Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

Upcoming Colloquia

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

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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 (opens in a new window)"| Andrew Y. Joe from University of California, Riverside (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Sept. 12, "TBA"| Don Leo from Ohio University, Provost (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Sept. 19,
• Sept. 26,
• Oct. 3, "Undergraduate Poster Session" (Contact: Julie Roche)
• Oct. 10, No Colloquium - Fall Break - no classes
• Oct. 17,
• Oct. 24,
• Oct. 31, "TBA" | Garnett Bryant of NIST (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Nov. 7,
• Nov. 15,
• Nov. 21,
• Nov. 28, No Colloquium - Holiday
• Dec. 5,
• 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 (opens in a new window)" | Jaki Noronha-Hostler of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Contact: Christian Drischler)
• Jan. 24, "SERS at 50: A Half-Century of Ultra-detection Innovations (opens in a new window)" | 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 (opens in a new window)" | Jianjun Dong of Auburn University (Contact: David Drabold)
• Feb. 7, "Single-Particle Spectroscopy on Interfacial Charge Transfer for Plasmonic Photocatalysis (opens in a new window)" | Wei-Shun Chang of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
• Feb. 14, "Cavity-Dressed Quantum Matter (opens in a new window)" | Junichiro Kono of Rice University (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Feb. 17, "Unveiling New Physics beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology with Galaxies (opens in a new window)" (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 (opens in a new window)" (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 (opens in a new window)" (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 (opens in a new window)" (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 (opens in a new window)" | 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 (opens in a new window)" | Andrew Zangwill of Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• April 4, "Towards a New Era of Discovery in Low-Energy Nuclear Science (opens in a new window)" | Kyle Godbey of Michigan State University (Contact: Jane Kim)
• April 11, "Self-learning Neural Quantum States for Strongly Correlated Fermions (opens in a new window)" | Jane Kim of Ohio University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
• April 18, "Quantum Entanglement Microscopy and Sensing (opens in a new window)" | 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.

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