Past Events

2025

Fano Lecture: Alain Aspect

3:30 pm KPTC 106, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Hall

Alain Aspect Université Paris-Saclay
From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality in action

A joint JFI, PME, & Physics Colloquium

Apr 3

JFI Colloquium

3:45–4:45 pm GCIS W301/303

Chase Broedersz, VU Amsterdam & LMU Munich
Learning the physics of collective cell migration

Apr 1

JFI Special Seminar

3:45 pm GCIS W301/303

Muhittin Mungan, University of Cologne
Self-organization, memory and learning: From driven disordered systems to bacteria

Mar 25

JFI Colloquium

3:45–4:45 pm GCIS W301/303

Scott K. Cushing, CalTech
When do Ultrafast Processes Matter? From Batteries to Strong Localization in Solar Materials

Mar 4

JFI Colloquium

3:45–5:00 pm GCIS W301/303

Libai Huang, Purdue University
Imaging Exciton Transport and Quantum Interactions with Ultrafast Microscopy

Feb 4

JFI/Physics Faculty Candidate Seminar

2:00 pm ERC 161

Jacob Covey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quantum sensing with delocalized atomic clocks

Feb 3

JFI/Physics Faculty Candidate Seminar

2:00–3:00 pm

Samuel Wilken, University of California Santa Barbara
Self-assembled mesoscale life: controlling patterns, mechanics, and reactions using DNA liquids

Jan 31

JFI/Physics Faculty Candidate Seminar

3:45–4:45 pm GCIS W301/303

Linnea Lemma, Princeton University
Driven molecular fluxes control the number, size, and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae

Jan 28

JFI/Physics Faculty Candidate Seminar

2:00–3:00 pm KPTC 206

Robert Hunt, Brown University
Buoyancy, diffusion, and immersed solids

Jan 24