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Colloquium Schedule

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

Fall 2025

Date	Title	Host
08/26/25
09/02/25
09/09/25
09/16/25
09/24/25
09/30/25
10/07/25	Prof. indika Rajapakse, University of Michigan	Gunaratne
10/14/25	Prof. Ajay Kandada, Wake Forest University	Bittner
10/21/25	Prof. Federico Rosei, University of Trieste	Varghese
10/28/25	Prof. Mingda Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	S. Chen
11/04/25
11/11/25
11/18/25
11/25/25
12/02/25

Spring 2025

Date	Title	Host
01/14/25	The Hunt for Perpendicular Magnetic Field Measurements in Plasma Dr. Elizabeth Jensen, Planetary Science Institute	Bering
01/21/25
01/28/25	Safe Machine Learning in Mission Critical Systems Prof. Jianyi Yang, UH	S. Chen
02/04/25	Enhancing Optical Transparency in Biological Tissues Using Photonics Engineering Prof. Zihao Ou, University of Texas, Dallas	Gunaratne
02/11/25	Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond: A New Lens to See Through Superconductivity at Both Ambient and High Pressures Prof. Chong Zu, Washington University, St. Louis	Deng
02/18/25	Imaging the Structure of Visible Matter: A Journey from Fixed Target to Collider Experiments Dr. Barak Schmookler, University of Houston	Bellwied
02/25/25	Complementing Nuclear and Particle Experiments with First Principles Computation Dr. Aaron Meyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Cherdack
02/27/25 Thursday	Probing QCD Systems with Heavy Quarks: From Quark-Gluon Plasma in Heavy-Ion Collisions to Future Studies at the EIC Dr. Zhaozhong Shi, Los Alamos Laboratory	Bellwied
03/04/25	Creating a Hot, Dense Soup: Quark Gluon Plasma and the Final Years of RHIC Dr. Cameron Dean, MIT	Bellwied
03/06/25 Thursday	Revealing the Microscopic Structure of QCD Matter Dr. Raymond Ehlers, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	Bellwied
03/11/25	(Spring Break)
03/18/25
03/25/25
04/01/25	Machine Learning and Simulation of Structural Phase Transition Prof. Dawei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China	Bassler
04/08/25	The Pursuit of Label-free Detection of Diseases with High Accuracy Prof. Felicia Manciu, UT El Paso	Gunaratne
04/15/25	From Neutrons to FLASH RT: Why Medical Physics is so Hot Dr. Julianne M. Pollard-Larkin, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	Women in Physics (WiPS)
04/22/25	Prof. Yimo Han, Rice University	S. Chen

Fall 2024

Date	Title	Host
08/20/24
08/27/24	Cutting-Edge Optical Imaging Technologies for Advancing Medical Diagnostics Prof. Rohith Reddy, UH	Das
09/03/24	Toward Quantum Imaging of Nuclei Prof. Miguel Arratia, UC Riverside	Bellwied
09/10/24	Quantum Information Informed Quantum Algorithms Dr. Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Bittner
09/17/24	Infrared Optics Using Emerging Optical Materials Prof. Mikhail A. Kats, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Das
09/24/24	Quantum Vacuum Dressed Materials Prof. Junichiro Kono, Rice University	Ordonez
10/01/24	Low-Cost, In Vivo Microscopy Prof. Dongkyun Kang, University of Arizona	Das
10/08/24	Promises and Challenges in Designing Metal-Organic Chalcogenides for Optoelectronic Applications Prof. Yeongsu Cho, UH	Bittner
10/15/24	In Vivo Microscopy of Microvasculature Following Brain Injury Prof. Andrew Dunn, UT Austin	Das
10/22/24	Modeling Structural Ensembles Of Genomes Dr. Vinicius Contessoto, Rice University	Morrison
10/29/24
11/05/24	Electrocatalysts of Complex Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Prof. Hong Yang, UIUC	S. Chen
11/12/24	Italian Delicacies Served Up in a Neutron Star Crust Prof. Jorge A. López, University of Texas at El Paso	Ordonez
11/19/24	Evolving Devices for Superconducting Qubit Technology Dr. Katarina Cicak, NIST	Miller
11/21/24 Thursday	Observation of Relaxation Stages In an Out-Of-Equilibrium Closed Quantum System Prof. Vanderlei S. Bagnato, Texas A&M University	Ordonez
11/26/24	For ML and With ML: The New Normal in System Design Prof. Lizy Kurian, UT Austin	Varghese