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Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, Spring 2023

Fridays at 3:30pm. Location to be announced.


March 31	Adam Kowalski, University of Colorado, Boulder	Title TBA

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, Fall 2022

Fridays at 3:30 p.m, Exploratory 3301.


Sept 16	Philip Kim, Harvard University	Stacking van der Waals Atomic Layers: Quest for New Quantum Materials
Sept 23 Planetary Hall 126 at 2:30pm	Rainald Löhner, George Mason University	Risk Mitigation in the Built Environment via Large Scale Multiphysics Simulations
Oct 7	Kaden Hazzard, Rice University	Programmable Quantum Matter with Real and Synthetic Dimensions
Oct 21	Ian R. Sellers, University of Oklahoma	Next Generation Photovoltaics: The Hot Carrier Solar Cell
Oct 28	Kenneth Burch, Boston College	Post-Pandemic Tool for Quantum Materials and vice-versa
Nov 4	Nestor Espinoza, Space Telescope Science Institute	Exploring New Frontiers in Exoplanetary Science with JWST
Nov 11	Anna Wright, Johns Hopkins University	Previewing Roman's Survey of Stellar Halos Using the FOGGIE Simulations
Nov 18	Maria Kuznetsova, NASA/GFSC	Overview of CCMC Tools and Activities in Support of Research, Education, and Advancing of Space Weather Predictive Capabilities
Dec 1	Viacheslav Merkin, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University	Recent Progress in Self-Consistent Modeling of the Geospace System

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, Spring 2022

Fridays at 3:30 p.m., online


March 4	Richard Eastes, UC Boulder	The Thermosphere-Ionosphere System: Contributions by the Global-scale Observations of The Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission
March 25	Harald O. Jeschke, Okayama University	The Frustrated World of Quantum Spin Liquids
April 22	Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh	Correlated Nanoelectronics and the Second Quantum Revolution
April 29	Peter H. Jacobose, University of California Berkeley	Graphene Nanoribbons: A New Platform for Quantum Engineering

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, Fall 2021

Fridays at 3:30 p.m., online


Sept 3	Yafis Barlas, University of Nevada	Correlated and Topological Phases in Flat Bands of Two-Dimensional Crystals
Sept 10	Avi Loeb, Harvard University	The Galileo Project: In Search of Technological Interstellar Objects
Tuesday Sept 14, Planetary Hall 263, Noon	Special Event: Max Joshua, Blue Skies Space Ltd.	The Twinkle Space Mission: an update on the international collaborative exoplanet survey
Thursday Sept 16, Planetary Hall 263, Noon	Special Event: Kaitlin Rasmussen, University of Michigan	Constraining the Drake Equation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Life
Sept 17	Pedram Roushan, Google Inc. Santa Barbara	Going Beyond Classical Computation with Superconducting Qbits
Sept 24	Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute	PUNCH it! Unifying Solar Physics and Solar Wind Physics
Oct 1	Dilek Yildiz, NIST	Joule Meets Van der Waals: Non-Contact Energy Dissipation on a Topological Insulator Surface
Oct 8	Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University	High-Precision Physics and Chemistry with Ultracold Molecules
Oct 15	Peter Siegfried, George Mason University	Electronic and magnetic topological states in the Kagome-net magnet YMn6Sn6
Oct 22	Jean-Damien Pillet, Ecole Polytechnique	Guiding Dirac Fermions in Graphene with a Carbon Nanotube
Oct 29	Fabian Natterer, University of Zurich	Combining Sparse Sampling and Parallel Spectroscopy for Rapid Quasiparticle Interference Imaging
Nov 5	Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan	Detecting, Mapping, and Manipulating a Ferro-Rotational Order in Solids
Nov 12	You Zhou, University of Maryland	Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Atomically Thin Semiconductors
Nov 19	Jie Shan, Cornell University	Electrons in 2D Moiré Superlattices

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, Spring 2021

Fridays at 3:30 p.m.


January 29	Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University	The Unbearable Lightness of Neutrinos
February 5	Erik Henriksen, WUSTL	2d Crystalline Donors and Acceptors: How a Quantum Spin Liquid Leads to Modulation Doping in Atomically-Thin Heterostructures
February 12	Matthew Yankowitz, U. Washington	Tunable Correlated and Topological States in Twisted Graphene Heterostructures
February 19	Mohammad Hafezi, U. Maryland	Topological Physics: From Photons to Electrons
February 26	Sonal Jain, U. Colorado	An Ultraviolet Perspective of the Dynamic Atmosphere of Mars: Highlights from six Years of Observations from the MAVEN Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph
March 5	Christoph Englert, Naval Research Laboratory	Achieving a Measurement Precision of 0.000002% or Better: Control What You Can, Track What You Can’t
March 12	Vikram Deshpande, U. Utah	Engineering Topological Materials: The Case of Topological Insulators and Carbon Nanotubes
March 26	Marlou Slot, NIST	Patterning Atomic Flatland: Electronic Lattices Crafted Atom by Atom
April 2	Joseph Stroscio, NIST	Combining STM, AFM, and Magnetotransport Measurements for In-Operando Studies of Quantum Materials
April 9	Benjamin Feldman, Stanford U.	Mapping Flavor Polarization and Competing Chern Insulators in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
April 16	McArthur Jones, Naval Research Laboratory	Whole Atmosphere Coupling Embodied by Trace Species Variability during Atmospheric Dynamical Disturbances