Friday, September 20 Physics Colloquium | Single-Crystal Plasmonics - Adventures in Hot Electron Harvesting, Sept. 20
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Friday, October 4 Physics Colloquium | Physics-Inspired Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Motions, Oct. 4
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Friday, October 18 Physics Colloquium | Using High Energy Density Plasmas for Nuclear Experiments Relevant to Nuclear Astrophysics, Oct. 18
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Friday, November 1 Physics Colloquium | Physics for the People: Charting an APS Roadmap for Civic Science and Public Engagement, Nov. 1
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Friday, November 8 Physics Colloquium | Presents Andrew Zangwill from Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov. 8
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
Friday, November 15 Physics Colloquium | Presents Henry Clark of Texas A&M University, Nov. 15
4:10 PM — 5:00 PM
Walter Hall
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, " TBA "| 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, " Using High Energy Density Plasmas for Nuclear Experiments Relevant to Nuclear Astrophysics " | Frances Hellman from University of California Berkeley (Contact: Arthur Smith)
- Oct. 25, " TBA "| 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, " TBA "| Andrew Zangwill from Georgia Tech (Contact: Sergio Ulloa)
- Nov. 15, " TBA "| Henry Clark from Texas A&M University (Contact: Cody Parker)
- Nov. 22, " TBA "| 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, CANCELEDNo colloquium " Robots and AI! " | Jundong Liu of Biomedical Engineering Ohio University (Contact: Alexander (Sasha) Govorov) CANCELEDNo 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!