Colloquia - Spring 2025
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Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Topic* | Host |
1/28 | Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano | Los Alamos National Labs | Photon Rings and Light Echoes: Delineating Strong Gravity around Black Holes | ASTR | Fausnaugh |
2/4 | Emilia Järvelä | Texas Tech Univeresity | A brief History of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s and some Future Prospects | ASTR | Fausnaugh |
2/11 | Konstantin Doubrovinski | UT Southwestern Medical Center | BIO | Sanati | |
2/18 | Venkatessh Ramakrishnan | European Southern Observatory | Roadmap to the compendium of supermassive black hole images | AST | Jarvela |
2/25 | Sukanya Chakrabarti | University of Alabama in Huntsville | The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurements | AST | Maccarone |
3/4 | Artur Apresyan | Fermilab | Development of high precision 4D-trackers for future experiments |
HEP | Madrid |
3/11 | Dillon Dong | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 4D Radio Astronomy with the VLA Sky Survey | ASTR | Fausnaugh |
3/18 | Spring Break | ||||
3/25 | Nihan Pol | Texas Tech University | The cutting edge of nanohertz gravitational wave astronomy | ASTR | Fausnaugh |
4/1 | Cagliyan Kurdak | University of Michigan | Emergence of New States of Quantum Matter Associated with Extended Defects in Topological Insulators |
CMP | Eo |
4/8 | Grace Cummings | FermiLab | When they go low, we go lower: expanding the physics reach at colliders with low-level detector information |
HEP | Madrid |
4/15 | Myoung-Hwan Kim | Texas Tech University | Chiral Electrons' Quantum Adventure in Topological Wonderland |
CMP | Lee |
4/22 | Ioannis Chatzakis | Texas Tech University | Carriers Recombination and Enhanced Auger- Meitner processes in low-dimensional materials |
CMP | Lee |
4/29 | Aram Apyan | Brandeis | A window to New Physics with Collisions of W bosons |
HEP | Feng |
*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
Previous Colloquia: | Fall 2024 | Spring 2024 | Fall 2023| | Spring 2023 | Fall 2022 | Spring 2022 | Fall 2021 | Spring 2021 | Fall 2020 | Spring 2020 | Fall 2019 | Spring 2019 | Fall 2018 | Spring 2018 |
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