Colloquia - Fall 2024

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
8/27	Fausnaugh	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
9/3	Lu Wei	TTU	Cumulant Structures of Entanglement Entropy	QIS	TBA
9/10	A. Lohdi	TTU	From Nuclear Shell Theory to AMTEC and Beyond		Lee
9/17	Sheng Ran	Washington University in St. Louis	What can we make with uranium other than atomic bombs?	CMP	Eo
9/24	Jeremy Munday	UC Davis	The Casimir effect: how the nothing of vacuum became something exciting in physics	CMP	Duncan
10/1	Jason Dexter	University of Colorado Boulder	Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out	AST	Maccarone
10/8	Ben Rose	Baylor University	Supernova Cosmology and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope	AST	Fausnaugh
10/15	Koji Mukai	NASA Goddard	X-ray Spectroscopy with XRISM: Diagnosing Accretion and Outflow	AST	Aydi
10/22	Xueying Lu	Northern Illinois University/ Argonne National Lab	Recent advances in compact normal-conducting accelerators	HEP	Feng
10/29	Robert Kaindl	Arizona State University	Advanced Ultrafast Probes of Quantum Materials — from THz to X-ray	CMP	Chatzakis
11/5	Zhongzhou Chen	Central Florida University	Trying out Large Language Models in Teaching Physics: The Amazingly powerful, the understandably mediocre, and the hilariously bad.	PER	Thacker
11/12	Bob Hirosky	University of Virginia	High resolution EM calorimetry from the LHC to the Higgs Factory	HEP	Akchurin
11/14	Andreas Kaltzoglou	National Hellenic Research Foundation	Exploratory synthesis of semiconducting materials and advanced physical characterization methods	CMP	Chatzakis
11/19	Caitlin Witt	Northwestern University/Adler Planetarium	Forging a Multi-Messenger View of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries	AST	Pol
12/3	Tamara Bogdonavic	Georgia Tech	From Kiloparsec Scales to Merger: Properties of Dual AGNs that Become Gravitational Wave Sources.	AST	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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