Department of Physics and AstronomyColloquia
Previous Colloquia
Fall 2026
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Topic | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/25 | No Colloquium (New Student Orientation) | ||||
| 9/1 | Irene Varglund | University of Hertfordshire (UK) | Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - What is in a name? | Astronomy | Järvelä |
| 9/8 | Wade DeGottardi | Texas Tech University | Quantum Matter in a New Light: From Quantum Wires to Quantum Machines | Condensed Matter Physics | Lee |
| 9/15 | Jayson Nissen | Montana State University | Modernizing formative, research-based assessments to support personalized instruction | Physics Education | Thacker |
| 9/22 | Jingyu Luo | Brown University | Expanding the lifetime frontier of particle physics with CMS | High Energy Physics | Feng |
| 9/29 | Hanjong Paik | University of Oklahoma | Epitaxy as a Platform for Fundamental Materials Discovery | Condensed Matter Physics | Eo/Kim |
| 10/6 | Bucy Lecture | ||||
| 10/13 | Maxim Lavrentovich | Worcester State University | Spontaneous structures driven by electrostatics and elasticity in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals | Condensed Matter Physics | Bolmatov |
| 10/20 | Daniel Marín Pina | Heidelberg University | Black holes in star clusters: Gravitational waves, dormant binaries, and black hole growth | Astronomy | Chattopadhyay |
| 10/27 | Kevin Pedro | Fermilab | Dark Forces: Beyond Elementary Dark Matter | High Energy Physics | Feng/Madrid |
| 11/3 | Jigang Wang | Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory | Coherent Light-Matter Control at the Space-Time Frontier: From Bulk Correlations to Atomic-Layer Topology | Condensed Matter Physics | Chatzakis |
| 11/10 | Mathieu Renzo | University of Arizona | TBA | Astronomy | Maccarone |
| 11/17 | Lu Chen | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | TBA | Condensed Matter Physics | Eo |
| 12/1 | |||||
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