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There are no other scheduled Colloquiua for the Semester;
Please check this page often for updates.
These lectures feature speakers from around the country and globe. Each colloquium lasts about an hour and gives you a deeper understanding of the types of physics and astronomy researching going on around the world.
Colloquia will be held in a hybrid format and a recurring Zoom link is provided to access the virtual format.
If you are interested in being added to our e-mail distribution list regarding upcoming colloquia, please contact Ms. Nancy Kesar via e-mail at nkesar@mailbox.sc.edu. We appreciate your interest!
Upcoming Colloquia:
Past Colloquia:
April 11, 2024 - Dr. Ben Levy
"Toward Measuring the Stiffness of Blood Clots Using Magnetomotive Ultrasound"
April 04, 2024 - Dr. Yong Zhang
"II-VI Based Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Superlattices: Structures, Properties, and Stability"
March 28, 2024 - Dr. Wolfgang Christian
"How computers improve physics teaching through interactive engagement"
March 21, 2024 - Dr. Kirill Belashchenko
"Spin transport and spin-orbit torque in metallic heterostructures"
March 18, 2024 - Dr. Nikole Nielsen
"Revealing the Hidden Gaseous Ecosystem Around Galaxies over 10 Billion Years"
March 14, 2024 - Dr. Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez
"The effect of magnetic field on galaxy evolution"
March 11, 2024 - Dr. Andrey Vayner
"Probing Key Drivers of Massive Galaxy Formation in the Distant Universe with NASA’s
James Webb Space Telescope"
February 29, 2024 - Dr. Ievgen Lavrukhin
"Probing the Proton’s Inner Structure"
February 26, 2024 - Dr. Ye Tian
"Exploring the Structure of Matter via Electron Scattering Experiments at JLab"
February 22, 2024 - Dr. Pawel Nadel-Turonski
"Imaging the strong fields inside nucleons and nuclei"
February 19, 2024 - Dr. Kin Chung Fong
"Turning quantum materials into novel quantum technologies"
February 15, 2024 - Dr. Shafayat Hossian
"Room-temperature and many-body quantum states in topological materials"
February 8, 2024 - Dr. Martin Lonsky
"Skyrmions in Magnetic Multilayers for Novel Memory and Computing Applications"
November 16, 2023 - Dr. Vincente Guiseppe
"A Legendary Program: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge-76"
November 09, 2023 - Dr. John Perdew
"More-predictive density functionals, symmetry breaking, and strong correlation"
November 02, 2023 - Dr. David Mandrus
"Designing Emergent Matter: How Physicists Think about New Materials"
October 26, 2023 - Adam Taylor
"Advancements in process, packaging technology and Electrical Validation for Signal
Integrity at Intel"
October 12, 2023 - Dr. Ming Hu
"The Onset of Artificial Intelligence in Thermal Transport in Solids"
September 28, 2023 - Dr. Zheng Gai
"Seeing is Believing: Studying Quantum Matter at the Atomic Level via Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy"
September 21, 2023 - Dr. Wolfgang Lorenzon
"The search for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment"
September 14, 2023 - Dr. Tim Mousseau
"A Walk-about Chernobyl, Fukushima and other Hot Places"
September 7, 2023 - Dr. Michael Kohl
"Structure and Anomalies: Intersections between Old and New Physics"
April 20, 2023 - Dr. Sebastian König
"Nuclear Physics in a Box"
April 13, 2023 - Dr. Qui Wang
"Onsager Principle, Mathematical Modeling, and Numerical Algorithm Design"
April 06, 2023 - Dr. Maxim Tsoi
"Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: from Metals to Functional Oxides"
March 23, 2023 - Dr. David Tanner
"Shining Light Through Walls: Generation and Detection of Axions with ALPS II"
March 16, 2023 - Dr. Kai Schweda
"The ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider"
March 02, 2023 - Dr. John Singleton
"Neutral Fermions and a New State of Matter: Weird Metals Disguised as Electrical
Insulators"
February 23, 2023 - Dr. George Androulakis
"An Excursion into Quantum Information, with Highlights from Some of My Latest Research"
February 16, 2023 - Dr. Christopher Jarzynski
"Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics"
February 9, 2023 - Dr. Ed Cackett
"Mapping the Accretion Disk Around Supermassive Black Holes"
February 2, 2023 - Dr. Alexander Monin
"XXI Century Challenges of Theoretical Physics"
January 26, 2023 - Dr. Lori Ziolkowski
"The Physics of Climate Change"
January 19, 2023 - Dr. Joseph E. Johnson
"Riemannian Geometry Framed as a Generalized Lie Algebra to Incorporate General Relativity
with Quantum Theory"
November 17, 2022 - Dr. Ignatios Antoniadis
"Challenges in Particle Physics and Cosmology"
November 10, 2022 - Dr. Gang Cao
"Power and Control of Internal Loop Currents in an Exotic Quantum State"
November 3, 2022 - Dr. Shmuel Nussinov
"Dark Matter - or Matter in the Dark?"
October 27, 2022 - Dr. Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias
"Advancements in the Design of Optical Components for Efficient Optoelectronic Devices
Operating at High Temperature"
October 20, 2022 - Dr. Bob Bernstein
"Charged Lepton Flavor Violation and the Mu2e Experiment"
October 6, 2022 - Dr. Paul Reimer
"Exploring the Flavor Asymmetry of Antimatter in the Proton"
September 29, 2022 - Dr. Michael Dickson
"Anthropic Principles, Fine-Tuning Arguments, and Other Mistakes"
September 22, 2022 - Dr. Alexander Yankovsky
"Dynamics of Coastal Buoyancy Currents"
September 15, 2022 - Dr. Alexey Petrov
"Charming Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter"
July 29, 2022 - Dr. Garrett Darl Lewis
"Considerations for DEW as Part of a Force Mix, Now and Into the Future"
April 21, 2022 - Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
"James Webb Space Telescope: Status and Plans"
April 14, 2022 - Dr. Revaz Ramazashvili
"Skyrmion-Electron Bound States in a Néel Antiferromagnet"
April 7, 2022 - Dr. Céline Péroux
"The Cosmic Baryon Cycle"
March 17, 2022 - Dr. Alexey Petrov
"Marvelous Muons: Searching for New Physics with Bound States"
March 1, 2022 - Dr. Mu Wang
"Light Metastructure Interaction: From Classical to Quantum"
February 24, 2022 - Dr. Qi An
"Design Robust and Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials through Microstructure
and Light Irradiation"
February 22, 2022 - Dr. Sai Mu
"Harnessing Disorder to Tune, Tailor, and Design Novel Transition Metal Compounds"
February 17, 2022 - Dr. Oliviero Andreussi
"Multiscale Models in Computational Condensed-Matter Physics: Stability and Catalytic
Activity of Two-Dimensional Materials"
February 15, 2022 - Dr. Marc Dvorak
"Electronic Structure Theory: Triumphs, Failures, and New Ideas"
January 20, 2022 - Dr. Matthias Schindler
"A Colorful Look at Nuclear Physics"
December 2, 2021 - Dr. Jeffrey Hazboun
"Searching for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves with a Galactic-Scale Detector"
November 18, 2021 - Dr. David Ceperley
"The Physics of Dense Hydrogen"
November 11, 2021 - Mr. Travis Dore
"The Quark Gluon Plasma: Exploring a Physics Crossroads"
November 4, 2021 - Dr. Frank T. Avignone, III
"The Search for the Majorana Neutrino Under an Italian Mountain"
October 14, 2021 - Dr. Jerome Goldstein
"Is Diffusion Described by the Heat Equation or the Damped Wave Equation"?
September 16, 2021 - Dr. Robert Cava
"Finding New Materials - A Chemical Perspective"
April 29, 2021 - Dr. Michael Susner
"Functional Van der Waals Materials: A New Avenue for Next-Generation Electronics"
April 1, 2021 - Dr. James Tour
"Flash Graphene"
March 18, 2021 - Dr. Hariharan Srikanth
"Anisotropic Magnetic Particles for Nanomedicine Applications"
March 11, 2021 - Dr. Rongying Jin
"Topological Physics: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science"
March 4, 2021 - Dr. Luis Balicas
"Two-Dimensional and Topological Materials Research at the NHMFL"
January 21, 2021 - Dr. Larry Ford
"Quantum Energy Density Fluctuations"
November 19, 2020 - Dr. Pawel Mazur
"On the Physical Nature of Super-Compact Objects in the Merging Binaries Discovered
by Gravitational Wave Detectors"
November 12, 2020 - Dr. Michael Osofsky
"Engineering Superconductivity in Metamaterials"
October 22, 2020 - Dr. Rocky Kolb
"Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon"
October 8, 2020 - Dr. Yuriy Pershin
"Are Resistance Switching Memories Memristors?"
February 27, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Crawford, Dr. Scott Crittenden, and Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics (Experimental)"
February 20, 2020 - Dr. Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Dr. Yuriy Pershin
"Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics
(Theoretical)"
February 13, 2020 - Dr. Ward Plummer
"Quantum Materials Driven Renaissance in Surface Physics"
February 6, 2020 - Dr. Smita Mathur
"The Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium"
January 30, 2020 - Dr. Richard Creswick
"A Laboratory Search for Axions/ALPS"
December 5, 2019 - Dr. William E. Mustain
"Founding and Emerging Materials for Li-ion Batteries"
November 21, 2019 - Dr. Dennis Bodewits
"Atomic and Molecular Physics of Comets"
November 14, 2019 - Dr. Daniel Scolnic
"New Excitement in Measurements of Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant"
October 31, 2019 - Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
"Extrasolar Planets: Understanding Earth's Place in the Cosmos"
October 3, 2019 - Dr. J. Michael Shull
"Where Do Galaxies End"?
September 26, 2019 - Dr. Craig Group
"A Renaissance for Muon Physics: (Who Ordered That?)"
September 19, 2019 - Dr. Peter Mättig
"Beyond the Higgs: LHC Physics in the Light of Philosophy"
September 5, 2019 - Dr. Revaz Ramazashvili
"Zeeman Spin-Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Antiferromagnetic
Conductors"
May 7, 2019 - Dr. Laurie E. McNeil
"Transforming Teaching and Learning: Self-Renewal and Institution-Building"
April 25, 2019 - Dr. Megan Donahue
"The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in the Growth of Galaxies"
April 18, 2019 - Dr. Monique Aller
"Investigating the Dust Grains in Galaxies Using Quasar Absorption Systems"
April 11, 2019 - Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra
"Memcomputing: Leaveraging Memory and Physics to Compute Efficiently"
April 4, 2019 - Dr. Leonid Pryadko
"Quantum Computation and Quantum Error Correction: A Contemporary Overview"
March 28, 2019 - Dr. Oleg Tchernyshyov
"Mechanics of Magnetic Solitons"
March 21, 2019 - Dr. Ashot Gasparian
"The Proton Radius: Preliminary Results from the PRad Experiment"
March 7, 2019 - Dr. Raul Briceno
"The Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons"
March 4, 2019 - Dr. Alexander Monin
"Current Challenges of Particle Physics and How to Address Them"
February 28, 2019 - Dr. Karen Livesey
"Magnetization Relaxation in Magnetic Nanoparticle Systems"
February 25, 2019 - Dr. Andrey Katz
"Beyond the Standard Model: Search for a Shadow World"
February 18, 2019 - Dr. Kimberly Boddy
"Unraveling the Structure of Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History"
February 7, 2019 - Dr. Igor Altfeder
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Quantum Materials"
January 31, 2019
"Remembering Dr. Horacio Farach"
December 6, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Tools Made of Light - An Overview of the Ideas Behind the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize"
November 29, 2018 - Prof. Valery Nesvizhevsky
"Gravitational Quantum States of Neutrons, Atoms, and Antiatoms"
November 15, 2018 - Ms. Lisa Hunter and Mr. Rafael Palomino
"ISEE's Professional Development Program: Preparation for Effective and Inclusive
Teaching and Mentoring"
November 8, 2018 - Dr. Sylvester N. Ekpenuma
"Efficient Modeling of Defects and Impurities in Semiconductors"
November 2, 2018 - Dr. Arthur Hebard
"Heterogeneous Interfaces with High-Tc Crystalline Bi-2212 for Teasing Out Proximity
and Electric-Field Screening Effects"
October 25, 2018 - Dr. Marco Ajello
"The Star-Formation History of the Universe Revealed by Gamma Rays"
October 4, 2018 - Dr. Luca Guazzotto
"A Physics-Based Criterion for Nuclear Fusion Energy Production"
September 27, 2018 - Dr. Pawel Mazur
"Superfluid Universe, the Ground State in Quantum Gravity, and Gravastars"
September 20, 2018 - Dr. Frank Avignone, III
"Dark Matter from Z to A and Beyond: The History and Status of Direct Searches"
September 6, 2018 - Dr. Nahum Arav
"Quasar Outflows and Their Contribution to Galactic-Scale Feedback Processes"
April 26, 2018 - Dr. Yordanka Ilieva
"Gluon Imaging"
April 19, 2018 - Dr. Robin Shelton
"The Clouds Around Our Galaxy"
April 12, 2018 - Dr. Vincente Guiseppe
"The (76)Ge Program to Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay"
April 5, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Make Your Particles And Play With Them Too"
March 29, 2018 - Dr. Dean Lee
"Nuclear Lattice Simulations"
March 8, 2018 - Prof. Sergey Alekhin
"Strange, Non-Strange, and Heavy Quark Distributions"
March 1, 2018 - Dr. Joseph E. Johnson
"On Integrating General Relativity with Quantum Theory by Reframing Riemannian Geometry
as a Generalized Heisenberg Lie Algebra”
February 22, 2018 - Dr. Alessandro Pilloni
“Challenges for Hadron Spectroscopy”
February 15, 2018 - Dr. David B. Tanner
“The Search for the Invisible Axion: The Current Status of ADMX”
February 1, 2018 - Dr. Andrew B. Greytak
“Assembling the Future Through Control of Nanoscale Interfaces”
January 25, 2018 - Dr. Ronald D. Edge
“70 Years of Physics”
January 18, 2018 - Dr. Juan I. Collar
“News from PICO and COHERENT”