Fall 2024
Wednesdays @ 4:00 p.m.
SCI 1.210
Our department colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at the graduate level.
If you have questions about our colloquium, please contact Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz
Date/Host Speaker/Institution/Host Title/Abstract 8/28 Beichuan Deng, UT Southwestern (F. Zhang) Self-supervised hybrid neural network to achieve quantitative bioluminescence tomography for cancer research 9/4 Ran Cheng, UC Riverside (F. Zhang) Magnetic Topological Insulators as a New Twist in Spintronics 9/11 Zhenrong Zhang, Baylor University (Slinker) Plasmonic Materials in Nanoimaging and Oxide Phase Transition 9/18 Syed Maqbool Ahmed (Anderson) Mass Spectrometry program in Indian Lunar mission; the UTD connection 9/25 Chih-Ting Hsu, National Center for Atmospheric Research (Zhu) Thermospheric and Ionospheric Data Assimilation for current and future satellite missions with NSF NCAR’s Data Assimilation system 10/2 Lindsay Goodwin, NJIT (Anderson) Advancing our Understanding of Geospace Plasmas using Incoherent Scatter Radars 10/9 Junpeng Hou, Pinterest (GSP) When Physics meets Computer Science: two case studies of quantum Internet and machine-guided optical inverse design 10/16 Rahul Kannan, York University (Smith) Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation and Reionization 10/23 Shasha Zou, University of Michigan (X. Zhang) Multi-scale Ionospheric Dynamics during Geomagnetic Storms: Physical Processes, Forecasting, and Impacts 10/30 Brian Zhou, Boston College (Kolodrubetz) Revealing Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Sensors 11/6 Mini Das, University of Houston (Lumata) Single-Photon Spectral Detection and X-Ray Phase Imaging 11/13 Vladimir Uversky, University of South Florida (Cisneros) From multifunctionality to polypathogenicity via unusual biophysics and strange biology of intrinsic disorder 11/20 Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Louisiana State University (Smith) Is Betelgeuse the Outcome of a Past Merger? 12/4 Petr Stepanov, Notre Dame (F. Zhang) TBD
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Colloquium Archive
*Unfortunately colloquia websites from Spring 2020-Fall 2021 are not currently available due to issues from website migration
