Colloquia and Seminar Archive – Department of Physics | CSU

Colloquia by semester

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
8/24	Meet and Greet
8/31	Walter Toki	Colorado State University	Search for CP violation in Neutrino Oscillations
9/14	June Lau	NIST Gaithersburg	Laser-free GHz stroboscopic TEM: deployment, benchmarking, and applications
9/21	Ron Walsworth	University of Maryland	Quantum Diamond Sensors
9/28	Kate Ross	Colorado State University	Quantum Magnetism
10/5	Roger Pynn	Indiana University	Can we reinvent the neutron as an entangled quantum probe?
10/12	Jonathan Asaadi	University of Texas Arlington	Pixelation: Bringing liquid noble element detectors into focus
10/19	Hua Chen	Colorado State University	New twists in two-dimensional systems due to (quasi) periodicities in space and time
11/2	Bhaskar Dutta	Texas A&M University	Particle Theory Models and Dark Matter: How to connect?
11/9	Michael Mooney	Colorado State University	The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment: LArTPC R&D for Precision Physics Measurements
11/16	Andrew Geraci	Northwestern University	Searching for “Fifth-forces”, Dark Matter, and Quantum Gravity in the Lab
11/30	Dmitri Denisov	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Particle Colliders – past, present and future
12/7	TBA	TBA	TBA

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/16	Francesco Capozzi	Max Planck Institute for Physics	Frontiers in Neutrino Oscillations: Precision and New Phenomena
1/23	Joshua Berger	University of Pittsburgh	Dark Matter: New Avenues to Detection
1/27	Bartosz Fornal	University of Utah	Neutron’s Dark Secret
1/30	Noemi Rocco	Argonne National Laboratory	Spotting Neutrinos with Nuclei
2/3	Bibhushan Shakya	CERN	Discovering New Physics with Neutrinos
2/10	Lars Von Der Wense	JILA	From the atomic to the nuclear optical clock
2/17	Dennis Perepilitsa	University of Colorado Boulder	Exploring the Hottest Matter in the Universe with Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
2/24	Satoru Nakatsuji	University of Tokyo	Weyl Fermions and Topological Spintronics
3/2	Tara Fortier	National Institute of Standards and Technology	Optical Clock Comparisons at the 18th-Decimal Place
3/9	Joseph Zadrozny	Colorado State University	Understanding and Controlling Magnetic Relaxation in Highly Magnetic Environments
3/23	Graduate Research Night	GAC
4/6-Cancelled Replacement TBA	June Lau	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg	Laser-free GHz stroboscopic TEM: construction, deployment, and benchmarking
4/13	Hua Chen	Colorado State University
4/27	Mike Mooney	Colorado State University
5/4	Roger Pynn	Indiana University

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/9	Mingzhong Wu	Colorado State University	Topological Insulator/Magnetic Insulator Heterostructures
9/16	Dylan Yost	Colorado State University	Precision Spectroscopy of Simple Atoms
9/23	Eva Kostadinova	Baylor University	Alice in the Mesoscopic Wonderland
9/30	Lincoln Carr	Colorado School of Mines	How the Quantum Craze is Changing the World
10/7	Jennifer Hoffman	University of Denver	Metamorphosis: New Views of Supernova Explosions and Progenitors
10/14	Daniel Snowden-lfft	Occidental College	Beam-Dump Dark Matter Search Utilizing a Low-Threshold, Directional Dark Matter Detector (BDX-DRIFT) at Jefferson Lab
10/21	Wolfgang Bangerth	Colorado State University	Complex simulations: From numerical mathematics via software to applications
10/28	Chris Chiaverina	New Trier High School/The Physics Teacher (AAPT)	Physics for the Many
11/4	Taritree Wonjirad	Tufts University	The MiniBooNE Anomaly: a Neutrino Unsolved Mystery
11/11	Wolfgang Bangerth (Re-Scheduled)	Colorado State University	Complex simulations: From numerical mathematics via software to applications
Next Semester	Dmitri Denisov (Re-Scheduled)	Brookhaven Natl. Lab	Top quark – From the Discovery to a Tool for Discoveries
11/18	Jim Sites	Colorado State University	High-Efficiency Thin-Film CdTe Solar Cells
12/2	Jorge Rocca	Colorado State University	Relativistic nanophotonics: creating extreme plasma conditions and fields with ultrafast lasers
Next Semester	Dennis Perepelitsa (Re-Scheduled)	University of Colorado Boulder	Exploring the Hottest Matter in the Universe
12/9	Keith Ulmer	University of Colorado Boulder	Searching for Supersymmetry at the LHC

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/28	Ezekiel Johnston‐Halperin	Ohio State University	Quantum Magnonics in V[TCNE]₂
2/7	Justin Bohnet	Honeywell Quantum Solutions	Quantum Entanglement in 2D Arrays of Trapped Ions
2/11	Serena Eley	Colorado School of Mines	Resistance is Not Futile: Pinning Down Elusive Vortices in Superconductors
2/14	Quentin Glorieux	Sorbonne University	Quantum Simulation with Light: From Superfluidity to Rotating Black Holes
2/18	Bruce Gaulin	McMaster University	Ground State Selection in Quantum Pyrochlore Magnets
2/21	Samuel Brewer	National Institute of Standards and Technology	An ²⁷Al+ Quantum‐logic Clock with Systematic Uncertainty below 10⁻¹⁸
2/26	Arthur Matveev	Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics	Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen & the Proton Size Puzzle Arthur Matveev
3/4	Amber Krummel	Colorado State University	Exploiting Molecular Vibrations to Visualize Chemical Structure & Dynamics in Advanced Materials
3/11	Michael McGehee	University of Colorado, Boulder	How Metal Halide Perovskite Semiconductors could Transform the Solar Industry
3/25	Dan Dessau	University of Colorado, Boulder	Resistance is Futile: High temperature and topological superconductivity
4/1	Kazuhiro Terao	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	Machine Learning for Physics Reconstruction of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
4/8	Jeff Kimble	Caltech	Quantum Matter Built from Nanoscopic Lattices of Atoms and Photons
4/15	Roger Culver	Colorado State University	GNAT & the Red Dwarfs
4/22	Yayoi Takamura	University of California, Davis	Engineering Spin Textures in Nanostructured Complex Oxides
4/29	Kate Scholberg	Duke University	Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino
5/6	Gary Feldman	Harvard University	Neutrino Oscillations

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
8/20	Jacob Roberts	CSU (Department Chair)	Meet ‘n’ Greet
8/27	Ian Coddington	NIST	Frequency Combs for Precise Atmospheric Measurement
9/10	Chris Ackerson	CSU	The Contrast Problem in Biological Electron Microscopy
9/17	Bill Fairbank	CSU	Imaging of Individual Barium Atoms in Solid Xenon for the nEXO Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment
9/24	Maria Weber	The University of Chicago & Adler Planetarium	From Fort Collins to England to Chicago- Choosing My Own Adventure in Computational Stellar Astrophysics and Outreach
10/1	Joseph von Fischer	CSU	Technological and Human Challenges of Finding Gas Leaks in Cities
10/8	Jose de la Venta	CSU	Magnetic Properties of Hybrid Systems
	Jifa Tian	University of Wyoming	Spin helical transport in 3D topological insulators
10/22	Susanta Sarkar	Colorado School of Mines	Looking at life through randomness
11/5	Kang Wang	UCLA	Why should we care about Topological Quantum Computer
11/12	Zoltan Sternovsky	University of Colorado – LASP	Understanding the Solar System Through the In Situ Detection and Analysis of Cosmic Dust Particles

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/22	Jacob Roberts	CSU (Department Chair)	Meet ‘n’ Greet
1/29	Richard King	Arizona State University	One-Sun Multijunction Photovoltaics
2/5	Angelo Mascarenhas	NREL	Ferroelastic Modulation and the Bloch formalism
2/12	Justin Sambur	CSU	Photocurrent Mapping of Ultra-Thin Liquid Junction Solar Cells
2/19	Eric Toberer	Colorado School of Mines	Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric materials
2/26	Elizabeth Worcester	Brookhaven National Lab	Science and Detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
3/5	Mike Brotherton	University of Wyoming	Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei
3/19	Nina Markovic	Goucher College	Designing Quantum Matter with Superconducting Nanowires
3/26	Josue Davila-Roderiguez	NIST	Optical Frequency Metrology and Low Noise Microwave Generation with Optical Frequency Combs
4/2	Alan MacDonald	University of Texas-Austin	Moiré Patterns in van der Waals Heterojunctions
4/9	Juan Fernandez	Los Alamos National Lab	Intense Laser-Driven Ion Beams- the Science of How They’re Made & Their Applications
4/16	Joe Berry	NREL	Progress in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells- Insights on active layers and interfaces relating to stability
4/23	Amy Roberts	University of Colorado-Denver	The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search detectors- pushing to lower thresholds in search of an answer
4/30	Karine Chesnel	BYU	A Journey Through Magnetic Memory

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
8/21	Jacob Roberts	CSU (Department Chair)	Cancelled due to Eclipse
8/28	Kaka Ma	CSU ME	Ultrafine Grained Precipitation Hardened Aluminum Alloy
9/11	Jorge Rocca	CSU ECE	Relativistic Nanoscale Ultrahigh Energy Density Physics
9/18	Rahul Nandkishore	University of Colorado-Boulder	Many Body Localization and Thermalization
9/25	Dustin Gilbert	NIST	Controlling Materials at the Nanoscale with Ion Migration
10/2	Andrew Norman	Fermilab	Enabling High Energy Physics through Modern Computing
10/9	Hao Zeng	SUNY Buffalo	Chalcogenide Compounds as Emerging Semiconducting Materials
10/16	Steve Pollock	University of Colorado-Boulder	A Research-Validated Approach to Transforming Upper-Division Physics Courses
10/23	Dietrich Leibfreid	NIST	Preparation and Coherent Manipulation of Pure Quantum States of a Single Molecular Ion
10/30	Michael Morrison	University of Oklahoma	How Can You Cool a Molecule to near absolute zero – and why would you want to?
11/6	Walter Toki	CSU Physics	Search for Charge-Parity Violation in Neutrino Oscillations and Recent T2K Results
11/13	Albert Fert	Nobel Laureate	The Route from Fundamental Science to Innovation
11/14	Albert Fert	Nobel Laureate	Recent Advances on Magnetic Skyrmions
11/27	Meenakshi Singh	Colorado School of Mines	More than Moore
12/4	Stefan Facsko	Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf	Nanoscale Surface Patterning by Non-Equilibrium Self-Assembly of Ion-Induced Vacancies and Ad-Atoms

CMP Seminars by academic year

2020-2021

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title

2019-2020

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/24	11:00 am	ENGRG 121	Denis Candido	University of Iowa	Blurring the boundaries between topological and non-topological phenomena in dots
10/8	11:00 am	LSC 310	Kristen Buchanan	Colorado State University	Imaging Spins in Motion
10/10	11:00 am	ENGRG 126	Vivek Amin	NIST at Gaithersburg, MD	Anatomy of Spin-Orbit Torque
12/10	11:00 am	LSC 324	Kai Liu	Georgetown University	Magneto-Ionics and Chiral Spin Textures
12/17	2:00 pm	ENGRG 126	Dr. Tom Silva	NIST at Boulder, CO	LARGE SPIN HALL CONDUCTIVITY IN PT AND NIXCU1-X AS MEASURED WITH NON-CONTACT MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY
1/24	9:00 am	LSC 372	Michael Flatte	University of Iowa	New Materials and Devices for Quantum Coherent Electronic Technologies
2/20	10:00 am	ENGRG 126	Dr. Xufeng Zhang	Argonne National Laboratory	Advancing quantum information science with hybrid cavity magnonics
2/25	11:00 am	LSC 386	Satoru Nakatsuji	University of Tokyo	Exotic superconductivity upon transformation of orbitals into bands
2/28	9:00 am	LSC 310	Eteri Svanidze	Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids	Solid-state materials – how to find and study them
2/28	10:00 am	LSC 310	Oliver Rader	Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin	Fundamental properties of strongly correlated and magnetic topological insulators by angle-resolved photoemission at 1 K
3/9- Cancelled	10:00 am	ENGRG 126	Shang-Fan Lee	Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Spin waves in sub-micron magnetic structures
3/10- Cancelled	2:00 pm	ENGRG 120	Andrei Bernevig
3/24	11:00 am		Brad Ramshaw
4/21	11:00 am		Stephanie Simmons
4/28	11:00 am		Qian Niu

2018-2019

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
10/24	9:00 am	LSC 322	YoshiChika Otani	University of Tokyo	Spin Conversion Phenomena in Spintronics
11/9	2:00 pm	ENGRG E106	Oleg Tchernyshyov	Johns Hopkins University	Mechanics of Magnetic Solitons
1/28	10:00 am		Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin	Ohio State University	Quantum Magnonics in V[TCNE]2
1/29	10:00 am		Luqiao Liu	MIT	Magnetic Switching with Topological Insulator and Compensated Ferrimagnet
2/19	10:00 am		Bruce Gaulin	McMaster University	Geometrical Frustration in Two and Three Dimensional Tb-based Magnets
3/19	10:00 am	LSC 376	Andy Kent	New York University	Spin Transport in Thin Insulating Antiferromagnets
4/9	10:00 am		Hari Srikanth	University of South Florida	Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructures for Biomedical and Electromagnetic Applications