Colloquiums
Fall 2024 Colloquium
LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives
Note: All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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August 29, 2024 | Recent Progress in Research on Quantum Spin Liquids at the National High Magnetic Field | Minseong Lee, Staff Scientist | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory | Xiaojian Bai |
September 5, 2024 | Looking at the Invisible: Exploring Dark Matter through Cosmic Messengers | Nicolao Fornengo, Professor | University of Torino and INFN - Torino | Michela Negro |
September 12, 2024 |
Probing Andreev Bound States in Superconductor-semiconductor Josephson Junctions |
Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics |
NYU, SHABANI LAB | Constantin Schrade |
September 19, 2024 | Gravitational Wave Paleontology: a New Frontier to Explore the Formation, Lives, and Deaths of Massive Stars Across Cosmic Time | Floor Broekgaarden, Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows | Columbia University/Flatiron Institute/CCA | Eric Burns |
September 26, 2024 | Advancements in Density Functional Theory for Correlated d- and f-Electron Compounds | Jianwei Sun, Associate Professor | Tulane University | Ka Ming Tam |
October 3, 2024 | Improving the Performance of Superconducting Qubits | Dr. Corey Rae McRae | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Ilya Vekhter |
October 10, 2024 | Nuclear Microphysics of Core-collapse Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Neutron Star Mergers | Jeremy Holt, Associate Professor | Texas A&M University | Kristina D Launey |
October 24 2024 | Brajesh Gupt, Quantum Applied Scientist | Amazon Web Services | Ivan Agullo | |
October 31, 2024 | Elio König | Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research | Justin Wilson | |
November 7, 2024 | Cristian Batista, Lincoln Chair Professor | University of Tennessee | Xiaojian Bai | |
November 14, 2024 | Thomas Baumgarte, William R. Kenan Professor of Physics | Bowdoin College | Peter Diener | |
November 21, 2024 | Smitha Vishveshwara, Professor | University of Illinois | James A. Sauls | |
December 5, 2024 | Roberto Leon-Montiel, Associate Professor | Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM | Omar Magaña-Loaiza |
Spring 2025 Colloquium
Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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January 16th, 2025 | ||||
January 23rd, 2025 | Filip Ronning, Director Institute for Materials Science | Los Alamos National Lab | Ilya Vekhter | |
January 30th, 2025 | Dr. Ou Labun, Research Associate | UT Austin | Joyoni Dey | |
February 6th, 2025 | ||||
February 13th, 2025 | Ravi Kopparapu | NASA | Natalie Hinkel | |
February 20th, 2025 | ||||
February 27th, 2025 | Pre-booked | |||
March 6th, 2025 | Pre-booked | |||
March 13th, 2025 | Pre-booked | |||
March 27th, 2025 | Pre-booked | |||
April 10th, 2025 | ||||
April 17th, 2025 | ||||
May 1st, 2025 | Andriy Nevidomskyy, Professor | Rice University | Ilya Vekhter |