Spring 2015 Colloquia
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.
| Date/Host | Speaker/Institution | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| January 21 Host: Bob Glosser | Dr. Julia Chan UT Dallas | Adventures in Crystal Growth: Targeted Rare Earth Intermetallics with Synergistic Magnetic and Electrical Properties |
| January 28 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Hugh Churchill MIT | Atomically Thin Semiconductors: New Devices and New Physics |
| February 4 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Joe Izen UT Dallas | ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider: what they look like, how they work, and what was done during the long 2013-2015 shutdown |
| February 11 Host: Bob Glosser | Dr. Michael Zhang UT Dallas | On the Journey of Deciphering the Secret Code of Life |
| February 18 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Jairo Velasco UC Berkeley | Strongly Interacting Electrons and Novel Electronics in Graphene-Based Transistors |
| February 25 Host: Jason Slinker | Dr. David Dunlap New Mexico | The Classical Mechanics of Non-adiabatic Quantum Transport |
| March 11 Host: Lloyd Lumata | Dr. Matthew Merritt UT Southwestern | Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 and Magnetic Resonance Enables Real Time Estimates of Metabolic Flux |
| March 13 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Bing Lv University of Houston | From Superconductors to Super-thermal-conductors: Three Examples |
| March 18 | No colloquium – Spring Break | |
| March 25 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Steve Sekula SMU | To See Beyond the Higgs: Searches for Additional Higgs Bosons with the ATLAS Experiment |
| April 1 Host: Mustapha Ishak | Dr. Michael Kesden UT Dallas | Effective Potentials and Morphological Transitions for Binary Black-Hole Spin Precession |
| April 8 Host: Mustapha Ishak | Dr. Salman Habib Argonne National Lab | Computing the Universe |
| April 15 Host: Xingang Chen | Dr. Sonia Paban UT Austin | Initial Conditions for Inflation |
| April 22 Host: Anton Malko | Dr. Evgeny Danilov North Carolina State University | Metal-organic Photochemical Sensitizers: Insight from Ultrafast Spectroscopy |
| April 24 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Xiaoyan Shi Sandia National Laboratories | Hybridizing Superconductors and Topological Matter |
| April 27 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Ilya Sochnikov Stanford | Scanning SQUID Microscopy of Emergent Phenomena |
| April 29 Host: Fan Zhang | Dr. Lincoln Carr Colorado School of Mines | Ultracold Molecules in Crystals of Light: A Highly Tunable System for Exploring Novel Materials, Quantum Dynamics, and Quantum Complexity |
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