Events
The Physics and Astronomy Department hold regular seminars and events on a variety of topics. Please see below for further details.
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| Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-based Testing Facility |
Abstract: Exams are an important tool for summative assessment, whose utility has only grown with the advent of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, because they can be implemented in a trustworthy manner. But exams are generally not well liked by either… Show more Speaker: Prof. Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Electron Transport and Topological Hall Effect in Skyrmion Crystals |
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin configurations that have gained enormous interest as building blocks for next-generation spintronic devices. A distinctive feature of skyrmion systems is the topological Hall effect (THE): when electrons… Show more Speaker: Prof. Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri |
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| Spintronics with Antiferromagnets |
Abstract: Spintronics is a field of research and technology that exploits the electron’s spin—a quantum property responsible for magnetism—along with its charge, as used in conventional electronics. In spintronic devices, information can be stored, processed, and… Show more Speaker: Prof. Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin |
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| Entangled Pauli Principles |
Abstract: One of the enduring questions in the study of strongly correlated electrons is how to read the universal, long-distance physics directly from a microscopic Hamiltonian. In fractional quantum Hall systems, certain solvable models achieve this through… Show more Speaker: Prof. Alexander Seidel, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abtract: TBD
Speaker: Prof. Min Gyu Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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| Coherent control of wave propagation in opaque materials |
Concept of diffusion is widely used to describe propagation of light through multiple scattering media such as clouds, interstellar gas, colloids, paints, biological tissue, etc. Such media are often called random. This terminology is, however, misleading.… Show more Speaker: Prof. Alexey Yamilov, Department of Physics, Missouri S & T |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: TBD
Speaker: Dr. Vlad Kurilovich, Google Quantum AI |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Chuanwei Zhang, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Engineering Topological Properties via Spin-Orbit Coupling |
In this talk, I will present our two recent studies on realizing topological properties via Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in exotic quantum materials. First, I will introduce twisted type-II Rashba homobilayers as a new platform for achieving… Show more Speaker: Prof. Li Yang, Washington University in St Louis |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: TBD
Speaker: Prof. Raquel Queiroz, Columbia University |