Previous Events
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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 |
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| The Search for Low Dimensional Quantum Matter |
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 |
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| Navigating molecular space at the single-molecule level for optoelectronics, energy, and quantum applications |
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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 |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium: Revealing the mechanisms of bacterial chemotaxis signaling using integrative multi-scale molecular simulations | Speaker: Keith Cassidy, PhD |
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| Nonequilibrium Electron and Phonon Dynamics in Advanced Photovoltaic Devices |
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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 |
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| The interplay of temperature, density, and interaction strength in warm dense matter |
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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 |
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| Fabrication of 3D nanostructures via concave-corner-mediated lateral growth process |
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 |
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| Defect-laden 2D Materials for a Sustainable Future – from CO2 conversion to single photon emission |
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 |
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| O.M. Stewart colloquium lecture |
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Speaker: Prof. Paul Davies |
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| Strong correlations in twisted moiré materials |
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… Show more Speaker: Prof. Shaffique Adam |