Colloquium Schedule/ Videos

Colloquium Schedule/ Videos

Fall 2022- Spring 2023

Date

Speaker Name

Speaker Affiliation

Title

Date

Speaker Name

Speaker Affiliation

Title

Thurs. 09/01

Jennifer Ross,

Department Chair

Syracuse University

Welcome Reception

Thurs. 09/08

Undergraduates: AJ Bekoe, Charles Drew, Hong Lee, Jakub Kochanowski, James Harford, MP Geiss, Nathan Magers, Ruell Branch

Syracuse University

Undergraduate Summer Experience 2022

Thurs. 09/15

Ibou Bah, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Johns Hopkins University

Topological stars in gravity 

Thurs. 09/22

Stephon Alexander, Professor of Physics

Brown University

The Chiral Universe

Thurs. 09/29

Chandralekha Singh

University of Pittsburgh

How to enhance physics by making it inclusive

Thurs. 10/06

Arpita Upadhyaya

University of Maryland



Thurs. 10/13

Peter McMahon

Cornell University



Thurs. 10/20

Vincent Rodgers

University of Iowa



Thu. 10/27

Natalie Gosnell

Colorado College



Thu. 11/03

Andrew Leifer

Princeton



Thu. 11/10

Shri Kulkarni

Caltech



Thu. 11/17

Xiaoming Mao

University of Michigan



Thu. 11/24

THANKSGIVING - NO COLLOQUIUM





Thu. 12/01

No colloquium - Holiday Party!

Inn Complete



Thu. 12/08

Gaby Maimon

Rockefeller University



Mon. 01/09

Suraj Shankar

Harvard University

Active muscular hydraulics

Thu.  01/12

Nidhi Pashine

Yale University

Harnessing disorder to create novel functionality in materials

Tue.   01/17

Maijia Liao

Yale University

Scaling laws in branching morphogenesis

Thu.  01/19

Emily Gehrels

Marseille Developmental Biology Institute

How to create form and function in biological and synthetic systems

Tue.   01/24

Colm Kelleher

Harvard University

Liquid Crystal Physics in the Mammalian Meiotic Spindle

Thu.  02/09

Carl Rosenzweig

Syracuse University

What Can Atoms Teach Us About the Accelerating Expansion of Our Universe

Thu.  02/16

Andrê de Gouvêa

Northwestern University

The Brave nu World

Thu.  02/23

Angela Kuo

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Building a Hybrid Quantum Device from Semiconducting Spins and Superconducting Circuits

Thu.  03/02

Thomas Vo

Meta



Thu.  03/23

Zvonimir Đogić

UC Santa Barbara



Thu.  03/30

Adam Ginsburg

University of Florida



Thu.  04/06

Jaysin Lord





Thu.  04/13

Rachel Bezanson





Thu.  04/20

Community Conversation

Syracuse University



Thu.  04/27

Jessica Esquivel

Fermilab

Can wobbling muons probe physics beyond the standard model? Fermilab’s Muon g-2 Run 1 results

Thu.  05/04

Matt Harrington





Thu.  05/04

Awards

Syracuse University

End-of-academic-year awards ceremony



Fall 2021- Spring 2022

date

speaker

title

Colloquium Videos

date

speaker

title

Colloquium Videos

9/2/21

Jennifer Ross

Welcome Colloquium

Welcome Colloquium video

9/9/21

Mitchell Soderberg

Particle Prospecting: Digging for Discovery with Neutrinos

Mitchell Soderberg Colloquia video

9/16/21

Joseph Paulsen

The Wrinkle-to-Crumple Transition in Thin Elastic Solids

Joseph Paulsen colloquia video

9/21/21

Craig Cahillane 

Controls and inference for current and future gravitational wave detectors

Craig Cahillane colloquia video

9/23/21

 Georgia Mansell

Commissioning the advanced LIGO detectors for the fourth observing run

Georgia Mansell colloquia video

9/28/21

Scott Watson

Cosmology and New Physics

Scott Watson colloquia video

9/30/21

Jay Hubisz

 New Horizons in Physics From Open Quantum Systems

Jay Hubisz colloquia video

10/05/21

Anna Green

Smoothing the Road Towards Precision Gravitational Wave Observations: Overcoming Optical Imperfections for Current & Future Detectors

Anna Green colloquia video

10/12/21

Bryan Ramson

High Energy Physics Seminar: Neutrino Physics Needs a New Generation of Bubble Chambers with Light Nuclear Targets

Bryan Ramson HEP seminar video

10/14/21

Margaret Gardel

Virtual: Physics of Morphogenetic Matter

Margaret Gardel colloquium video

10/21/21

Fernanda Psihas

High Energy Physics Seminar: Prospects for a 100-ton scale neutrino-less double-beta decay at DUNE

Fernanda Psihas HEP seminar video

10/26/21

Daniel Johnson

High Energy Physics Seminar: What’s the matter with matter?

Daniel Johnson HEP seminar video

10/28/21

Rafael Silva Coutinho

Virtual - Beauty Quarks behaving awkwardly, or is New Physics hiding in flavor?

Rafael Silva Coutinho's seminar video

11/04/21

Phy-GO

COVID 19 Listening session



11/11/21

Rosario Porras-Aguilar

Virtual- Polarization-based quantitative phase microscopy

Rosario Porras-Aguilar colloquia video

11/18/21

Physics EID Event 

Microscopes and Telescopes



11/25/21

Thanksgiving

No colloquium





12/02/21

Holiday Party! Yay!





12/09/21

Jennifer Ross, Physics Dept. Chair

Community Conversations with Syracuse University Department of Public Safety



1/20/22

Jennifer Ross,

Department Chair

Welcome Back



1/27/22

Dr. Bryan VanSaders, University of Chicago

Reserve: BioInspired

MetaMaterials Search

Dislocation machines: topological defects for organizing shape change in crystalline metamaterials 

Bryan VanSaders

2/1/22

Dr. Chrisy Xiyu Du, Harvard University

Reserve: BioInspired

MetaMaterials Search

Programming Interaction and Assembly with Magnetic Handshake Materials

Chrisy Xiyu Du

2/3/22

Dr. Erin Teich, University of Pennsylvania

Reserve: BioInspired

MetaMaterials Search

Discovery and design of emergent behavior in soft materials

Erin Teich

2/8/22

Dr. Varda Faghir Hagh, University of Chicago

Reserve: BioInspired

MetaMaterials Search

Systematic manipulation of disorder for extraordinary functionality in materials

Varda Faghir Hagh

2/10/22

Dr. Qingkun Liu, Cornell

Reserve: BioInspired

MetaMaterials Search

Microrobots with electrically programmable shapes

Qingkun Liu

3/1/22

Andrei Klishin

Human learning of semantic networks

Andrei Klishin

3/3/22

Dheeraj Pasham

Mysterious quasi-periodic signals from centers of external galaxies

Dheeraj Pasham

3/10/22

No colloquium

No colloquium



3/17/22

Spring Break

No colloquium

March Meeting

Spring Break

No colloquium

March Meeting



3/24/22

Mark Trodden

Gravity in the Age of Precision Cosmology

Mark Trodden

3/31/22

Mary Elting

Destructive Testing on Cellular Machinery: Probing Mechanics of Cell Division by Laser Ablation

Mary Elting

04/07/22

Steve Fairhurst

Observations of Gravitational Waves from Black Hole and Neutron Star Mergers

Steve Fairhurst

04/21/22

Jennifer Ross,

Department Chair

Department Celebration





Jennifer Ross,

Department Chair

5/5/22

Neal Powless,

SU Ombuds

Community Conversations with Neal Powless, Syracuse University Ombudsperson





Neal Powless,

SU Ombuds





Fall 2020- Spring 2021

date

speaker

title

Colloquium Videos

09/10/20

Stefan Ballmer

Designing the Next Generation of Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Stefan Ballmer colloquia video

09/17/20

Matt Rudolph

Looking for physics beyond the Standard Model with b-quark decays

Matt Rudolph colloquia video

09/24/20

Jen Schwarz

From chromatin to COVID: A theoretical physicist’s search for new collective phenomena in living matter

Jennifer Schwarz colloquia video

10/08/20

Sinclaire Manning

Characterization of “HST-Dark” Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies in the MORA Survey

Sinclaire Manning colloquia video

10/15/20

Jonathan Asaadi

Pixelation: Bringing liquid noble element detectors into focus

Jonathan Asaadi colloquia video

10/22/20

Carlos Vargas

Why I Stopped Waiting for Someone Else to Map the Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium

Carlos Vargas colloquia video

10/29/20

Kate Alexander

Cosmic Extremes: Time-Domain Astrophysics in a Multi-Messenger World

N/A

11/05/20

Steve Penn

New Vision for LIGO:  Coating Thermal Noise and the New Observables for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Steven Penn colloquia video

11/11/20

Guillaume Duclos

Hydrodynamics instability, buckling, and topological defect loops in 3D active nematics

Guillaume Duclos colloquia video

11/12/20

Jonathan Rosner (U. Chicago)

“Exotic hadrons — 56 years and counting”

Jonathan Rosner colloquia video

11/19/20

Bryan Ramson (FNAL)

Using the Whole Buffalo: Coordinating subsystems of the DUNE Far Detector prototype for a measurement of light attenuation in liquid argon

Bryan Ramson colloquia video

02/11/21

Rafael Coutinho

A Flavorful Road to New Physics? 

Rafael Silva Continho colloquium video

2/18/21

Nathan Keim

Cyclic Memories in Disordered Matter

Nathan Keim colloquia video

2/25/21

Brian Nord

Deeply Uncertain: Using AI to Disentangle Signals in Cosmological Probes for Next-Generation Experiments

Brian Nord colloquia video

3/4/21

Brooke Russell

Readying for the Neutrino Onslaught: design and prototyping for the DUNE LAr Near Detector

Brooke Russell colloquia video

3/11/21

Fernanda Psihas

Deep Learning In Neutrino Physics

N/A

3/18/21

Kandice Tanner

Microenvironment regulation of metastasis

Fernanda Psihas colloquia video

4/8/21

Yue Zhao

Astrophysical Probes to New Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Yue Zhao colloquia video

4/15/21

Antun Skanata

Evolving memory across scales: from populations to ecosystems

Antun Skanata colloquia video

4/22/21

Eugenia Etkina

Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE): helping students learn physics by practicing it and be empowered 

Eugenia Etkina colloquia video

4/29/21

Evelyn Tang

Predicting Robust Emergent Function in Living and Active Systems

Evelyn Tang colloquia video

5/6/21

Jennifer Ross

Community Conversations Colloquia

Community Conversations colloquia video

5/13/21

Jennifer Curtis

Coordinating Adhesion with Repulsion: How Cells Use Polymer Brushes to Orchestrate Life

Jennifer Curtis colloquia video