Colloquium Archive – Fall 2022
Fall 2022 Archive
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 9/7 (Kolodrubetz) Thomas Iadecola, Iowa State University Simulating Quantum Dynamics at the Dawn of Quantum Computing 9/14 (Kolodrubetz) John Randall, Zyvex Labs Digital Atomic Scale Fabrication for Solid State Quantum Experiments 9/21 (Ishak-Boushaki) Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both 10/5 (Du) Han Pu, Rice University Extended Dicke Model 10/12 (Kesden) Krista Smith, Southern Methodist University Through the Kaleidoscope: A Dynamic, Panchromatic Look at Supermassive Black Holes 10/19 (Kesden) Jonathan Cohn, Texas A&M University Dynamical mass measurements of supermassive black holes in local relic galaxies 10/27 (Cisneros)Special time Thursday 9 a.m. JSOM 2.115 Alan Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto Machine learning for quantum information: learning to generate quantum optical setups and quantum dynamics 11/2 (X. Zhang) Anton Artemyev, UCLA Kinetics of Solar Wind Transients 11/9 (Cisneros) Donald Hamelberg, Georgia State University How do protein conformational changes orchestrate function? 11/16 (F. Zhang) Ke Wang, University of Minnesota An Electronic Chord with Three Beating Notes of Graphene 11/30 (Lv) Li Shi, University of Texas at Austin Event has been cancelled 12/7 (Zakhidov) Nigora Turaeva, Webster University Theoretical models of spontaneous point mutations in DNA