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Colloquia 2026

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
14 Jan	3pm	Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should be Interested	Prof Steven Simon, University of Oxford, United Kingdom	Visit

Colloquia 2025

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
26 Nov	3pm	Mechanism and design principle of ATP synthase	Prof Hiroyuki Noji, University of Tokyo, Japan	Visit
5 Nov	11am	Physics-uninformed machine learning	Dr Yuanzhao Zhang, Santa Fe Institute, USA	Visit
29 Oct	3pm	Towards a Quantum Leap in Computational High-Energy Physics	Prof Stefano Carrazza, University of Milan and INFN Milan, Italy	Visit
8 Sep	3pm	Statistical Mechanics of DNA and Chromosomes	Prof John F. Marko, Northwestern University, USA	Visit
20 Aug	3pm	Principles of Cell Motion	Prof Sean X. Sun, Johns Hopkins University, USA	Visit
13 Aug	3pm	Physics Meets Geometry: a fuzzy sphere Odyssey in critical phenomena	Dr Yin-Chen He, Stony Brook University, USA	Visit
16 Jul	3pm	New Quasiparticles Revealed by Quantum Interference and Light Scattering	Prof Kenneth Stephen Burch, Boston College, USA	Visit
9 Jul	4pm	Magic Angle Graphene: the Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials	Distinguished visitor Prof Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Visit
27 Jun	3pm	Ultrafast magnetic coherent X-ray diffraction for imaging domain dynamics	Prof Ian Robinson, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College, London	Visit
18 Jun	3.30pm	Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter: A Universe of Mixed-State Quantum Phases	Dr Jian-Hao Zhang, Center for Theory of Quantum Matter, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	Visit
30 Apr	11am	Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics	Dr Souvik Biswas, Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Stanford University, USA	Visit
25 Apr	11am	Moiré Magic: Uncovering Band Topology in Twisted WSe₂ Bilayers	Dr Fan Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA	Visit
17 Jan	3pm	“Orbital attachment” and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect	Prof F. Duncan M. Haldane, Princeton University	Visit
9 Jan	2pm	Cosmology	Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Brian Schmidt, Australian National University	Visit

Colloquia 2024

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
23 Oct	3pm	From gravitational experiments and biophysical innovations, it’s all physics	Distinguished visitor Prof Jens Gundlach, University of Washington, Seattle	Visit
6 Nov	3pm	Nanotechnology for single-molecule biology: from nanopore protein sequencing to chromosome organization	Distinguished University Prof Cees Dekker, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	Visit
28 Oct	3pm	Radiative cooling to harvest water from air	Prof Daniel Beysens, Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, CNRS, ESPCI PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France and International Organization for Dew Utilization, www.OPUR.cloud, Paris, France	Visit
20 Sep	3pm	Revealing “Dark Matter” as a Bose-Einstein condensate with new James Webb Space Telescope micro-lenses in the Dragon arc	Prof Tom Broadhurst, EHU/DIPC University of the Basque Country	Visit
23 Aug	3pm	Cosmic Explorer, the Next Generation of US Gravitational-Wave Observatories	Prof Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse University	Visit
26 Jun	3pm	Black Hole Spectroscopy: Recent Observations and Future Prospects	Prof Badri Krishnan, Radboud University	Visit
23 May	3pm	Nanofluidics in carbon nanotube channels	Dr Aleksandr Noy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Visit
15 May	3pm	A tale of two Pair Density Wave (PDW) states in a magnetic superconductor	Dr He Zhao, Brookhaven National Lab	Visit
8 May	3pm	Topological Surface State in a Spin-triplet Superconductor	Dr Shuqiu Wang, University of Bristol	Visit
3 Apr	3pm	Predicting Tipping and Inverse Design of Quantum Scattering with Machine Learning	Regents Prof Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University	Visit
21 Feb	3pm	Learning the Ages and Origins of Stars from their Vibrations	Dr Marc Hon, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research	Visit
7 Feb	2pm	Transcending the Limits of Theoretical Astrophysics with Deep Learning	Dr Ting Yuan Sen, Australian National University	Visit
12 Jan	2pm	The Art of Building Small Molecular Machines	Prof Ben L. Feringa, University of Groningen	Visit

Colloquia 2023

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
21-Dec	3pm	Designing correlated and topological states in semiconductor moiré	Dr Yang Zhang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Visit
8-Nov	4pm	Quantum information processing with Group IV semiconductor	Dr Wister Wei Huang, ETH Zurich	Visit
25-Oct	4pm	van der Waals contacts on 2D semiconductors	Prof Manish Chhowalla, University of Cambridge	Visit
18-Oct	12.30pm	Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe	Prof Meg Urry, Yale University	Visit
13-Sept	5pm	An Elementary Quantum Network of Entangled Optical Atomic Clocks	Dr Raghavendra Srinivas, University of Oxford	Visit
17-May	9am	Putting pieces into the puzzle: Towards creating ultra quantum matter in a lab	Dr Liujun Zou, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada	Visit
8-Feb	3pm	Natural Orbitals: Old Concepts, New Developments	Prof Jerzy Ciosłowski, University of Szczecin, Poland	Visit

Colloquia 2022

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
19 Oct	3pm	Using Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks for Optimisations of Optical Alignment and Magneto-Optical Trap	Prof Lam Ping Koy, Australian National University and Chief Quantum Scientist, A*STAR	Visit
21-Sep	10am	Wormhole effects in quantum black hole physics	Prof Douglas Stanford, New Horizons in Physics Laureate, Stanford University	Visit
14-Sep	3pm	Towards improved understanding of tropical climate and weather affecting Singapore and Southeast Asia	Prof Dale Barker [Director of the Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS)]	Visit
9-Jun	4.30pm	Shedding Light on Spins: Through the looking-glass, and what we found there	Prof Mete Atatüre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge	Visit
11-May	9am	Towards Nonthermal Control of Quantum Materials by Light	Dr Xinwei Li, California Institute of Technology, USA	Visit
24-Mar	9.30am	Moire materials: new frontier of quantum matter	Prof Liang Fu, Lawrence C. (1944) and Sarah W. Biedenharn Career Development Associate Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Visit
24-Feb	11am	Shedding Light on the Interfacial Enhancement of Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe / SrTiO3	Prof Kyle M. Shen, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA	Visit

Colloquia 2021

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Link
16-Sep	4.30pm	Translating between the two languages of quantum field theory	Dr Djordje Radicevic, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA	Visit
26-Aug	11am	Near-future challenges in scientific analysis for gravitational-wave astronomy	Dr Alvin Chua, TAPIR, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA	Visit