Events
The Physics and Astronomy Department hold regular seminars and events on a variety of topics. Please see below for further details.
| Event Name | Date, Time and Host | Summary |
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| Deep-Sky Astrophotography from a Dark Site in New Mexico | Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun |
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| Exploring Carrier Transport Regimes in Solids Using Transient Absorption Microscopy |
Transient absorption microscopy (TAM), based on femtosecond lasers, has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the ultrafast excitation dynamics of photoexcited carriers, particularly their real-space transport properties, in solid-state materials. In this… Show more Speaker: Prof. Hui Zhao, Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Kansas |
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| Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase | Speaker: Undergraduate Students |
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| TBD | Speaker: Dr. Farhanul Hasan (STScI) |
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| TBD | Speaker: Dr. Naren Narayan, MURR |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla (National Autonomous University of Mexico) |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Shaffique Adam, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-based Testing Facility |
Abstract: Exams are an important tool for summative assessment, whose utility has only grown with the advent of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, because they can be implemented in a trustworthy manner. But exams are generally not well liked by either… Show more Speaker: Prof. Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Electron Transport and Topological Hall Effect in Skyrmion Crystals |
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin configurations that have gained enormous interest as building blocks for next-generation spintronic devices. A distinctive feature of skyrmion systems is the topological Hall effect (THE): when electrons… Show more Speaker: Prof. Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: TBD
Speaker: Prof. Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Alexander Seidel, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abtract: TBD
Speaker: Prof. Min Gyu Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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| Coherent control of wave propagation in opaque materials |
Concept of diffusion is widely used to describe propagation of light through multiple scattering media such as clouds, interstellar gas, colloids, paints, biological tissue, etc. Such media are often called random. This terminology is, however, misleading.… Show more Speaker: Prof. Alexey Yamilov, Department of Physics, Missouri S & T |
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| O.M. Stewart Colloquium |
Abstract: TBD
Speaker: Dr. Vlad Kurilovich, Google Quantum AI |
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| TBD | Speaker: Prof. Chuanwei Zhang, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |