Physics Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Colloquia are normally held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5 PM in Barnard Hall 103. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:45pm 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
| Fall Semester 2018 | |||
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| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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August 31 |
Physics Undergraduate Student Welcome Barbeque | In front of Barnard Hall (EPS) at 4:10 PM in place of Colloquium | Hannah Gilroy |
| September 7 |
Nick Borys MSU |
Nano-optical Imaging and Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials and Technologies | David Nidever |
| September 14 |
Dana Longcope MSU |
Parker Solar Probe: A Mission to a touch star – and A Rocket science tour de force |
David Nidever |
| September 21 |
Julie Commerford Assistant Professor Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences University of Colorado, Boulder |
Supermassive Black Hole Fueling and Feedback in Galaxies | Amy Reines |
| September 28 | Jocelyn Bell-Burnell | What is this pulsing thing? A graduate student's story. | Nico Yunes |
| October 5 |
Professor David Weitz Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics Harvard University https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/weitz https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/weitz Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group |
Dripping Jetting Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics | Connie Chang, James Wilking |
| October 12 |
Javier Garcia Caltech |
Simulation of black hole x-ray radiation | Anne Lohfink |
| October 19 | Dr. Sten Hasselquist NSF Postdoctoral Fellow University of Utah |
APOGEE Chemical Abundances of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy | David Nidever |
| October 26 |
Dominique Zosso Department of Mathematics MSU |
"From sparsity in images and data to efficient solvers for PDE" | David Nidever |
| November 2 |
Cole Miller UMD |
LISA in the extreme | Nico Yunes |
| November 9 |
Jim Gates Brown |
Why Tetrahedral Topology May Anchor Physical Reality. | Nico Yunes |
| November 16 |
Christoph Kastl Lawrence Berkley Lab |
Optoelectronics of 2D Layered Materials: From single defects to topological phenomena | David Nidever |
| November 23 | OFFICES CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
| November 30 |
Anja Kunze Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering MSU |
Brain-on-a-chip Technology: Potentials and Challenges | Nick Borys |
| December 7 | Laura Blecha | Modeling the gravitational wave and electomagnetic signatures | Amy Reines |
| December 14 | FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
| Spring Semester 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| January 18 |
Andy Geraci Northwestern |
The Precision Fontier: hunting for new short-range forces with resonant sensors |
Randy Babbitt |
| January 25 |
Amy Reines MSU |
Local Relics of Black Hole Seeds in Dwarf Galaxies | David Nidever |
| February 1 |
Angel Fernandez-Bravo
Lawrence Berkley Lab
|
Room-temperature Continuous-wave Upconverting Micro- and Nanolasing | Nick Borys |
| February 8 |
Brian D'Urso MSU |
Probing Gravity Using Optomechanics: A Particle in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap | Amy Reines\David Nidever |
| February 15 |
Gordon Brittan MSU |
Reality, Truth, and Objectivity: Reflections on Steven Weinberg’s “Against Philosophy” | Yves Idzerda |
| February 22 |
Kevin Hammonds MSU |
From Avalanches to Ice Sheets: The Material Properties of Snow & Ice | Nick Borys |
| March 1 |
Ryan Hickox Darthmouth |
Amy Reines | |
| March 8 |
Erik Grumstrup MSU |
Chemically and Structurally Correlated Charge Carrier Transport in Disordered Materials | Nick Borys |
| March 15 |
Suzanne Brahmia University of Washington |
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| March 22 | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| March 29 |
Bruno Schuler Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
The Beauty of Imperfection - an Atomic-scale Look at Point Defects on 2D Materials | Nick Borys |
| April 5 | Christine M. Hrenya | Efforts Toward a Predictive Understanding of Cohesive Granular Materials | Rufus Cone |
| April 12 |
Vivian Ferry University of MN |
Nanophotonic Science and Engineering | Nick Borys |
| April 19 | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY |
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April 26 |
Rich Plotkin | Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes | Amy Reines |
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May 3 |
FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |