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Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia

The Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia are held Tuesdays at 4:30 P.M. in Room 201 of the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center. Light refreshments are served in the Varian Building lobby at 4:15 P.M.

Upcoming Events

Date
Tue February 11th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

The detection of high energy astrophysical neutrinos is an important step toward understanding the most energetic cosmic accelerators.

Date
Tue February 18th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Electrons are indistinguishable particles - you cannot tell one electron from another by the color of its hair, or the shape of its ears, or the way it laughs…

Date
Tue February 25th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Fueled by advances in microelectronics, software, and large optics fabrication, a new type of sky survey will begin in 2025. With 1000 deep images per night, the Vera C.

Date
Tue March 4th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Neutron stars are physicists' dreams come true: they bring together aspects of classical and quantum electrodynamics, coupled with strongly magnetized plasma physics in…

Past Events

Date
Tue January 28th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

The concept of attractors, well-known in classical mechanics, proved very productive in the theory of black holes and inflationary cosmology.

Date
Tue January 21st 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Bob Birgeneau

Solid State Physics is a field which continuously renews itself through the discovery of new materials and new phenomena. …

Date
Tue January 14th 2025, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

The human embryo begins as a simple, two-dimensional sheet of cells, with each cell possessing the ability to give rise to any cell type in the body.

Date
Tue November 19th 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
David Nelson

Understanding deformations of macroscopic thin plates and shells has a long and rich history, culminating with the nonlinear…

Date
Tue November 5th 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Ania Bleszynski Jayich

Solid state spin qubits, in particular the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, offer a path towards truly nanoscale magnetic imaging of condensed matter and biological…

Date
Tue October 29th 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Mikhail Lukin

A broad effort is currently underway to develop quantum computers that can outperform classical counterparts for certain computational or simulation tasks.