Past Colloquia Series
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Spring 2020
February 21st
The Stormy Life of Galaxy Clusters
Lawrence Rudnick, Distinguished Professor
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
March 16th
Quantum Computing and the Taming of Schroedinger's Cat
Martin Lichtman, Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bates College
March 26th
Atomic Force Microscopy: A Nanoscopic Window to the World of Materials Physics and Cellular Biology
Arzu Colak, Postdoc
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Merced
March 30th
Laura Adams, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth
April 3rd
Sally MacIntyre, Professor
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Fall 2019
October 11th
The response of a mountainous watershed to forecasted climate change.
Robert Mitchell, Digges Distinguished Professor
Western Washington University
November 1st
Marine Energy Technologies: Developing systems and control methods at laboratory scale for a future in the “Blue Economy”.
Craig Hill, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Spring 2019
March 29th
The MicroBooNE liquid argon neutrino experiment.
Raquel Castilla Fernandez, Research Associate
Fermilab
April 5th
Women and Physics: the Best of Times, the Worst of times.
Laura McCullough, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Wisconsin Stout
April 12th
Robotic Exploration of rotationally driven mixing in large lakes.
Alexander Forrest, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
April 26th
Engineering a Contradiction, Developing Transparent Conductors.
Seth King, Associate Professor
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
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Fall 2018
September 7th
Studying gender in physics education research: Beyond the binary.
Jennifer Blue, Associate Professor
Department of Physics, Miami University
October 10th
Discovering a ‘Great Freshwater Lake’ on Mars with Curiosity.
Roger Wiens, PhD
Space Remote Sensing Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico
November 16th
Clues and Cues from QCD: Protons, Quarks, and All That.
John Hiller, Professor
Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Minnesota Duluth
November 30th
Successes and Perspectives of Deep Learning Applications to Neutrino Physics
Fernanda Psihas, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
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Spring 2018
March 16th
Wolfgang Pauli's Attraction to Carl Jung's Psychology.
Dr. John Gustafson, Instructor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth
April 13th
Experimental observations on sand and snow dynamics.
Michele Guala, Associate Professor
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Dep. Civil, Environmental and Geo Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
April 20th
Even Longer-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
Alec Habig, Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth
April 27th
Microtubule Mechanics
Taviare Hawkins, Associate Professor
Physics Department, University of Wisconsin La Crosse
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Fall 2017
September 22nd
The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Tammy Walton, Research Associate
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
October 13th
A Brief History and Overview of Reactor Neutrino Physics
Christopher White, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Physics
Illinois Institute of Technology
October 20th
Studying the nanoscopic spatial organization of cellular signaling molecules with quantitative super-resolution microscopy
Elias Puchner, Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
December 1st
Coastally generated near-inertial waves
Samuel Kelly, Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy Department and Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Spring 2017
Friday, February 3
"Did the Universe Have a Beginning?"
Audrey Mithani, Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Minnesota Duluth
Friday, February 24
"Black Holes, Holography and Quantum Information"
Daniel Harlow, Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University
Friday, March 3
"Demystifying Neutrinos with the NovA Experiment"
Matthew Strait, Postdoctoral Scholar
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Friday, March 31
"Discovery of an Extremely Rare Galaxy"
Mutlu-Pakdil, Ph.D. Candidate
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Friday, April 14
"Searches for Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with Advanced LIGO"
Andrew Matas, Postdoctoral Scholar
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Friday, April 21
"3D Imaging of the Nucleon"
Matthias Burkardt, Distinguished Achievement Professor
Department of Physics, New Mexico State University