Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2020
Dr. Tsampkos Kottos
Thursdays, 11.50 am - 1.10 pm (*except where noted)
Colloquia Series will be via zoom for the Fall semester
| 
 Date  | 
 Speaker  | 
 Title  | 
| 
 Sept 17  | 
 Dr. Rajarshi Roy University of Maryland 
 | 
Seeing the Light: Photons, Complexity and Randomness | 
| 
 Sept 24  | 
 Dr. Sebastian Deffner University of Maryland, Baltimore County 
 | 
Quantum Thermodynamics - an Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Information | 
| 
 Oct 01  | 
 Open House  | 
Introduction of the Physics Department to the Undergraduates Interested in Declaring a Physics Major | 
| 
 Oct 08  | 
 Dr. Spencer Smith Mount Holyoke College 
 | 
Maximal Mixing in Active Matter Systems | 
| 
 Oct 15  | 
 Dr. Johanne Hizanidis University of Crete 
 | 
SQUID Metamaterials: A Testbed for Nonlinear Dynamics | 
| 
 Oct 22  | 
 Dr. Paul Hanakata Harvard University 
 | 
Designing Two-Dimensional Materials with Machine Learning and Defect Engineering | 
| 
 Oct 29  | 
 Dr. Marc Timme Institute for Theoretical Physics & Center for Advancing Electronics, Dresden 
 | 
Collective Nonlinear Dynamics of Energy and Mobility Systems | 
| 
 Nov 05  | 
 IEEE Cady Milestone Celebration  | 
Talks on the History of Research by Walter Cady on Quartz Crystal Resonator Circuits at Wesleyan in the First Half of the 20th Century | 
| 
 Nov 12  | 
 Dr. Theo Geisel Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany 
 | 
The Psychophysics of Musical Rhythms and the Riddle of Swing | 
| 
 Nov 19  | 
 Dr. Brian Shuve Harvey Mudd College 
 | 
Illumuminating Hidden Particles at High-Energy Colliders | 
| 
 Dec 03  | 
 Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos Yeshiva University 
 | 
Time Scales for the Equilibration of Many-Body Quantum Systems | 





