Colloquium Schedule - University of Houston
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Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM.

Date Title Host
01/16/24
 
Prof. Carlos Silva, University of Montreal Ordonez
01/18/24
Thursday
RESERVED
01/23/24
 
RESERVED
01/25/24
Thursday
RESERVED
01/30/24
 
RESERVED
02/01/24
Thursday
RESERVED
02/06/24
 
RESERVED
02/08/24
Thursday
RESERVED
02/13/24
 
RESERVED
02/15/24
Thursday
RESERVED
02/20/24
 
RESERVED
02/22/24
Thursday
RESERVED
02/27/24
 
Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
Prof. Dan Rothman, MIT
Gunaratne
02/29/24
Thursday
RESERVED
03/05/24
 
03/12/24
 
(Spring Break)
03/19/24
 
Dr. Hui Wang, RIKEN, Japan Ordonez
03/26/24
 
RESERVED Das
04/02/24
 
Shixiong Zhang, Indiana University Bloomington Deng
04/09/24
 
Prof. Vanderlei Bagnato, Texas A&M Ordonez
04/16/24
 
RESERVED Das
04/23/24
 
Profs. Hugh Gallagher and Miguel Vasquez-Vega, Tufts University Cherdack
04/30/24
 
05/07/24
 
Prof. Joseph (Joe) Lyding, UIUC Miller
Date Title Host
08/22/23
 
08/29/23
 
09/05/23
 
Can We Trigger Earthquakes and Control Subsurface Fluids Using Remote Waves?
Prof. Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston
S. Chen
09/12/23
 
Searching for New Physics with Neutrinos and Liquid Argon
Prof. Andy Furmanski, University of Minnesota
Cherdack
09/19/23
 
Hybrid Quantum-Classic Computing for Future Network Optimization and Machine Learning
Prof. Zhu Han, UH
S. Chen
09/26/23
 
Understanding Photo-thermoelectric Phenomena
Prof. Heng Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ren
10/03/23
 
Cracks Break the Sound Barrier
Prof. Michael Marder, UT Austin
Gunaratne
10/10/23
 
Can Stradivari’s Sound be Measured?
Joseph Curtin
Gunaratne
10/12/23
Thursday
Capitalizing on Schrödinger
(Special Colloquium) Prof. Wolfgang Schleich from the University of Ulm, Germany
Ordonez
10/17/23
 
If Only You Knew the Power of the Dark Side
Prof. Eric Bittner, University of Houston
Bassler
10/24/23
 
Advanced Materials for Energy Applications
Prof. Francisco C Robles Hernandez, University of Houston
Bassler
10/26/23
Thursday
From Particle Physics to Space Radiation – How Timepix Hybrid Pixel Detectors are supporting Human Spaceflight
(Special Colloquium) Dr. Stuart George, NASA Johnson Space Center
Bassler
10/31/23
 
Dark Matter Detection with Strongly Correlated Topological Matter: Flatband Effect
Dr. Jianxin Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ting
11/07/23
 
Excitations, Wilson Ratio, Spin-Charge Separation, and Quantum Phase Transition
Prof. Hai-Qing Lin, Zhejiang University
X. Chen
11/14/23
 
In Situ Methods for Understanding Battery Cathodes and Magnetic Materials
Prof. Joshua D. Bocarsly, Department of Chemistry and TcSUH, UH
Shi
11/16/23
Thursday
(Special Colloquium) Prof. Kevin Hahn, Center of Exotic Nuclear Studies, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea Hungerford
11/21/23
 
A New Era 0f Electron-Ion Collider Physics - The Epic Detector and Its Forward Calorimeter
Dr Friederike Bock, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Timmins
11/28/23
 
Becoming Future Scientists: The Vital Role of Statistics in Your Journey
Dr. Li Tang, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
S. Chen
11/30/23
Thursday
(Special Colloquium) Prof. Pieremanuele Canepa, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UH Bassler
Date Title Host
01/17/23
 
01/24/23
 
01/26/23
Thursday
Constructive approaches to frustrated magnetism: Moiré and Measurements
(Special Colloquium) Dr. Zhu-Xi Luo, Harvard University
Hosur
01/31/23
 
02/07/23
 
Emergence of Quantum Order
Dr. Elio Koenig, Max Planck Institute Stuttgart
Hosur
02/09/23
Thursday
Theory of Pines' Demon in Multiband Metals
(Special Colloquium) Dr. Edwin Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hosur
02/14/23
 
Topological Magnons
Paul McClarty, Max Planck Institute Dresden
Hosur
02/16/23
Thursday
Quantum computing: From the Basics to Applications
(Special Colloquium) Dr. Rubem Mondaini, Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Hosur
02/21/23
 
Designing Topological Quantum States in Moiré Materials
Dr. Jie Wang, Harvard University
Hosur
02/28/23
 
From Nanotech to Living Sensors: Unraveling the Spin Physics of Biosensing at the Nanoscale
Prof. Clarice Aiello, UCLA
Ordonez
03/07/23
 
Back to Fundamental QCD - How Do Quarks and Gluons Evolve in Space and Time?
Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Vanderbilt University
Ratti
03/14/23
 
(Spring Break)
03/21/23
 
Heat Management and Energy Scavenging at Small Scales
Prof. Mona Zebarjadi, University of Virginia
Chen
03/28/23
 
Programmable Quantum Matter
Prof. Kaden Hazzard, Rice University
Ordonez
04/04/23
 
Single Photon Counting and Quantum Information Processing in Imaging
Prof. Mini Das, UH
Chen
04/11/23
 
Turbulence
Andre Prosperetti, UH
Gunaratne
04/18/23
 
High-Entropy Alloys: A New Paradigm for Materials Discovery?
Prof. Joseph Poon, University of Virginia
Chen
04/24/23
Monday
DNA repair, Droplet Formation and Chaos in Cells
(Special Colloquium) Prof. Mogens H. Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute
Gunaratne
04/25/23
 
That’s Not Physics
Prof. Andrew Zangwill, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shi
05/08/23
Monday
Spatial Patterning in Dryland Habitats
(Special Colloquium) Prof. Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Gunaratne
05/11/23
Thursday
Unlocking Practical Quantum Advantages on Near-Term Quantum Devices
(Special Colloquium) Dr. Abhijit Chakraborty, University of Waterloo
Ordonez