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Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

Annenberg 105
A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt Scholar, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Infinite temperature at zero energy
David Long, Stanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Anharmonicity and non-adiabaticity in SnTe probed through coherent phonons
Alon Ron, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,
Monday, February 9th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Deconfined Quantum Multicriticality
Ryan Thorngren, Professor of Physics, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics
Andrei Faraon, Willian L Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Fletcher Jones Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
Friday, February 13th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Terahertz-frequency magnons and chiral phonons in a kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
Luyi Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
Nisarga Paul, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Semianr

East Bridge 114
Dyanmics and energy relaxation in correlated metals
Peter Armitage, Professor, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The materials physics of complex oxide interfaces
Charles Ahn, Professor, Physics and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Yuri Levin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Julia Mundy,
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
First-Principles AI for Quantum Matter
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,