Date | Fall 2019 – Colloquium Information |
Sept 4, 2019 | Title: Designing Sustainable Energy Materials Using First-principles Calculations Dr. Ongun Ozcelik, Princeton University |
Sept 11, 2019 | Title: How to deduce a physical dynamical model from expectation values Dr. Denys Bondar, Tulane University |
Sept 18, 2019 | Title: Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective Dr. Demos Kazanas, NASA |
Sept 25, 2019 | Title: Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles Dr. Marco Bernaldi, Caltech |
Oct 2, 2019 | Title: Quantum Monte Carlo from Benchmarking to Understanding Nanoscale Materials Dr. Kayahan Saritas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Oct 9, 2019 | Title: Synchrotron X-rays and lattice dynamics: Implications in chemistry, geology and physics Dr. Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory |
Oct 16, 2019 | Title: Computational Physics in the Exascale Era: Opportunities and Challenges Dr. Murat Keceli, Argonne National Laboratory |
Oct 23, 2019 | Title:Nonequilibrium thermodynamic limits to fluctuations and response Dr. Jordan M. Horowitz, University of Michigan |
Oct 30, 2019 | Title: Planets in a bottle: Exploring planetary atmospheres in the lab Dr. Sarah Horst, Johns Hopkins University |
Nov 6, 2019 | Title: Variability of low clouds and drizzle: a tale of two frameworks Dr. Mikael Witte, NASA |
Nov, 13 2019 | Title: Study of White Dwarfs and Black Holes through Relativistic Bending of Light Dr. Kailash Sahu, STSci |
Nov 20, 2019 | Title: Symmetry breaking in active and quantum fluids Dr. Jorn Dunkel, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology |
Nov 27, 2019 | No Colloquium – Thanksgiving Break |
Dec 4, 2019 | Title: From chemical bonds to high mobility in layered materials Dr. Leslie M. Schoop, Princeton University |