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Physics

Physics Division Colloquium

Schedule for the 2026-2027 season

The Physics Division Colloquia are on Fridays at 11 a.m. in the 203 Auditorium.
DateTitle
2 October 2026

Midwest Theory Get Together 2026

Jaki Noronha-Hostler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Turning Gold Into The Most Perfect Fluid: 25 Years of RHIC
Host: Jane Kim

9 October 2026Jorgen Randrup, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nuclear Fission as Brownian Motion
Host: Walter Reviol 
16 October 2026Keith Hengen, Washington University, St. Louis
What Accounts for the Capacity to Learn? … From Artificial Networks to the Mammalian Brain
Host: Whitney Armstrong
23 October 2026Alan Dibos, Argonne National Laboratory
TBD
Host: Tomas Polakovic
30 October 2026Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
TBD
Host: Melina Avila Coronado
6 November 2026Zhangbu Xu, Kent State University
TBD
Host: Henry Klest 
13 November 2026TBD, TBD
TBD
Host: TBD
20 November 2026TBD, TBD
TBD
Host: TBD
27  November 2026No Colloquium Thanksgiving Holiday
4 December 2026George Tzimpragos, University of Wisconsin-Madison
TBD
Host: Tomas Polakovic
11 December 2026Philipp Heck, Field Museum of Natural History
TBD
Host: Calem Hoffman
26 February 2027Sophia Hayes, Washington University
TBD
Host: Walter Reviol
5 March 2027Dmitri Kharzeev, Stony Brook University
TBD
Host: Arthur Avkhadiev
12 March 2027David B. Kaplan, Institute for Nuclear Theory
TBD
Host: Arthur Avkhadiev
19 March 2027Christopher A. Fuchs, University of Massachusetts, Boston
TBD
Host: Ryan Tang
26 March 2027Christopher Fryer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
TBD
Host: Melina Avila Coronado
2 April 2027Renee Fatemi, University of Kentucky
TBD
Host: Maria Żurek
9 April 2027Shamit Kachru, PDT Partners - Stanford
TBD
Host: Ryan Tang
16 April 2027No Colloquium APS Global Physics Summit 2027
23 April 2027Zhongbo Kang, University of California, Los Angeles  
TBD
Host: Arthur Avkhadiev
30 April 2027Ismail Zahed, Stony Brook University
TBD
Host: Zein-Eddine Meziani
7 May 2027Eric Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles
TBD
Host: Olivier Grasdijk
14 May 2027TBD, TBD
TBD
Host: TBD
21 May 2027TBD, TBD
TBD
Host: TBD
28 May 2027Stephanie Palmer, The University of Chicago
TBD
Host: Sylvester Joosten