PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM Fall 2024

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

August 22th	NO COLLOQUIUM – First Week of School
August 29th	NO COLLOQUIUM - First week of Labs
September 5	Speaker: Jorge Lopez, University of Texas El Paso Title: Italian delicacies served up in a neutron star crust. Abstract: The study of heavy ion reactions has taught us that nuclear matter has liquid and gaseous phases, phase changes, critical behavior, and many rich phenomena. Here a summary of theoretical efforts leading to the understanding of the thermodynamics of nuclear matter will be presented, including recent ones that study possible “pasta” like structures of neutron star crusts. Refs: * Phase Diagram of Nuclear Pastas in Neutron Star Crusts, J.A. Muñoz and J.A. López, Dynamics 2024, 4(1), 157-169. * Properties of nuclear pastas, J.A. López, C.O. Dorso, and G. Frank, Front. Phys. 2021, 16 (2), 24301. * Lectures Notes on Phase Transformations in Nuclear Matter, World Scientific. Host: Benjamin Fregoso
September 12	NO COLLOQUIUM
September 19	Speaker: Nayana Shah, Washington University in St. Louis Host: Benjamin Fregoso
September 26	NO COLLOQUIUM
October 3rd	Fall Break – NO COLLOQUIUM
October 10th	APS Meeting (Division of Nuclear Physics) NO COLLOQUIUM
October 17th	TBA
October 24th	NO COLLOQUIUM
October 31th	Speaker: Melanie Good, University of Pittsburgh Host: Peter Tandy
November 7th	NO COLLOQUIUM
November 14th	TBA
November 21th	NO COLLOQUIUM
November 28th	Thanksgiving Break – NO COLLOQUIUM
December 5th	Week before finals – NO COLLOQUIUM
December 12th	Final Exam Week – NO COLLOQUIUM