Spring 2022 Colloquium

Note: All colloquia will be held in room 152 Coates Hall at 3:30 p.m, unless otherwise indicated.

LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Host
Thurs., Feb. 24, 2022	Integrated structure and reaction theories for accurate predictions in the FRIB era	Chloë Hebborn	FRIB Theory Fellow at Michigan State University (MSU) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)	Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Friday, March 4, 2022	Towards lightwave-controlled switches of quantum properties in 2D materials	Álvaro Jiménez-Galán	Postdoc, Max Borne Institute, Berlin	Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Monday, March 7, 2022 Howel Russell room 130	Interfacial Band Engineering of Oxide Heterostructures for Electronic, Energy, and Quantum Systems	Ryan Comes	Assistant Professor, Auburn University	David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday, March 8, 2022	Physics in the NISQ era: opportunities for high energy and nuclear physics	Niklas Mueller	Postdoc, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and the Joint Quantum Institute	Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Thursday, March 10, 2022	The QCD spectrum: Challenges and prospects	Arkaitz Rodas	Postdoc, College of William and Mary	Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Monday, March 14, 2022 Coates Hall room 145	Experimental approaches to emergent spin degrees of freedom	Yishu Wang	Postdoc, Institute for Quantum Matter at The Johns Hopkins University	David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Coates Hall room 145	Ab-initio simulations of ultrafast electron-nuclear dynamics: Paving the way to attochemistry	Victor Despré	Postdoc, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Heidelberg University	Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Thursday, March 17, 2022	Advanced Shell-model Approaches to Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics	Alexis Merecene	Postdoc, Yale University	Assistant Professor Scott Marley
Monday, March 21, 2022 Howel Russell room 130	Controlling magnetism in strongly correlated oxide thin films	Ludi Miao	Postdoc, Cornell University	David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday March 22, 2022 Coates Hall room 145	R-Matrix calculations for ultrafast spectroscopy of noble-gas atoms	Kathryn Hamilton	Postdoc, Drake University	Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Thursday, March 24, 2022	Attosecond Pulse Applications: Production of Spiral Vortex Patterns from Electron Waves	Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap	Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska	Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Coates Hall room 145	Epitaxy of Quantum Materials and Heterostructures	Prosper Ngabonziza	Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research	David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Thursday, March 31, 2022 Nicholson Hall Room 435	Magnetic “multiverse” probed by neutron	Xiaojian Bai	Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Thursday, March 31, 2022 Nicholson Hall Room 435	Observing correlated-electron dynamics inside molecules	Francois Mauger	Assistant Research Professor, LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy	Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor