Physics Colloquium | From Optical Metamaterials to Medical Physics and Advanced Radiation Therapy Techniques, Sept 19
Friday, September 19
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Physics Colloquium | Neutron-capture Reaction Constraints for Astrophysical Processes, Oct 24
Friday, October 24
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Physics Colloquium | Atom-based Si Quantum Solid-state Devices: Building Feynman’s Room at the Bottom One Atom at a Time, Oct 31
Friday, October 31
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
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 "| Andrew Y. Joe from University of California, Riverside (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Sept. 12, " Smart Material Systems: Transduction Physics "| Don Leo from Ohio University, Provost (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Sept. 19, " From Optical Metamaterials to Medical Physics and Advanced Radiation Therapy Techniques " | Dr. Larousse Khosravi Khorashad of the Department of Radiation Oncology in Atlanta, Georgia (Contact: Alexander Govorov)
- Sept. 26, "TBA" | Eric Muth of Ohio University VP Research (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Oct. 3, "Undergraduate Poster Session" (Contact: Julie Roche)
- Oct. 10, No Colloquium - Fall Break - no classes
- Oct. 17, TBD
- Oct. 24, " Neutron-capture Reaction Constraints for Astrophysical Processes " | Artemis Spryrou of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University (Contact: Andrea Richard)
- Oct. 31, " Atom-based Si Quantum Solid-state Devices: Building Feynman’s Room at the Bottom One Atom at a Time " | Garnett Bryant of NIST (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Nov. 7, "TBA" | Roxanne Springer of Duke (Contact: Christian Drischler)
- Nov. 14, "Nature's Balancing Act" | Ken Hicks of the Department of Energy (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Nov. 21, "TBA" | Leah Broussard of Oak Ridge National Lab (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Nov. 28, No Colloquium - Holiday
- Dec. 5, "TBA" | Chloë Hebborn of IJCLab (Contact: Daniel Phillips)
- Dec. 12, Final Exam Week
Spring 202 5
- 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.