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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/HostSpeaker/InstitutionTitle/Abstract
1/17Lee Liu (CU Boulder)Ergodicity breaking in C60 fullerenes
1/24Physics DepartmentWho is who in Physics at UT-Dallas?
1/31Yue Jiang (CU Boulder)Exploring Quantum Harmony: From Cold Atoms to Superconducting Circuits
2/7Francisco Salces-Carcoba (Caltech)Cryogenic gravitational wave detectors: a view into the next-generation quantum-limited probes of space and time
2/14Josh Borrow (UPenn)From Analog Computers to Petabytes: The Rise of Complex Galaxy Formation Simulations
2/21Zhifan Zhou (University of Maryland)Quantum sensors with atomic and optical physics
2/28Nir Bar-Gill (Hebrew University)Simulation, control and sensing in open quantum system
3/6Marcin Pilinski (CU Boulder)Progress and Challenges in Estimating Physical Satellite Drag Coefficients
3/13SPRING BREAK – NO COLLOQUIUM 
3/20Xinlin Li (CU Boulder)Unveiling Energetic Particle Dynamics in the Near-Earth Environment: Contributions from CubeSat Missions
3/27Zihao Ou (Stanford)Dynamic Imaging Through Live Animal Optical Clearing and Liquid-Phase TEM
4/3Ruixing Zhang (University of Tennessee)Trapping Majorana Quasiparticles with Superconducting Vortices
4/10Emanuele Berti (JHU)Nonlinear black hole spectroscopy
4/10Elizabeth MacDonald (Goddard)From the eclipse to the aurora, ways to join in the Helio Big Year (Special Public Talk @ 7pm in JO 3.516)
4/17Joel Meyers (SMU)Illuminating Cosmological Signatures of Fundamental Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background
4/24Alemayehu Gorfe (UTHealth Houston)Simulation of protein-lipid interactions
5/1Guru Khalsa (UNT)Ultrafast symmetry control in crystalline materials with light