Spring 2023 Colloquium
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
Note: All colloquia will be held in room 119 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 26, 2023 | Reconsidering the standard model of cuprate superconductors | Torsten Clay, Professor, Computational Physics | Mississippi State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Ka-Ming Tam, Research Professor, LSU |
| Wed., Feb. 8, 2023 | Chiral Gravitational Waves and the Cosmic Mysteries | Stephon Alexander, Professor of Physics | Brown University | Jorge Pullin, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics |
| February 16, 2023 | The origin of the heaviest elements | Matt Mumpower, Theoretical Physicist | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scott Marley, Associate Professor, LSU |
| March 2, 2023 | A New Paradigm of Binary-Disk Interaction | Diego Jose Muñoz, Research Assistant Professor |
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile |
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU |
| TUESDAY, March 7, 2023 | The next generation of gravitational wave counterpart discovery | Charles D. Kilpatrick , CIERA Fellow | Northwestern University | Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU |
| March 9, 2023 | High-energy astrophysics with new messengers and new methods | Michela Negro, Assistant Research Scientist | Center for Space Science and Technology | Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU |
| TUESDAY, March 21, 2023 | PeVatrons and beyond – where are our Universe's most powerful particle accelerators? | Henrike Fleischhack, Assistant Research Scientist | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU |
| March 30, 2023 | Understanding the Composition of Stars and Planets in an Interdisciplinary Landscape | Natalie R. Hinkel, Lead Scientist and Adjunct Faculty |
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA) |
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU |
| TUESDAY, April 25, 2023 | Quantum Dynamics in the Quantum Science and Technology Era |
Thomas Iadecola, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Scientist, Ames National Laboratory |
James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU | |
| April 27, 2023 | The NANOGrav search for nanohertz gravitational waves | Xavier Siemens, Professor | Ivan Agullo, Associate Professor | |
| FRIDAY April 28, 2023 | Volume law entanglement of typical pure states | Lucas Hackl, Lecturer in Mathematical Physics and Humboldt Fellow | School of Mathematics and Statstics, University of Melbourne | James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU |
| TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 | Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits | Constantin Schrade, Research Assistant Professor | Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark | James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU |
| May 4, 2023 | Tuning Emergent Superconductivity and Magnetism at Complex Oxide Interfaces | Divine Kumah, Associate Professor | North Carolina State University | Prosper Ngabonziza, Assistant Professor |