Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Spring 2016
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Jan. 21 |
"Surfaces of topological solids: the good, the bad, and the ugly" Abstract | Ilya Vekhter | LSU / Physics | Juhan Frank |
| Jan. 28 | "Chain Dynamics in Polymer Melts and Nanocomposites"Abstract | Gerald Schneider | LSU/Chemistry | John DiTusa |
| Feb. 4 | "Cataclysmic Evolution of the Inner Solar System"Abstract | Gary Byerly | LSU/Geology & Geophysics | Juhan Frank |
| Feb 11 | "Computing the Heart of Matter" Abstract | Sonia Bacca | Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics/Triumf |
Ed Zganjar |
| Feb. 18 | "Superconductors Old and New" Abstract | Robert Birgenau | UC Berkeley | Ward Plummer |
| Feb. 25 | "New Frontiers in Simulating Black Hole Accretion and Jets"Abstract | Alexander Tchekhovskoy | UC Berkeley | Juhan Frank |
| March 3 | "A Decade of Super-Luminous Supernova Discoveries: The Physics of Extreme Stellar Catastrophes" Abstract | Manos Chatzopoulos | University of Chicago | Juhan Frank |
| March 8(Tuesday) | "From Fermilab to the Sun to FRIB and JLab: Nuclear Reactions for Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and their own sake" Abstract | Xilin Zhang | University of Washington |
Jerry Draayer/ Ed Zganjar |
| March 10 | "Understanding fundamentals with femtostructures" Abstract | Kristina Launey | LSU / Physics |
Jerry Draayer/ Ed Zganjar |
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March 15 (Tuesday) |
"Gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals from merging black holes and neutron stars" Abstract | Francois Foucart | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Juhan Frank |
| March 17 | "BEC Analog Black Holes: Density-Density Correlation Function and the Hawking Effect" Abstract | Paul Anderson | Wake Forest University | Ivan Agullo |
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March 29 (Tuesday) |
"Sizing Up the Stars" Abstract | Tabetha Boyajian | Yale University |
Juhan Frank |
| March 31 | "Confronting fundamental challenges facing lattice quantum chromodynamics" Abstract | Michael Endres | MIT |
Jerry Draayer/ Ed Zganjar |
| April 7 | "Critical matter, chiral symmetry breaking and emergent Higgs mechanism" Abstract | Leo Radzihovsky | University of Colorado | Dan Sheehy Ilya Vekhter |
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April 12 (Tuesday) |
"Explore & Control Complex Oxide Interfaces with Atomic Precision" Abstract | Hangwen Guo | LSU / Physics |
Jiandi Zhang |
| April 14 | Hearne Eminent Lecture Series "Quantum machine learning-How quantum computers can learn patterns classical computers can't"Abstract |
Seth Lloyd | MIT | Mark Wilde |
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April 15 (Friday) at 5 pm in room 130 Nicholson |
Hearne Eminent Lecture Series |
Seth Lloyd | MIT | Mark Wilde |
| April 21 | "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman, when you say materials design is fundamental physics" Abstract | Craig Fennie | Cornell University | Ilya Vekhter |
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April 28 at LSU Digital Media Center Theatre |
"Beyond publishing papers. The challenges and rewards of launching and running a high-tech startup: a personal perspective" Abstract | Manuel Tiglio | University of California San Diego and FASTech | Jorge Pullin |
| May 5 | "Quantum computers and classical computers: using them together and telling them apart" Abstract | Graeme Smith | IBM | Mark Wilde |