Spring 2025 Colloquium
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
Note: All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2025 | Exploring applications of laser-driven particle beams and secondary radiation. | Ou Labun, Research Associate | UT Austin | Joyoni Dey |
| February 6, 2025 | Josephson parametric amplifiers for rapid, high-fidelity measurement of solid-state qubits. | Shyam Shankar, Assistant Professor | UT Austin | Constantin Shrade |
| February 13, 2025 | Habitable Worlds in Our Galaxy | Ravi Kopparapu, Planetary Scientist | NASA | Natalie Hinkel |
| February 20, 2025 | A technical ecosystem to enable multimessenger astrophysics | Michael Coughlin, Assistant Professor | University of Minnesota | Eric Burns |
| February 27, 2025 | The Landscape of Multi-Messenger Astronomy in the LISA ERA | Shane Larson, Research Professor | Northwestern | Michela Negro |
| March 6, 2025 | The Erdős Institute: a multi-university approach to helping PhDs get jobs. | Roman Holowinsky, Associate Professor | The Ohio State University | Justin Wilson |
| March 13, 2025 | The many faces of the Casimir Force: Electronic polarization and the vacuum energy of photons | Justin Wilson, Assistant Professor | Louisiana State University | Ivan Agullo |
| March 27, 2025 | Falling Cats, Tunneling of Quantum Geometries, and Quantum Gravity | Hal Haggard, Associate Professor | Bard College | Ivan Agullo |
| April 10, 2025 | Quantum Geometry: How to Picture Bound Electrons in Infinite Lattices | Raquel Queiroz, Assistant Professor | Columbia University | Justin Wilson |
| April 17, 2025 | From quantum phase transitions to quantum bits | Charlotte Bøttcher, Assistant Professor | Stanford | Constantine Schrade |
| MONDAY, April 21, 2025 | Microdosimetry from Fundamentals to Applications: Experiments, Modeling, and AI Integration | Marta Missiaggia | University of Miami | |
| TUESDAY, April 29, 2025 | Dosimetry : Modern Emerging Radiation & Imaging Technique | Sree Debnath | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| May 1, 2025 | Realizing Fracton Matter: from Theory, to Quantum Information, to Experiment | Andriy Nevidomskyy, Professor | Rice University | Ilya Vekhter |
| FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 | Research Overview at Geneva University Hospital: From PET Instrumentation and Theranostics to Explainable AI | Hossein Arabi, Associate Researcher | University of Geneva |