Spring 2022

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.

Kansas State University

Department of Physics

Spring 2022 Colloquia

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