2021
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Title TBD
Agnes Mocsy, Pratt
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm
First-Passage Processes in Physics and Beyond
Sidney Redner, Santa Fe Institute, 2021 APS Kadanoff Award Winner
Host: Vincenzo Vitelli and Tom Witten
Ian MacCormack’s PhD Thesis Defense
8:00–10:00 am
Gautam Upadhya’s PhD Thesis Defense
2:00–3:00 pm
2021 Inghram Lecture
3:30–4:30 pm
Tractor Beams and Related Topological Waves
David Grier, New York University
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture
3:30–4:30 pm
The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials
Laura Greene, National MagLab and Florida State University
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Physics Colloquium with Jack Szostak
3:30–4:30 pm
Physics and the Origin of Life
Jack W. Szostak, Harvard University, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Quantum Creators Prize Symposium
Through September 30, 2021
Mark Stone’s PhD Thesis Defense
3:00–4:30 pm
Rising Stars Symposium in Soft and Biological Materials
Through September 24, 2021
The NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers at Princeton, University of Chicago and University of Delaware will hold symposia and career workshops geared for early career researchers in Soft and Biological Matter during Fall 2021. All events will be virtual.