Colloquia - Fall 2025

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
9/2	Rui He	Texas Tech	Raman spectroscopy of quantum materials of 2D magnets	CMP	Lee
9/9	Jesse Runnoe	Vanderbilt	The ongoing hunt for supermassive black hole binaries	ASTR	Fausnaugh
9/16	Danny Bulmash	Naval Academy	Fractons: Exotic New Phases of Matter	CMP	Eo
9/23	Michelle McColgan	Siena College	Making the Invisible Visible: Using Augmented Reality to Teach Abstract Physics Concepts	PER	Thacker
9/30	Takeshi Egami	U of Tennessee and Oak Ridge	Physics of Dynamic Aperiodic Matter (DAM)	CMP	Bolmatov
10/7	Priyamvada Natarajan	Yale	New Insights into the formation of the first black holes	Astro	Maccarone
10/14	Safety Presentation				Debra Boyce
10/21	Jeffrey Berryhill	Fermi Lab	A New Era in Electroweak Precision Measurements at the LHC	HEP	Feng
10/28	Tanmoy Laskar	Univ. of Utah	Extreme Astrophysics with Relativistic Transients	Astro	Fausnaugh
11/4	Joshua Tropp	TTU Chemistry	Conjugated Polymers for Bioelectronic Soft Matter: Mixed Transport and Infrared Emission	Soft CMP
11/11	Ariel Schwartzman	Stanford and SLAC	From Colliding Particles to Colliding Light: A new path for the exploration of fundamental physics	HEP	Akchurin
11/18	Andrei Piryantinski	LANL	Engineering Coherent and Quantum Photons with Metal–Semiconductor Nanostructures	CMP	Sanati
12/2	Gisella de Rosa	Space Telescope Science Institute	Building the Future of Astrophysics: Developing NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Unlock New Scientific Frontiers	Astro	Fausnaugh

*AST: Astronomy and Astrophysics, BIO: Biophysics, CMP: Condensed Matter Physics, HEP: High Energy Physics, PER: Physics Education Research, QIS: Quantum Information Science, AMO: Atomic Molecular & Optical Physics, GEO: Geosciences, AI: Artificial Intelligence

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