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 10 Vito Scarola, Virginia Tech, Physics Department
Abstract Title: Strongly Correlated Atoms in Optical Lattices
Chuanwei Zhang
January 24

Guy Worthey, Washington State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Abstract Title: Star Clusters: Cosmic Cauldrons of Creation
Matthew Duez
January 31

Gary Collins, Washington State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Abstract Title: The solubility of indium in liquid and solid gallium

Matthew Duez
February 7 Andrew Wilson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Abstract Title: Micro-fabricated Ion Traps Ions for Quantum Information Processing		 Peter Engels
February 14 Erin K. S. Hicks, University of Washington, Department of Astronomy
Abstract Title: What Fuels the Growth of Local Supermassive Black Holes?
Doerte Blume
February 21 Santanu Chaudhuri, Washington State University, Institute for Shock Physics
Abstract Title: Materials Discovery using Multiscale-Multiphysics Simulations
Matthew Duez
March 5
(Monday) 		Yosef Zlochower, Rochester Institute of Techonology, Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation
Abstract Title: Numerical Simulations of Black-Hole Mergers
Matthew Duez
March 6 Mark Scheel, California Institute of Technology
Abstract Title: Exploring the Collision of two Black Holes
Matthew Duez
March 20

Hergen Eilers, Washington State University, Institute for Shock Physics
Abstract Title: Light/Matter Interactions and Optical Spectroscopy for Sensor Applications
Matthew Duez
March 27

Jeanne McHale, Washington State University, Department of Chemistry
Abstract Title: Light-Harvesting Aggregates for Solar Energy Conversion
Matthew Duez
April 3

Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut/Harvard University
Abstract Title: Nonlinear optical phenomena in strongly interacting media
Doerte Blume
April 10 W. Vincent Liu, University of Pittsburgh,
Abstract Title: Ultracold atoms in previously unexplored quantum matter regimes
Chuanwei Zhang
April 17

Kenneth Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract Title: Probing molecules with laser-cooled atomic ions
Doerte Blume
April 24 Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington, Department of Physics
Abstract Title: Real-Time Dynamics of a Unitary Fermi Superfluid
Matthew Duez
April 30 Antun Balaz, Scientific Computing Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade
Abstract Title: Surface waves and miscibility transitions in binary Bose-Einstein condensates		 Peter Engels
May 1 Alexandru I. Nicolin, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Abstract Title: The variational treatment of surface waves		 Peter Engels

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