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Friday, April 26th 2019
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Fei Chen
Subject: Signatures of Superconducting Fluctuations on the Nonlinear Susceptibility of Layered Superconductors
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Grant Remmen (UC Berkeley)
Subject: Entropy Bounds on Effective Field Theory from Rotating Dyonic Black Holes
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: There will be no colloquium today
Faculty Host: Charles E. Woodward
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Olivia Weisser, History - University of Massachusetts
Subject: Republic of Venus: Shopping for Venereal Cures in Early Modern London
Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.
3:35 pm:
Physics Education Seminar
in PAN 130
Speaker: Autumn Brower, University of Minnesota
Subject: How computer coaches impact math anxiety in introductory physics students
PLEASE NOTE THE SEMINAR IS IN ROOM PAN 130 THIS WEEK
[Abstract]
4:40 pm:
Speaker: Career Advisory Board Visit + Meet, no seminar this week.
Monday, April 29th 2019
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Patrick Kelly, UMN
Tuesday, April 30th 2019
4:00 pm:
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Vuk Mandic
Wednesday, May 1st 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Jack Harris, Yale University
Subject: A pedagogical introduction to the emergence of topology in non-Hermitian dynamics
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Thursday, May 2nd 2019
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN
Speaker: TBD
12:10 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: Tom Jones and Jamie Cheshire
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B20 Tate
Speaker: Jack Harris (Yale University)
Subject: Quantum optomechanics with superfluid helium
Note change of room for this week only. Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
4:00 pm:
A.O.C. Nier Lecture
in B50 Tate
Speaker: Kenneth A. Farley, W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry
Subject: The geologic record of asteroid collisions and comet showers from cosmic dust 3He in marine sediments
Friday, May 3rd 2019
11:00 am:
Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: Samuel Giuliani, NSCL/FRIB Laboratory, Michigan State University
Subject: r process, kilonova and nucleosynthesis of superheavy elements: The role of fission
[Abstract]
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Saumitran Kastirurangan
Subject: Effect of disorder on boundary modes in nodal topological materials
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Sergei Dubovsky (NYU)
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Physics Tate 301-20
There will be no colloquium this week
4:00 pm:
Honors Thesis Presentation
in PAN 120
Speaker: Nina Bielinski
Subject: Investigation of Superconducting Fluctuations via Torque Magnetometry in LSCO
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Monday, May 6th 2019
2:30 pm:
Methods of Experimental Physics Poster Session
in Tate Hall Basement Atrium
We will be hosting a poster session recognizing the work this semester's MXP II students have accomplished this Spring.
Tuesday, May 7th 2019
1:25 pm:
Space Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Prof. Mark Engebretson
Subject: MMS, Van Allen Probes, GOES 13, and Ground Based Magnetometer Observations of EMIC Wave Events Before, During, and After a Modest Interplanetary Shock
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Stefano Gonella and Bojan Guzina
Subject: What Lies Beneath: inverse scattering with sparse data (Guzina), and Learning the Sparse Code of Solids with Anomalies: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Wave-Based Diagnostics (Gonella)
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Vuk Mandic
Wednesday, May 8th 2019
1:25 pm:
Speaker: Turab Lookman
Subject: Vortex structures in ferroelectric nanoparticles
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Martin Greven
Thursday, May 9th 2019
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50
Speaker: David Weinberg, The Ohio State University
Subject: Decoding Chemical Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Evan Skillman
Friday, May 10th 2019
Monday, May 13th 2019
10:00 am:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in PAN 110
Speaker: Mikhail I. Dyakonov, Labarotoire Charles Coulomb, Université Montpellier, CNRS, France
Subject: Spin Hall effect and related phenomena
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Tuesday, May 14th 2019
1:00 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in PAN 110
Speaker: Mikhail I. Dyakonov, Labarotoire Charles Coulomb, Université Montpellier, CNRS, France
Subject: Will we ever have a quantum computer?
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Wednesday, September 25th 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Lab
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Wednesday, October 16th 2019
7:00 pm:
14th Annual Misel Family Lecture
in McNamara Alumni Center
Speaker: Professor Charles M. Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute
Thursday, October 17th 2019
3:35 pm:
14th Annual Misel Colloquium
in Tate Hall B50
Speaker: Professor Charles M. Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute
Wednesday, November 13th 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado - Boulder
Subject: TBD
Thursday, November 14th 2019
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50
Speaker: Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado - Boulder
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Rafael Fernandes
Wednesday, January 1st 2020
08:00 am:
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