Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
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Colloquia Schedule
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
Spring 2024
- Jan. 19, "Field- and Carrier-Facilitated Active Nanophotonics" | Wenshan Cai of Georgia Tech (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
- Jan. 26, No Colloquium
- Feb. 2, "Cosmology in the Machine Learning Era" | Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro of the Simons Foundation (Contact: Hee-Jong Seo)
- Feb. 9, "Collaborations!" | Sergio Lopez-Permouth (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Feb. 16, "Is Nature Its Own Mirror? Parity-Violation with Galaxy Quartets in BOSS" | Zachary Slepian of University of Florida (Contact: Hee-Jong Seo)
- Feb. 23, "The Tales of Two Probes in the Quest to Understand Nuclei" | Paul Gueye from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams of Michigan State University (Contact: Andrea Richards)
- March 1, "TBA"
- March 8, "Simplicity in a Complex System: Quasi-dynamical Symmetry as Emergence Phenomena in Atomic Nuclei" | Dr. Chairul Bahri of Kennesaw State University (Contact: Gabriala Popa)
- March 15, Spring Break
- March 22, "Detecting Single Gravitons with Quantum Sensing" | Igor Pikovskii of Stockholm University (Contact: Alexander (Shura) Neiman)
- March 29, "Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both" | Bharat Ratra of Kansas State University (Contact: Hee-Jong Seo)
- April 5, CANCELED No colloquium "Robots and AI!" | Jundong Liu of Biomedical Engineering Ohio University (Contact: Alexander (Sasha) Govorov) CANCELED No Colloquium
- April 12, "Optimization and Control in Online Advertising" | Niklas Karlsson, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Amazon (Contact: Alexander (Shura) Neiman)
- April 19, "Towards Programmable Living Materials and Quantitative Models of Active Matter" | Jörn Dunkel of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Contact: Alexander (Shura) Neiman)
- April 26, Awards Ceremony and Colloquium Event | Presentation by Ali Khaledi Nasab. Come and celebrate the accomplishments of our students and wish them well as they make the next steps in their lives!