Past Events

Speaker: Seamus O’Hara(University of Pennsylvania)

Host: Tom Iadecola

Title: The Optical Measurement of Hamiltonian Parameters in Driven Quantum Systems

Speaker: Tai Kong (University of Arizona)

Host: Paul Canfield

Title: Frustrate a magnet

Speaker: Lucas Macri (Project Director, US-ELT Program, NSF NOIRLab)

Host: Steve Kawaler

Title: The Hubble Tension in the era of JWST

Zhuquan Zhang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Yong Chen (Purdue)

Host: Chandan Setty

Title: Quantum Materials meet Quantum Information

Speaker: Niranjan Roy (University of Connecticut)

Host: Tabassum Tanvir 

🔬  Tour our teaching and research laboratories
🧪  Participate in hands-on activities and exciting physics demonstrations
🎓  Attend breakout sessions with faculty

Speaker: Ivar Martin (Argonne)

Host: Chandan Setty

Title: Condensed Matter Axions: Bridging Particle Physics, Quantum Materials, and Nonlinear Optics.

Speaker: Lindley Winslow (MIT)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: The Search for Wavy Dark Matter: Axions ABRACADABRA to DMRadio

Speaker: Stephanie Tonnesen (CCA)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: Satellites in the Circumgalactic Medium sea: A Drop in the Bucket or By the Bucketful?

Speaker: Christian Bauer (LBNL)

Host: Tom Iadecola / Srimoyee Sen

Title: Charting Quantum Frontiers: Unveiling Nature's Essence through First-Principles Simulation of Fundamental Forces

Speaker: Gail McLaughlin (North Carolina State U)

Host: Srimoyee Sen

Title: Neutrinos and element synthesis

Speaker: Yiming Xu (Senior Associate Editor of PRX)

Host: Jigang Wang

Title: PRX: What Kind of Papers We are Looking for? 

Speaker: Tulika Bose (U of Wisconsin)

Host: Tom Iadecola

Title: Exploring new paradigms in physics with colliders

Speaker: Kristen McQuinn (Rutgers & STScI)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: Transformational Resolved Stellar Populations Studies with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes

Speaker: Lauren Weiss (University of Notre Dame)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: The Origin of Earth: Lessons from Multi-Planet Systems

Abstract: 

Speaker: Long Ju (MIT)

Host: Jigang Wang

Title: Emergent Quantum Phenomenon in Crystalline Graphene

Speaker: James McIver (Columbia University)

Host: Tom Iadecola 

Title: On-chip ultrafast dynamics and control of quantum materials

Speaker:  Dr. Charlotte Wood (ISU)
(soon North Carolina A&T State University)

Title:  Creating an Independent Distance Ladder to Type Ia Supernovae using Surface Brightness Fluctuations

Speaker: Daniel Wik (University of Utah) 

Host: Jake Simon

Title: Galaxy Clusters in a Cosmological Context

Abstract: