Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Fall 2026 Colloquia Schedule
All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2026 | Why Magnets with Holes Are Better: Porous Ferrimagnetic Particles and Very Large Magnetic Susceptibility | Vicki Colvin, College of Engineering Dean | 蘑菇tv | Phil Sprunger |
| September 3, 2026 | The [New] Physics of Atomic Nuclei | Kristina Launey, Associate Professor | 蘑菇tv | Internal |
| September 10, 2026 | Quantum invariants of multitudes on manifolds | , Professor | Parampreet Singh | |
| September 17, 2026 | Anomalous and Topological Hall Effect in quantum materials | , Professor | Xiaojian Bai | |
| September 24, 2026 | Altermagnetism, Polar Metallic State in Epitaxial RuO2 Films | , Professor | Prosper Ngabonziza | |
| October 1, 2026 | Excitons, magnons and exciton-magnon interactions in antiferromagnetic semiconductors from first-principles | , Associate Professor | Ka-Ming Tam | |
| October 8, 2026 | Fall Break | |||
| October 15, 2026 | Understanding Nuclear Reactions from Individual Nucleons: A Microscopic Glauber Theory Approach | , Associate Professor | Kristina Launey | |
| October 22, 2026 | A decade of the U.S. short-baseline neutrino program: from MicroBooNE to SBND | Hanyu Wei, Assistant Professor | 蘑菇tv | Internal |
| October 29, 2026 | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the 2020's | Professor | Tabetha Boyajian | |
| November 5, 2026 | Mehdi Zarea, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher | 蘑菇tv | Parampreet Singh | |
| November 12, 2026 | Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory | Eric Burns | ||
| November 19, 2026 | Manos Chatzopoulos, Associate Professor | 蘑菇tv | Internal | |
| December 3, 2026 | , Professor | William A. Shelton |