Physics Colloquium | Cosmology Beyond the Concordance Model? Testing Cosmological Tensions with Galaxy Surveys and Large Scale Structure, Feb 24
Monday, February 24
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Physics Colloquium | Sujeong Lee of Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, Feb 26
Wednesday, February 26
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Colloquia Schedule
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, " TBA " (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, "TBA" | Kevin Fossez of Florida State University (Contact: Jane Kim & Christian Drischler)
- 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, "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 "| 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