2023-2024 Colloquia Schedule

Unless otherwise indicated, colloquia are presented in Jorgensen Hall room 136 on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. during Fall and Spring semesters. Refreshments will precede colloquia on the first floor of Jorgensen Hall near the vending area at 3:30 p.m. For further information, please call the Physics & Astronomy Department at 402-472-2770.

Past Colloquia Schedules: ♦2022-2023 ♦2021-20222020-20212019-20202018-20192017-20182016-20172015-20162014-20152013-20142012-2013



Zuocheng Zhang

University of California, Berkeley

Designing electron correlation in van der Waals heterostructures 

Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023

Host: Alexey Kovalev


Kai Hao

University of Chicago

Exploring quantum phenomena and photonic interfaces of transition metal dichalcogenides system

Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023

Host: Xiaoshan Xu


Youngjun Ahn

University of Michigan

Toward symmetry-resolved visualization of quantum materials

Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023

Host: Xiaoshan Xu


Chandan Biswas

Sungkyunkwan University

Coulombic Boson electronics towards room temperature quantum computing

Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023

Host: Xiaoshan Xu


Jinsong Xu

John Hopkins University

Discovery of New Spin Current Phenomena in Quantum Materials 

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2023

Host: Xiaoshan Xu


Alejandro Saenz

Humboldt University of Berlin

Impact of Molecular Physics on Our Current Knowledge of the Neutrino Mass 

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

Host: Marcel Ngoko Djiokap


Dan Reichart

University of North Carolina

The Stonehenge Observatory

Friday, Oct. 6, 2023

Host: Kevin Lee


Cameron Bravo

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Accelerator Searches for Sub-GeV Dark Sectors

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2023

Host: Peisi Huang & Ken Bloom


Jaehoon Yu

University of Texas-Arlington

DAMSA, A Novel Dark Matter Search Experiment at Fermilab

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023

Host: Peisi Huang


Eckart Ruehl

Freie Universitaet Berlin

Structure and Dynamics of Variable Size Matter Studied in the Gas Phase: From Atoms to Condensed Matter

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023

Host: Peter Dowben


Robert Streubel

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Science Outside the Lab: Alternate Career Paths for Physics Ph.D.

Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023

Host: Christian Binek


Tim Gay

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Physics of Football

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

Host:


Julia Gonski

SLAC

Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

Host: Peisi Huang


Vivien Zapf

Los Alamos National Lab

Magnetoelectric Coupling at Spin Crossovers

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024

Host: Peter Dowben


Tim McKay

University of Michigan

Equity & Efficacy: Why Structural Change is Needed in Intro STEM Courses

Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024

Host: Ken Bloom


David Mandrus

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

How Physicists Think about New Materials

Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024

Host: Xia Hong


Axel Hoffmann

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Magnetic Matchmaking: Hybrid Magnon Modes

Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024

Host: Christian Binek


Meng Han

Kansas State University

Circular Polarization: From Strong-Field Physics to Attosecond Science

Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024

Host: Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap


Wendell Hill

University of Maryland

Precision Measurement of the Quantum Vacuum with Multi-Petawatt Lasers

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

Host: Tim Gay


Melania Nynka

MIT

25 Years of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024

Host: Peisi Huang