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Colloquia 2021-2022

About

The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts a colloquium every Wednesday afternoon in 227 Gallalee Hall during the fall and spring semesters (excluding holidays and exam week). Speakers include UA faculty and graduate students as well as researchers from other universities, research institutes, and government agencies. The subject matter ranges from information about the University and department to topics of recent interest in physics and astronomy. Talks are typically 45–50 minutes in length followed by ~10 minutes of questions.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Physics and astronomy graduate students are required to attend colloquia regularly, as determined by their advisors; more information about this requirement may be found in the department’s Graduate Handbook.

Visitor information, including directions and parking details, can be found on our Directions and Parking page.

Schedule

This semester’s colloquia are listed below.  Upcoming colloquia are listed in the left sidebar of this page and under the colloquium category in the department events calendar.

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held 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 223 Gallalee Hall

[NOTE: All colloquia will be on Zoom for the 2020-2021 academic year].

All talks can be viewed on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/channels/uaphay

Fall 2021

Date Title/Abstract Speaker
08/18 No colloquium.
08/25 Graduate Student Information Graduate Director
09/01 Science with XRISM: Resolving the Nature of the Energetic Cosmos Koji Mukai (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland)
09/08
09/15
09/22
09/29
10/06

High Energy Transient Repeaters: The Case of Gamma-ray Bursts From Magnetars

 Michela Negro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMBC)
10/13 In Search of Elusive AGNs in Low Mass Galaxies and Mergers Shobita Satyapal (George Mason University)
10/20 Neutrinos: a Bridge Among the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers Arindam Das (Hokkaido University)
10/27 Swipe Right for Mathematics: An Overview of Research in the UA Math Department David Cruz-Uribe (University of Alabama, Department of Mathematics)
11/03 Probing the dark side of the Universe with gravitational waves Yanou Cui (UC, Riverside)
11/10 Enhanced Emission from the Bright Exciton and Locating the Dark Exciton in Asymmetrically Strained CdSe/CdxZn1–xSe Quantum Dots Igor Fedin (University of Alabama, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
11/17 No colloquium.
11/24 No colloquium. Thanksgiving.
12/01 No colloquium.
12/08 No colloquium. Finals week.

Spring 2022

Date Title/Abstract Speaker
01/12 No colloquium.
01/19 No colloquium.
01/26 No colloquium.
02/02 No colloquium.
02/09 No colloquium.
02/21 (note special date) The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: The New Frontier in Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Studies Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil (University of Chicago)
02/23 The Variety of Thermonuclear Supernova Chris Ashall (University of Hawaiʻi)
02/28 (note special date) On the Milky Way’s Extinction Curve and Oldest Stellar Populations David Nataf (Johns Hopkins University)
03/02 Uncovering the History of Galaxies and Metals by Exploiting the Power of Nearby Laboratories Svea Hernandez (Space Telescope Science Institute)
03/09 From Pebbles to Planets: A Tale of Protoplanetary Disks and Planetesimal Formation Chao-Chin Yang (UNLV)
03/16 Spring Break Spring Break
03/23 Rare Top Quark Processes at the New Physics Frontier Emanuele Usai (Brown)
03/30 New Frontiers of Electroweak Physics at the LHC Philip Chang (UC San Diego)
04/04 (note special date) Finding New Microscopic Interaction that Governs Flavour Structure at the CMS Experiment Yuta Takahashi (Zurich)
04/06 Hunting for New Physics with Hadronic Jets at the LHC David Yu (Brown)
04/13 No colloquium.
04/18 (note special date) Looking for New Physics in Rare and Novel Processes at the Large Hadron Collider Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern)
04/20 HEP and Future Colliders Christine McLean (SUNY Buffalo)
04/27 Photoinduced manipulation of conjugated polymers and molecules via sequential two-photon absorption Newton M. Barbosa Neto (Federal University of Pará, Brasil)
05/04 Finals Week Finals Week

 

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