Colloquia Spring 2026

Colloquia will be on Mondays/Thursdays from 4:00pm-5:00pm. If you would like to receive emails about upcoming physics colloquia, please contact Physics Reception at Physics_Reception@colostate.edu

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
1/26/26 Austin Cummings Pennsylvania State University “Using Balloons to Hunt for Very-High and Ultra-High Energy Astro-Particles”
2/2/26 Ako Jamil Princeton University “Searching for Dark Matter and Majorana Neutrinos with Underground
Noble Liquids”
2/5/26 Wei Shi Stony Brook University “Illuminating the Neutrino Frontier”
2/9/26 Giacomo Gallina Princeton University “Building the Infrastructure of Discovery: Integrated Sensors and Systems for Next-Generation Noble-Liquid Detectors”
2/16/26 Andrew Hamilton University of Colorado, Boulder “String Theory Reborn”
2/23/26 No Speaker “PhD Alumni in Industry Panel”
3/2/26 Michael Brotherton University of Wyoming “Wyoming AGN Reverberation Mapping”
3/9/26 Jian Jiang Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany “Kapitza pendulums for many-body physics and precision measurement.”
3/23/26 Meridith Joyce University of Wyoming “How to Find a Star by Accident” or “How Not to Solve the “Great Dimming” of Betelgeuse”
3/30/26 Stephen Russek National Institute of Standards and Technology “Quantitative MRI: Magnetic Metrology to Solve Some of the World’s Most Important Problems”
4/6/26 Christian Sanner Colorado State University “Don’t Underestimate the Power of the Clock: Insights from Precise Frequency Measurements”
4/13/26 Adam Kaufman University of Colorado, Boulder “Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics”
4/20/26 No Speaker
4/27/26 Wouter de Pontseele Colorado School of Mines “Weighing the Neutrino: From Fermi’s Suggestion to Quantum Amplifiers in Project 8”
5/4/26 Christopher Monahan Colorado College “What do we really know about the proton?”