Spring 2024 Colloquium
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
Note: All colloquia will be held in room 119 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 18, 2024 | The Growth and Evolution of SMBHs via Galaxy Mergers | Adi Foord, Assistant Professor | University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) | Michela Negro |
| February 1, 2024 | Multi-band topological Semimetals | Jacob Gayles, Assistant Professor | University of South Florida | Ilya Vekhter |
| February 8, 2024 | Mars Sample Return: Seeing and sterilizing Martian samples inside the Capture, Containment, and Return System | Terra Hardwick, Optical Engineer | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Gabriela Gonzalez |
| February 15, 2024 | The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars | Elisa Quintana, Astrophysicist | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Tabetha Boyajian |
| February 22, 2024 | Optical analogue of the Hawking radiation | David Bermudez, Professor of Theoretical Physics | Cinvestav in Mexico City | Ivan Agullo |
| February 29, 2024 | Open Quantum Systems: A new frontier of many-body physics | Ahana Chakraborty, Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow | Rutgers University | Kenneth Schafer |
| March 7, 2024 | Attosecond Science and the Nobel Prize | Kenneth Schafer, LSU Boyd Professor | LSU Physics & Astronomy AMO | Ivan Agullo |
| March 14, 2024 | Quantum Matter Manipulation with Coherent Bosons | Iliya Esin, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate | California Institute of Technology | Kenneth Schafer |
| TUESDAY, March 19 | First-Principles Modeling of Novel Materials: Recombination Processes and Topology | Fangzhou Zhao, Humboldt Fellow | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter | Kenneth Schafer |
| March 21, 2024 |
ULTRAFAST LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS: from imaging to controlling electrons and nuclei at their natural timescales |
Patricia Vandel Zandbergen, Postdoctoral Researcher | New York University Department of Chemistry | Kenneth Schafer |
| March 28, 2024 | Second Born electrons, and rescue at sea | A. Ravi P. Rau, Alumni Professor of Physics | LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy | Ivan Agullo |
| April 4, 2024 | Timepix Detectors in Space Exploration: ISS, Artemis-I, and Beyond | Nicholas Stoffle | NASA Johnson Space Center | Jeffery Chancellor |
| April 11, 2024 | Physics at the temporal boundary | Shao-Kai Jian, Assistant Professor | Tulane University | Justin Wilson |
| April 18, 2024 | Fierce Planets | Sabine Stanley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor | Johns Hopkins University | Jeffery Blackmon |
| April 25, 2024 | Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data | Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor | Harvard University | Eric Burns |
| May 2, 2024 | Cosmic Messengers: The Galaxies’ Hidden Secrets | Marco Ajello, Associate Professor | Clemson University | Michela Negro |