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.
The talks will be on Thursdays at 4:15PM in the Rogers Room (Jones PSC 409).
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 Colloquium:
“Early Universe Cosmology as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model”
Speaker: Dr. Scott Watson Affiliation: Syracuse University Date: October 10th
Abstract: Cosmological observations provide overwhelming evidence that our universe is almost
entirely comprised of dark energy and dark matter, both of which have no theoretical
explanation within the standard model of particle physics. The former is responsible
for a current period of cosmic acceleration, much like that which occurred in the
earliest moments of the universe. The early period of cosmic acceleration, known as
inflation, was vital in providing the primordial seeds from which galaxies and clusters
formed, whereas the late time acceleration could eventually lead to the vanishing
of most structures in the universe. The driving force behind cosmic acceleration,
as well as dark matter, remains elusive from the point of view of a microscopic theory.
Combined with fundamental questions, such as the origin of particle mass and how electroweak
symmetry is broken, these conundrums require physics beyond the standard model. In
this talk I will review both the theoretical and observational status of these issues
with an emphasis on the excitement surrounding current and upcoming experiments.
"Time and information resolution in human hearing and its implications for high-fidelity
audio and psychophysics"
9/12
Ashely Byrd White
University of South Carolina
9/19
Steven Ray Elliott
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Isomers and Dark Matter: 180mTa and 178mHf"
9/26
Lucas Lindsay
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Insights from vibrational thermal transport modeling"
10/3
Maura McLaughlin
West Virginia University
"Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"
10/10
Scott Watson
Syracuse University
“Early Universe Cosmology as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model”
10/17
Fall Break
10/24
Edward “Rocky” Kolb
University of Chicago
TBA
10/31
Mark Pederson
University of Texas, El Paso
TBA
11/7
11/14
Tom Berlijn
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
TBA
11/21
Kyle Leach
Colorado School of Mines
TBA
Past Colloquia:
October 3, 2024 - Maura McLaughlin "Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"
September 26, 2024 - Lucas Lindsay "Insights from vibrational thermal transport modeling"
September 19, 2024 - Steven Ray Elliott "Isomers and Dark Matter: 180mTa and 178mHf"
Semptember 12, 2024 - Ashely Byrd White
September 5, 2024 - Dr. Milind Kunchur "Time and information resolution in human hearing and its implications for high-fidelity
audio and psychophysics"
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”
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