Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Physics Colloquium | Nature's Balancing Act, Nov 14
Friday, November 14
4:50 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Colloquia Schedule
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, "TBA" | Leah Broussard of Oak Ridge National Lab (Contact: Paul King)
- Nov. 28, No Colloquium - Holiday
- Dec. 5, "TBA" | Chloë Hebborn of IJCLab (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
- Dec. 12, Final Exam Week
Spring 2025
- Jan. 17, "Using Neutron Stars and Lab Experiments to Test a Speed of Sound that Approaches the Speed of Light" | Jaki Noronha-Hostler of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Contact: Christian Drischler)
- Jan. 24, "SERS at 50: A Half-Century of Ultra-detection Innovations" | Ramon Angel Alvarez Puebla of UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- Jan. 31, "Unifying Heat Conduction Across Time and Length Scales: A Time-Domain Approach to Transient Heat Conduction" | Jianjun Dong of Auburn University (Contact: David Drabold)
- Feb. 7, "Single-Particle Spectroscopy on Interfacial Charge Transfer for Plasmonic Photocatalysis" | Wei-Shun Chang of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- Feb. 14, "Cavity-Dressed Quantum Matter" | Junichiro Kono of Rice University (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Feb. 17, "Unveiling New Physics beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology with Galaxies" (2025 Astro Candidate Talk) | Jiamin Hou of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Contact: Paul King and Hee-Joo Seo)
- Feb. 19, "Cosmology with Large Scale Structure" (2025 Astro Candidate Talk) | Peter Taylor of The Ohio State University (Contact: Paul King and Hee-Joo Seo) *Special Note Room is 135*
- Feb. 24, "Cosmology Beyond the Concordance Model? Testing Cosmological Tensions with Galaxy Surveys and Large Scale Structure" (2025 Astro Candidate Talk) | Alex Krolewski of the University of Waterloo (Contact: Paul King and Hee-Joo Seo)
- Feb. 26, "Testing Cosmology with Dark Energy Survey" (2025 Astro Candidate Talk) | Sujeong Lee of Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology (Contact: Paul King and Hee-Joo Seo)*Special Note Room is 135*
- March 7, "Broad Many-body Resonances, Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics, AI, and the Superheavy H Isotopes" | Kevin Fossez of Florida State University (Contact: Jane Kim)
- March 14, Spring Break
- March 21, 2025 APS Global Physics Summit
- March 28, "That's Not Physics" | Andrew Zangwill of Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- April 4, "Towards a New Era of Discovery in Low-Energy Nuclear Science" | Kyle Godbey of Michigan State University (Contact: Jane Kim)
- April 11, "Self-learning Neural Quantum States for Strongly Correlated Fermions" | Jane Kim of Ohio University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- April 18, "Quantum Entanglement Microscopy and Sensing" | Gerardo Ortiz of Indiana University at Bloomington (Contact: Nancy Sandler)
- April 25, End-of-Year Activities featuring an Award-Winning Thesis Presentation, The Chair's Address, and the Awards Ceremony. To be followed by Refreshments and Hors d'oeuvre.