General Physics Colloquium, Michael Shelley, NYU. Refreshments from 3:30-3:50 pm.

Title: Self-assembly and collective behavior in active matter systems

Host: Itai Cohen

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, will present seminar. Professor Katja Nowack, host.

Seminar Title: Exploring Quantum Transport in Flatland

Karin Dahmen, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, will present seminar. Professor Jim Sethna, host.

Seminar Title: Universal slip statistics: from nanocrystals to earthquakes

Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, will present seminar. Professor Erich Mueller, host.

Seminar Title: Current Induced Torques

Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, will present seminar. Professor Erich Mueller, host.

Seminar Title: Correlation dynamics in ultracold fermions with resonant interactions

Physics Department Special Seminar

Dr. Maksym Serbyn, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Emergence of Dirac fermions from band structure, topology, and interactions

Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, will present seminar. Professor Itai Cohen, host.

Seminar Title: Mechanical topological insulators: from metamaterials to active liquids

Physics Department Special Seminar

Speaker: Natasha Holmes, Stanford University

Title: Re-thinking intro physics labs: Teaching and assessing critical thinking

General Physics Colloquium, Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Refreshments from 3:30-3:50 pm.

Title: Transforming and Cloaking with Metamaterials: Optics, Mechanics, and Thermodynamics

Host: Itai Cohen

Physics Department Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Brad Ramshaw, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Title: Quantum materials in extreme magnetic fields