| Date | Spring 2016 – Colloquium Information | 
| Feb. 3, 2016 | Semion Saikin Bioantenna in a cavity: engineering energy transfer in natural photosynthetic systems
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| Feb. 10, 2016 | Sebastian Deffner Quantum thermodynamics: Thermodynamics and information processing at the nanoscale
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| Feb. 17, 2016 | Liping Yu Designing Advanced Materials for Next-Generation Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications
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| Feb. 24, 2016 | Oleksandr Kyriienko Light-matter interaction for quantum technologies
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| Mar. 2, 2016 | Nicolas Large Plasmonic Properties of Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures from Fundamental Physics to Applications
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| Mar. 9, 2016 | Archana Kamal Quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits
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| Mar. 16, 2016 | Spring Break – No colloquium scheduled | 
| Mar. 23, 2016 | Garnett Bryant Approaching the quantum limit for nanoplasmonics
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| Mar. 30, 2016 | Linda Reichl Transport Processes and Sound Mode Decay in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates
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| Apr. 6, 2016 | Jonathan Baugh Superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires
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| Apr. 13, 2016 | Michel Orrit Optical microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules and single plasmonic gold nanoparticles
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| Apr. 20, 2016 | Gregory Harry LIGO, GW1509014, and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
 
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| Apr. 27, 2016 | Cole Miller The Wave of the Future
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| May 4, 2016 | 2016 Joseph F. Mulligan Memorial Lecture Presented by Catherine Rossbach
 The Life and Work of Emmy Noether
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