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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 

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