PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM Fall 2023

All colloquia take place Thursdays at 1:30 pm, unless otherwise noted. All colloquia are in-person.

August 24

No Colloquium - 1st week of Fall 2023 classes

August 31

 

David Radice

Penn State University

Title: Nuclear Astrophysics with Numerical Relativity

Host :  Veronica Dexheimer

September 7

Grigory Tarnopolskiy

Carnegie-Mellon University

Title: Magic Angle Butterfly in Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Host: Khandker Quader

September 14

Thorsten Schmidt

Kent State University

Title: The Biophysics of Tightly Bent DNA

Host: Khandker Quader

September 21

Laura Greene

Florida State University/NHFML (National Magnet Lab)

Title: The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials

Host: Khandker Quader

September 28

Olga Goulko

University of Massachusetts, Boston 

Title:  The Grasshopper Problem

Host: Khandker Quader

October 5

Fall Break - No Colloquium

October 12

Gerardo Ortiz

Indiana University, Bloomington

Title: Entangled Probes for Entangled Matter

Host: Khandker Quader

Canceled. To be re-scheduled.

October 19

Agnieszka Sorensen

Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Title: Understanding QCD matter under extreme conditions with transport models

Host: Veronica Dexheimer

Canceled. Re-scheduled - Oct 26

October 26

Agnieszka Sorensen

Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Title: Understanding QCD matter under extreme conditions with transport models

Host: Veronica Dexheimer

November 2

Xiaojun Yao

University of Washington, Seattle

Title: Eigenstate Thermalization in Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

Host: Mike Strickland

November 9

Ralf Rapp

Texas A&M University

Title: Heavy Quarks and the Big Bang

Host: Mike Strickland

November 16

Dragana Popovich

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory  and Department of Physics, Florida State University

Title: Non-equilibrium transport and thermalization in two-dimensional bad conductors

Host: Khandker Quader

November 23

No Colloquium - Thanksgiving break

November 30

Lydia Kisley

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Super-resolution fluorescence imaging of extracellular environments

Host: Thorsten Schmidt

December 7

No Colloquium - last week of classes