Colloquium Schedule - University of Houston
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Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM in SR1 634.

Date Title Host
08/20/24
 
08/27/24
 
09/03/24
 
09/10/24
 
Prof. Lizy Kurian, UT Austin Varghese
09/17/24
 
09/24/24
 
10/01/24
 
10/08/24
 
10/15/24
 
10/22/24
 
10/29/24
 
11/05/24
 
11/12/24
 
11/19/24
 
11/26/24
 
Date Title Host
01/16/24
 
(RESCHEDULED)
Many-Body Quantum Dynamics of Exciton Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Semiconductor Microcavities

Prof. Carlos Silva, University of Montreal
Ordonez
01/22/24
Monday
Location: HSC 102 @ 2:00 PM
Chemical Engineering, by Nature

Dr. Thomas Dursch, Springer Nature, USA
Shi
01/23/24
 
Initial- vs. Final-State Effects in Hadronic Collisions from A-A to e-p to e-A
Dr. Dhevan Gangadharan, University of Houston
Bellwied
01/24/24
Wednesday
Novel Fabrication of Quantum Wires: Towards Fractionalized Excitations
Dr. Tomoya Asaba, Kyoto University, Japan
X. Chen
01/25/24
Thursday
Correlated Topological Quantum Materials: Design and Realization
Dr. Chandan Setty, Rice University
Hosur
01/30/24
 
Quarkonia and Ultra-Peripheral Interactions in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Dr. Krista Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bellwied
01/31/24
Wednesday
Scalable and Patternable Control of Two-Dimensional Materials for Future VLSI
Prof. Sidong Lei, Georgia State University
X. Chen
02/01/24
Thursday
Exploring Quantum Frontiers: From Hybrid Systems to Novel Phenomena in Light-Matter Interactions
Dr. Luiz Santos, Emory University
Hosur
02/05/24
Monday
A Tale of Two Pair Density Wave (Pdw) States in a Magnetic Superconductor
Dr. He Zhao, Brookhaven National Lab
X. Chen
02/06/24
 
Band Geometry and Topology in Correlated Quantum Materials
Dr. Jiabin Yu, Princeton University
Hosur
02/07/24
Wednesday
Room-Temperature and Many-Body Quantum States in Topological Materials
Dr. Shafayat Hossain, Princeton University
X. Chen
02/08/24
Thursday
Developing Quantum Technologies: From Topology-Based Energy Harvesting to Controlling Superconductors with Supercurrent
Dr. Michal Papaj, UC Berkeley
Hosur
02/12/24
Monday
How Excitons Met Topology
Dr. Ryo Mori, University of Tokyo, Japan
X. Chen
02/13/24
 
Quantum Adventures Out of Equilibrium: New Topological Order and the Fate of Many Body Localization
Dr. Philip Crowley, Harvard University
Hosur
02/14/24
Wednesday
A Possible Path to Room-Temperature Superconductivity: From Ambient to High Pressure; from High Pressure to Ambient Again!?
Dr. Liangzi Deng, University of Houston
X. Chen
02/20/24
 
Novel QCD in the Structure of Protons and Nuclei
Dr. Thomas Boettcher, University of Cincinnati
Bellwied
02/22/24
Thursday
How Do Hadrons Assemble and Melt? — Studying QCD at High Energy Colliders
Dr. Wenqing Fan, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Bellwied
02/27/24
 
Aging and Slow Dynamics in Earth's Carbon Cycle
Prof. Dan Rothman, MIT
Gunaratne
02/29/24
Thursday
Creation of Fragile Anti-Matter at the LHC
Dr. Benjamin Doenigus, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Bellwied
03/05/24
 
Tackling Materials Science Challenges with Extended Ising Models
Prof. Pieremanuele Canepa, University of Houston
Bassler
03/12/24
 
(Spring Break)
03/18/24
Monday
RESERVED Ratti
03/19/24
 
Dr. Hui Wang, RIKEN, Japan Ordonez
03/26/24
 
RESERVED Das
04/02/24
 
Prof. 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
 
Prof. Paul C. W. Chu, University of Houston Varghese
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