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/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) Cryogenic Near-field Photovoltage Microscopy in the Heavy-Fermion Twisted Symmetric Trilayer Graphene
