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 2019
Date Speaker Title Host
       
September 6

Dr. Mallory Molina

MSU

 Resolving Black Hole and Star-Formation

Activity in Nearby Galaxies

 Amy Reines
September 13

Prof. Anton Vorontsov

MSU

  Phase Crystals Nick Borys
September 20

Ian Baker 

Darthmouth

 Engineering New Materials for the Future  Kevin Hammonds
September 27

Prof. Alison Coil 

UC San Diego

  Relationship Between Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Amy Reines
October 4

Assistant Prof. Jake Simon

Iowa State

 

  Accretion Disks: From Black Holes to Planets David Nidever & Amy Reines
October 11 

Senior Scientist Peter Sorensen

LBL

 Status and Outlook for the Direct Detection of Galactic Dark Matter   David Nidever
October 18

Prof. Jiong Qiu

MSU

 

 The Electric Field in the Sun's Corona 

Nick Borys
October 25

 Prof. Neil Cornish 

MSU

 Le Grand Tour Yves Idzerda
November 1

Assistant Prof. Keith Hawkins

UT Austin

  Galactic Archaeology in the era of Gaia  David Nidever
November 8

Dr. Jeff Hazboun

UW, Oregon State

Exploring the Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays

with Realistic Sensitivity Curves 

 Neil Cornish
November 15

 

Amber McReary

NIST in Maryland

  

Nick Borys
November 22

Sam Berweger

NIST Boulder

 Microwave on the Nanoscale: Imaging and Spectroscopy  Nick Borys
November 29 THANKSGIVING BREAK NO COLLOQUIUM  NO COLLOQUIUM
December 6

Gurtina Besla 

UA 

The Milky Way in Motion 

 David Nidever
December 13 FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK NO COLLOQUIUM NO COLLOQUIUM

 

Spring Semester 2020
Date Speaker Title Host
January 17 NO COLLOQUIUM

 

    
January 24

Kayhan Gultekin

University of Michigan

  Supermassive Black Hole Outflows and Pairs

Anne Lohfink

 
January 31 

 Sean McWilliams

West Virginia University

  Analytic Black-hole Binary Mergers from First Principles  Neil Cornish
February 7

Hsin-Yu Chen

Havard University 

 Gravitational-Wave Observations from Quraks to the Universe   Neil Cornish
February 14

Michael Puerrer

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 

  Precision Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Next Generation Waveform Models  
February 21

 Dustin Madison

West Virginia University

 Advancing the Capabilities of Nanoherts Gravitational Wave Astronomy   
February 28

Ryan Hickox

Darthmouth

 The Hidden Monsters: New Windows on the Cosmic Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes  Amy Reines
March 6      
March 13  Aleks Rebane McCall-Hahn solitons (self-induced transperancy) in ruby-revisited or how to avoid Solving partial differential differential equations   Aleks Rebane
March 20  NO COLLOQUIUM  SPRING BREAK STUDENT HOLIDAY
March 27      
April 3      
April 10 UNIVERSITY DAY STUDENT HOLIDAY STUDENT HOLIDAY
April 17

Aleks Rebane

MSU

    
April 24      
May 1

 Chris Lowder

Southwestern Research Institute