Colloquia 2016-2017

Schedule

Colloquia for the current academic calendar can be found here. Upcoming colloquia are listed in the left sidebar of this page. The Fall 2016  and Spring 2017 schedule are listed below.

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held every Wednesday from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m in 227 Gallalee Hall, with refreshments, including tea, coffee, and cookies, served at 3:30 p.m., in 227 Gallalee Hall.

Fall 2016

Date	Title/Abstract	Speaker
8/24	Review of Timeline and Requirements for Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students	Conor Henderson Graduate Chair University of Alabama
8/31	Faculty Research Interests Mini-Colloquia: A Model For Clumpy Self-Enrichment in Globular Star Clusters Searching for New Physics: Deeper Underground, Higher into Space	Jeremy Bailin Igor Ostrovskiy University of Alabama
9/7	Faculty Research Interests Mini-Colloquia: Transport in quantum many-body system Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Large  Hadron Collider	Georg Schwiete Conor Henderson University of Alabama
9/14	Faculty Research Interests Mini-Colloquia: Future Prospects of New Physics Beyond the Standard Model	Nobu Okada University of Alabama
9/21	3 Minute Thesis Presentations	Physics & Astro graduate students University of Alabama
9/28	Atomic Clocks & Precision Timing: Applications and Opportunities	Andrew Lemmon University of Alabama
10/4	Public Talk: Spacetime Ripples and Rips: Our Amazing Universe	Deirdre Shoemaker Georgia Tech
10/5	Numerical Relativity and the first Detection of Gravitational Waves	Deirdre Shoemaker Georgia Tech
10/12	Faculty Research Interests Mini-Colloquia: The Origin of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays	Peter L. Biermann (Max-Planck-Institute für Radioastronomie & UA)
10/19	Neutrino portal to new physics	Bhupal Dev Washington University at St. Louis
10/26	Towards precision measurements of neutrino oscillations	Philip Rodrigues University of Mississippi
11/2	Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation	Jorge Moreno Cal Poly Pomona
11/9	Angular momentum transport in Spintronics	Shufeng Zhang University of Arizona
11/16	Signatures of AGN feedback	Dominika Wylezalek Johns Hopkins University
11/30	Terahertz Spectroscopy of Two-dimensional Materials at High magnetic field	David Hilton UA Birmingham

Spring 2017

3:45 – 4:45 p.m. in GL 227.
Refreshments in GL 223 from 3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Date	Title/Abstract	Speaker
1/11	POSTPONED (due to bad weather and flight delays). Colloquium rescheduled for March 8th: How were the most ancient objects in the universe formed?	Kelsey Johnson University of Virginia
1/18	Exciton Condensates are Super!	Allan H. MacDonald University of Texas, Austin
1/25	Multi-TeV Astrophysics with HAWC	John Pretz Penn State
2/1	UA Physics & Astronomy Postdoc Mini Colloquia Of Taus and Staus: Non-Standard Event Signatures in IceCube Experimental studies on dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay	Sandro Kopper Arun Kumar Soma
2/8	The Era of High Energy Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube	John Felde University of Maryland
2/15	The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astronomy	Marcos Santander Columbia University
2/22	No Colloquium	No Colloquium
3/1	Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos: Cosmic Ghosts and How to Bust Them	Carl Pfendner Ohio State University
3/8	How were the most ancient objects in the universe formed?	Kelsey Johnson University of Virginia
3/22	The Changing Landscape of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors	Ken Shen UC Berkeley
3/29	Dating major events in the solar system using geochemical & chronological studies of meteorites.	Julia Cartwright University of Alabama
4/5	POSTPONED (due to bad weather)	Jinwu Ye Mississippi State
4/12	Quantum magnetisms in disordered or spin-orbit coupled systems	Jinwu Ye Mississippi State
4/19	A holographic view of quark-gluon plasma	Wilke van der Schee MIT
4/26	Beyond Von Neumann: How the end of Moore’s Law is changing computer hardware.	Brian D. Hoskins NIST

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Previous Years’ Colloquia

• 2015-2016: schedule, abstracts
• 2014-2015: schedule, abstracts
• 2013-2014: schedule, abstracts
• 2012-2013: schedule, abstracts