Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
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Colloquia Schedule
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.
Fall 2024
- Aug. 30, Departmental Welcome Event
- Sept. 6, "Fueling Innovation: Advancing Nuclear Nonproliferation Solutions with EFI"| Anna S. Erickson from Georgia Tech (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
- Sept. 13, "Through a Glass Weakly: Studies in Parity Violation at Jefferson Lab"| Paul King from Ohio University
- Sept. 20, "Single-Crystal Plasmonics - Adventures in Hot Electron Harvesting" | Gary Leach from Simon Fraser University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- Sept. 27, "Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 2024 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Results and the Cosmological Implications"| Hee-Jong Seo from Ohio University
- Oct. 4, "Physics-Inspired Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Motions" | Jundong Liu from Ohio University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- Oct. 11, No Colloquium - Fall Break - no classes
- Oct. 18, "Hidden Order in Amorphous Materials: From Gravitational Wave Detectors to Topological Materials" | Frances Hellman from University of California Berkeley (Contact: Arthur Smith)
- Oct. 25, "Inertial Confinement Fusion: Ignition and Nuclear Astrophysics"| Maria Gatu Johnson from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Contact: Carl Brune)
- Nov. 1, "Physics for the People: Charting an APS Roadmap for Civic Science and Public Engagement" | Jennifer Parsons from American Physical Society (Contact: Mark Lucas)
- Nov. 8, CANCELED rescheduled for spring semester. "That's Not Physics"| Andrew Zangwill from Georgia Tech (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Nov. 15, "The Radiation Effects Facility at the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University"| Henry Clark from Texas A&M University (Contact: Cody Parker)
- Nov. 22, "Connecting Quarks to the Cosmos: The Role of Quark Masses"| Sanjay Reddy from Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington (Contact: Christian Drischler)
- Nov. 29, No Colloquium - Holiday
- Dec. 6, "Eadberht, Muons, Coin Metallurgy, and the Ramblings of a Retired Professor Who is Having a Blast" | Ron Bude from University of Michigan Medical School (retired) (Contact: David Drabold)
- Dec. 13, Final Exam Week