Spring 2020 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Note: All colloquia will be held on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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| Jan. 16 | Understanding how the brightest objects in the Universe shine | Michael Cherry | ||
| Jan. 21 | What is beyond the 鈥渧isible鈥� galaxy? | Michael Cherry | ||
| Jan. 23 | Astrophysics from the Maw of The Monster | Michael Cherry | ||
| Jan. 30 | Understanding Cosmic Explosions with Sight and Sound | Michael Cherry | ||
| Feb. 6 |
LSU Quantum Lecture |
Rongying Jin / Ward Plummer |
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| TBA | POSTPONED Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime | Jorge Pullin | ||
| Feb. 20 | Astronomers Turned Data Scientists | Manos Chatzopoulos | ||
| Feb. 27 | Lessons from physics education research: From the introductory classroom to reforming inter-disciplinary research |
Juana Moreno |
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| Feb. 28 - March 1 | A Celebration of life and work of Mark Jarrell (1960-2019) | LSU Center for Computation & Technology LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy |
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| March 5 | POSTPONED The Blind Men and the Elephant, or the Search for Origins of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays | James Matthews | ||
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Wednesday March 11, 5 p.m. |
Hearne Eminent Lecture - Wed., March 11, 5p.m. |
Jonathan Dowling | ||
| March 19 | POSTPONED Clues to Globular Cluster Formation |
Matthew Penny |
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| March 26 | Spring Break | |||
| April 2 | POSTPONED Searching for Signs of Life Beyond the Solar System with the Coming Generation of Extremely Large Telescopes | Jim Matthews | ||
| April 9 | TBA | Ward Plummer | ||
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April 16
ZOOMOQUIUM |
The Common Envelope Binary Interaction: the problem we used to have solved. Join Zoom Meeting https://lsu.zoom.us/j/854899826?pwd=dGlCa1AzOWFGeGpXVGRuekdrbERudz09 |
Sydney, Australia |
Geoff Clayton | |
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April 23 ZOOMOQUIUM |
Magnetism in Quasicrystals: Outlook and Challenges Join Zoom Meeting |
Ames Laboratory, U.S. DOE |
Rongying Jin | |
| April 30 | TBA | Ward Plummer |