Colloquia & Seminars

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Fall 2019

Note: All colloquia will be held on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Host
Sept. 5	Ion Accelerator-based research using the Louisiana Accelerator Center: a fantastic physics-based instrument			Scott Marley
Sept. 12	Probing interfaces in quantum materials where every atom counts	Mohammad Saghayezhian	LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy	Ward Plummer
Sept. 19	Using Nonsignaling Nonlocal Resources for Quantum Random Number Generation and Assessing Multi-Party Quantum Nonlocality			Omar Maga帽a-Loaiza
Sept. 26	Improving beta-decay studies for fundamental science and applications			Scott Marley
Oct. 3	The "Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions			Gabriela Gonzalez Jorge Pullin
Oct. 10	A matter of perspective: Exoplanet discoveries, studies and compilations			Tabetha Boyajian
Oct. 17	LSU Fall Break
Oct. 24	Back to the Moon and on to Mars: Research Challenges in America鈥檚 space program			Wayne Newhauser
Oct. 31	Opportunities created by Spin-Orbit Interactions			Ward Plummer
Nov. 7	The Highest Energy Phenomena on the Sun			Greg Guzik
Nov. 14	The Neutron Lifetime			Jeff Blackmon
Nov. 21	Spin Liquids: A Dive into Exotic Magnetic Matter			Weiwei Xie
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 5	Exploring the Gap in the High-Energy Universe			Michael Cherry