023 P5 Report: Exploring the Quantum Universe (December 13, 2023)

Howard L. Schultz, Sr. Prize Lecture: Roxanne Guenette, University of Manchester

Neutrinos: From zeros to heroes? (December 4, 2023)

Andrew Millis, Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute

Moving in a Dynamically Changing Free Energy Landscape: Strain, Heterostructure and Optical Control of the Correlation-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition (November 13, 2023)

Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University

Neutrino Astronomy: From Dream to Reality (October 30, 2023)

Kathryn Moler, Stanford University

Exploring Quantized Flux: Insights into Superconductivity (October 23, 2023)

John Wettlaufer &  Peter Rakich, Yale University

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics: the Selection and the Science (October 9, 2023)

Karsten Heeger, Yale University

Department Welcome and Town Hall (October 2, 2023) [Slides]

Frank Wilczek, MIT

Symmetries of Time (September 25, 2023)

Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna

How does a quantum object gravitate? (September 18, 2023)