Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
- Friday, January 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Atomtricity: From Gauge Field Theory to Transistors for Matter Waves, Dana Z. Anderson, Infleqtion and University of Colorado, Boulder
February 2026
- Friday, February 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Search for Anyons in Quantum Materials, Philip Kim, Harvard University
- Friday, February 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- The Black Hole Diet: How Accretion Controls Spin, Growth, and Feedback, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University
- Friday, February 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Dense matter and neutron stars: what we have learned from NICER, M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland
- Friday, February 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Materials that exceed classical thermodynamic bounds on properties, Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 2026
- Friday, March 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- From Dirac fermions to topological materials to the Standard Model: A common thread in particle and condensed matter physics, David B. Kaplan, University of Washington
- Friday, March 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Birth, Death, and Flocking: The Hydrodynamics of Dry Active matter, John Toner, U Oregon
- Friday, March 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Gravity, Geometry and the Quantum, Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State
- Friday, March 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Neutrinos in the Universe, Cecilia Lunardini, Arizona State University
April 2026
- Friday, April 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Neutrinos: A window into the unknown, Justin Evans, University of Manchester
- Friday, April 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Playing with Quantum Annealers , Alex Kamenev , FTPI-UMN
- Friday, April 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- The attosecond-Ångstrom frontier at x-ray free-electron lasers, Linda Young, ANL
May 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Building a quantum computer out of single photons and single atoms, Josiah Sinclair, Carl & Brynn Anderson Assistant Professor of Physics, UW - Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium, Anderson, Lawler, Lin annual Lecture (inaugural);
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - tbd, David Fahey, NOAA, Director of the Chemical Sciences Laboratory