Spring 2022 Colloquium Schedule
Monday, January 17, 2022
Sofia Sheikh, Berkeley
The Breakthrough Listen Signal-of-Interest ‘blc1’: Analysis, Origin, and
Lessons Learned
Monday, January 31, 2022
Elena Murchikova, “Institute for Advanced Study”
Sagittarius A* in its natural habitat
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Robert Crease, SUNY Stony Brook
Explaining Philosophy of Science to Physicists
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Mekena Metcalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simulation of Open-Quantum Systems on Quantum Computers
Monday, February 7, 2022
Christopher Fuchs, University of Massachusetts Boston
Quantum mechanics? It’s all fun and games until someone loses an i.
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Artemy Kolchinsky, Santa Fe Institute
Thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Quntao Zhuang, University of Arizona
Quantum information processing: from fundamentals to applications
Monday, February 14, 2022
Victor Lherm, UofR
Experiments on planetary core formation
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Mishkat Bhattacharya, RIT
Measuring and Manipulating Atomic Superfluid Rotation with Cavity
Optomechanics
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Kyunju Kim Arizona State University
Searching for Universal Principles in Life on Earth and Beyond
Monday, February 28, 2022
Joel Kastner, RIT
Detached Shell Carbon Stars: Tracing Thermal Pulses on the Asymptotic
Giant Branch Shells
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council, Ottawa ON
How to break refrigeration limits using quantum superpositions of causal
Order
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Thomas Patrick Purdy, University of Pittsburgh
Optomechanical Sensors and Transducers
Monday, March 14, 2022
Evgenya Shkolnik, Arizona State University
A Holistic View of Exoplanets, their Environments, and their Potential to
Host Life
Monday, March 21, 2022
Gabriel Landi, University of Sao Paulo
Information-thermodynamics in the quantum regime
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Robert Crease, SUNY Stony Brook
Explaining Philosophy of Science to Physicists
Monday, March 28, 2022
Akira Sone, Aliro Quantum Technologies
Toward Practical Near-term Quantum Computers
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Axel Kleidon, MPI Biogeochemistry
Thermodynamics, planets and life
Monday, April 11, 2022
Ligia Fonseca Coelho
The colors of life in ice as a guide to search for extraterrestrial life
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Peter Rakich, Yale University
Coupling photons and phonons using Brillouin interactions
Monday, April 25, 2022
Sofia Sheikh, Berkely
The Breakthrough Listen Signal-of-Interest ‘blc1’: Analysis, Origin, and
Lessons Learned
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Denver Whittington, Syracuse University
Beyond the Baseline: Opportunities with Giant Neutrino Detectors