Colloquia Archive
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 |