Fall 2025 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 102 Cardwell Hall unless stated otherwise. Colloquium refreshments are hosted at 4:15 pm prior to the talk in 119 Cardwell Hall. Talk titles and abstracts can be found in the title links below.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
8/25	Tim Bolton	K-State Physics		Welcome to the 2025-26 Academic Year
9/1	University Holiday - Labor Day
9/8	Arvinder Sandhu	Univ. of Arizona	U. Thumm	Probing electron dynamics with table-top and compact XFEL sources
9/15	Lado Samushia	K-State Physics	T. Bolton	Cosmic Secrets in the Patterns of Galaxies
9/22
9/29	Krister Shalm	NIST	M. Han	Taming God's Dice
10/6	E. Craig Dukes	Univ. of Virginia	G. Horton-Smith	Probing the Structures of Pyramids using Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography
10/13
10/20
10/27	Luca Argenti	Univ. of Central Florida	M. Han
11/3
11/10	Chandralekha Singh	Univ. of Pittsburgh	A. Chakrabarti	ZOOM ONLY
11/17	Meng Han	K-State	T. Bolton	Creating the shortest light pulses in the world
11/24	Thanksgiving Break
12/1
12/8

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