Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Spring 2022 Colloquia Schedule

All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.

 

Date
Title of Talk
Speaker
Speaker's Institution
Host
Thurs., Feb. 24, 2022
Integrated structure and reaction theories for accurate predictions in the FRIB era
Chloë Hebborn 
FRIB Theory Fellow at Michigan State University (MSU) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Friday, March 4, 2022
Towards lightwave-controlled switches of quantum properties in 2D materials
Álvaro Jiménez-Galán
Postdoc, Max Borne Institute, Berlin
Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Monday, March 7, 2022
Howel Russell room 130
Interfacial Band Engineering of Oxide Heterostructures for Electronic, Energy, and Quantum Systems
Ryan Comes
Assistant Professor, Auburn University
David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Physics in the NISQ era: opportunities for high energy and nuclear physics
Niklas Mueller
Postdoc, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and the Joint Quantum Institute 
Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The QCD spectrum: Challenges and prospects
Arkaitz Rodas
Postdoc, College of William and Mary
Assistant Professor Kristina Launey
Monday, March 14, 2022
Coates Hall room 145
Experimental approaches to emergent spin degrees of freedom 
Yishu Wang
Postdoc, Institute for Quantum Matter at The Johns Hopkins University
David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Coates Hall room 145
Ab-initio simulations of ultrafast electron-nuclear dynamics: Paving the way to attochemistry
Victor Despré 
Postdoc, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Heidelberg University
Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Advanced Shell-model Approaches to Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics
Alexis Merecene
Postdoc, Yale University
Assistant Professor Scott Marley
Monday, March 21, 2022
Howel Russell room 130
Controlling magnetism in strongly correlated oxide thin films
Ludi Miao
Postdoc, Cornell University
David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Tuesday March 22, 2022
Coates Hall room 145
R-Matrix calculations for ultrafast spectroscopy of noble-gas atoms
Kathryn Hamilton
Postdoc, Drake University
Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Attosecond Pulse Applications: Production of Spiral Vortex Patterns from Electron Waves
Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska
Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Coates Hall room 145
Epitaxy of Quantum Materials and Heterostructures 
Prosper Ngabonziza
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research 
David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Nicholson Hall Room 435
Magnetic “multiverse” probed by neutron
Xiaojian Bai 
Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
David Young, Alumni Professor of Physics
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Nicholson Hall Room 435
Observing correlated-electron dynamics inside molecules
Francois Mauger
Assistant Research Professor, LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy
Mette Gaarde, Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor