Fall 2024 Physics Colloquium

Colloquia at 3:45 p.m. in 1080 PRB, Smith Seminar Room
Physics Research Building - Reception at 3:30 p.m. in Atrium

 

2024 Colloquium Committee Members

  • DiMauro L (Chair)
  • Brandenburg D
  • Boveia A
  • Cochran G
  • Hughes K
  • Kawakami R
  • Kural C
  • Skinner B
  • Grafstrom B (Grad rep.)

 

Fall 2024

 

Tuesday, August 27th

Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions using Light
    Speaker: Tony Heinz, Stanford University
    Faculty host: Lou DiMauro

 

Tuesday, September 3rd

Navigating Personal and Professional Dynamics in Graduate School
    Speaker: APS-IDEA, Adrienne Wilson
    Faculty host: n/a

 

Tuesday, September 10th

Exploring new regimes of low temperature plasma physics with dusty plasmas: studies from the lab to space
    Speaker: Edward Thomas, Auburn
    Faculty host: Lou DiMauro

 

Tuesday, September 17th

Attosecond Spectroscopy
    Speaker: Ken Schafer, LSU
    Faculty host: Lou DiMauro

 

Tuesday, September 24th

Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies
    Speaker: Chung-Pei Ma, Berkeley
    Faculty host: John Beacom

 

Tuesday, October 1st

State of the Physics Department
    Speaker: Chair, Vice Chairs, Department Manager
    Faculty host: n/a

 

Tuesday, October 8th

From Schrödinger's cat to emergent gauge theories in topological matter
    Speaker: Ruben Verresen, Chicago
    Faculty host: Yuan-Ming Lu

 

Tuesday, October 15th

Modeling Instruction, student engagement, and neurobiological impacts
    Speaker: Eric Brewe, Drexel University
    Faculty host: Geraldine Cochran

 

Tuesday, October 22nd

Chasing the Ghost Particle: Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube
    Speaker: Brian Clark, University of Maryland
    Faculty host: Kaeli Hughes

 

Tuesday, October 29th

Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding
    Speaker: Job Dekker, University of Massachusetts
    Faculty host: Michael Poirier

 

Tuesday, November 12th

The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
    Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke
    Faculty host: Antonio Boveia

 

Tuesday, November 19th

The nonlinear lattice polarizability: where nonlinear optics and structural control meet
    Speaker: Jeffrey Moses, Cornell
    Faculty host: Michael Chini

 

Tuesday, November 26th

Compact-object astrophysics with gravitational waves
    Speaker: Sylvia Biscoveanu, Northwestern University
    Faculty host: John Beacom

 

Tuesday, December 3rd

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    Speaker: Liang Fu, MIT
    Faculty host: Brian Skinner

 


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