Fall 2022 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 102 Cardwell Hall unless stated otherwise. Colloquium refreshments are hosted in 119 Cardwell Hall. Talk titles and abstracts can be found in the title links below.

Date Speaker Institution Host Title
8/22 Tim Bolton K-State Physics Welcome (Back)
9/5 University Holiday - Labor Day
9/12 Matt Berg K-State T. Bolton Aerosol Characterization with Digital Holography
9/26 Wendy Freedman Univ. of Chicago T. Bolton Increasing Accuracy in Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Is There Evidence for New Physics?
9/27, Tues Wendy Freedman Univ. of Chicago T. Bolton Peterson Lecture: How Fast is the Universe Expanding?

10/10

Frederick K. Lamb Univ. of Illinois T. Bolton Determining the properties of neutron stars using NICER

10/11, Tues

Frederick K. Lamb Univ. of Illinois T. Bolton Neff Lecture: 65 years after Sputnik: A critical juncture in humanity’s use of space
10/31 Stewart Prager Princeton Univ. L. Greenman Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: and how physicists can help reduce the threat
11/7 Jerome Delhommelle Univ. of North Dakota C. Sorensen Assembly, Cooperativity, and Emergence: An Entropic Viewpoint on Phase Transitions inSoft and Active Matter
11/14 Hee-Jong Seo Ohio Univ. L. Samushia Accelerating Universe through DESI
11/21 Thanksgiving Break
12/5 Martin Centurion Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln L. Greenman
Imaging of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with Electron Diffraction

 

Colloquium Committee: Loren Greenman (Chair), Barbara Fennell, Andrew Ivanov, Chii-Dong Lin, Bharat Ratra, and Uwe Thumm