Departmental Colloquium

Dr. Alvine Kamaha (University of Albany) will give a colloquium on the LZ dark matter experiment.

Dr. Christina Ignarra (Stanford) will give a colloquium on the LZ dark matter experiment.

Stephen Walker from UA Huntsville will present a talk on Galaxy Cluster Outskirts: Pushing Back the Final Frontier in Cluster Astrophysics.

Speaker: Alan Robock (Rutgers University) Title: Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War Abstract: A nuclear war between any two nations, such as India and Pakistan, with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas, could inject 5 Tg of soot from the resulting fires into the stratosphere, so much smoke

Speaker: Tim Mewes (University of Alabama) Title: Magnetization Dynamics and Damping Abstract: The dynamics and the damping of magnetization are of paramount importance to understand and predict the properties of magnetic materials used in a variety of applications. For example, spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory cells (STT-MRAM) are expected to switch fast, reliably, and with

Speaker: Eric Mamajek (NASA/JPL) Title: Update on NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) and Science Abstract: I'll provide an update on the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), the Astrophysics Division's program responsible for implementing NASA's plans for discovering and characterizing exoplanets and searching for potentially habitable worlds. One of the key recommendations of the recent NAS

Dr. Tanmoy Lasker will give a colloquium on Extreme astrophysics with relativistic transients

Dr. Jamie Tayar will give a colloquium on Re-envisioning Stellar Physics in the Time Domain Era