Fall 2025 Colloquium Archive
Note: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 28, 2025 | The Impact of Evolved Massive-Star Mergers in the Local Universe | Dr. Athira Menon, Lecturer | Columbia University | Manos Chatzopoulos |
| September 4, 2025 | Hybrid quantum phononics with superconducting qubits | Johannes Pollanen, Associate Professor | Michigan State University | Constantin Schrade |
| September 11, 2025 | Characterizing exoplanets and their host stars: insights from individual systems and planetary populations | Romy Rodríguez Martínez, Future Faculty Leader Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard | Natalie Hinkel |
| September 18, 2025 | Probing Ultrafast Electron Motion with Attosecond X-ray Free Electron Lasers | James Cryan, Senior Scientist | Stanford/SLAC | Mette Gaarde |
| September 25, 2025 | Atmospheric Neutrinos: History and Future | Linyan Wan, Wilson Fellow | Fermilab | Hanyu Wei |
| October 2, 2025 | The heavy fermion multiverse: past, present, and future | Filip Ronning, Director Institute for Materials Science | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Ilya Vekhter |
| October 9, 2025 | CSI Gravity: investigating mysteries in modern physics with black holes and gravitational waves | Helvi Witek, Associate Professor | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Ivan Agullo |
| October 17, 2025 | Fall Break | |||
| October 23, 2025 | Unconventional conventional superconductivity in two-dimensions | Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor | Caltech | Prosper Ngabonziza |
| October 30, 2025 | *Rescheduled for Spring 2026* | Vicki Covin, Dean of the College of Engineering | LSU | Ivan Agullo |
| November 6, 2025 | The Left Hand of the Electron in a Chiral Vacuum | James Sauls, Professor, Hearne Institute Co-Chair | LSU | Ivan Agullo |
| November 13, 2025 | Modifying the death of entanglement | A. Ravi P. Rau, Alumni Professor | LSU | Ivan Agullo |
| November 20, 2025 | The Future of Gravitational Wave Detection: A Numerical Relativity Perspective | Deborah Ferguson, Assistant Professor | University of Rhode Island | Gabriela González |
| December 4, 2025 | Stable edge states in fractionalized quantum metals | Alex Thomson, Assistant Professor | UC Davis | Justin Wilson |