Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2021
Thursdays - 3:45 pm Virtual Zoom Conference.
The Physics and Astronomy colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at a graduate level.
If you have questions about our colloquia or wish to be added to the mailing list for Zoom meetings, please contact Bruno Uchoa at uchoa@ou.edu
| Date | Group | Speaker/Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | OU Department of Physics & Astronomy | Phil Gutierrez | Department Introductions |
| Sep 02 | High Energy Physics | Brendan Casey (Fermilab) Host: Abbott | First Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment |
| Sep 09 | Astrophysics & Cosmology | Gummi Stefansson (Princeton) | Characterization of Planets around low-mass Stars with Next Generation Instruments |
| Sep 23 | OU Department of Physics & Astronomy | John Stupak (OU) Host: Gutierrez | The Search for Invisible Particles with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC |
| Sep 30 | Condensed Matter Physics | Mercedeh Khajavikhan (U Southern California) Host: Tischler | Opportunities in Non-Hermitian and Topological Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point |
| Oct 07 | OU Department of Physics & Astronomy | Ian Sellers (OU) Host: Gutierrez | Next Generation Photovoltaics: Routes to High Efficiency Solar Cells & New Space Power Systems |
| Oct 14 | Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics | Julio Barreiro (UC San Diego) Host: Marino | Ultracold strontium for condensed-matter simulations and quantum sensing |
| Oct 21 | Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics | Hannes Pichler Host: Lewis-Swan | From Quantum Many-Body Physics to Quantum Information with Rydberg Atom Arrays |
| Oct 28 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Ilaria Caiazzo (Caltech) Host: Kilic | Small But Mighty: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs |
| Nov 04 | Education | Kelly Nash (University of Texas at San Antonio) | Building Bridges to Student Success in Physics |
| Nov 11 | Condensed Matter Physics | Joe Berry (NREL) Host: Sellers | Transforming photovoltaic technologies: An introduction to metal halide perovskites |
| Nov 18 | High Energy Physics | Liam McAllister (Cornell) Host: Baer | Status of string theory |
| Dec 2 | Condensed Matter Physics | Andrea Alu (CUNY) Host: Tischler | Exotic wave-matter interactions in metamaterials with broken symmetries |
