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 2024
Date Speaker Title Host
January 19

Vincent Lau,

U Virginia

 Studies of tides in binary compact stars with gravitational waves Hang Yu
January 26      
February 2      
February 9      
February 16      
February 23      
March 1      
March 8      
March 15   Spring break  
March 22

Jayson Nissen, Ph.D.
Nissen Education Research
and Design

 Modernizing Formative and Research-based Assessments with Cognitive Diagnostic Models S. Willoughby
March 28

Sarah Shandera,

Director, Institute for
Gravitation and the Cosmos, Penn State University

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM:

Dark Black Holes

(Thursday 4-5pm, Roberts 101)

 N. Cornish
March 29   University Day (no classes, offices open)  

April 3

Barnard 108

4:10 - 5:00

 Victoria Borish, Ph.D

University of Colorado

What does it mean to see quantum mechanics?

(Special time and place: Wed, Barnard 108)

 S. Willoughby
April 12

Meagan Sundstrom, Ph.D.

Drexel University

 Who is good at physics and why? The role of gender in peer recognition. S. Willoughby
April 19      
April 26

Jeffrey Heys,

Assoc. Dean of Engineering, MSU

 Should We Sleep More? A Physics-Based Argument A. Vorontsov
May 3   Cornhole competition TaMIA
May 10   Finals week  
 
 
Fall Semester 2023
Date Speaker Title Host
September 1      
September 8

 Hyoungsoon Choi,

KAIST

  Two Dimensional Quantum Fluids in a Semiconductor A. Vorontsov
September 15

S. Raj Chaudhury,

U. South Alabama

 From Individual Pathways to Institutional Cultures: Learning Sciences in our Academic Lives A. Vorontsov
September 22

Clarice D. Aiello,

UCLA

 Nick Borys
September 29

Sophie Koudmani,

Flatiron Institute

 Exploring Cosmic Mysteries with Cosmological Simulations: Theoretical Insights from Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies Amy Reines
October  6      
October 13

Hang Yu,

Montana State 

 Spin and tide: constructing accurate waveform models for gravitational wave observations  A. Vorontsov
October 20

Rachael Filwett,

Montana State

Energetic Particle Observations: Advancements with Modern Techniques

 A. Vorontsov
October 27      
November 3

Adrian Del Maestro,

U Tennessee-Knoxville

 The Search for Low Dimensional Quantum Matter A. Vorontsov
November 10   Veterans Day (no classes, offices closed)  
November 17      
November 24   Thanksgiving week  
December 1

Michael LaHaye

U. Guelph

 The Spin Induced Quadrupole Moment as a Probe of the Nature of Compact Objects Hang Yu
December 8 Loc Duong, MSU Tuning Magnetic Interaction in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors N. Borys
December 15   Finals Week