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Colloquia are held on Wednesday afternoons at 1:00pm in Commons Center 235\/237 (unless otherwise noted).<\/p>\n

Spring 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date               <\/th>Speaker                                             <\/th>Affiliation                                             <\/th>Colloquium Title                                             <\/th>Notes                                             <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Jan 7<\/td>David Hyde<\/td>Vanderbilt University<\/td>Full Stack Simulation Science<\/td>Host: K Varga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 14<\/td>Friederike Bock<\/td>Oak Ridge National Laboratories<\/td>A New Era of Electron-Ion Collider Physics- The ePIC detector and its forward hadronic calorimeter<\/a><\/td>Host: R Kunnawalkam-Elayavalli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 21<\/td>Angelo Ricarte<\/td>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<\/td>Weaving the Multi-Messenger Tapestry of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution: From the Event Horizon to Cosmological Scales<\/a><\/td>Host: S Taylor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 28<\/td>Zane Rossi<\/td>University of Tokyo<\/td>The Art of (Quantum) Computer Programming<\/a><\/td>Host: K Varga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 2<\/td>Rhine Samajdar<\/td>Princeton University<\/td> Special Colloquium<\/b>
\nArchitectures, Algorithms, and Opportunities for Quantum Computation<\/a><\/td>		Host: K Varga
\n4309 Stevenson
\n3:00- 4:00 PM<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 4<\/td>Christopher Tiede<\/td>Niels Bohr International Academy<\/td>How to Feed a Super-Massive Black Hole Binary<\/a><\/td>Host: S Taylor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 11<\/td>Eric Anschuetz<\/td>California Institute of Technology<\/td>When to Go Quantum<\/a><\/td>Host: K Varga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 16<\/td>Aklant Bhowmick<\/td>University of Virginia<\/td> Special Colloquium<\/b>
\nUnraveling the Origins of Supermassive Black Holes and their Cosmic Significance using Cosmological Simulations<\/a><\/td>		Host: S Taylor
\n4309 Stevenson
\n3:00- 4:00 PM<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 18<\/td>Thankful Cromartie<\/td>U.S. Naval Research Laboratory<\/td>Constraining the Dense Matter Equation of State with Next-Generation Pulsar Timing Arrays<\/a><\/td>Host: S Taylor
\nNote Change:
\n4309 Stevenson
\n1:15- 2:15 PM<\/b> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 23<\/td>Colin Burke<\/td>Yale University<\/td> Special Colloquium<\/b>
\nProbing the Invisible Universe with Variability<\/a>
\n<\/td>		Host: S Taylor
\n4309 Stevenson Center
\n3:00- 4:00 PM<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 25<\/td>Hong-Ye Hu<\/td>Harvard University<\/td>Scalable Quantum Applications: Synergies in Control, Learning, and Co-design<\/a><\/td>Host: K Varga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 4<\/td>Zhi-Hao Cui<\/td>Columbia University<\/td>Unraveling the Mysteries of Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Materials: Cuprate Superconductivity and Charge Density Waves in CrSBr<\/a><\/td>Host: K Varga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 11<\/td>Spring Break<\/em><\/td>No Colloquium<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Fall 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date               <\/th>Speaker                                             <\/th>Affiliation                                             <\/th>Colloquium Title                                             <\/th>Notes                                             <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Aug 28<\/td>Jessie Runnoe<\/td>Vanderbilt University<\/td>Quasars at the intersection of multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy<\/a><\/td>Start time change
\nto 3:00 PM<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 4<\/td>Carla Fr\u00f6hlich<\/td>North Carolina State University<\/td>Astronomical Goldmines<\/a><\/td>Host: J-F Paquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 11<\/td>Charlie Bennett<\/td>IBM Research<\/td> Slack Lecture <\/b>
\nThe Quantum Nature of Information<\/a><\/td>		Host: S Pantelides<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 18<\/td>Joseph Kapusta<\/td>University of Minnesota<\/td>Accelerator Disaster Scenarios, the Unabomber, and Scientific Risks<\/a><\/td>Host: J-F Paquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 25<\/td> Barry McKernan<\/td>The City University of New York<\/td>The Importance of Things in AGN Disks<\/a><\/td>Host: S Taylor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2<\/td>Julien Guy<\/td>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/td>The Dark Energy of Spectroscopic Instrument: Cosmological Results from the Data Release 2<\/a><\/td>Host: S Taylor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 9<\/td>Fall Break<\/em><\/td>No Colloquium<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 16<\/td>Peter Nelson<\/td>Fisk University<\/td>Random Walks in Active Learning- from an Einstein Misconception to the Value of Simple Models in the Age of AI<\/a>
\n<\/td>		Host: J Wikswo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 23<\/td>Yang-Ting Chien<\/td>Georgia State University<\/td>Probing the Trillion Degree Little Bang in Heavy Ion Collisions<\/a><\/td>Host: L Chen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 30<\/td>David Mandrus<\/td>University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/td>The Search for New Materials<\/a><\/td>Hosts: A al-Wahish
\n & R Haglund<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 6<\/td>Venkat Venkatasubramanian<\/td>Columbia University<\/td> Holladay Lecture <\/b>
\nStatistical Mechanics and Game Theory in the Self-Organizing Dynamics of People, Birds, and Networks<\/a><\/td>		Host: J Velkovska<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 13<\/td>Natalie Klco<\/td>Duke University<\/td> Hankla Lecture <\/b>
\nQuantum Simulating (with) Nature's Quantum Correlations: Guidance from Field Vacuum Entanglement<\/a><\/td>		Host: J-F Paquet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 17<\/td>Pedro Ferreira<\/td>Oxford University<\/td> Special Colloquium<\/b>
\nThe Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity<\/a><\/td>		Host: R Scherrer
\nNote time & room change: 3:00PM in 4309 SC<\/b><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 20<\/td>No Colloquium<\/td>No Colloquium<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 27<\/td>Thanksgiving<\/em><\/td>No Colloquium<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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