Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
Spring 2026 Colloquium Schedule
Agung Budiyono, Senior Researcher at the Center of Quantum Physics, National Agency for Research and Innovation, Indonesia
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Quantum Science Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Using nonpositive values of Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability and strange weak value to quantify quantum resources
Thursday, January 15, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ed76fece-a11e-46b5-9718-b3b5015b5fe7
Arie Bodek, University of Rochester
In Search of New Physics: Precision Measurements of Standard Model Parameters at the Large Hadron Collider
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4fe103cb-48ad-4c87-9b56-b39c010b360d
Adam Frank, University of Rochester
Physics, Philosophy and Quantum Agents
Thursday, January 23, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=58ff5136-fc19-4078-93a5-b3d40156eb09
Student & Postdocs Talks, University of Rochester
Thursday, January 29, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ae8a350a-fdfc-42f4-b03c-b3d40156ebac
Taylor Kutra, University of Rochester
An ALMA View of Circumstellar Disks in the Closest Young Binaries
Monday, February 2, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d34a54fe-ba32-4bd7-b4b3-b3d40156e85a
Theta Chan, Notre Dame
Harnessing Disorder in Strongly Coupled Light-Matter Systems
Thursday, February 5, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b2e751ed-c157-4269-8b42-b39c01090ef5
Dr. Yuxin Wang, University of Maryland
Quantum-enhanced noise sensing
Monday, February 9, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df69df35-3a95-4f29-8827-b3e6015c8f88
Dr. Christopher Waechtler, Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)
How Quantum Systems Learn to Synchronize
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e25ff8a7-b9fe-463b-bf96-b3e6015c9073
Peter Maurer, University of Chicago
From diamond defects to protein-based qubit sensors
Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d981110e-fcc0-461a-8cc2-b3d40156ec41
Lia Medeiros, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
EHT images of black holes: what we learn from them and how we can improve them
Monday, February 16, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0f1eb7d8-c3d9-4204-a259-b3d40156e8c0
Dr. Ricardo Martinez Garcia, Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Görlitz, Germany
SELF-ORGANIZATION AND ROBUSTNESS IN COMPLEX LIVING SYSTEMS.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c917679f-a7e0-4372-b6e6-b3e6015c9159
Dr. Samuel Garratt, Princeton University
Complexity of quantum matter
Monday, February 23, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8bab7cd2-b5ce-46ed-b1ed-b3e6015c9271
Christopher Jarynski, University of Maryland
Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4abb3576-8d4f-41ee-8b14-b39c010b36b3
Songhu Wang, Indiana University
Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot Jupiters
Monday, March 2, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b227131c-3184-416a-81e4-b3d40156e91d
Dr. Carlos Floyd, University of Chicago
Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ed9cf56f-4378-4f25-9e36-b3e6015c6c0e
Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University
The Unbearable Lightness of Neutrinos
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d8c2b1f9-54ee-4c03-bfd0-b39c010b36c4
Dr. Yuanzhao Zhang, Santa Fe Institute
Physics-uninformed machine learning
Thursday, March 5, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cdbebc22-db24-4f03-a9e8-b3e6015c6de3
Luis Dias da Silva, University of São Paulo (IF-USP)
Can quantum dots detect zero modes in topological superconductors?
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Travis Thieme, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taiwan)
What are "accretion streamers" and what is their role in the mass assembly of protostellar disks?
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Catherine Manea, University of Utah
Chemical Fossils of the Milky Way: What Precise Stellar Abundances Reveal About Nucleosynthesis, Substellar Objects, and our Galaxy's Evolution
Monday, March 23, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=32d5f1f6-844d-4b97-b21d-b3d40156e99a
Sid Parameswaran, University of Oxford
Probing quasiparticle interactions and statistics through nonlinear response
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7a84bca2-9121-489f-a20a-b40f00ddd1f5
Sid Parameswaran, University of Oxford
Moiré is different: New Twists in the Tale of Strong Correlations
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2f0e044f-291f-4b42-a679-b39c010b36ff
Matthias Degroote, Boehringer Ingelheim
Drug design on quantum computers
Thursday, March 26, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=40e36cb4-aed0-42e2-a5b0-b3d40156ecaf
Jeremy Pigeon, University of Rochester - Laboratory for Laser Energetics
High-field physics at the wavelength frontier
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1c9e5fa4-e36a-4b93-a5f3-b39c010b3713
Jiayin Dong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Toward a Unified Framework for Giant Planet Demographics
Monday, April 6, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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David Reis, Stanford University and SLAC
X-ray vision in the age of free-electron lasers: Making the invisible visible
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Kate Scholberg, Duke University
How to Spot a Supernova from Deep Underground
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Taeho Ryu, University of Colorado, Boulder (JILA)
Tidal disruption events: What powers the peak luminosity?
Monday, April 20, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Joseph Akeyo Omolo, Maseno University
TBD
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Xiaofeng Qian, Stevens Institute of Technology
TBD
Thursday, April 23, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Xu Han, ARgonne National Laboratory
TBD
Thursday, May 7, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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