Physics Department Special Seminar

Dr. Maksym Serbyn, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Emergence of Dirac fermions from band structure, topology, and interactions

Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, will present seminar. Professor Itai Cohen, host.

Seminar Title: Mechanical topological insulators: from metamaterials to active liquids

Physics Department Special Seminar

Speaker: Natasha Holmes, Stanford University

Title: Re-thinking intro physics labs: Teaching and assessing critical thinking

General Physics Colloquium, Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Refreshments from 3:30-3:50 pm.

Title: Transforming and Cloaking with Metamaterials: Optics, Mechanics, and Thermodynamics

Host: Itai Cohen

Physics Department Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Brad Ramshaw, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Title: Quantum materials in extreme magnetic fields

Fernando Sols, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, will present seminar. Professor Erich Meuller, host.

Seminar Title: Hawking radiation from sonic black holes in flowing atom condensates.

Yi Zhang, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, will present seminar. Professor Eun-Ah Kim, host.

Seminar Title: Quantum oscillations as a new portal to unconventional quantum phenomena

Yoav Lahini, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, will present seminar.

Seminar Title: Slow relaxations and memory effects in disordered mechanical systems

Gil Young Cho, Physics Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, will present seminar. Professor Eun-Ah Kim, host.

Seminar Title: Novel Quantum Criticality in Two Dimensional Topological Phase transitions

Zvonimir Dogic, Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, will present seminar.

Seminar Title: Spontaneous flows in soft active matter