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 | Soft CMP | ||
| 11/11 | Ariel Schwartzman | Stanford and SLAC | HEP | Akchurin | |
| 11/18 | Andrei Piryantinski | LANL | CMP | Sanati | |
| 12/2 | Gisella de Rosa | Space Telescope Science Institute | Building the Future of Astrophysics: Developing NASAs 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
Previous Colloquia: Spring 2025| 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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