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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

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	Conjugated Polymers for Bioelectronic Soft Matter: Mixed Transport and Infrared Emission	Soft CMP
11/11	Ariel Schwartzman	Stanford and SLAC	From Colliding Particles to Colliding Light: A new path for the exploration of fundamental physics	HEP	Akchurin
11/18	Andrei Piryantinski	LANL	Engineering Coherent and Quantum Photons with Metal–Semiconductor Nanostructures	CMP	Sanati
12/2	Gisella de Rosa	Space Telescope Science Institute	Building the Future of Astrophysics: Developing NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Unlock New Scientific Frontiers	Astro	Fausnaugh

Spring 2024

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
1/16	I.Chatzakis	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
1/23	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
1/30	Ruibin Liang	TTU	Understanding the photochemical reactions in biomolecules through multiscale simulations	BIO	J. Huang
2/6			The seminar is canceled
2/8	Christopher Madrid	Fermilab	Dark matter and Advanced Detectors	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/13	Yongbin Feng	Fermilab	Pushing the Precision Boundary of the Standard Model with Modern Tools	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/15	Ben Carlson	Westmont College	Beyond the Higgs boson: looking for dark matter in Higgs boson decays	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/20	Jennet Dickinson	Fermilab	Higgs Boson with a boost	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/22	Saptaparna Bhattacharya	Wayne State University	The road to precision: Stress-testing the standard model of Particle Physics	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/27	Ivan Polyakov	CERN	(Exotic) Hadron Spectroscopy and its Future	HEP	N. Akchurin
2/29	Vinay Hegde	TTU	Searches for new particles and detectors for future experiments	HEP	N. Akchurin
3/5	Tingting Liu	West Virginia University	Cosmic Song and Dance: Probing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with Electromagnetic and Gravitational-wave Observations	AST	T. Maccarone
3/12	SPRING BREAK	-	-	-	-
3/19	Elias Aydi	Michgan State University	New Insights Into Novae	AST	T. Maccarone
3/26	-	-	-	-	-
4/2	E. Wertz	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Plasmonic Nanoantennas for efficient Single-Photon Emission	CMP	I. Chatzakis
4/9	Dawn Meredith	University of New Hampshire	Scaffolding student mechanistic reasoning about static and dynamic liquids	PER	B. Thacker
4/16	Ludi Miao	New Mexico State Univ.	TBA	CMP	Y. S. Eo
4/23	Sabruna Rita Maria	NASA	Astrophysics at NASA’s GSFC: what we do and how you can get involved.	AST	A. Corsi
4/30	Amruta Jaodand	CFA	Chandra’s history and discoveries	AST	A. Antoniou

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

Spring 2023

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
1/17(T) F2F	I.Chatzakis	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
1/24(T)F2F	Canceled
1/31(T) F2F	Andrew Whitbeck	TTU	Can Apparent Coincidences Reveal the Secrets of the Universe?	HEP	S. Lee
2/07(T)F2F	Massimo Marrego	Florida State University	Unveiling the Secret History of Dwarf Galaxies by Surveying their Pulsating Stars	AST	V. Antoniou
2/14(T) F2F	Ioannis Chatzakis	TTU	Ultrafast phenomena in quantum materials	CMP	S. Lee
2/21(T)F2F	Myoung-Hwan Kim	TTU	Tailored Infrared Surface Waves – A Novel Probe for Investigating Weyl Magnets	CMP	S. Lee
2/28(T) F2F	Elena Gallo	University of Michigan	Massive black holes in nearby dwarf galaxies	AST	T. Maccarone
3/7(T) F2F	Kunori Shuichi	TTU	The (Un)reasonable Effectiveness of Neural Network in Cherenkov Calorimetry	HEP	S. Lee
3/14(T)F2F	Spring break	-	-	-	-
3/21(T) F2F	Arfin Lohdi	TTU	Bc absorption by co-moving hadrons in Quark-Gluon Plasma	HEP	S. Lee
3/28(T) F2F	Paola Barbara	Georgetown University	Sensing with Nanomaterials	CMP	I. Chatzakis
4/4(T) F2F	Ilias Perakis	The University of Alabama at Bermingham	Imaging of Light-Controlled Superconductivity using THz Multi-dimensional	CMP	I. Chatzakis
4/11(T) F2F	Maria Salatino	Stanford University	Instrumentation for the Cosmic Microwave Background (and beyond)	AST	A. Corsi
4/19(W) F2F	Tony F. Heinz	Stanford University	Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions Using Light	CMP	I. Chatzakis
4/25(T) F2F	Emmanouil Kioupakis	University of Michigan	From Electrons to Devices: How Predictive Modeling of Quantum Processes is Paving the Way to Novel Semiconductor Technologies	CMP	I. Chatzakis
5/02(T)F2F	Cnceled	-	-	-	-

Fall 2023

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
8/29(T) F2F	I.Chatzakis	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
9/5 ONLINE	Trevor D. Rhone	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	AI guided materials discovery of two-dimensional magnets	CMP	Chatzakis
9/12 F2F	Martini Paul	OSU	Cosmology with the Lyman Alpha Forest	AST	M. Fausnaugh
9/19 F2F	Zeb Rocklin	Georgia Institute of Techchnology	Fundamental Principles of Flexible Structures.	CMP	W. DeGottardi
9/26 F2F	TBA	TBA	TBD
10/3 F2F	Scott Ransom	NRAO	National Radio Astronomy Observatory / Univ. of Virginia	AST	B. Owen
10/10 F2F	Breese Quinn	University of Mississippi	Latest Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment	HEP	I. Volobouev
10/17 F2F	Nichol John	University of Rochester	Quantum computing with electron spins in semiconductors	CMP	W. DeGottardi
10/24 F2F	Sheung Janet	Claremont McKenna College	Motor-driven advection competes with crowding to drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous transport in cytoskeleton composites	CMP	W. DeGottardi
10/31 F2F	Eric Kuo	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Problem-solving isn’t just solving for x: Developing coherence, insight, and understanding	PER	B. Thacker
11/7 F2F	Lopez-Bezanilla Alejandro	Los Alamos	Frustrated Magnetism with Quantum Annealers	CMP	W. DeGottardi
11/14 F2F	Mathew Evans	MIT	Gravitational Waves: Sources and Next-Gen Observatories	AST	A. Corsi
11/28 F2F	MacKenzie Stetzer	The University of Maine	Leveraging dual-process theories of reasoning to investigate and support student reasoning in physics.	PER	B. Thacker
12/5 F2F	Onur Erten	ASU	Exploring emergent phases in moir ́e magnets: fractionalization, frag- mentation and new particles	CMP	Y.S. Eo

Spring 2022

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
8/30(T) F2F	Chatzakis	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
9/6(T) Online	Kenichi Hatakeyama	Baylor Univ.	Boosting searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider	HEP	A.Whitbeck
9/13(T) F2F	Tyson Littenburg	NASA	Surveying the millihertz gravitational wave sky with LISA	AST	T. Kupfer
9/20(T)F2F	Adam Dunkelberger	Naval Reserch Laboratory	Transient studies of vibration-cavity polaritons	CMP	I. Chatzakis
9/27(T) F2F	Jakie Chini	Central Florida Univ.	Supporting Variation in Students' Needs, Abilities and Interests in Postsecondary STEM Courses	PER	B. Thacker
10/04(T)F2F	Arianna Renzini	Caltech	Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra: are we there yet?	AST	J. Romano
10/11(T) F2F	Aiping Chen	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Design of Emergent Devices for Neuromorphic Computing	CMP	M. Kim
10/18(T) F2F	Davide Lazzati	Oregon State Univ.	Gamma ray bursts in active galactic nuclei: what to expect and what they could explain	AST	Corsi
10/25(T)F2F	Luis Grave-De-Peralta	TTU	The non-relativistic approach to relativistic quantum mechanics	CMP	I. Chatzakis
11/01(T) F2F	Chaspari Theodora	Texas A&M	Trustworthy artificial intelligence to augment human cognition and learning	AI	I. Chatzakis
11/08(T) F2F	Jorge Morales	TTU	Recent Advances in the Electron Nuclear Dynamics Method: From Abstract Quantum Dynamics Theory to Applications in Ion Cancer Therapy	QIS	I. Chatzakis
11/15(T) F2F	John Alison	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Physics at the LHC: Why and How to go Beyond the Higgs Discovery	HEP	A. Whitbeck
11/22(T) F2F	Thanksgiving	No colloquium	-	-	-
11/29(T) F2F	Edward Quintevis	TTU	Optical Kerr Effect Spectroscopy of Liquids - Probing Liquid-State Dynamics from Simple Liquids to Complex Fluids	CMP	I. Chatzakis
12/06(T) F2F	John Thomson	University of Maine	The role of mathematics is central in physics: in instruction, problem solving, and professional practice	PER

Fall 2022

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
8/30(T) F2F	Chatzakis	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only		PHAS
9/6(T) Online	Kenichi Hatakeyama	Baylor Univ.	Boosting searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider	HEP	A.Whitbeck
9/13(T) F2F	Tyson Littenburg	NASA	Surveying the millihertz gravitational wave sky with LISA	AST	T. Kupfer
9/20(T)F2F	Adam Dunkelberger	Naval Reserch Laboratory	Transient studies of vibration-cavity polaritons	CMP	I. Chatzakis
9/27(T) F2F	Jakie Chini	Central Florida Univ.	Supporting Variation in Students' Needs, Abilities and Interests in Postsecondary STEM Courses	PER	B. Thacker
10/04(T)F2F	Arianna Renzini	Caltech	Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra: are we there yet?	AST	J. Romano
10/11(T) F2F	Aiping Chen	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Design of Emergent Devices for Neuromorphic Computing	CMP	M. Kim
10/18(T) F2F	Davide Lazzati	Oregon State Univ.	Gamma ray bursts in active galactic nuclei: what to expect and what they could explain	AST	Corsi
10/25(T)F2F	Luis Grave-De-Peralta	TTU	The non-relativistic approach to relativistic quantum mechanics	CMP	I. Chatzakis
11/01(T) F2F	Chaspari Theodora	Texas A&M	Trustworthy artificial intelligence to augment human cognition and learning	AI	I. Chatzakis
11/08(T) F2F	Jorge Morales	TTU	Recent Advances in the Electron Nuclear Dynamics Method: From Abstract Quantum Dynamics Theory to Applications in Ion Cancer Therapy	QIS	I. Chatzakis
11/15(T) F2F	John Alison	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Physics at the LHC: Why and How to go Beyond the Higgs Discovery	HEP	A. Whitbeck
11/22(T) F2F	Thanksgiving	No colloquium	-	-	-
11/29(T) F2F	Edward Quintevis	TTU	Optical Kerr Effect Spectroscopy of Liquids - Probing Liquid-State Dynamics from Simple Liquids to Complex Fluids	CMP	I. Chatzakis
12/06(T) F2F	John Thomson	University of Maine	The role of mathematics is central in physics: in instruction, problem solving, and professional practice	PER	B. Thacker

Spring 2021

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
1/26(T)	M. Kim	TTU	Intro - PHYS 5101 Student Only
2/2(T)	Richard Price	MIT	Professional Preparation	PER	Romano
2/9(T)	Rob Farmer	Univ. of Amsterdam	Mind the gap: What can we learn about stellar astrophysics from gravitational wave detections of binary black holes?	AST	Maccarone
2/16(T)	Cancelled
2/23(T)	Gina Passante	California State Univ. Fullerton	Student Thinking about Measurements and Uncertainty in Physics	PER	Thacker
3/2(T)	Brian Skinner	Ohio State Univ.	Measurement-induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement	CMP	DeGottardi
3/9(T)	Rui He	TTU	Raman spectroscopy of van der Waals magnet CrI3	CMP	Lee/M.Kim
3/11(Th)	Sam Cano/ Sadman Shanto	TTU	Dancing in the "Muonlight": an Overview of Muography and Related Developments	HEP	Akchurin
3/16(T)	Chris White	UC Santa Barbara	The Lessons Being Learned by Imaging Black Holes	AST	Kupfer
3/23(T)	Alexander Khanikaev	The City College of the City Univ. of New York	Topological Photonics and Polaritonics	CMP	M. Kim
3/30(T)	Katie Breivik	The Center for Computationl Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute	Black hole binary formation: a multi-messenger, multi-band puzzle	AST	Maccarone
4/6(T)	Stephanie Law	Univ. of Delaware	Photons, plasmons, and polaritons: optical phenomena in complex materials	CMP	DeGottardi
4/13(T)	Thomas Maccarone/ Benjamin Owen	TTU	The latest Nobel Prize in Physics: Black holes	AST	Lee
4/20(T)	Dom Pesce	Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Imaging the supermassive black hole in M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope	AST	Maccarone
4/27(T)	Cancelled
5/4(T)	Kimberly Palladino	Oxford Univ. (UK)	SensationaLZ: Direct Dark Matter Searches in the Era of LZ	HEP	Lee

Fall 2021

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Topic*	Host
8/24(T)	Keith West	TTU	Fall TA Meeting
8/31(T) Online	Rachael Myers	US NRL	Epitaxial Graphene: Properties and Applications for the US Navy	CMP	Chatzakis
9/7(T) Online	Luis A. Poveda	Technological Center of Minas Gerais, Brazil	A non-relativistic approach to relativistic quantum mechanics	QIS	Grave-De-Peralta
9/14(T) Online	Breese Quinn	Univ. of Mississippi	First Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment	HEP	Whitbeck/ Hedge
9/21(T) Online	Gian Guzmán-Verri	Univ. of Costa Rica	Elastic entropic effects in complex functional matter	CMP	DeGottardi
9/28(T) F2F	David Ferguson	Northrop Grumman	Quantum and Classical Models of Superconducting Annealing: Successes and Opportunities	CMP/ QIS	DeGottardi
9/30(Th) F2F	Noah Finkelstein	Univ. of Colorado	Advancing Scholarly Teaching Practices and Evaluation of Teaching	PER	Thacker/ TLPDC/ STEP
10/5(T) Online	Yonatan Kahn	UIUC	Dark Matter Meets Condensed Matter	HEP	Whitbeck
10/12(T) F2F - Cancelled	Bucy Lecture
10/19(T) Online	Fazle Hussain, Jie Yao	TTU	Physics of vortex reconnection and turbulence cascade	CM	Lee
10/26(T) F2F	Krista Smith	Southern Methodist Univ.	Through the Kaleidoscope: Applying Temporal and Multiwavelength Datasets to Supermassive Black Hole Phenomenology	AST	Maccarone
11/2(T) Online	Alex Tetarenko	TTU	Unraveling how black holes power explosive outflows: the time-domain, astro-chemistry, and micro-arcsecond imaging	AST	Maccarone
11/9(T) F2F	Brad Barlow	High Point Univ.	A Search for Variable Hot Subdwarf Stars and Their Significance to Astrophysics	AST	Kupfer
11/16(T) Online	Manuela Campanelli	Rochester Institute of Technology	Merging black hole binaries: accretion dynamics and outflows	AST	Corsi
11/23(T)	Thanksgiving week - No colloquium.
11/30(T) F2F	Ismael Regis de Farias Jr.	TTU	Quantum Walk on the Generalized Birkhoff Polytope Graph	QIS	M Kim

Spring 2020

Wk	Date	Day	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
0	1/16	Th	Astrophysics	John Chisholm	Univ. of California Santa Cruz	Maccarone
1	1/21	T	Astrophysics	Anna McLeod	TTU/Berkeley	Maccarone
2	1/28	T	Astrophysics	Vivienne Baldassare	Yale University	Maccarone
3	2/4	T	Astrophysics	Danielle Berg	The Ohio State University	Maccarone
4	2/11	T	High Energy Physics	Andrew Whitbeck	TTU	Lee
5	2/18	T	Astrophysics	Raffaele D'Abrusco	CfA-Harvard	Antoniou
6	2/25	T	Condensed matter	Stephen Cronin	USC	Chatzakis
7	3/3	T	canceled	canceled	canceled	canceled
8	3/10	T	Condensed Matter	canceled	canceled	canceled
9	3/17	T	Spring Break	-	-	-
10	3/24	T	Condensed Matter	canceled	canceled	canceled
11	3/31	T	Condensed Matter	canceled	canceled	canceled
12	4/7	T	High Energy Physics	canceled	canceled	canceled
13	4/14	T	High Energy Physics	canceled	canceled	canceled
14	4/21	T	Condensed Matter	canceled	canceled	canceled
15	4/28	T	Bucy Lecture	canceled	canceled	canceled
15	5/1	F	Spanish Bucy Lecture	canceled	canceled	canceled
16	5/5	T	canceled	canceled	canceled	canceled

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

Spring 2019

W-D	DATE	SPEAKER	INST	TOPIC	HOST
0-Th	01/17/19	Dr. Myoung-Hwan Kim	UTRGV	Condensed Matter (special colloq.)	Estreicher
1-T	01/22/19	Alessandra Corsi	TTU	Intro - PHYS-5101 Students ONLY	N/A
1-Th	01/24/19	Dr. Joseph Paddison	University of Cambridge	Condensed Matter (special colloq.)	Duncan
2-T	01/29/19	Dr. Lucia Steinke	Texas A&M University	Condensed Matter	Estreicher
2-Th	01/31/19	Dr. Ioannis Chatzakis	Naval Research Lab	Condensed Matter (special colloq.)	Duncan
3-M	02/04/19	Dr. Xiaoqian Michelle Chen	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	Condensed Matter (special colloq.)	Duncan
3-Th	02/07/19	Dr. Gregory Guisbiers	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Condensed Matter  (special colloq.)	Duncan
4-T	02/12/19	Dr. Jonelle Walsh	Texas A&M University	Astrophysics	Maccarone
5-T	02/19/19	Dr. Alex Babkin	Adagio Medical Corporation	Condensed Matter	Owen
6-T	02/26/19	Dr. Dimitri Volchenkov	Texas Tech University	Joint Math-Phys colloq.	Corsi
7-T	03/05/19	Dr. S. Bradley Cenko	NASA	Astrophysics	Corsi
8-T	03/19/19	Dr. Geraldine Cochran	Rutgers	Physics Education	Thacker
9-T	03/26/19	Dr. Marlan Scully	Texas A&M University	Condensed matter	Duncan
10-T	04/02/19	Dr. Beth Thacker	Texas Tech University	Physics Education	Corsi
11-T	04/09/19	Dr. Ali Rejwan	St John's University	Biophysics	Huang
11-F	04/12/19	Dr. Elizabeth Crosson	University of New Mexico	Quantum computing (special colloq.)	De-Farias
12-T	04/16/19	Dr. Vuk Mandic	University of Minnesota	Astrophysics	Romano
13-T	04/23/19	Dr. Caterina Vernieri	SLAC	High Energy Physics	Whitbeck
14-T	04/30/19	Dr. Gordan Krnjaic	Fermilab	High Energy Physics	Whitbeck
15-T	05/07/19	Dr. Deanne Coppejans	Northwestern University	Astrophysics	Maccarone

Fall 2019

W-D	DATE	SPEAKER	INST	TOPIC	HOST
0-T	08/27/19	Keith West	TTU	Graduate students only intro
1-T	09/3/19	Rob Duncan	TTU	Cosmology and the Superfluid Transition in He-4	Maccarone
2-T	9/10/19	Cancelled
3-T	9/17/19	Asheley Landrum	TTU Media and Communication	Explaining the Flat Earth Phenomenon Using the Science of Science Communication	Maccarone
4-T	9/24/19	Jodi Cooley	Southern Methodist	Whispers in the Dark: Searching for Dark Matter with the SuperCDMS Experiment	Maccarone
5-T	10/1/19	Eugenia Etkina	Rutgers	Investigative Science Learning Environment: Can Students Learn Science by Practicing It?	Thacker
6-T	10/8/19	Rusty Towell	Abilene Christian	Research and Development of a University Molten Salt Research and Test Reactor	Duncan
7-T	10/15/19	Kyoungchul Kong	Kansas	Mathematics, Particle Physics & Machine Learning	Lee
8-T	10/22/19	No colloquium	APS Meeting
9-T	10/29/19	Mustafa Amin	Rice	A Gap in our Cosmic History: Nonlinear Dynamics after Inflation	Owen
10-T	11/5/19	Mini Das	Houston	New Frontiers in Spectral X-Ray Imaging and Image Science	Whitbeck
11-T	11/12/19	Matthew Toups	Fermilab	Tracing the Neutrino with Liquid Argon Detector Technology	Wigmans
11-F	11/15/19	Xiaodi Wu	Maryland CS	Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications	De Farias
12-T	11/19/19	Ben Jones	UT Arlington	The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay	Wigmans
13-T	11/26/19	No colloquium	Thanksgiving Week
14-T	12/3/19	Nicole Lloyd-Ronning	Los Alamos	What Do We Really Know About Gamma-ray Burst Progenitors?	Corsi

Spring 2018

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
1	1/23/18	Kieth West, Kim Zinsmeyer	Texas Tech University	Safety
2	1/30/18	Sangsik Kim	Texas Tech University	Micro/nano-structured on-chip photonics: all-dielectric metamaterials and frequency comb generation	Grave de Peralta
3	2/06/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Maccarone
3	2/08/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Maccarone
4	2/13/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Maccarone
4	2/15/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Owen
5	2/19/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Maccarone
5	2/20/18	David Nygren, NAS	UT Arlington	The Matter - anti-matter asymmetry of the universse	Estreicher
5	2/22/18	Justin Pilot	UC Davis	Toward discovery at the LHC: Jet substructure to find new physics	Akchurin
6	2/27/18	Andrew Whitbeck	Fermilab	Searching for invisible particles at the LHC and beyond	Akchurin
6	2/28/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Owen
6	3/02/18	David Martinez Caicedo	Illinois Institute of Technology	Exploring experimental anomalies in accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments	Akchurin
7	3/05/18	Jon Wilson	Texas A&M University	The search for dark matter with SuperCDMS	Akchurin
7	3/06/18	JOB CANDIDATE		Astrophysics	Owen
7	3/06/18	Danny Caballero	Michigan State University	How might physics education research facilitate the coming computational revolution in education?	Thacker
8	3/13/18		(Spring Break)
9	3/20/18	Jordan Damgov	Texas Tech University	Multi-bosons as a tool for new physics searches	Akchurin
9	3/20/18	Eric Feng	CERN	Tracking down the Higgs boson with the ATLAS experiment	Akchurin
10	3/27/18		(canceled)
11	4/03/18	Myoung-Hwan Kim	UT Rio Grande Valley	Finding nano-blocks control light	Lee
12	4/10/18	Eric M. Schlegel	UT San Antonio	Feedback in Galaxies and NGC 5195 in M21	Corsi
13	4/17/18		(canceled)
14	4/24/18		(canceled)
15	5/01/18	Davide Lazzati	Oregon State University	GW170817 and its non-thermal emission	Corsi
16	5/08/18	Matt Beekman	California Polytechnic State University	Condensed Matter Physics	Myles

Fall 2018

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
1	8/28/18	Alessandra Corsi	TTU	Intro - PHYS-5101 Students ONLY	N/A
2	9/04/18	Luis Grave de Peralta	TTU	Physics of Reality	Corsi
3	9/11/18	Thomas Maccarone	TTU	Astrophysics	Owen
4	9/18/18	Anna McLeod	TTU/ Berkeley	Astrophysics	Maccarone
5	9/25/18	Lee Lindblom	UCSD	Astrophysics	Owen
6	10/02/18	Joseph Romano	TTU	Math & Art	Owen
7	10/09/18	Alan Sill	TTU	HPCC@TTU	Corsi
8	10/16/18	Tony Beasley	NRAO	Astrophysics	Maccarone
9	10/23/18	Elizabeth Worcester	BNL	High Energy Physics	Lee
10	10/30/18	Mengesha Ayene	Wollo Univ.	Physics Education	Thacker
11	11/06/18	Szabolcs Marka	Columbia	Biophysics	Corsi
12	11/13/18	Evan Glaser	NRL	Condensed Matter Physics	Estreicher
13	11/20/18	Hao Zhou	Los Alamos National Lab	High Energy Physics	Akchurin
14	11/27/18	Heugman Park	TAMU Commerce	Condensed Matter Physics	Corsi
15	12/04/18	Daniel Dominguez	Sandia	Condensed Matter Physics	Grave de Peralta

Spring 2017

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
2	1/26/2017			No colloquium
3	2/2/2017	Golden Kumar	TTU	NanoTech	C. Uzun
4	2/9/2017	Gary Harris	TTU	Physics Education Research	B. Thacker
5	2/16/2017	Craig Wheeler	UT Austin	Astrophysics	D. Sand
6	2/23/2017	Jennifer Doak and Peter Choi	USPTO	Intellectual Property	C. Myles
7	3/2/2017	Lin Ding	Ohio State Univ.	Epistemological Progression Trend from Preservice to In-service Physics Teachers	B. Thacker
8	3/9/2017	George Laity	Sandia National Lab	Radiation & Fusion Experiments	N. Akchurin
9	3/16/2017			Spring Break
10	3/23/2017	Mark Lattery	University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh	Scientific Discovery and Elementary Particles of Understanding	B. Thacker
11	3/30/2017	NO COLLOQUIUM	-	-	-
12	4/6/2017	Bao-An Li	Texas A&M Commerce	Nuclear Astrophysics	B. Owen
13	4/13/2017	Giorgio Bornia	TTU	Math-Physics (Joint with Math)	A. Corsi/M. Toda
14	4/20/2017	Rosalba Perna	Stony Brook University	Astrophysics	A. Corsi
15	4/27/2017	Matthew Baring	Rice Univ.	Astrophysics	T. Maccarone
15-special	4/27/2017*	Mario Diaz	U. Texas Rio Grande Valley	Gravitational Physics	SACNAS
16	5/4/2017	Naomi Halas	Rice Univ.	Nanoengineered Photonics and Plasmonics	N. Akchurin

Fall 2017

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
1	8/29/17			Intro (PHYS-5101 Students only)
2	9/5/17	M. Eracleous	Penn State University	Observing the dynamics of accretion disks around supermassive BHs in quasars	B. Owen
3	9/14/17 (cancelled)	B. Owen	Texas Tech University	Relativity and Gravitational waves	-
4	9/19/17	S. Pollock	University of Colorado at Boulder	Physics Education Research	B. Thacker
5	9/26/17	R. Lindell	Tiliadal STEM Education Solutions	Physics Education Research	B. Thacker
6	10/3/17	L. Woods	University of South Florida	Condensed Matter Physics	C. Myles
7	10/10/17	J. Walker	Sam Houston State University	Coherent neutrino scattering	B. Owen
8	10/19/17 date change	A. Cardini	INFN Cagliari	The LHCb experiment at CERN	R. Wigmans
9	10/24/17	O. Gutsche	Fermilab	High Energy Physics	S. Kunori
10	10/31/17	B. Dutta	Texas A&M University	High Energy Physics	S. Kunori
11	11/7/17	Y. Cavecchi	Princeton University	Astronomy	T. Maccarone
12	11/14/17	A. Fluerasu	Brookhaven National Lab	x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy	A. Corsi
13	11/21/17
14	11/28/17	M. Tripathi	University of California,  Davis	High Energy Physics	S. Lee
15	12/5/17	K. Carrell	Angelo State	Astronomy	T.Maccarone

Spring 2016

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
3	9/15/2016	Arkady Kholodenko	Clemson University	Mathematical Physics	M. Toda
4	9/22/2016	Stefan Estreicher	TTU (Physics & Astronomy)	Condensed Matter Physics
5	9/29/2016	Jonathan Asaadi	University of Texas, Arlington	High Energy Physics	Lee
6	10/06/2016	Gregory Parker	University of Oklahoma	AMO/Computational Physics	Gibson & Poirier
7	10/13/2016	Alex Demkov	University of Austin	Condensed Matter Physics	Myles
8	10/20/2016	Jeremiah Mans	University of Minnesota	High Energy Physics	Akchurin
9	10/27/2016	Sanjit K. Deb	TTU (Plant and Soil Science)	Soil Physics	Myles
10	11/3/2016	Brant E. Hinrichs	Drury University	Physics Education	Thacker
11	11/10/2016	Steinn Sigurdsson	Penn State University	Astrophysics	Owen
12	11/17/2016	Timothy Yarnall	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	Astrophysics	Maccarone

Fall 2016

3	9/15/2016	Arkady Kholodenko	Clemson University	Mathematical Physics	M. Toda
4	9/22/2016	Stefan Estreicher	TTU (Physics & Astronomy)	Condensed Matter Physics
5	9/29/2016	Jonathan Asaadi	University of Texas, Arlington	High Energy Physics	Lee
6	10/06/2016	Gregory Parker	University of Oklahoma	AMO/Computational Physics	Gibson & Poirier
7	10/13/2016	Alex Demkov	University of Austin	Condensed Matter Physics	Myles
8	10/20/2016	Jeremiah Mans	University of Minnesota	High Energy Physics	Akchurin
9	10/27/2016	Sanjit K. Deb	TTU (Plant and Soil Science)	Soil Physics	Myles
10	11/3/2016	Brant E. Hinrichs	Drury University	Physics Education	Thacker
11	11/10/2016	Steinn Sigurdsson	Penn State University	Astrophysics	Owen
12	11/17/2016	Timothy Yarnall	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	Astrophysics	Maccarone

Spring 2015

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
5	2/12/2015	Gabriela González	Louisiana State University	Astrophysics	Corsi/Owen
6	2/19/2015	Ayrton Bernussi	TTU (Electrical Engineering)	Nanotechnology & Materials	Grave de Peralta
7	2/26/2015	Roy Schwitters	University of Texas, Austin	High Energy Physics	Estreicher
8	3/5/2015	No Colloquium
9	3/12/2015	David Toback	Texas A&M University	High Energy Physics	Lee
10	3/17/2015	Spring Break
11	3/26/2015	Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Oxford University	Astrophysics	Maccarone
12	4/2/2015	Evan Glaser	Naval Research Laboratory	Condensed Matter Physics	Esteicher
13	4/9/2015	Wayne Myrvold	Western University, Canada	Joint Colloquia (Physics & Philosophy)	Akchurin
14	4/16/2015	Kevin Krisciunas	Texas A&M University	Astrophysics	Kaye
15	4/23/2015	Denija Crnojevic	TTU (Physics)	Astrophysics
16	4/30/2015	Zhaoyang Fan	TTU (Electrical Engineering)	Nanotechnology & Materials	Grave de Peralta

Fall 2015

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION	TOPIC	HOST
3	9/10/2015	S. Trickey	University of Florida	Condensed Matter Physics	Lodhi
4	9/17/2015	R. Coyne	TTU	Astrophysics	Corsi
5	9/24/2015	D. Nygren	University of Texas, Arlington	High Energy Physics	Wigmans
6	10/1/2015	J. Romano	University of Texas, Brownsville	Gravitational Physics	Owen
7	10/8/2015	M. Pacheco	Intel Corporation Inc.	Condensed Matter Physics	Grave De Peralta
8	10/15/2015	R. Lichti	TTU	Condensed Matter Physics	Myles
9	10/22/2015	No colloquium
10	10/29/2015	D. Dounas-Frazer	University of Colorado	Physics Education	Thacker
11	11/5/2015	R. Harris	Texas A&M University	High Energy Physics	Akchurin
12	11/12/2015	F. Manciu	University of Texas, El Paso	Condensed Matter Physics	Myles
13	11/19/2015	A. Hornshemeier	NASA	Astrophysics	Maccarone