Previous Events

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Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
CP-ICE: A New Tool for Laboratory Studies of Interstellar Ice Chemistry
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Physics Room 223A
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Prof. Gavin King
Zoom link available upon request- email sekhrn@missouri.edu Abstract: A new instrument is described that employs buffer gas cooling with mm-wave rotational
spectroscopy to probe molecules desorbed from interstellar ice analogues. The unique
combination of… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Bernadette Broderick

Earendel: an extremely magnified star at z~6
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Virtual

Speaker: Tom Sun

Enhanced irradiation tolerance of steels via nanostructuring
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Physics Room 223A
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Prof. Andrew Meng
Abstract          Steels have important applications in current and advanced nuclear reactors, however, their irradiation tolerance and mechanical properties need to be improved. Bulk ultrafine-grained and nanocrystalline… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Haiming Wen

Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Last Decade: the Most Cited Papers in 2011-2021
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Yicheng Guo

Search for New Quantum Materials
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Physics Library
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Guang Bian
Quantum materials such as topological, 2D and nanostructured materials have attracted tremendous attention due to their exotic quantum properties. In this presentation, we will talk about our findings of chemical doping effect in inducing magnetism and… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Yew San Hor, Missouri S&T

Switching of control mechanisms during the rapid solidification of alloys
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Physics Room 223A
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Prof. Andrew Meng
Switching of control mechanisms during the rapid solidification of alloys Abstract The formation of complex solidification patterns is an intrinsic non-equilibrium phenomenon. It is the interplay between capillary and kinetic effects at the solidification front (… Show more

Speaker: Dr. Yijia Gu

PAH in the Universe
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Virtual

Speaker: Charles Mentzer

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

Investigating Star Formation in Low-mass Galaxies
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Virtual

Speaker: Teja Teppala

Radiative cooling: harness sustainable coldness from the universe for passive cooling on the Earth
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Physics 223A
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Professor Andrew Meng
Abstract 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

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

Exploring Pathways that Feed Galaxies
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Sanchayeeta Borthakur (Arizona State University)

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

Pushing the high redshift frontier in the JWST era
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

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

Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation
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Physics 223A
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Prof. Andrew Meng
Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation Peifen Zhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri Abstract: Efficient use of energy and renewable energy production are of paramount… Show more

Speaker: Prof. Peifen Zhu

AGN Light Curve Modeling via Neural Processes
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Virtual

Speaker: Cole Vogt

Galaxies in the Early Universe: A Summary of JWST's First Spectroscopic Observations
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Virtual

Speaker: Dr. John Pharo

High-spin quasiparticles in topological semimetal YPtBi
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Zoom Seminar
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Guang Bian
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

Yes, there is a Quantum Measurement Problem (II)
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

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

Speaker: Prof. Paul Davies

Yes, there is a Quantum Measurement Problem (I)
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

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… 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

A Semi-Localized Transport (SLoT) Model for Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers
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Physics 120
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Prof. Suchi Guha
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

Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space
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Physics Library 223A
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Prof. Paul Miceli
TBA

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Curtright, University of Miami

Synthesis, Magnetic Behavior and Neutron Diffraction of Triangular Magnetic Materials
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Paul Miceli
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

Nanopore Unzip-Sequencing – exploration in biomolecular interactome and next generation information storage
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Physics Building Room 120 & Zoom
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Ioan Kosztin
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

Magnetism in Nanostructures studied with Neutron Scattering
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Zoom
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Deepak Singh
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