Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM in SR1 634.

Fall 2025

Date Title Host
08/26/25    
09/02/25    
09/09/25    
09/16/25 Dr. Spencer Klein, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Fan
09/23/25    
09/30/25    
10/07/25 Prof. indika Rajapakse, University of Michigan Gunaratne
10/14/25 Prof. Ajay Kandada, Wake Forest University Bittner
10/21/25 Prof. Federico Rosei, University of Trieste Varghese
10/28/25 Prof. Mingda Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology S. Chen
11/04/25    
11/11/25 RESERVED Ordonez
11/18/25 Prof. Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology S. Chen
11/25/25    
12/02/25    
Date Title Host
01/14/25 The Hunt for Perpendicular Magnetic Field Measurements in Plasma
Dr. Elizabeth Jensen, Planetary Science Institute
Bering
01/21/25    
01/28/25 Safe Machine Learning in Mission Critical Systems
Prof. Jianyi Yang, UH
S. Chen
02/04/25 Enhancing Optical Transparency in Biological Tissues Using Photonics Engineering
Prof. Zihao Ou, University of Texas, Dallas
Gunaratne
02/11/25 Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond: A New Lens to See Through Superconductivity at Both Ambient and High Pressures
Prof. Chong Zu, Washington University, St. Louis
Deng
02/18/25 Imaging the Structure of Visible Matter: A Journey from Fixed Target to Collider Experiments
Dr. Barak Schmookler, University of Houston
Bellwied
02/25/25 Complementing Nuclear and Particle Experiments with First Principles Computation
Dr. Aaron Meyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Cherdack
02/27/25
Thursday
Probing QCD Systems with Heavy Quarks: From Quark-Gluon Plasma in Heavy-Ion Collisions to Future Studies at the EIC
Dr. Zhaozhong Shi, Los Alamos Laboratory
Bellwied
03/04/25 Creating a Hot, Dense Soup: Quark Gluon Plasma and the Final Years of RHIC
Dr. Cameron Dean, MIT
Bellwied
03/06/25
Thursday
Revealing the Microscopic Structure of QCD Matter
Dr. Raymond Ehlers, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Bellwied
03/11/25 (Spring Break)  
03/18/25    
03/25/25    
04/01/25 Machine Learning and Simulation of Structural Phase Transition
Prof. Dawei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Bassler
04/08/25 The Pursuit of Label-free Detection of Diseases with High Accuracy
Prof. Felicia Manciu, UT El Paso
Gunaratne
04/15/25 From Neutrons to FLASH RT: Why Medical Physics is so Hot
Dr. Julianne M. Pollard-Larkin, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Women in Physics (WiPS)
04/22/25 Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Strain-Engineered Nanomaterials
Prof. Yimo Han, Rice University
S. Chen
Date Title Host
08/20/24    
08/27/24 Cutting-Edge Optical Imaging Technologies for Advancing Medical Diagnostics
Prof. Rohith Reddy, UH
Das
09/03/24 Toward Quantum Imaging of Nuclei
Prof. Miguel Arratia, UC Riverside
Bellwied
09/10/24 Quantum Information Informed Quantum Algorithms
Dr. Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bittner
09/17/24 Infrared Optics Using Emerging Optical Materials
Prof. Mikhail A. Kats, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Das
09/24/24 Quantum Vacuum Dressed Materials
Prof. Junichiro Kono, Rice University
Ordonez
10/01/24 Low-Cost, In Vivo Microscopy
Prof. Dongkyun Kang, University of Arizona
Das
10/08/24 Promises and Challenges in Designing Metal-Organic Chalcogenides for Optoelectronic Applications
Prof. Yeongsu Cho, UH
Bittner
10/15/24 In Vivo Microscopy of Microvasculature Following Brain Injury
Prof. Andrew Dunn, UT Austin
Das
10/22/24 Modeling Structural Ensembles Of Genomes
Dr. Vinicius Contessoto, Rice University
Morrison
10/29/24    
11/05/24 Electrocatalysts of Complex Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Prof. Hong Yang, UIUC
S. Chen
11/12/24 Italian Delicacies Served Up in a Neutron Star Crust
Prof. Jorge A. López, University of Texas at El Paso
Ordonez
11/19/24 Evolving Devices for Superconducting Qubit Technology
Dr. Katarina Cicak, NIST
Miller
11/21/24
Thursday
Observation of Relaxation Stages In an Out-Of-Equilibrium Closed Quantum System
Prof. Vanderlei S. Bagnato, Texas A&M University
Ordonez
11/26/24 For ML and With ML: The New Normal in System Design
Prof. Lizy Kurian, UT Austin
Varghese