Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

Upcoming Colloquia

Colloquia are Fridays at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Hall 145.

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Colloquia Schedule

Spring 2026

• Jan. 16, Cancelled - to be rescheduled!"Unifying Single-neuron Tuning, Manifold Geometry, and Population Dynamics" | Tatiana Engel of Princeton University co-sponsored by Quantitative Biology Institute and Department of Physics & Astronomy (Contact: Alexander Neiman)
• Jan. 23, Cancelled - to be rescheduled!"Changing Landscape of Science Dissemination" | Sami Mitra of Physics Review Letters Senior Editor (Contact: Nancy Sandler)
• Jan. 30, "From Bonds to Correlations: Quantum Geometry in Quantum Materials, Jan 30" | Raquel Queiroz of Columbia University (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Feb. 6, "Neutron stars - Connections Between the Laboratory and the Cosmos" | Mia Kumamoto of Ohio University (Contact: Paul King)
• Feb. 13, "Fractionalized Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids and their Detection" | Nandini Trivedi of The Ohio State University (Contact: Nancy Sandler)
• Feb. 20, "Seeking Order from Chaos: A Classical Twist to Quantum Computers." | Jed Pixley of Rutgers University (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Feb. 27, "Elliptic Genera, the Witten Genus, Modularity, and the String Group" | Matt Ando of Ohio University (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• March 6, "Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron" | Ricardo Alarcon of Arizona State University (Contact: Andrea Richard)
• March 13,  Spring Break
• March 20, 2026 APS Global Physics Summit
• March 27, "TBA" | Saskia Mordijck of William & Mary University (Contact: Julie Roche)
• April 3, "TBA" | Shelly Lesher of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Contact: Andrea Richard)
• April 10, "Mapping the Dark Universe at Ultra-High Resolution with the James Webb Space Telescope" | Diana Scognamiglio of Duke University
• April 17, "TBA" | Garnett Bryant of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• April 24, End-of-Year Activities, The Chair's Address, and the Awards Ceremony. To be followed by Refreshments and Hors d'oeuvre.

Fall 2025

• Aug. 29, Welcome Event; Guest Speaker Deepshikha Shukla of Rockford University (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
• Sept. 5, "Exploring the Inter-layer Exciton Phase Diagram in Two-dimensional Heterostructures"| Andrew Y. Joe from University of California, Riverside (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Sept. 12, "Smart Material Systems: Transduction Physics"| Don Leo from Ohio University, Provost (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Sept. 19, "From Optical Metamaterials to Medical Physics and Advanced Radiation Therapy Techniques" | Dr. Larousse Khosravi Khorashad of the Department of Radiation Oncology in Atlanta, Georgia (Contact: Alexander Govorov)
• Sept. 26, "The Hidden Physics of Human Health" | Eric Muth of Ohio University VP Research (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Oct. 3, "Undergraduate Poster Session" (Contact: Julie Roche)
• Oct. 10, No Colloquium - Fall Break - no classes
• Oct. 17, "Rewiring Recovery: Discovering the Future of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation at Ohio University" | Dustin Grooms of the Physical Therapy and Principle Investigator of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics and Health Assessment Laboratory at Ohio University (Contact: Neiman Alexander)
• Oct. 24, "Neutron-capture Reaction Constraints for Astrophysical Processes" | Artemis Spryrou of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University (Contact: Andrea Richard)
• Oct. 31, CANCELLED"Atom-based Si Quantum Solid-state Devices: Building Feynman’s Room at the Bottom One Atom at a Time" | Garnett Bryant of NIST (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Nov. 7, "The Role of Symmetries in (mostly nuclear/particle) Physics" | Roxanne Springer of Duke (Contact: Christian Drischler)
• Nov. 14, "Nature's Balancing Act" | Ken Hicks of the Department of Energy and former Physics & Astronomy Ohio University Professor (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Nov. 21, "A Broader View of Neutron Beta Decay from the Nab Experiment at ORNL(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)" | Leah Broussard of Oak Ridge National Lab (Contact: Paul King)
• Nov. 28, No Colloquium - Holiday
• Dec. 5, "Enhancing Reaction Predictions in the Rare-isotopes Beams Era" | Chloë Hebborn of IJCLab (Laboratoire De Physique Des 2 Infinite Irène Joliot-Curie) (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
• Dec. 12, Final Exam Week

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