Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Spring 2023 Colloquia Schedule

All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.

 

Date

Title of Talk

Speaker

Speaker's Institution

Host

January 26, 2023
Reconsidering the standard model of cuprate superconductors
Torsten Clay, Professor, Computational Physics
Mississippi State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ka-Ming Tam, Research Professor, LSU
February 8, 2023
Chiral Gravitational Waves and the Cosmic Mysteries
Stephon Alexander, Professor of Physics
Brown University
Jorge Pullin, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics
February 16, 2023
The origin of the heaviest elements
Matt Mumpower
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scott Marley, Associate Professor, LSU
March 2, 2023
A New Paradigm of Binary-Disk Interaction
Diego Jose Muñoz, Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile 
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU
March 7, 2023
The next generation of gravitational wave counterpart discovery
Charles D. Kilpatrick , CIERA Fellow
Northwestern University
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU
March 9, 2023
High-energy astrophysics with new messengers and new methods
Michela Negro, Assistant Research Scientist  
Center for Space Science and Technology 
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU
March 21, 2023
PeVatrons and beyond – where are our Universe's most powerful particle accelerators?
Henrike Fleischhack, Assistant Research Scientist 
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU
March 30, 2023
Understanding the Composition of Stars and Planets in an Interdisciplinary Landscape
Natalie R. Hinkel, Lead Scientist and Adjunct Faculty 
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio
University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA) 
Geoffery Clayton, Ball Family Distinguished Professor, LSU
April 25, 2023
Quantum Dynamics in the Quantum Science and Technology Era
Thomas Iadecola, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Ames National Laboratory
Iowa State University
James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU
April 27, 2023
The NANOGrav search for nanohertz gravitational waves
Xavier Siemens, Professor
Oregon State University
Ivan Agullo, Associate Professor
April 28, 2023
Volume law entanglement of typical pure states
Lucas Hackl, Lecturer in Mathematical Physics and Humboldt Fellow 
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne 
James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU
May 2, 2023
Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits
Constantin Schrade, Research Assistant Professor  
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark 
James Sauls, Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics, LSU
May 4, 2023
Tuning Emergent Superconductivity and Magnetism at Complex Oxide Interfaces
Divine Kumah, Associate Professor 
North Carolina State University 
Prosper Ngabonziza, Assistant Professor