Physics Colloquium Schedule
The colloquium will take place in LaTourette Hall, room 200 and will start at 3:30 p.m.
* = graduate colloquium speakers
Spring 2023
- Jan. 20 - Tim Paquette, NIU, Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS), PCLB 200: Prioritizing Your Mental Health & Wellness
- Jan. 27 - Milind N Kunchur, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy: Spatial dimensions, time-frequency relationship, and the human auditory system
- Feb. 3 - Johannes Pollanen, Michigan State University and EeroQ Quantum Hardware: Creating and controlling hybrid quantum systems ... one electron at a time
- Feb. 17 - Shane Larson, CIERA/Northwestern University: Probing the Cosmic Graveyard in low frequency gravitational waves
- Mar. 24 - Walter Tangarife, Loyola University Chicago: Dark matter, neutrinos, and their interactions
- Mar. 31 - Bela Erdelyi, Department of Physics, NIU: The Last Unsolved Problem in Classical Electrodynamics
- Apr. 7 - Andrey Sokolov, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory: The Fascinating World of Active Nematic Materials
- Apr. 14 - Jaehoon Yu, University of Texas at Arlington: Search for Dark Matter in Neutrino Beams
- Apr. 21 - Sarah Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Inclusive Learning through Scientific Teaching
- Apr. 28 - Orion Arndt/ Dave Carrano/Sebastian Perez Osario/Ryan Turska, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499 Senior Capstone Project Seminars
Fall 2022
- Sept. 2 - Daniel Kaplan, Illinois Institute of Technology: A New Low-Energy Muon R&D and Experimental Facility at Fermilab
- Sept. 23 - Diktys Stratakis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: The Global Effort Towards Making a Muon Collider
- Sept. 30 - Edmundo Garcia-Solis, Chicago State University: The NAUM (Non-invasive Archaeometry Using Muons) Project
- Oct. 7 - Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma: Weak scale Supersymmetry after LHC Run 2 and WIMP search results
- Oct. 14 - Corrado Gatto, INFN & NIU: REDTOP: a low energy meson factory to explore dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model
- Oct. 21 - Jahred Adelman, NIU: Computational challenges (and solutions!) in particle physics
- Nov. 11 - Kristen McQuinn, Rutgers University: Galaxy Evolution at the Faint-End of the Luminosity Function
- Nov. 18 - Steven Remsen, Intel Corporation: Making Career Left Turns: A NIU Physics Post Graduate Story
- Dec. 02 - Mark McCauley/ Nathaniel Obert/Adam Walter/Sebastian Perez Osorio, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499 Senior Capstone Project Seminars
Spring 2022
- Mar. 4 - Nathan Kutz, University of Washington: Deep learning for the discovery of parsimonious physics models
- Mar. 11 - Ganesh Tiwari, Argonne National Laboratory: Ray transfer matrix analysis for paraxial resonators
- Mar. 25 - Chengkun Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Computation methods for beam dynamics in conventional and advanced accelerators
- Apr. 1 - Jing Xu, Argonne National Laboratory: Advance Quantum Information Science with Hybrid Electromagnonics
- Apr 8 - Gwanghui Ha, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea: Beam manipulations in modern accelerators
- Apr.15 - Hector de la Torre, Michigan State University: Looking beyond the standard model with third generation quarks
- Apr. 22 - Aleena Rafique, Argonne National Laboratory: Neutrino interaction measurements and electron energy scale resolution studies for neutrino physics experiments
- Apr. 29 - Emily Calgaro/ Erinda Cuko/August Lee/Lauren Marc/Kaela Villafania, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499 Senior Capstone Project Seminars
Fall 2021
- Sept. 17 - Yasuo Ito, NIU Department of Physics: 1st General meeting of Physics majors
- Sept. 24 - Jonathan Lunine, Cornell University : The search for life in the outer solar system
- Oct. 10 - Brendan Steffens, Florida Institute of Technology / Goddard Space Flight Center: From NIU to NASA, Titan, and Beyond!
- Oct. 15 - Matthew Deady, Bard College: The Equations of Physics
- Oct. 22 - Alysia Marino, University of Colorado Boulder: Discovering Neutrino Properties with Long-Baseline Beams
- Nov. 12 - Roland Winkler / Philippe Piot, NIU: Special Faculty Research Colloquium #1
- Nov. 19 - Jahred Adelman / Xueying Lu / Laurence Lurio, NIU: Special Faculty Research Colloquium #2
- Dec. 03 - Dakota McCoy/Matthew Sowinski/August Lee, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499 Senior Capstone Project Seminars
Spring 2021
- Jan. 22 - Dan Hooper, Fermilab/University of Chicago: Black Holes in the Early Universe
- Jan. 29 - Brian Odom, Northwestern University: Adding Molecules to the Quantum Toolkit
- Feb. 26 - Jesse Thaler, MIT: Collision Course: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning
- Apr. 16 - Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology: Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
- Apr. 21* - Senior Seminar presentation Karissa Olsen: Carbon Ion RadiationTherapy, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499 Senior Capstone Project presentations
- Apr 23 - Jimena Canales, 86 South St. 5A, Boston, MA 02111: Science and the History of Nonexistents
Fall 2020
- Sept. 11 - Venumadhav Korampally, NIU, College of Engineering and Engineering Technology: Engineered Nanoparticle Systems Towards Thin Films with Programmed Optical Constants and Sensors
- Sept. 25 - Spencer Gessner, SLAC national laboratory: Prospects in Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
- Oct. 2 - Chris Rasmussen, CERN, EP department, Geneva, Switzerland: Testing fundamental symmetries with trapped antihydrogen
- Oct. 16 - Ryan Roussel, The University of Chicago: Large Scale Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization for Accelerator Control and Tuning
- Oct. 23 - Ilias Cholis , Oakland University: Searching for Dark Matter; a High Energy Astrophysicist's Perspective
- Oct. 30 - Katherine Pachal, Duke University: Hunting for new physics at the ATLAS experiment using long-lived particles
- Nov. 6 - Gerard Andonian, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): Acceleration and phase space manipulation with beam-driven wakefields in dielectrics
- Nov. 13 - Nestor Zaluzec, Argonne National Laboratory: Advanced analytical electron microscopy in soft and hard matter systems: opportunities (and challenges) enabled by the Argonne PicoProbe
- Nov. 20 - Oksana Chubenko, Arizona State University (ASU) : Monte Carlo Modeling of Photoemission from Semiconductor Photocathodes for Accelerator Applications
- Dec. 4 - Eric Padilla, Northern Illinois University: Micromagnetic Simulation: In-situ Tunable Stray-field Distribution in an Artificial Spin Ice
Spring 2020
- Feb. 21 - Norbert M. Linke, University of Maryland: A Quantum cinouter based on trapped ions
- Feb. 28 - Imre Bartos, University of Florida: Unforeseen Directions in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
- Mar. 6 - Xueying Lu, SLAC National Laboratory: Metamaterial Structures for High-Power Microwave Generation
- May 1 - Anthony Volpendesta-Valerio/Jesus Zacarias/Dayne Coveyou, NIU Physics Department: PHYS 498/499H Senior Capstone Project Seminars
Fall 2019
- Sept. 13 - Physics Graduate Student Association, NIU: Faculty Research Seminar
- Oct. 11 - Jeremiah Mans, University of Minnesota: Searching for dark matter candidates with accelerators
- Oct. 18 - Jason Hogan, Stanford University: Atom interferometry for fundamental physics and gravitational wave detection
- Oct. 25 - Alexander Valishev, Fermilab: Accelerator and Beam Physics Research at Fermilab
- Nov. 1 - Taylor Hoyt, The University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago IL, 60615: The Carnegie Chicago Hubble Program: A New Measurement of the Hubble Constant using Red Giant Stars
- Nov. 8 - Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome, Tor Vergata: Physics in the Gastronomy Universe
- Dec. 6 - Senior Projects Presentations, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University: Phys 498 and Phys 499 Poster Presentations
Spring 2019
- Jan. 25 - Bela Erdelyi, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University: Two Computational Thinking Tales: The NIU Center for Research Computing and Data, and the Physics Colloquium Management System
- Feb. 1 - Sarah Garner, NIU Ethics Compliance Office: Sexual Harassment in the Scientific Community
- Feb. 22 - Stephen K. Doorn, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Photophysics and Quantum Emission Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Defect States
- Mar. 1 - Stephan Hruskewycz, Materials Science Division: Argonne National Laboratory: New opportunities for materials science with coherent x-ray diffraction imaging
- Mar. 22 - Stephanie Majewski, University of Oregon: Searching for the Supersymmetric Partner to the Top Quark at ATLAS
- Mar. 29 - Drs. Beth Wilkins and Gary Baker, The Graduate School: What the Labor Market Indicates about Career Opportunities for Grad Students in Physics
- Apr. 5 - André Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Excited electronic states: Dielectric screening and hot-electron mediated ion diffusion
- Apr. 26 - Senior Projects Presentations, Physics Department, Northern Illinois University: Phys 498 and Phys 499 Poster Presentations by Marc Crowell, Paula Moraga, Jeffrey Meuser, Daniel Rapson.
Fall 2018
- Sept. 21 - Stanislas Baturin, Enrico Fermi Institute, Physical Sciences Division, The University of Chicago: Pen and Paper Mathematical Models for State-of-the-Art Wakefield Accelerators
- Sept. 28 - IVAN BOZOVIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and, Applied Physics Departments, Yale University: What makes cuprate superconductors so amazing?
- Oct. 12 - Andrei Patapenka, NIU, Physics Department / NICADD: The Fermilab Integrable Optics Test Accelerator and Its Nonlinear Dynamics
- Oct. 19 - Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois University: Asymmetric g Tensor in Low-Symmetry Two-Dimensional Hole Systems
- Oct. 26 - valia allori, Northern Illinois University, Department of
- Philosophy: Quantum Mechanics between History, Physics and Philosophy
- Nov. 2 - Herman Schaumburg, Northern Illinois University: An Efficient N-body Simulation Algorithm
- Nov. 9 - Wes Gohn, University of Kentucky: Accelerating Physics with GPUs
- Dec. 7 - Senior Seminar Poster Session, NIU Physics: Reserved for the Phys 498 and Phys 499H students presentations
Spring 2018
- Feb. 23 - Ivan Sadovskyy, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Av., Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Av., Argonne, IL 60637, USA
, Targeted Evolution for Designing better Superconductors - Mar. 2 - Ben Freemire, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics: Space Charge Compensation Using an Electron Column at Fermilab’s Integrable Optics Test Accelerator
- Mar. 23 - Umeshkumar Patel, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.: Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information and X-ray Detection Technology
- Apr. 6 - Alexey Snezhko, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Av., Argonne, IL 60637, USA: Active Spinner Materials
- Apr. 13 - Tammy Walton, Fermilab: Measuring the Beam Dynamics for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
- Apr. 20 - Michael Eads, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics: Using Concept Inventories to Enable General Physics Course Reform at NIU
- Apr. 27 - Physics Department Presents, Northern Illinois University: Senior Seminar and Awards ceremony
Fall 2017
- Sept. 1 - Bharat Ratra, Department of Physics, Kansas State University: The "Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions
- Sept. 22 - Pushpa Bhat, Senior Scientist, Particle Physics Division, Deputy Head, Program Planning, Office of the Director, Fermilab: Fifty Years of Particle Physics and Discoveries at Fermilab
- Sept. 29 - Maria Baldini, Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington: Emerging materials under pressure
- Oct. 13 - Laurence Lurio, NIU: How to measure molecular motion with x-rays
- Oct. 27 - Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory: New Twists for Magnons
- Nov. 3 - Vishnu Zutshi, Northern Illinois University: Detecting Photons for Discovery
- Nov. 10 - Mike Syphers, Northern Illinois University: Rings Around Fermilab -- An interplay of HEP and beam physics
- Dec. 1 - Melina Avila, Argonne National Laboratory: Stellar explosions: The importance of nuclear reaction rates
- Dec. 8 - Physics Undergraduate Capstones, Northern Illinois University: 3-4:30 pm Poster Presentations of the Senior Capstone Projects
Spring 2017
- Jan. 20 - H. Ulrich Wienands, Argonne National Laboratory: Channeling experiments with Electrons and Positrons at SLAC
- Jan. 27 - Hyunjung Kim, Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea : X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of
In situ Structural Dynamics: Applications and Perspective on Coherent properties - Feb. 3 - Sheldon Stone, Syracuse University: Physics at LHCb
- Feb. 24 - Tony Leggett, Dept.of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana,IL : Prospects for Topological Quantum Computing
- Mar. 10 - Tao Xu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115: Cold Thoughts on Perovskite Fever
- Mar. 24 - Robert Leheny, Department of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: Anisotropic Particles in Anisotropic Fluids
- Mar. 31 - Andreas Glatz, Northern Illinois University and Argonne National
- Laboratory: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016: Theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
- Apr. 7 - Jianguo Wen, Electron & X-ray Microscopy Group, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Building 212-A235, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439: Stabilizing a Highly Polar Phase Through Interface Engineering
- Apr. 14 - Debora Katz, United States Naval Academy: How Selecting a Textbook Can Improve Your Class.
- Apr. 21 - Jahred Adelman, NIU: The ATLAS Fast TracKer and trigger: A problem at 40 MHz
- Apr. 28 - NIU Physics Students Seniors, Department of Physics NIU:
- Physics Undergraduate Senior Symposium and Department Awards Ceremony
Fall 2016
- Sept. 2 - Alexey Burov, MS 221, Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL: Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe
- Sept. 9 - Michael Dine, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz: Challenges for Theoretical Particle Physics in the LHC Era
- Sept. 23 - Carol Thompson, Northern Illinois University: In Situ X-Ray Studies of Vapor Phase Crystal Growth
- Sept. 30 - Jigang Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Associate Scientist, Ames Laboratory US-DOE, , Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, Office: A311 Zaffarano, jwang@ameslab.gov, phone: 515-294-5630, How Fast is Ultrafast: Quantum Science and Technology at One Trillionth of a Second and Less
- Oct. 7 - Ben Farr, Enrico Fermi Institute and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637: LIGO: From Detector to Observatory
- Oct. 14 - Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge: DUNE: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- Oct. 21 - Jon Miller, University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy, 1085 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109: Measuring Black Hole Spin in X-ray Light
- Oct. 28 - Matt Wiesner, Benedictine University, : One Survey to Rule Them All: Preparing to do Astrophysics in the Age of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Nov. 4 - Jordan Webster, Argonne National Lab: Recent ttH Results from ATLAS
- Nov. 11 - Lei Xia, Argonne National Laboratory, 362 HEP, 9700 S Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439: Development of Fast Photo Detector Using Micro Channel Plate
- Nov. 18 - Swapan Chattopadhyay, Northern Illinois University: Quantum Sensors for Fundamental and Quantum Information Science
- Dec. 2 - Carol Thompson, NIU Physics: Physics Department Senior Seminar and Capstone Project Symposium
Spring 2016
- Jan. 29 - Wanjun Jiang, Materials Science Division, Argonne National
- Laboratory: Magnetic skyrmions at room temperature: materials, physics, and device
- Feb. 05 - Lauren Hsu, Fermilab Center For Particle Astrophysics, MS 209, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, Dark matter: Perhaps the next great discovery of particle physics?
- Feb. 12 - Giulio Stancari, Fermilab: Electron lenses in beam physics
- Feb. 19 - Robert J. Joynt, Physics Department, University of
- Wisconsin-Madison: Casimir and the Qubit: Decoherence from Evanescent-wave Johnson Noise
- Feb. 26 - Chris Stoughton, Fermilab MS 127, Kirk and Wilson Roads, Batavia IL 60510: The Fermilab Holometer: Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale
- Mar. 4 - Young-Min Shin, NIU Physics Department: Ultrafast electron beam R&D - high field acceleration dynamics in structured warm dense matters
- Mar. 11 - Corrado Gatto, INFN - Napoli: An new experiment to discover fundamental asymmetries of the nature
- Mar. 25 - Mike Syphers, Northern Illinois University: Toward a Future 100 TeV-scale Hadron Collider
- Apr. 1 - Gaston Gutierrez, Fermilab, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, DESI: mapping the Universe with BAO
- Apr.15 - Joseph Zennamo, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute: Discovering the Undetectable: (Sterile) Neutrino Oscillations
- Apr. 22 - Robert Johnson, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, The Loma Linda - Santa Cruz Proton Computed Tomography Detector for Medical Imaging
- Apr. 29 - Department of Physics, NIU: Physics Senior Symposium
Fall 2015
- Sept. 4 - Alexander Dunn, Stanford University: Force Sensing at Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Adhesions
- Sept. 11 - Nenad Miljkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2136 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, 105 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, : Nanoengineered Surfaces for Enhanced Condensation in Energy Applications
- Sept. 18 - Oscar W Greenberg, Dept. of Physics, Physical Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742: Color in Particle Physics
- Sept. 25 - Pavel Snopok, Department of Phyiscs, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3101 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60616: Advanced Simulation Tools for Muon-Based Accelerators
- Oct. 2 - Symposium Speakers, Northern Illinois University: A symposium honoring the legacy of Clyde Kimball
- Oct. 16 - Gerald Blazey, NIU: Since Policy in the White House
- Oct. 23 - Rui Li, Jefferson Lab, 12050 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA23606: CSR and LSC induced Microbunching Instability in a Recirculating Ring
- Oct. 30 - Keith Taddei, Physics Department, Northern Illinois University: At the Crossroads of Superconductivity and Magnetism: The Complex Phase Behavior of the Iron Based Superconductors
- Nov. 6 - Emily Thompson, Insight Data Science, 260 Sheridan Ave, Ste 310, Palo Alto, CA 94306: Data Science: Making the Transition from Academia to Industry
- Nov. 13 - Vishnu Zutshi, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University: The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab
- Nov. 20 - Robert Calkins, Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, P.O. Box 750175, Dallas, TX 75275-0175: "Recent results from the SuperCDMS experiment and the status of SuperCDMS SNOLAB"
Spring 2015
- Jan. 23 - Swapan Chattopadhyay, NIU / Fermilab / CERN: Frontiers of >BeamPhysics: from High Energy Particle Colliders to Quantum Coherence
- Jan. 30 - Bela Erdelyi, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University: The Simple, the Clever, the Flexible, and the Fast: How to Solve the N-Body Problem Numerically
- Feb. 06 - Jeremy Love, Argonne National Lab, 9700 S Cass Ave, Bldg 360, Argonne, IL 60439-4854: Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the 3rd Generation
- Feb. 13:David Adey, Fermilab, Kirk Road and Pinte Street, Batavia,IL, 60510: nuSTORM and the search for sterile neutrinos.
- Feb. 20 - Jose Repond, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439: CALICE: Calorimetry Reinvented
- Feb. 27 - Leonard Feldman, Leonard C. Feldman, Inst. for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology, Rutgers University , 607 Taylor Road; Rm. CCR 208 , Piscataway, NJ 08854-8065: The On-going Electronic Materials Revolution
- Mar. 6 - Mel Sabella, Chicago State University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, 9501 S. King Drive - SCI 309, Chicago State University: Using Physics Education Research to identify student resources and guide course and programmatic instructional innovations
- Mar. 20 - Lin Wang, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, , Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, China, , Jilin University, China: Order from Disorder: Crystalline Materials Consist of Amorphous Building Blocks
- Mar. 27 - Michael Eads, Northern Illinois University: Discovering New Physics with a Precision Measurement of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Gyromagnetic Ratio
- Apr. 3 - Vladimir Shiltsev, Accelerator Physics Center (APC), Fermilab: Quo Vadis? (Future Directions of Accelerator-based High Energy Physics)
- Apr. 17 - Sol M. Gruner, Department of Physics & Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell University, 162 Clark Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2501: Putting the Squeeze on Biology: Biomolecules Under Pressure
- Apr. 24 - Physics Senior Symposium, Professor C Thompson, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115: Physics Department Senior Symposium
Fall 2014
- Sept. 12 Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory, Delivering Science at the Petascale: High-Performance Computing at Argonne National Laboratory.
- Sept. 19 - Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab, Towards the Next Energy-Frontier Machine: A 100 TeV Proton-Proton Collider
- Sept. 26 - Joseph Grange, Argonne Nationbal Laboratory, The Magnetic Field Measurement for the New Muon g-2 Experiment.
- Oct. 3 - Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside, Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Membranes.
- Oct. 10 - Roland Winkler, Department of Physics, NIU, Spins and Pseudospins in Graphene.
- Oct. 24 - Jahred Adelman, Department of Physics, NIU, Searches, measurements and the future: A new era of Higgs boson physics at ATLAS.
- Oct. 31 - Jayakjar Charles Tobin Thangaraj, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, When billion electrons huddle: Collective effects on high-brightness electron beams.
- Nov. 7 - Michael Lubell, The City College of New York, Department of Physics, American Physical Society, Director of Public Affairs, Science in a Populist Era: Challenges and Opportunities.
- Nov. 14 - Panagiotis Spentzouris, Fermilab, Advanced Computation for High-Intensity Beam Physics.
- Nov. 21 - Juan A, Colon Santana, Department of Physics, NIU, Rare Earth Based Heterostructure Diodes for Spintronics Applications.
- Nov. 28 - No Colloquium, Thanksgiving break
- Dec. 5 - Senior Symposium, Graduating Seniors, Department of Physics, NIU
Spring 2014
- Jan. 17 - No Colloquium
- Jan. 24 - Trevor Vickey, U. Witwatersrand, South Africa, "Evidence for Higgs Boson Decays to Tau Lepton Pairs from the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider''.
- Jan. 31 - Lidija Zivkovic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, "Higgs boson - from the discovery to the measurement of its properties".
- Feb. 7 - Sanjay Padhi, UC. San Diego,
- Feb. 14 - Micael Eads, NIU, "Muon g-2 experiment".
- Feb. 21 - Jahred Adelman, Yale University,
- Feb. 28 - Young-Min Shin, NIU, "Advanced Accelerater R&D" (TBD).
- Mar. 7 - APS March meeting
- Mar. 14 - Spring break
- Mar. 21 - Igor Aronson, ANL
- Mar. 28 - Sowjanya Gollapinni, Fermi Lab, "MicroBooNE experiment" (TBD).
- Apr. 4 - Adina Luican-Mayer, ANL Center for Nanoscale Materials, "Graphene research" (TBD)
- *Apr. 11 - Elsa Garmire
- Apr. 18 - Scott Willenbrock, UIUC,
- Apr. 25 - Senior Seminar, Awards, & pizza! Starts at 3:00 pm.
- May 2 - Reading Day
Fall 2013
- *Sept. 6 - Oleg Shpyrko, University of California, San Diego, "X-ray Nanovision".
- *Sept. 13 - Erick Blomberg, Iowa State University, "Structural and electronic anisotropy in iron-based superconductors".
- Sept. 20 - Deepak Kar, University of Glasgow, UK, "Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure".
- *Sept. 27 - Marge Bardeen, Fermi Lab, "Run Like a Proton and Other Ways to Engage Young People with Science".
- *Oct. 4 - Elena Semouchkina, Michigan Technological University, "Metamaterials and Invisibility Cloaks Made of Dielectrics".
- Oct. 11 - Zhili Xiao, NIU, "Size matters: nanoscale superconductors and beyond".
- Oct. 18 - Mary Anne Cummings, Fermilab, Muonsinc, "New Paths Toward a Muon Collider".
- Oct. 25 - Peter Littlewood, ANL, "Polariton Condensation".
- Nov. 1 - Omar Chmaissem, NIU, "Nematic Order in Fe based superconductors".
- Nov. 8 - HEP (TBD)
- Nov. 15 - George Coutrakon, NIU, "The NIU Proton CT Project".
- Nov. 22, Robert Kephart, Fermi Lab, "Applications of Accelerators and the Illinois Accelerator Research Center".
Presentation is available HERE! - Nov. 30 - No colloquium. Thanksgiving break
- Dec. 6 - Senior Seminar
Spring 2013
- Jan. 18 - Carol Johnstone, Fermilab, "Future Accelerators, from Green Energy to Cancer Therapy"
- Feb. 1 - Igor Beloborodov, California State University Northridge, "New Frontiers in Materials Science: Superconductive Mesosolids"
- Feb. 8 - Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab, "Jamming and Clogging Transitions for Systems with Quenched Disorder"
- Feb. 22 - Mandy Rominsky, Fermilab, "New Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab"
- Mar. 8 - Eva Andrei, Rutgers University, "Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of Dirac electrons in graphene"
- Mar. 22 - Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona, "Laser-electron Scattering at the Critical Force Limit"
- Mar. 29 - Tatyana Baturina, Novosibirsk, Russia, "Coexistence and interplay of superconductivity and localization in two dimensions"
- Apr. 5 - Valerii Vinokour, Argonne National Lab, "Transport in
nano-structured materials" - Apr. 12 - David Rasmussen, Oak Ridge National Lab, "The ITER International Partnership: Demonstrating the Scientific and Technological Feasibility of Fusion Energy"
- Apr. 19 - George Coutrakon, NIU, Quantum Reality and Schrodinger's Cat
- Apr. 26 - Awards Ceremony and Student Presentations. Presentation of awards by Chair Laurence Lurio; Harsha Panuganti "Generation of Electron Bunches using Photo- and Field Emission"; James A. Maloney, "Muon Collider Physics and Muon Cooling".
Fall 2012
- Sept. 14 - Prof. Dhiman Chakraborty, NIU, "Discovery of the Higgs boson (?) at the LHC"
- Sept. 21 - Stanislaw Kolesnik, NIU, "The complex side of a simple cubic perovskite"
- Sept. 28 - Eric Dufresne, APS ANL, "The short-pulse hard x-ray beamlines in the Advanced Photon Source upgrade"
- Oct. 5 - Prof. Andreas Schroeder,
University of Illinois at Chicago, "High brightness, ultrafast, laser-driven electron sources" - Oct. 12 - No colloquium
- Oct. 19 - Jason Steffen, Fermilab, "Exoplanet Science from NASA's Kepler Mission"
- Oct. 26 - Brandon Armstrong, Harvard U., "Elucidating the dynamics of biology with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization". View video.
- Nov. 2 - No colloquium
- Nov. 9 - Jason M. Allred, Argonne National Lab, "Structural trends and insights in the iron-based superconductors BaFe2(As1-xPx)2, Ba1-xKxFe2As2, Ca10(PtnAs8)(Fe2As2)5"
- Nov. 16 - Jason Hoffman, Argonne National Lab, "Magnetoelectric Coupling in Composite Multiferroic Heterostructures".
- Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving break
- Nov. 30 - Prof. Kathryn Levin, University of Chicago, Understanding Fermi Gases: Providing Insights into Condensed- and Quark-Gluon Matter
- Dec. 7 - Senior seminars: 3:30 Samuel Watt "Teaching Physics – Taking an Example Just Far Enough". 3:45 Carlos Celada "Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and the Expansion of the Universe". 4:00 Gregory Maj "Noise Reduction in Electron Energy Loss Spectra".
Spring 2012
- Feb. 10 - Steve Martin, NIU. The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: Physics Nobel Prize 2011.
- Feb. 17 - Young-Min Shin, NIU. Advanced Microwave and THz Vacuum Electron Beam Devices.
- Feb. 24 - George Coutrakon, NIU. Quantum Reality and Schrodinger's Cat: An Historical Perspective.
- Mar. 2 - Sean Mattingly, Bank of America. Business for Poets: Physics Careers Outside of Physics.
- Mar. 23 - Uwe Bergmann, SLAC. Archimedes' Oldest Writings under X-ray Vision.
- Apr. 6 - Jianguo Wen, Argonne. Sub-Angstrom Transmission Electron Microscopy with Aberration Correction.
- Apr. 13 - Bogdan Dabrowski, NIU. Search and Discovery of Strongly Coupled Multi-Ferroic Perovskites Sr1-xBaxMnO3.
- Apr. 20 - Mark Pankuch, Director of Medical Physics and Dosimetry, CDH ProCure Proton Therapy Facility. The Clinical Use of Accelerated Protons: Proton Radiotherapy.
- Apr. 27 - Senior Seminar. (1) Michael Wesley (Faculty Mentor: Professor Yasuo Ito). Observation of Fe doped SrRuO3 Thin-Films. (2) Zachary Johnson (Faculty Mentor: Professor Carol Thompson). Magnetic Force Microscopy of Materials. (3) Anthony M. Schroeder (Faculty Mentor: Professor Zhili Xiao). A Guided Inquiry into Nano-Scale Hydrogen Sensors.
Fall 2011
- August 19 - Safety Orientation.
- August 26 - LAS State of the College address.
- Sept. 16 - Welcome picnic for new graduate students, 12-2 pm.
- Sept. 16 - Prof. Lobat Tayebi, University of Oklahoma. Biomaterial Multilayer Assemblies.
- Sept. 23 - All-day symposium in honor of Prof. Clyde Kimball.
- Sept. 30 - Jeffrey Lynn, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Magnetic Moments in Superconductors: From Assassin to Facilitator.
- Oct. 14 - Andreas Glatz, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Thermoelectric and Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Mesoscopic Meta-materials.
- Oct. 21 - Rajendran Raja, Fermilab. Nuclear Energy Using Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Systems - The Thorium Option.
- Oct. 28 - Michael Turner, University of Chicago. Quarks and the Cosmos.
- Nov. 4 - Jyotsana Lal, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems Measured by High Energy Resolution Neutron Scattering Techniques.
- Nov. 11 - D. N. Kafle, Argonne National Laboratory. Aerosol Optical Depth Derived from Micropulse Lidar Data at Various ARM Sites
World-wide . - Nov. 18 - Linda Young, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. Exploring the frontier of ultrafast/ultraintense x-ray interactions with matter.
- Dec. 2 - Jian-rong Gao, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. Phase relations in La-Fe-Si alloys for magnetic refrigeration applications.
Spring 2011
- Jan. 28 - Roland Winkler, NIU. Graphene: The Ultimate Flatland. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010.
- Feb. 4 - Probing Itinerant Ferromagnetism with Spin Waves. Vincent Vlamnick, Argonne.
- Feb. 18 - Ultrananocrystalline Diamond for MEMS and NEMS: Opportunities and Challenges. Anirudha V. Sumant, Argonne.
- Mar. 4 - Size Matters: Palladium Nanostructures for Fast and Sensitive Hydrogen Detection. Prof. Zhili Xiao, NIU.
- Mar. 11 - New Experiments with Antiprotons. Daniel Kaplan, IIT.
- Mar. 18 - Spring Break.
- Apr. 1 - Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley. New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter.
- Apr. 8 - Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago. Taking Sides on Dark Energy.
- Apr. 15 - Wayne Newhauser, Department of Radiation Physics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. High Performance Computing for Proton Radiation Therapy.
- Apr. 22 - Christophe Royon, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay. First Results from the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC and the ATLAS Forward Physics Project.
- Apr. 29 - Senior Seminar. Talks will be followed by awards ceremony and reception.
- May 6 - Heinlich Jaeger, University of Chicago. Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers.
Fall 2010
- Sept. 3 - Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, University of Chicago. Sparse Density of States in Colloidal Quantum Dots: Tuning Energy Relaxation and Transport.
- Sept. 17 - David Hedin, NIU. Understanding our Asymmetric Universe: Evidence for an Anomalous Like-Sign Dimuon Asymmetry.
- Sept. 24 - G. P. Yeh, Fermilab. The Energy Transformation.
- Oct. 1 - Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago. The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids
- Oct. 15 - James Rabchuk, Western Illinois University. A Mechanical Demonstration Illustrating Parametric Resonance.
- Oct. 22 - Matt Bellis, Stanford University: Searching for Baryon Number Violation in the BaBar Dataset.
- Oct. 29 - Alexander Yarin, University of Ilinois at Chicago. Thorny Devil Nanofibers: The Way to Cooling Rates of the Order of 1 kW/cm2.
- Nov. 12 - Robert Hirosky, University of Virginia. The CMS Detector: Peformance and First Physics.