Previous Events
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Speaker: Prof. Xiangdong Zhu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis |
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| Faculty Research Overview | Featured Labs: Prof. Suchi Guha: Experimental Condensed Matter Prof. Ioan Kosztin: Computational Biophysics Prof. Keith Cassidy: Computational Biophysics | |
| Pioneering Neural Networks: Nobel-Winning Contributions of Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield |
Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 was awarded to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield for their transformative contributions to the field of machine learning and artificial neural networks. We will explore John Hopfield’s development of the Hopfield network… Show more Speaker: Prof. Satish Nair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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| Physics Nobel Prize for AI: From Law of Everything to Representation of Something |
Abstract: This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics celebrates the transformative contributions of John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The award illustrates the deep… Show more Speaker: Prof. Dong Xu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia |
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| Disorder by design in strongly correlated materials |
Abstract: Generally, uniformity in materials is seen as critical to phase order, with disorder and defects being thought to result in lower ordering temperatures and prevention of long-range percolation. However, disorder is an important aspect of many materials… Show more Speaker: Dr. Alessandro R. Mazza, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| Intertwined degrees of freedom in layered materials |
Abstract: Materials with exotic properties have become a key driver in advancing condensed matter and materials physics. Layered materials, in particular, offer exceptional platforms for exploring a wide range of quantum phases and phenomena. The distinct structural… Show more Speaker: Prof. Jin Hu, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas |
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| Faculty Research Overview | Featured Labs: Prof. Pontus Laurell: Theoretical Condensed Matter Prof. Charles Steinhardt: Astrophysics Prof. Deepak Singh: Experimental Condensed Matter | |
| Return to Scientific Operations at the NIST Center for Neutron Research |
Abstract: Highly penetrating and non-destructive, with sensitivity to light elements and magnetic fields, neutron beams provide information about the microscopic structure and dynamics of materials that is difficult or impossible to obtain via other techniques.… Show more Speaker: Dr. Brian Kirby, NIST Center for Neutron Research |
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| Spin and Lattice coupling in kagome metal FeGe |
Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) kagome lattice metals are interesting because they display flat electronic bands, Dirac points, Van Hove singularity, and can have interplay amongst charge density wave (CDW), magnetic order, and superconductivity. In kagome lattice… Show more Speaker: Prof. Pengcheng Dai, Department of Physics, Rice University |
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| How Do Synapses Regulate Spontaneous Release to Maintain Connections? |
Abstract: Synapses represent a fundamental unit of information transfer during cognition. They accomplish this by a process called presynaptic vesicle exocytosis, which can occur either spontaneously or by stimulation (called evoked release). It has been well… Show more Speaker: Prof. Michael Gramlich, Department of Physics, Auburn University |
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| Forces at biological interfaces: insights from neutron reflectometry |
Forces at biological interfaces: insights from neutron reflectometryAbstract: Neutron reflectometry (NR) is a powerful method to interrogate the structure of multilayered thin films at interfaces and has found application in many areas in both hard and soft… Show more Speaker: Dr. David Hoogerheide |
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| Understanding static and dynamic local structure: Metal Halide Perovskites |
Michael F Toney, University of Colorado Boulder Local atomic structure often differs from the global average structure as measured with diffraction and yet the local structure has a profound impact on properties. This structure-function relationship applies in… Show more Speaker: Michael Toney |
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| Thinking about Agriculture as a Physicist |
Abstract:Farmers and their modern machinery collect prodigious amounts of data while engaging in the critical task of producing food to feed the world. Thinking about agriculture and agricultural data like a physicist is an unusual but very fruitful way of… Show more Speaker: Christopher Fasano |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium | Speaker: Dr. Pavlo Sukhachov |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium | Speaker: Dr. David Vartanyan |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium | Speaker: Dr. Charles Su |
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| Neutron stars, pulsars, and magnetars | Speaker: Prof. Joshua Ridley |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium | Speaker: Dr. Chandan Setty |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium | Speaker: Dr. Christopher Howk, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame |
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| Bridging Physics and AI: Pioneering Advances in Computational Material Science |
Join us for “Bridging Physics and AI: Pioneering Advances in Computational Material Science " a keynote presentation by Dr. Aldo Romero, College of Arts & Science – Physics & Astronomy, MizzouForward faculty candidate. Dr. Romero… Show more Speaker: Dr. Romero |
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| 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Attosecond light pulses: taking snapshots of electrons in matter |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to three physicists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. Prof. Carsten Ullrich, MU Dept. of… Show more Speaker: Dr. Carsten Ullrich |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: Epithelial tissues are the first and most abundant tissue type in animals. They can be found in basal organisms like sponges, and they perform a wide range of important biological functions (including gas exchange and nutrient absorption) in humans. These… Show more Speaker: Dr. Dan Bergstralh |
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| Emergent magnetism with continuous control in layered quantum materials |
Matthew Brahlek, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The current challenge to realizing continuously tunable magnetism lies in our inability to systematically change properties such as valence, spin, and orbital degrees of… Show more Speaker: Dr Matthew Brahlek |
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| Philosophical reflections on quantum gravity phenomenology |
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Long-standing common lore in fundamental physics insists that the problem of developing a high-energy theory of quantum gravity (QG) is a job for the theoretical physicist, which is largely unconstrained by empirical data. But QG phenomenology --- focused… Show more Speaker: Dr. Mike Schneider, Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri |
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| Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion |
Abstract: On small length-scales, the mechanics of soft materials may be dominated by their interfacial properties as opposed to their bulk properties. These effects are described by equilibrium models of elasto-capillarity and wetting. In these… Show more Speaker: Michael Murrell, Yale |
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| Coherent Control of Quantum Matter: One Full Circle |
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Dr. Jigang Wang is a F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University and a Senior Physicist in the Materials Science and Engineering Division and Team leader of Light-Matter Quantum Control at Ames National… Show more Speaker: Dr. Jigang Wang |
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| COLLOIDAL PHYSICS THAT INSTANTIATE LIFE IN BIOLOGICAL CELLS |
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We are interested in how physics at the colloidal scale instantiate life in biological cells. While principles from physics have driven recent paradigm shifts in how collective biomolecular behaviors orchestrate life, many mechanistic aspects of e.g.… Show more Speaker: Prof. Roseanna Zia |
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| Replicate, Repair, Recombine: Configurational Dynamics of the Replication Protein A (RPA) in Cellular Decision Making |
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Replication protein A (RPA) coordinates a plethora of DNA metabolic events. In the cell, it binds to virtually all exposed single-strand DNA, melts secondary DNA structures, recruits over three dozen proteins onto ssDNA, activates the DNA… Show more Speaker: Maria Spies, University of Iowa |
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| From molecules to development: biological timing and patterning |
Zoom link available upon request- email sekhrn@missouri.edu.
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Organisms from bacteria to humans employ complex biochemical or genetic oscillatory networks, termed biological clocks, to drive a wide variety of cellular and developmental processes… Show more Speaker: Qiong Yang, University of Michigan |