Previous Events
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| PAH in the Universe | Speaker: Charles Mentzer |
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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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| Investigating Star Formation in Low-mass Galaxies | Speaker: Teja Teppala |
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| Radiative cooling: harness sustainable coldness from the universe for passive cooling on the Earth |
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Radiative cooling is a passive cooling technique featured with zero-energy consumption by emitting terrestrial heat to the universe in form of blackbody thermal radiation. Nocturnal radiative cooling is an ordinary phenomenon of radiative cooling effect… Show more Speaker: Professor Yao Zhai |
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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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| Exploring Pathways that Feed Galaxies | Speaker: Prof. Sanchayeeta Borthakur (Arizona State University) |
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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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| Pushing the high redshift frontier in the JWST era | Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan |
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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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| Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation |
Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation
Peifen Zhu
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri
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Efficient use of energy and renewable energy production are of paramount… Show more Speaker: Prof. Peifen Zhu |
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| AGN Light Curve Modeling via Neural Processes | Speaker: Cole Vogt |
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| Galaxies in the Early Universe: A Summary of JWST's First Spectroscopic Observations | Speaker: Dr. John Pharo |
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| High-spin quasiparticles in topological semimetal YPtBi |
Quasiparticles with total angular momentum greater than j=1/2 can emerge in a solid state with strong spin-orbit interaction. While the existence of such high-spin quasiparticles has been known for decades, their implication has been largely overlooked. The… Show more Speaker: Prof. Hyunsoo Kim, Department of Physics, Missouri S&T |
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| Yes, there is a Quantum Measurement Problem (II) | Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer |
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| O.M. Stewart colloquium lecture |
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Speaker: Prof. Paul Davies |
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| Yes, there is a Quantum Measurement Problem (I) | Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer |
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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 |
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| Novel photovoltaic perovskites: beyond solar cells |
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 |
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| Sn-Pb binary and mixed-halide perovskite thin films by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition |
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 |
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| A Semi-Localized Transport (SLoT) Model for Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers |
Chemically doped semiconducting polymers exhibit electronic transport characteristics that range from localized (or hopping-like) transport to delocalized (or metal-like) transport. While a multitude of electronic transport models have been proposed, none of… Show more Speaker: Prof. Shannon Yee |
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| Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space |
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Speaker: Prof. Thomas Curtright, University of Miami |
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| Synthesis, Magnetic Behavior and Neutron Diffraction of Triangular Magnetic Materials |
Triangular magnetic structures have gained considerable interest due to their rich magnetic behavior and structural simplicity. These structures contain the motif of a triangle as the main structural feature, leading to geometric frustration and implicitly to… Show more Speaker: Prof. Duminda Sanjeewa, MURR |
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| Nanopore Unzip-Sequencing – exploration in biomolecular interactome and next generation information storage |
DNA is a new generation material for molecular data storage, with a potential storage capacity several orders of magnitude greater than current methods. Data stored in DNA can be encoded (written) and decoded (read) using sequencing technologies. Advantages of DNA… Show more Speaker: Andrew Gu, MU Bioengineering |
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| Magnetism in Nanostructures studied with Neutron Scattering |
Magnetic systems on the range of nanometers are of great interest for application as well as fundamental physics. When macroscopic magnetic materials are scaled down to the nanoscale the energy balance changes and single-domain and super-paramagnetic states arise.… Show more Speaker: Dr. Artur Glavic |
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| A soft X-ray coherent view of electronic properties in correlated systems, via Resonant X-ray Scattering |
Claudio Mazzoli will present some opportunities of scientific investigation by micro-spectro-scattering in the soft X-ray regime of Resonant X-ray Scattering, as implemented and developed at CSX (the Coherent Soft X-ray scattering beamline of NSLS-II, BNL). The… Show more Speaker: Claudio Mazzoli, BNL |
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| Spontaneous cluster formation in stoichiometric quantum critical systems |
Metallic systems with magnetic ions embedded which have been prepared to undergo a second-order phase transition at zero Kelvin, namely the quantum critical systems, historically appear to fall into two distinct categories: (chemically) heavily-doped systems in which… Show more Speaker: Alex Bretana |
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| Transition Metal Ions in Molten Salts: Octahedral Networks and Intermediate-Range Order |
The microscopic structure and dynamics of molten salts is a fascinating subject. It is a very diverse family of materials; while molten NaCl is a simple mix of single-valence ions with a minimal structural organization, transition-metal ions form chains of octahedra… Show more Speaker: Boris Khaykovich |
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| Using machine-learning methods to model RNA-ligand interactions |
Convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph convolutional network (GCN) has gained huge success in various tasks, from image classification, video processing to speech recognition and natural language understanding. The success stems from both the well-designed… Show more Speaker: Yuanzhe Zhou, MU Physics |
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| TBA | Speaker: Gavin King, MU, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
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| Physics majors present their research |
Ben Krewson: Defect Dynamics and Selection for Quenched Striped Patterns
We study transverse modulational dynamics of striped pattern formation in the wake of a directional quenching mechanism. Such mechanisms have been proposed to control pattern-forming… Show more Speaker: Ben Krewson, Troy Schneider, Lauryn Williams, Brandon Lee |