Colloquia Spring 2024

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

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
1/11/2024 Rachel Hyneman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory “Beyond Classification: Using Machine Learning to Probe New Physics with the ATLAS Experiment in “Impossible”
1/18/2024 William Jay MIT “The Hadronic Window to the Standard Model and Beyond”
1/22/2024 Chirag Modi Flatiron Institute “Forward Modeling Approaches for Cosmological Analysis”
1/29/2024 Aishik Ghosh UC Irvine and Berkeley National Lab “A Frequentist Framework for Neural Simulation-Based Inference in Particle Physics ”
2/1/2024 Yinming Shao Columbia University “Electrodynamics of Novel Quasiparticles in Quantum Matter ”
2/5/2024 Lu Chen Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada “Study of Novel Quantum Materials in Extreme Conditions”
2/12/2024 Yongxi Ou Pennsylvania State University “Charge-to-spin conversion and spin-orbit torques in MBE-grown quantum materials”
2/15/2024 Qi Song Cornell University “Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials Design Through Atomically Precise Film Synthesis”
2/19/2024 TBD TBD TBD
2/26/2024 TBD TBD TBD
3/4/2024 TBD TBD TBD
3/11/2024 TBD TBD TBD
3/18/2024 Reed Hollinger Colorado State University “Relativistic laser matter interactions: from fundamental plasma physics to next generation x-ray and particle sources”
3/25/2024 Shimon Kolkowitz University of California at Berkeley “Testing relativity on a tabletop with a miniature network of optical lattice atomic clocks”
4/1/2024 Jax Sanders Marquette University “Glass Wires, Magic Crystals, and Special Nothing: The Technology Behind Gravitational Wave Detection”
4/8/2024 Charles Kane University of Pennsylvania “Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter”
4/15/2024 TBD TBD TBD
4/22/2024 TBD TBD TBD
4/29/2024 Duncan Ryan Los Alamos National Laboratory TBD

CMP Seminars 2023

The Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) seminar series was made possible by an anonymous donation. Center for Advanced Magnetics Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence sponsored seminars are listed below in italic font.

Date Time Location Speaker Affiliation Title
February 8, 2023 11am-12pm Physics Interaction Space Room #121 Jiamian Hu University of Wisconsin, Madison  Ultrafast Ferroics: Mechanistic Insights and Heterostructure Design
March 30, 2023 10am Lory Student Center Room #312 Dr. Kathrin Spendier University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Quantinuum’s Advanced Quantum SDK fo
May 4, 2023 11am Physics Interaction Space Room #121 Kurt Gibble Pennsylvania State University Atomic Clocks and Laser-cooling Cadmium with UVA Triplet Excitations