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Fall 2024 Colloquium

LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives

Note: All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title of Talk Speaker Speaker's Institution Host
August 29, 2024 Recent Progress in Research on Quantum Spin Liquids at the National High Magnetic Field , Staff Scientist Xiaojian Bai
September 5, 2024 Looking at the Invisible: Exploring Dark Matter through Cosmic Messengers Nicolao Fornengo, Professor Michela Negro
September 12, 2024 Probing Andreev Bound States in Superconductor-semiconductor Josephson Junctions

, Associate Professor of Physics

Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics

Constantin Schrade
September 19, 2024 Gravitational Wave Paleontology: a New Frontier to Explore the Formation, Lives, and Deaths of Massive Stars Across Cosmic Time  , Junior Fellow,  Simons Society of Fellows Eric Burns
September 26, 2024 Advancements in Density Functional Theory for Correlated d- and f-Electron Compounds , Associate Professor Ka Ming Tam
October 3, 2024 Improving the Performance of Superconducting Qubits Ilya Vekhter
October 10, 2024 Nuclear Microphysics of Core-collapse Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Neutron Star Mergers , Associate Professor Kristina D Launey
October 24, 2024 Quantum Computing: Where we are and where we are going ,  Quantum Applied Scientist Ivan Agullo
October 31, 2024 Quantum Materials 99 Years Later   Justin Wilson
November 7, 2024 Skyrmion Textures in Magnetic Materials , Lincoln Chair Professor Xiaojian Bai
November 14, 2024 Primordial black holes, neutron stars, and the nuclear equation of state , William R. Kenan Professor of Physics Peter Diener
November 21, 2024 Quantum Escapades: From nanoconstrictions to black holes , Professor James A. Sauls
December 5, 2024 Role of time-frequency correlations in two-photon-two-atom resonance energy transfer , Associate Professor Omar Magaña-Loaiza