Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

 

 Colloquia are normally held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5 PM in Barnard Hall 103. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:45pm in the Barnard second floor atrium. All Departments and off-campus guests are welcome to attend. Come and join us for coffee or tea and cookies, listen to our interesting speakers!

For further information contact the MSU Physics Department at 406-994-3614

Fall Semester 2018
Date Speaker Title Host

 August 31

Physics Undergraduate Student Welcome Barbeque  In front of Barnard Hall (EPS) at 4:10 PM in place of Colloquium Hannah Gilroy
September 7

Nick Borys

MSU

http://www.njborys.us

Nano-optical Imaging and Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials and Technologies   David Nidever
September 14

Dana Longcope

MSU

http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu

Parker Solar Probe: A Mission to a touch star – 

and A Rocket science tour de force

 
 David Nidever
September 21  

 Julie Commerford

Assistant Professor

Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences

University of Colorado, Boulder

http://casa.colorado.edu/~juco5173/

 Supermassive Black Hole Fueling and Feedback in Galaxies  Amy Reines 
September 28    Jocelyn Bell-Burnell What is this pulsing thing? A graduate student's story.   Nico Yunes
October 5  

Professor David Weitz

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics

Harvard University

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/weitz

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/weitz

Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group

https://weitzlab.seas.harvard.edu/

Dripping Jetting Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics   Connie Chang, James Wilking
October 12   

 Javier Garcia

Caltech

Simulation of black hole x-ray radiation    Anne Lohfink
October 19

 Dr. Sten Hasselquist

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Utah

APOGEE Chemical Abundances of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy   David Nidever
October 26  

 Dominique Zosso

Department of Mathematics

MSU

 "From sparsity in images and data to efficient solvers for PDE"   David Nidever
November 2  

Cole Miller

UMD

https://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/

 LISA in the extreme   Nico Yunes
November 9  

 Jim Gates

Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_James_Gates 

Why Tetrahedral Topology May Anchor Physical Reality.   Nico Yunes
November 16  

Christoph Kastl

Lawrence Berkley Lab

Optoelectronics of 2D Layered Materials: From single defects to topological phenomena   David Nidever
November 23  OFFICES CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING NO COLLOQUIUM   NO COLLOQUIUM
November 30  

 Anja Kunze

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

MSU

 Brain-on-a-chip Technology: Potentials and Challenges  Nick Borys
December 7   Laura Blecha Modeling the gravitational wave and electomagnetic signatures   Amy Reines
December 14  FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK NO COLLOQUIUM   NO COLLOQUIUM

 

Spring Semester 2019
Date Speaker Title Host
January 18

Andy Geraci

Northwestern

The Precision Fontier: hunting for new short-range forces with resonant sensors

Randy Babbitt

January 25

Amy Reines

MSU

Local Relics of Black Hole Seeds in Dwarf Galaxies David Nidever
February 1
Angel Fernandez-Bravo
 
Lawrence Berkley Lab
Room-temperature Continuous-wave Upconverting Micro- and Nanolasing Nick Borys
February 8

Brian D'Urso

MSU

Probing Gravity Using Optomechanics: A Particle in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap Amy Reines\David Nidever
February 15

Gordon Brittan

MSU

 Reality, Truth, and Objectivity: Reflections on Steven Weinberg’s “Against Philosophy” Yves Idzerda
February 22

Kevin Hammonds

MSU

From Avalanches to Ice Sheets: The Material Properties of Snow & Ice Nick Borys
March 1

Ryan Hickox

Darthmouth

  Amy Reines
March 8

Erik Grumstrup

MSU

Chemically and Structurally Correlated Charge Carrier Transport in Disordered Materials Nick Borys
March 15

Suzanne Brahmia

University of Washington

   
March 22 SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
March 29

Bruno Schuler

Lawrence Berkeley Lab

The Beauty of Imperfection - an Atomic-scale Look at Point Defects on 2D Materials Nick Borys
April 5 Christine M. Hrenya Efforts Toward a Predictive Understanding of Cohesive Granular Materials Rufus Cone
April 12

Vivian Ferry

University of MN

 Nanophotonic Science and Engineering Nick Borys
April 19 STUDENT HOLIDAY STUDENT HOLIDAY STUDENT HOLIDAY

April 26

Rich Plotkin Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes Amy Reines

May 3

FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK NO COLLOQUIUM NO COLLOQUIUM