Colloquia are normally held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5:00 PM in Roberts Hall Room 101. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:30 PM in the Barnard second floor atrium. All Departments and off-campus guests are welcome to attend. Come and join us for coffee or tea and cookies, listen to our interesting speakers!

For further information contact the MSU Physics Department at 406-994-3614

 
Spring Semester 2025
Date Speaker Title Host
January 17      
January 24 Reed Essick
(U Toronto/CITA)		 Exotic Stable Branches with Efficient TOV Sequences Hang Yu
January 31      
February 7      
February 14 Dr. Nadir Jeevanjee
(NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)		 New insights into CO2 radiative forcing John Sample
February 21      
February 28      
March 7      
March 14      
March 21   Spring break  
March 25 Dr. Dharmraj Kotekar Patil (U. Arkansas) Special colloquium (Tue, Mar 25, 4-5 pm in Roberts 301)
Engineering quantum properties in two-
dimensional Van der Waals materials		 Anton Vorontsov
March 28 Dr. Robyn Millan
Dartmouth College		 Remote Sensing of Earth’s Magnetosphere with Energetic Charged Particles John Sample
April 1 Dr. Abhay Nayak
UCSB		 Special colloquium (Tue, Apr 1, 4-5pm in Roberts 307)
Unraveling Collective Excitations in Quantum Materials with On-Chip THz Spectroscopy

Anton Vorontsov

April 4

      

April 8

   Special colloquium (Tue, Apr 8, 2-3pm in Barnard 108) Anton Vorontsov
April 11   Special colloquium (Fri, Apr 11, 4-5pm in Barnard 108) Anton Vorontsov
April 18   U-day  
April 25      
May 2      
May 9   Finals week  
 
 
 
Fall Semester 2024
Date Speaker Title Host
August 30   Meet and greet   
September 6      
September 13      
September 20
Dr. Hossein Taghinejad
(UC Berkeley)
 Spintronics for Low-Energy Storage and Processing of Data

Amir Hasani

(MonArk)
September 27

Dr. Brian Saam
(Washington State U)

Hyperpolarized Noble Gases:
From Atomic Physics to Imaging the Lung

 Nick Borys
October  4      
October 11      
October 18      
October 25      
November 1      
November 8      
November 15      
November 22      
November 29   Thanksgiving week  
December 6      
December 13   Finals Week