Colloquia by semester

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
2/10 Lars Von Der Wense JILA
2/17 Dennis Perepilitsa University of Colorado Boulder
2/24 Leo Radzihovsky University of Colorado Boulder
3/2 Tara Fortier National Institute of Standards and Technology
3/9 Joseph Zadrozny Colorado State University
3/23 Dmitri Denisov Brookhaven National Laboratory
4/6 June Lau National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg Laser-free GHz stroboscopic TEM: construction, deployment, and benchmarking
4/27 Mike Mooney Colorado State 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

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

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
2/25 11:00 am Satoru Nakatsuji
3/10 10:00 am Andrei Bernevig
3/31 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
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