Events

Oct

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

October 30, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Planets in a bottle: Exploring planetary atmospheres in the lab ABSTRACT: From exoplanets, with their surprising lack of spectral features, to Titan and its characteristic haze...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Sarah Horst, Johns Hopkins University

Oct

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

October 23, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Nonequilibrium thermodynamic limits to fluctuations and response ABSTRACT: Thermodynamics is a remarkably successful theoretical framework, with wide ranging applications across...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Jordan Horowitz, Univ. of Michigan

Oct

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

October 16, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Computational Physics in the Exascale Era: Opportunities and Challenges ABSTRACT: The dawn of the exascale era and the machine learning boom provide tremendous opportunities for...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Murat Keceli, Argonne National Laboratory

Oct

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

October 9, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Synchrotron X-rays and lattice dynamics: Implications in chemistry, geology and physics ABSTRACT: It’s been almost 45 years since the idea of using a synchrotron source to excite...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory

Oct

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

October 2, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Quantum Monte Carlo from Benchmarking to Understanding Nanoscale Materials ABSTRACT: Density Functional Theory (DFT) is currently the most popular method for atomic scale modeling...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Kayahan Saritas, ORNL

Sep

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

September 25, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles ABSTRACT: Calculations of charge transport and ultrafast dynamics have relied on heuristic approaches for the past several...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Marco Bernardi, CALTECH

Sep

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

September 18, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE:Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective ABSTRACT: Cosmological Inflation has been considered as a critical element of modern cosmology. After a brief introduction of...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Demos Kazanas, NASA

Sep

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

September 11, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: How to deduce a physical dynamical model from expectation values ABSTRACT: In this talk, we will provide an answer to the question: ``What kind of observations (i.e., expectation...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Denys Bondar, Tulane University

Sep

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

September 4, 2019, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Designing Sustainable Energy Materials Using First-principles Calculations ABSTRACT: I will focus on CO2 emissions of power plants which is a major factor contributing to global...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Dr. Ongun Ozcelik, Princeton University

Aug

Location

Physics : 226

Date & Time

August 26, 2019, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

The Physics Department will hold an informal lunch celebration to kick-off the new academic year, and welcome our new graduate students, faculty, and staff. All Physics faculty, staff, and grad...

View Event Details for Annual Physics Department Back to School Luncheon

Department of Physics

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Physics

Events

Colloquium: Dr. Sarah Horst, Johns Hopkins University

Colloquium: Dr. Jordan Horowitz, Univ. of Michigan

Colloquium: Dr. Murat Keceli, Argonne National Laboratory

Colloquium: Dr. Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory

Colloquium: Dr. Kayahan Saritas, ORNL

Colloquium: Dr. Marco Bernardi, CALTECH

Colloquium: Dr. Demos Kazanas, NASA

Colloquium: Dr. Denys Bondar, Tulane University

Colloquium: Dr. Ongun Ozcelik, Princeton University

Annual Physics Department Back to School Luncheon

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