Colloquia - Fall 2020
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Topic* | Host |
| 8/25(T) | Thomas Kupfer, Wade DeGottardi | TTU | Introduction to new faculty research | AST, CMP | M.Kim |
| 9/1(T) | Halyna Hodovanets, Hyunsoo Kim | TTU | Introduction to new faculty research | CMP, CMP | M.Kim |
| 9/8(T) | Ioannis Chatzakis | TTU | Ultrafast phenomena in quantum materials | CMP | Estreicher |
| 9/15(T) | Junichiro Kono | Rice Univ | Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling: Dicke Phenomena in Solids | CMP | M.Kim |
| 9/22(T) | Luis Grave De Peralta | TTU | A notable quasi-relativistic wave equation and its relation to the Schrödinger, Klein-Gordon, and Dirac equations. | CMP | M.Kim |
| 9/29(T) | Julia Chan | UT Dallas | Layered Rare-Earth Intergrowth Compounds: A Platform for Correlated and Topological Properties | CMP | Hodovanets |
| 10/6(T) | Chase Ellis | US NRL | Low-Loss Nanophotonics in the mid- and long-wave infrared | CMP | M.Kim |
| 10/13(T) | Sheldon Goldstein | Rutgers Univ. | What is Quantum Mechanics? | Reddiger/ Poirier | |
| 10/20(T) | Hanna Terletska | Middle Tennessee State Univ. | Understanding quantum materials with strong electron-electron interactions and disorder through computational tools | CMP | Hodovanets |
| 10/27(T) | Ginger Kerrick | NASA | Artemis – An Overview of NASA's Lunar Exploration Program | AST | Duncan/Lee |
| 11/3(T) | Volker Perlick | Univ. of Bremen, Germany | Calculating the shadow of a black hole | AST | Reddiger/ Poirier |
| 11/10(T) | Jigang Wang | Iowa State Univ. | Topologically Protected States of Matter Controlled by Light | CMP | Chatzakis |
| 11/17(T) | Sean Ressler | UC Santa Barbara | Eat This, Not That: Simulating the Stellar Diet of the Galactic Center's Supermassive Black Hole | AST | Kupfer |
| 11/24(T) | Thanksgiving week - No colloquium. | ||||
| 12/1(T) | Petar Maksimovic | Johns Hopkins Univ. | Searches for very heavy resonances using highly Lorentz-boosted objects | HEP | Lamichhane/ Whitbeck |
*AST: Astronomy and Astrophysics, BIO: Biophysics, CMP: Condensed Matter Physics, HEP: High Energy Physics, PER: Physics Education Research.
Previous Colloquia: Spring 2020 | Fall 2019 | Spring 2019 | Fall 2018 | Spring 2018 |
Upcoming Colloquia: Spring 2021 |
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