Department of Physics

Spring 2022 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 103 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
1/24 Hai Nguyen Office of the Secretary of Defense B. DePaola Physicists Can Be a Force for Science in the Government
2/7 Cosmin Blaga K-State B. DePaola Seeing Molecules in Motion with Laser Induced Electron Diffraction
2/14 Tim Bolton K-State D. Higgins KSU Physics: Moving Beyond the Pandemic
2/28 Justyna Zwolak NIST C. Hass and P. Muddukrishna

Ray—based framework for tuning quantum dot devices: Two dots and beyond

3/7 Clifford Will Univ. of Florida B. DePaola Is Einstein Still Right?

3/8, Tues

 Clifford Will Univ. of Florida B. DePaola Peterson Lecture: Black Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein
3/14 Spring Break

4/18, Zoom Only

 Gloria Manney
 NorthWest Research Associates and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology L. Weaver The “Polar Vortex” and the Jet Streams: Linking Stratospheric Dynamical Anomalies to Extreme Weather Events
4/25 Subir Sachdev Harvard B. DePaola

Statistical Mechanics of Strange Metals and Black Holes

4/26, Tues

 Subir Sachdev Harvard B. DePaola Peterson Lecture: Quantum Entanglement at All Distances
5/2 Chris Neu Univ. of Virginia Y. Maravin Finding Needles In An Avalanche Of Haystacks: The Upgrade of the CMS Experiment for the High-Luminosity Era of the LHC
5/9 Finals Week
Colloquium Committee: Loren Greenman (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Chii-Dong Lin, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Terry Salava, Jr.