Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquia Schedule

Time and location: Tuesdays at 4:10 pm in Webster B17 on the Pullman campus of Washington State University, unless otherwise noted.

Come meet the speaker over coffee & cookies at 3:45 pm in Concourse on the Ground floor..


Date


Speaker and Talk Title

Host
January 15 Andreas E. Vasdekis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Abstract Title: Soft Materials in Single Cell Biophysics
Matthew Duez
January 22 Matthew Duez, Washington State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Abstract Title: Relativistic Outflows from Black Hole-neutron Star Mergers
Guy Worthey
January 29

No Colloquium

  
February 5

No Colloquium

  
February 12

Jose de la Venta, Physics Department and Center for Advanced Nanoscience,
UC San Diego
Abstract Title: Control of Magnetic Properties across Metal to Insulator Transitions

 Kelvin Lynn

February 14

(Thursday)

Sieu D.Ha, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Abstract Title: Electronic phase transitions in correlated oxides: growth, fundamentals, tunability

Kelvin Lynn
February 19 Hanwei Gao, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry,
Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract Title: Plasmonic Crystals - Nanostructured Metals beyond Electrical Conductors
Kelvin Lynn
February 21

(Thursday) 		Erik Henriksen, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
California Institute of Technology
Abstract Title: 1,2,3 many: electronic structures of layered graphenes
Kelvin Lynn
February 26

Chih-Chun Chien, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division,
Las Alamos, NM
Abstract Title: BCS-BEC Crossover, Pseudogap, and Atomtronics in Cold-Atom Systems
Steven Tomsovic

February 28

(Thursday)

 Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Las Alamos, NM
Abstract Title: Production of topological defects across a phase transition		 Steven Tomsovic

March 5

 Yujun Wang, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and NIST,
College Park, MD
Abstract Title: Exotic few-body states: from universal physics to quantum chemistry		 Steven Tomsovic

March 7

(Thursday)

 Michael Forbes, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
Abstract Title: Fermionic Superfluids: Connecting Cold-Atoms with Cold Dark Matter		 Steven Tomsovic
March 12

Spring Vacation

 

  
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