Previous Events

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Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
Understanding static and dynamic local structure: Metal Halide Perovskites
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Dr. Paul Miceli
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 many… Show more

Speaker: Michael Toney

Thinking about Agriculture as a Physicist
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Physics 120
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Dr. Paul Miceli
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

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 120
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Dr. Carsten Ullrich

Speaker: Dr. Pavlo Sukhachov

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 223A
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Dr. Aigen Li

Speaker: Dr. David Vartanyan

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Dr. Gavin King
O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 120
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Dr. Ping Yu

Speaker: Dr. Charles Su

Neutron stars, pulsars, and magnetars
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Physics 120
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Dr. Gavin King

Speaker: Prof. Joshua Ridley

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 120
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Dr. Carsten Ullrich

Speaker: Dr. Chandan Setty

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 120
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Dr. Aigen Li

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Howk, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame

Bridging Physics and AI: Pioneering Advances in Computational Material Science
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Physics 120
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Dr. Paul Miceli
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 will present on his research… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Romero

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Attosecond light pulses: taking snapshots of electrons in matter
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Physics 120
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

O.M. Stewart Colloquium
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Physics 120
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Dr. Maria Mills
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

Emergent magnetism with continuous control in layered quantum materials
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Physics 120
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Dr. Paul Miceli
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

Philosophical reflections on quantum gravity phenomenology
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120 Physics
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Dr. Paul Miceli
Abstract: 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

Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion
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Physics 120
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Prof. Maria Mills
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 models, interfacial… Show more

Speaker: Michael Murrell, Yale

Coherent Control of Quantum Matter: One Full Circle
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Physics 120
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Dr. Paul Miceli
Info: 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

COLLOIDAL PHYSICS THAT INSTANTIATE LIFE IN BIOLOGICAL CELLS
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Physics Room 120
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Paul Miceli
Abstract: 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

Replicate, Repair, Recombine: Configurational Dynamics of the Replication Protein A (RPA) in Cellular Decision Making
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Physics 120
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Prof. Maria Mills
Abstract: 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 damage response… Show more

Speaker: Maria Spies, University of Iowa

From molecules to development: biological timing and patterning
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Physics 120
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Prof. Maria Mills
Zoom link available upon request- email sekhrn@missouri.edu. Abstract:  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 for… Show more

Speaker: Qiong Yang, University of Michigan

The Search for Low Dimensional Quantum Matter
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Physics 120
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Prof. Carlos Wexler
Abstract: As the spatial dimension is lowered, locally stabilizing interactions between atoms are reduced, leading to the emergence of quantum fluctuating phases of matter without classical analogues. In this colloquium I will discuss theoretical progress and… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Adrian Del Maestro

Navigating molecular space at the single-molecule level for optoelectronics, energy, and quantum applications
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Physics Room 120
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Paul Miceli
Abstract: Molecules-the smallest unit of matter with remarkable structural diversity-have been playing a pivotal role in today’s materials science, nanotechnology, and life science. The capability to manipulate physical and chemical behaviors of single molecules and… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Kun Wang

O.M. Stewart Colloquium: Revealing the mechanisms of bacterial chemotaxis signaling using integrative multi-scale molecular simulations
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Physics Room 120

Speaker: Keith Cassidy, PhD

Nonequilibrium Electron and Phonon Dynamics in Advanced Photovoltaic Devices
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Physics 120
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Deepak Singh
Abstract: Nonequilibrium Electron and Phonon Dynamics in Advanced Photovoltaic Devices The realization of advanced concept solar cells that circumvent the thermodynamic limitations of conventional devices [1] depends strongly on the competition between energy… Show more

Speaker: Stephen Goodnick

The interplay of temperature, density, and interaction strength in warm dense matter
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120 Physics
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Carsten Ullrich
Abstract: Warm dense matter is a highly energetic phase, intermediate to solids, liquids, and plasma. It is found in such diverse environments as the centers of giant planets, within small stars, and during the ignition of inertial confinement fusion capsules, and… Show more

Speaker: Professor Aurora Pribram-Jones

Fabrication of 3D nanostructures via concave-corner-mediated lateral growth process
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Physics 120
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Dr. David Singh
Fabrication of 3D nanostructures via concave-corner-mediated lateral growth process
Mu Wang
American Physical Society & Nanjing University

Future information technology relies on our capability to fabricate microstructures of functional… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Mu Wang

Defect-laden 2D Materials for a Sustainable Future – from CO2 conversion to single photon emission
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Physics 120
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Dr. Paul Miceli
Defect-laden 2D Materials for a Sustainable Future – from CO2 conversion to single photon emission Talat S. Rahman Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA In the pursuit of a sustainable future, the last decade has seen a… Show more

Speaker: Talat S. Rahman

O.M. Stewart colloquium lecture
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Physics 120
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Deepak Singh
To be updated...

Speaker: Prof. Paul Davies

Strong correlations in twisted moiré materials
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Physics 223A & Zoom
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Giovanni Vignale
Moiré patterns are well known in the visual arts and textile industries -- the term comes from the textured patterns seen in mohair silk fabrics.  It arises whenever two periodic structures are superimposed giving new periodicities.  Such translational symmetry… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Shaffique Adam

Novel photovoltaic perovskites: beyond solar cells
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Physics 120
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Ioan Kosztin
Novel photovoltaic perovskites, the organo-metallic lead halides (e.g. CH3NH3PbI3), have revolutionized the field of solar cells by their high photon to electron conversion efficiency η of 25%.  But due to their chemical and structural tunability (one can grow… Show more

Speaker: Prof. László Forró, Marquez Chair Professor of Physics and Director of Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter University of Notre Dame, USA

Sn-Pb binary and mixed-halide perovskite thin films by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition
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Physics 120
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Prof. Suchi Guha
Since its first application as light absorbing materials in photovoltaic technology, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved a remarkable certified record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 25% in just over a decade. However, hybrid perovskite absorbers… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Arendse