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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 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 Foeppl-von Karman…

Date
Tue January 14th 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. …

Past Events

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. 

Date
Tue October 22nd 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Michel Milinkovitch

Michel Milinkovitch

Date
Tue October 15th 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Adam Burrows

Using more than 20 state-of-the-art 3D core-collapse simulations to unprecedented late times (fully in 3D), I provide correlations between

Date
Tue October 8th 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201

Optical spectroscopies have contributed immensely to the present understanding of metals, semiconductors and superconductors.

Date
Tue April 16th 2024, 3:30pm
Location:
Hewlett Teaching Center
370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
201
Speaker
Joel Fajans

Recent experiments have measured the effect of gravity on antimatter with the first “direct”, i.e., freefall-style or Galilean Leaning Tower of Pisa-style measurements.