The Bhaumik Lectures bring leading physicists to UCLA to speak about the frontiers of the field. The lectures are open to the public.

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2026

Eduardo Fradkin

Thursday, May 7 · 4 PM · PAB 1-434

Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois

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Barry Barish

Thursday, March 26 · 4:30 PM · Northwest Campus Auditorium

Barry Barish Caltech

“Gravitational Waves: From Discovery to a New Science”

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2025

Cumrun Vafa

Thursday, October 2 · 4 PM · PAB 1-434

Cumrun Vafa Harvard

“String Theory and the Dark Sector”

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Michel Devoret

Thursday, May 8 · 4 PM · PAB 1-434

Michel Devoret Yale

“Error Correction of a Logical Quantum Bit beyond the Break-Even Point”

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Stephen Shenker

Thursday, April 3 · 4 PM · PAB 1-434

Stephen Shenker Stanford

“Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity”

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2024

David Spergel

Friday, November 8 · 11 AM · Bhaumik Collaboratory

David Spergel Simons Foundation

“Our Simple Strange Universe: New Data and New Physics”

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Ashoke Sen

Wednesday, April 10 · 5 PM · UCLA Faculty Center

Ashoke Sen ICTS

“Some Results on Gravitational Waves”

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2023

Dam T. Son

Tuesday, November 7 · 4 PM · Bhaumik Collaboratory

Dam T. Son University of Chicago

“Quantum Fields in Condensed Matter”

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David Gross

Tuesday, September 12 · 6 PM · Luskin Conference Center

David Gross KITP / UC Santa Barbara

“Fifty Years of QCD: The Theory of the Strong Nuclear Force”

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Lance Dixon

Tuesday, March 21 · 4 PM · Bhaumik Collaboratory

Lance Dixon SLAC / Stanford

“Scattering Amplitudes: Jewels at the Heart of Matter”

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Andrew Strominger

Friday, February 24 · 4 PM · Bhaumik Collaboratory

Andrew Strominger Harvard

“Memory, Soft Theorems and the Symmetries of Nature”

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2021

Steven Weinberg

Tuesday, April 27 · 4 PM · via Zoom

Steven Weinberg UT Austin

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2020

Anthony Leggett

Tuesday, January 21 · 4 PM · CNSI Auditorium

Anthony Leggett University of Illinois

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2019

Alessandra Buonanno

Tuesday, December 10 · 4 PM · CNSI Auditorium

Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

“High-Precision Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics”

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Leonard Susskind

Tuesday, May 28 · 6 PM · Franz Hall 1178

Leonard Susskind Stanford

“Gravity and Its Quantum Origins”

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Robert B. Laughlin

Thursday, April 4 · 5 PM · Luskin Conference Center

Robert B. Laughlin Stanford

“The Brayton Battery”

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Nathan Seiberg

Tuesday, March 5 · 4 PM · Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study

“Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics”

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2018

John Preskill

Tuesday, May 29 · UCLA Faculty Center

John Preskill Caltech

“Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier”

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Lisa Randall

Thursday, May 10 · PAB 1-425 · Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Lisa Randall Harvard

“Darkly Charged Matter”

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Kip Thorne

Tuesday, February 27 · 5 PM · Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum

Kip Thorne Caltech

“Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Warped Spacetime”

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Roger Penrose

Monday, January 22 · CNSI Auditorium

Sir Roger Penrose Oxford

“New Cosmology View of Dark Matter, which Strangely and Slowly Decays”

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2017

Edward Witten

Friday, December 1 · 2 PM · CNSI Auditorium · IPAM Green Family Lecture

Edward Witten Princeton / IAS

“What Is New in Two-Dimensional Topological Gravity”

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Edward Witten

Thursday, November 30 · 4 PM · CNSI Auditorium · Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Edward Witten Princeton / IAS

“Integrability and Four-Dimensional Gauge Theory”

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Sudip Chakravarty

Tuesday, April 18 · 4 PM · Faculty Center, California Room

Sudip Chakravarty UCLA

“Superconductivity!”

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Frank Wilczek

Tuesday, February 7 · 4 PM · Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Frank Wilczek MIT

“Augmenting Reality: Axions, Anyons, and Entangled Histories”

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Claudio Pellegrini

Tuesday, January 24 · 4 PM · Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Claudio Pellegrini Stanford & UCLA

“Exploring Matter at the Angstrom–Femtosecond Space and Time Scales with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers”

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2016

Nima Arkani-Hamed

Tuesday, December 6 · 4 PM · Faculty Center, California Room

Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study

“Unification and Fundamental Physics: A Status Report”

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