| Date | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|
| Canceled (Winter Storm) Jan. 28, 2026 |
Speaker: Dr. Tony Chen | JHU Title: Cosmic Duets: Finding and understanding active supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic noon |
| Feb. 18, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. David Reitze | LIGO-Caltech Title: 10 Years of Observing the (Mostly) Dark Side of the Universe with LIGO and Virgo |
| (Rescheduled) Feb. 25, 2026 |
Speaker: Dr. Tony Chen | JHU Title: Cosmic Duets: Finding and understanding active supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic noon |
| March 4, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Dan Cole | ARO Title: Extreme Materials Research at the Army Research Office |
| March 25, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Joerg Schilling | Martin Luther University Title: Creating a second order nonlinearity by breaking symmetry: The hunt for x(2) in silicon photonics |
| April 1, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Hui Deng | University of Michigan Title: New Regimes of Coherent Light-Matter Interaction in Van Der Waals Materials |
| April 8, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Bingqing Liu | Florida State University Title: When Physics Meet Biology: Studying in Phytoplankton Ecology from Optical Observations and Ocean Color Remote Sensing |
| April 15, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Guest | Argonne National Lab Title: TBD |
| April 22, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Justyna Zwolak | NIST Title: Intelligent Tuning of Quantum Dot Devices |
| April 29, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. You Zhou | UMD Title: TBD |
| May 6, 2026 | Speaker: Dr. Arthur Sedlacek | Wildfires in the Anthropocene Title: TBD |