Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

Upcoming Colloquia

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

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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 (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, "Density functional theory" | Kyle Godbey of Michigan State University (Contact: Jane Kim)
• April 11, "Many-body ... ML, Si, ..." | Jane Kim of Ohio University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
• April 18, "TBA" | Gerardo Ortiz of Indiana University at Bloomington (Contact: Nancy Sandler)
• April 25, Awards Ceremony and Colloquium Event 

Fall 2024

• Aug. 30, Departmental Welcome Event
• Sept. 6, "Fueling Innovation: Advancing Nuclear Nonproliferation Solutions with EFI (opens in a new window)"| Anna S. Erickson from Georgia Tech (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
• Sept. 13, "Through a Glass Weakly:  Studies in Parity Violation at Jefferson Lab (opens in a new window)"| Paul King from Ohio University
• Sept. 20, "Single-Crystal Plasmonics  - Adventures in Hot Electron Harvesting (opens in a new window)" | Gary Leach from Simon Fraser University (Contact: Sasha Govorov)
• Sept. 27, "Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 2024 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Results and the Cosmological Implications (opens in a new window)"| Hee-Jong Seo from Ohio University
• Oct. 4, "Physics-Inspired Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Motions (opens in a new window)" | 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 (opens in a new window)" | Frances Hellman from University of California Berkeley (Contact: Arthur Smith)
• Oct. 25, "Inertial Confinement Fusion: Ignition and Nuclear Astrophysics (opens in a new window)"| 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 (opens in a new window)" | Jennifer Parsons (opens in a new window) from American Physical Society (Contact: Mark Lucas)
• Nov. 8, CANCELED rescheduled for spring semester. "That's Not Physics (opens in a new window)"| Andrew Zangwill from Georgia Tech (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
• Nov. 15, "The Radiation Effects Facility at the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University (opens in a new window)"| Henry Clark from Texas A&M University (Contact: Cody Parker)
• Nov. 22, "Connecting Quarks to the Cosmos: The Role of Quark Masses (opens in a new window)"| 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 (opens in a new window)" | Ron Bude from University of Michigan Medical School (retired) (Contact: David Drabold)
• Dec. 13, Final Exam Week

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