Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

 

Note: All colloquia will be held on  Thursday at 3:30 PM in Rm. 109 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title of Talk Speaker Speaker's Institution Host
Aug. 23 Gravity and handedness of photons Ivan Agullo LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy  Juhan Frank
Aug.30 Schrödinger's Web — Race to Build the Quantum Internet Jonathan Dowling  LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy  
Sept.5
(Hearne Eminent Lecture)
Wednesday
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter. (cancelled) Paul Steinhardt Princeton University Jorge Pullin

Sept. 6

The Bouncing Universe(cancelled) Paul Steinhardt Princeton University Jorge Pullin

Sept. 13

Searching for Bumps in the High Energy Electron Spectrum and Other Results from the CALET Experiment on the International Space Station Mike Cherry  LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Juhan Frank 

Sept. 20

Phase Transitions from the perspective of Machine Learning

KaMing Tam LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy  Juana Moreno
Sept. 27 Shaken Not Stirred: White Dwarf Cocktails Frank Timmes Arizona State University  Manos Chatzopoulos
Oct.4  Fall Holiday      
Oct.11

Nuclear Reactions in the Laboratory and the Cosmos:
A Few-Body Perspective

Charlotte Elster Ohio University Kristina Launey

Oct. 18

Fifteen schoolgirls spread (5X3) across a week, a pair of qubits, and a rainbow of four basic colors: Common Patterns A. Ravi P. Rau LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy  
Oct. 25 Canceled      

Nov. 1

The 1st Billion Years: Impacts in the Earth-Moon System Nicolle Zellner  Albion College  Geoff Clayton 
Nov. 8 Protostellar Evolution in the Orion Molecular Clouds William Fischer Space Telescope Science Institute Tabetha Boyajian
Nov. 15        
Nov. 22   Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 29   TBD Filomena Nunes Michigan State University

Kristina Launey