Past Events
Speaker: James Engstrom, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
Title: Examination of thin film growth using supersonic molecular beams and in situ real time X-ray synchrotron radiation: from organic small molecule semiconductors to transition metal dichalcogenides
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Christopher Palmer , Department of Physics, Princeton University
Title: Observation of the Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks at CMS
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Lindsay LeBlanc, Ultracold Quantum Gases Laboratory, University of Alberta
Title: Storing and manipulating ilght for quantum memory and manipulation using Autler-Townes splitting in cold atoms
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Max Moe, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Title: The Formation of Close Binaries and Planets
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Mia Liu, Fermilab
Title: Using electroweak bosons and the Higgs boson to probe new physics at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the changes of such a discovery
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: V. Ara Apkarian, NSF Center for Chemical Innovation, University of California, Irvine
Title: Spectro-microscopy with atomically confined light
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Jenn Ranta, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University
Title: Multidimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Duff Neill, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Entropy of QCD scattering processes
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Andrew Houck, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Many-body quantum optics in superconducting circuits
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Daniel Hayden, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Title: New Physics Searches in the High Luminosity Era at the LHC
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Sam Benz, Superconductive Electronics Group, NIST
Title: Superconductive Electronics for Quantum-based Voltage Metrology
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Rosalba Perna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Title: Mergers of compact objects in the Gravitational Wave Era
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Lawrence Lee Jr., Department of Physics, Harvard University
Title: How SUSY Can Still Save The Day
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Mechanics of Magnetic Solitons
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Mackillo Kira, Quantum Science Theory Lab, University of Michigan
Title: Many-body quantum clustronics
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speakers: Kristen Dage and Rachel Frisbie, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University
Title: Properties of the Hot Circumgalactic Medium of Early Type Galaxy Hosts with Powerful Radio Sources
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Kevin Finelli, Department of Physics, Boston University
Title: Studies of the Single Top Quark at the LHC
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Gavin Burnell, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Leeds
Title: All Electrical Nucleation, Motion and Detection of Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Zahra Hazari, Department of Teaching and Learning, Florida International University
Title: Supporting Teaches to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics for Women
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: David Geohegan, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Understanding the Growth Mechanisms and the Origins of Heterogeneity in Optoelectronic Two-Dimensional Materials
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.