Spring 2024 Colloquium
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
Note: All colloquia will be held in room 119 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 18, 2024 | The Growth and Evolution of SMBHs via Galaxy Mergers | , Assistant Professor | Michela Negro | |
| February 1, 2024 | Multi-band topological Semimetals | , Assistant Professor | Ilya Vekhter | |
| February 8, 2024 | Mars Sample Return: Seeing and sterilizing Martian samples inside the Capture, Containment, and Return System | , Optical Engineer | Gabriela Gonzalez | |
| February 15, 2024 | The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars | , Astrophysicist | Tabetha Boyajian | |
| February 22, 2024 | Optical analogue of the Hawking radiation | , Professor of Theoretical Physics | Ivan Agullo | |
| February 29, 2024 | Open Quantum Systems: A new frontier of many-body physics | , Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow | Kenneth Schafer | |
| March 7, 2024 | Attosecond Science and the Nobel Prize | Kenneth Schafer, LSU Boyd Professor | LSU Physics & Astronomy AMO | Ivan Agullo |
| March 14, 2024 | Quantum Matter Manipulation with Coherent Bosons | , Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate | Kenneth Schafer | |
| TUESDAY, March 19 | First-Principles Modeling of Novel Materials: Recombination Processes and Topology | , Humboldt Fellow | Kenneth Schafer | |
| March 21, 2024 |
ULTRAFAST LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS: from imaging to controlling electrons and nuclei at their natural timescales |
, Postdoctoral Researcher | Kenneth Schafer | |
| March 28, 2024 | Second Born electrons, and rescue at sea | A. Ravi P. Rau, Alumni Professor of Physics | LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy | Ivan Agullo |
| April 4, 2024 | Timepix Detectors in Space Exploration: ISS, Artemis-I, and Beyond | Jeffery Chancellor | ||
| April 11, 2024 | Physics at the temporal boundary | , Assistant Professor | Justin Wilson | |
| April 18, 2024 | Fierce Planets | , Bloomberg Distinguished Professor | Jeffery Blackmon | |
| April 25, 2024 | Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data | , Assistant Professor | Eric Burns | |
| May 2, 2024 | Cosmic Messengers: The Galaxies鈥� Hidden Secrets | , Associate Professor | Michela Negro |