Spring 2024 Colloquium

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Host
January 18, 2024	The Growth and Evolution of SMBHs via Galaxy Mergers	Adi Foord, Assistant Professor	University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)	Michela Negro
February 1, 2024	Multi-band topological Semimetals	Jacob Gayles, Assistant Professor	University of South Florida	Ilya Vekhter
February 8, 2024	Mars Sample Return: Seeing and sterilizing Martian samples inside the Capture, Containment, and Return System	Terra Hardwick, Optical Engineer	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Gabriela Gonzalez
February 15, 2024	The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars	Elisa Quintana, Astrophysicist	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Tabetha Boyajian
February 22, 2024	Optical analogue of the Hawking radiation	David Bermudez, Professor of Theoretical Physics	Cinvestav in Mexico City	Ivan Agullo
February 29, 2024	Open Quantum Systems: A new frontier of many-body physics	Ahana Chakraborty, Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow	Rutgers University	Kenneth Schafer
March 7, 2024	Attosecond Science and the Nobel Prize	Kenneth Schafer, LSU Boyd Professor	LSU Physics & Astronomy AMO	Ivan Agullo
March 14, 2024	Quantum Matter Manipulation with Coherent Bosons	Iliya Esin, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate	California Institute of Technology	Kenneth Schafer
TUESDAY, March 19	First-Principles Modeling of Novel Materials: Recombination Processes and Topology	Fangzhou Zhao, Humboldt Fellow	Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter	Kenneth Schafer
March 21, 2024	ULTRAFAST LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS: from imaging to controlling electrons and nuclei at their natural timescales	Patricia Vandel Zandbergen, Postdoctoral Researcher	New York University Department of Chemistry	Kenneth Schafer
March 28, 2024	Second Born electrons, and rescue at sea	A. Ravi P. Rau, Alumni Professor of Physics	LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy	Ivan Agullo
April 4, 2024	Timepix Detectors in Space Exploration: ISS, Artemis-I, and Beyond	Nicholas Stoffle	NASA Johnson Space Center	Jeffery Chancellor
April 11, 2024	Physics at the temporal boundary	Shao-Kai Jian, Assistant Professor	Tulane University	Justin Wilson
April 18, 2024	Fierce Planets	Sabine Stanley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor	Johns Hopkins University	Jeffery Blackmon
April 25, 2024	Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data	Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor	Harvard University	Eric Burns
May 2, 2024	Cosmic Messengers: The Galaxies’ Hidden Secrets	Marco Ajello, Associate Professor	Clemson University	Michela Negro

 

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