Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science - Applied Physics

Applied Physics Seminar Series
Past Seminars

Tuesday May 17, 2022 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Speaker: Mario Motta
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 11, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Growing the Nearly Impossible: Routes to Stabilize Metastable Phases
Speaker: Lauren Garten, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 19, 2020 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
New Optimization Strategies in Inverse Electromagnetics Design
Speaker: Jonathan Fan, Stanford University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday February 11, 2020 4:15 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Emergent Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Speaker: Aaron Sharpe, Stanford University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday February 7, 2020 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
Speaker: Dragomir N. Neshev, Australian National University
Location: Watson 104
Monday January 13, 2020 11:00 AM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Light-Matter Interactions for Energy Storage and Thermal Management
Speaker: Yuan Yang, Columbia University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 15, 2019 11:00 AM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Microscale Fluid-Structure Interactions: Something Old, Something New and Something Unexpected
Speaker: Leslie Y Yeo, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia)
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday August 23, 2019 11:00 AM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Towards single-molecule spectroscopy and photon-noise limited infrared detection with room temperature nanomechanical resonators
Speaker: Silvan Schmid, TU Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Location: Steele 125
Friday April 26, 2019 11:00 AM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Identifying Phonon Coupling Effects in Strongly Anharmonic Functional Materials with Raman Crystallography
Speaker: Thomas M. Brenner, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday April 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Phononic Memories for Superconducting Quantum Processors
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Chip-Scale Nonlinear Photonics and its Applications
Speaker: Mengjie Yu, PhD, Harvard University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday March 5, 2019 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
New Avenues for Planetary Physics in the Laboratory
Speaker: Pierre Gourdain, University of Rochester
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday February 26, 2019 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Metasurface Computational Imaging
Speaker: Arka Majumdar, University of Washington
Location: Watson 104
Friday February 1, 2019 2:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Heterogeneously integrated membrane photonic devices on Si substrate for datacom and computercom applications
Speaker: Shinji Matsuo
Location: Watson 104
Friday January 25, 2019 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Cascade of superconducting domes and magnetic order around quarter filling in magic angle bilayer graphene
Speaker: Dmitri Efetov, ICFO (Barcelona, Spain)
Location: Watson 104
Thursday December 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Cooling by Measurement
Speaker: Joerg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart
Location: Keck 142
Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Optical Nanomaterials: Chirality, Refractive Index, and Applications to Solar Energy Conversion
Speaker: Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday September 4, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications
Speaker: Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday August 29, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Novel Optical Material Platforms for Nanophotonics
Speaker: Jie Yao, UC Berkeley
Location: Watson 104
Friday June 22, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
How to Write a Good Journal Paper (or Thesis)
Speaker: Raymond Boxman, Tel Aviv University
Location: Watson 104
Monday May 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Towards Optically Controlled Qubits in Rare Earth Doped Nanoparticles
Speaker: Philippe Goldner, Chimie ParisTech-CNRS, Paris, France
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday May 17, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Precision Gravimetry and Magnetic Gradiometry with Ultra Cold Atoms
Speaker: John Close, Australian National University
Location: Watson 104
Friday April 20, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
The Best Reciprocal Resonators Make the Best Nonreciprocal Systems
Speaker: Sunil Bhave, Purdue University
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday April 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Quantum Correlation Engineering for Next-Generation Nanophotonic Devices
Speaker: Cristian Cortes, Purdue University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 14, 2018 2:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Speaker: Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday March 9, 2018 11:00 AM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Carbon Materials and Single Crystal Metals
Speaker: Ruoff Rodney, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday March 6, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
Speaker: Eric Mills, "Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday February 13, 2018 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Scalable Solid State Quantum Information Processing
Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday February 5, 2018 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
From Negative Index Metamaterials to Topological Light Sources
Speaker: Boubacar Kante, UC San Diego
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday January 12, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
From Many Modes to Many Bodies
Speaker: David Schuster, University of Chicago
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 16, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces
Speaker: Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday November 10, 2017 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces
Speaker: Koray Aydin, Northwestern University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday August 21, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Photonics for medical diagnostics
Speaker: Andreas Seifert
Location: Watson 104
Friday August 11, 2017 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Quantum Nanophotonics: Controlling Light with a Single Spin
Speaker: Edo Waks, University of Maryland
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday June 5, 2017 1:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Entanglement in One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids
Speaker: Adrian Del Maestro, University of Vermont
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday May 11, 2017 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Next-Generation Computing Using Spin-Based and 2D Materials
Speaker: Jean Anne Incorvia, Stanford
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday April 28, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
Speaker: Andrea Baldi, Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday April 27, 2017 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
Speaker: Andrei Shkel, University of California, Irvine
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday April 18, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
Speaker: Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday April 11, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
Speaker: Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 15, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
En Route to Electron/Positron Pair Plasmas
Speaker: Eve Stenson, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday March 2, 2017 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
From Edges to Domain Walls: Quantum Materials Under Scrutiny by Nanoscale Microwave Imaging
Speaker: Eric Yue Ma, Stanford University
Location: Keck 142
Thursday February 9, 2017 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets
Speaker: Hossein Mosallaei, Northeastern University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday January 20, 2017 3:30 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
How Small Can One Shrink a Laser?
Speaker: Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday November 29, 2016 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Speaker: Steve Cundiff, University of Michigan
Location: Watson 104
Friday November 18, 2016 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications
Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
Location: Watson 104
Friday November 11, 2016 3:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Active Semiconductor Nanowire and Metafilm Devices
Speaker: Mark Brongersma, Stanford University
Location: Watson 104
Monday October 31, 2016 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Kerr Comb Generation: Dark Pulse Mode-locking in Normal Dispersion Microresonators
Speaker: Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University
Location: Watson 104
Wednesday October 12, 2016 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Nanophotonic Quantum Networks in Diamond
Speaker: Alp Sipahigil, Harvard University
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday May 3, 2016 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Terahertz Driven Linear Acceleration and X-ray Sources
Speaker: Franz X. Kartner, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Location: Watson 104