Previous Events

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Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
AGN selection and demographics: a new age with JWST/MIRI
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Jianwei Lyu (University of Arizona)

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

Designing correlated&topological states in semiconductor moiré
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Physics Library
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Guang Bian
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) based moiré materials have been shown to host various correlated electronic phenomena including Mott insulating states and fractional filling charge orders, quantum spin Hall effects, and (fractional) quantum anomalous Hall… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Yang Zhang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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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Dr. Maria Mills

Speaker: Dr. Dapeng "Max" Bi

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

Speaker: Dr. David Vartanyan

Selected Topics from the 2024 Winter AAS Meeting
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Physics 216

Speaker: Alec Martin & Tom Sun

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

Van der Waals Topological Magnets and Superconductors
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Zoom
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Dr. Andrew Meng
Abstract: The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators leads to novel quantum states of matter. One prominent example at the two-dimensional limit is the Chern insulator, which hosts dissipationless chiral edge states at sample boundaries. These… Show more

Speaker: Dmitry Ovchinnikov

(Comprehensive Exam) Mapping Physics Properties of Spiral Galaxies Over Cosmic Time
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

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

Speaker: Dr. Chandan Setty

CM Seminar
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Zoom
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Dr. Andrew Meng
“Phases and dynamics of dipolar gases and universality of ferromagnetic superfluids”  This presentation consists of two separate parts. In the first, we will discuss the static properties and the dynamics of dipolar Dysprosium Bose-Einstein condensates… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Symeon Mystakidis

Peptide-Based Building Blocks: Advancing Supramolecular Catalysis and Electronic Integration in Biosensor Applications
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Physics Library
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Suchi Guha
Abstract: Self-assembling peptides have emerged as a cutting-edge class of materials that can be engineered to form one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures, with diverse potential applications in bioimaging, tissue… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Wendel Alves from UFABC in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Observing the Global Evolution of Baryons, Metals, and Dust with Cosmic Time
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Howk (Notre Dame)

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… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Romero

Thermodynamics in a gravitational radiation zone
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

CM Seminar
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Dr. Andrew Meng

Speaker: Dr Sheng Ran

New views of early star cluster and galaxy formation
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Physics 216 (remote speaker)

Speaker: Prof. Aaron Romanowsky (San Jose State University)

The Quantum and the Cosmos
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126 Physics Building
The Quantum and the Cosmos Quantum laws rule the microscopic world. In the Big Bang era, our world was subatomic and governed by quantum phenomena which generated all the cosmic structures, from galaxies to light, around us today. This connection between the… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Edward Kolb

The Quantum and the Cosmos
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126 Physics Building
The Quantum and the Cosmos is part of the American Physical Society Prairie Section Fall 2023 Meeting.  Attendees can visit the meeting website for a full schedule plus information about parking, lodging, APS membership and more.

Speaker: Dr. Edward Kolb

Spirals in Galaxies: A Review
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

CM Seminar
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Physics 223A
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Dr. Andrew Meng

Speaker: Dr. Jaewon Lee

Comprehensive Exam: Galaxy Luminosity Functions at z ~ 7 - 10 from JWST
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Physics 216

Speaker: Tom Sun

CM Seminar
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Professor Andrew Meng

Speaker: Professor Tara Finegan

When did the first disk galaxies emerge?
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Galaxy Population: Successes and Challenges
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Physics 216

Speaker: Teja Teppala

Exploring optical material properties through quantum geometry
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Zoom Seminar
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Guang Bian
Understanding and manipulating quantum superposition are important quests in quantum materials research. One exciting direction emerging in the field is to use the geometry of quantum states – the so-called quantum geometry – as a means of characterizing quantum… Show more

Speaker: Junyeong Ahn, Harvard University