Colloquium Series
Colloquia are held on Thursday afternoons at 4:00pm in Stevenson 4327, with a reception beforehand at 3:30pm in Stevenson 6333.
FALL 2023
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium Title | Notes |
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| Aug 31 | John Jumper | Google Deep Mind Technology | Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction and Its Applications | Host: S. Hutson |
| Sept 7 | Heinrich Paes | TU-Dortmund | The One - How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: T. Kephart |
| Sept 14 | Stephen Taylor | Vanderbilt University | The Dawn of Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Host: A. Lupsasca |
| Sept 21 | Alex Maloney | McGill University | Quantum Information Theory, Black Holes, and Space-time | Host: A. Lupsasca |
| Sept 28 | Roger Blandford | Stanford University | Jets, Disks and Winds from Spinning Black Holes: Nature or Nurture? | Host: A. Lupsasca |
| Oct 5 | Szabolcs Marka | Columbia University | Why we do what we do, with passion? Synergies in Science from Cataclysmic Cosmic Explosions to a Better Earth. | Host: K. Jani |
| Oct 12 | David Kaiser | MIT | Secret Clocks: The U.S. Military, Einstein's Relativity, and the Global Positioning System. | Host: A. Lupsasca |
| Oct 19 | Fall Break | |||
| Oct 26 | Vedika Khemani | Stanford University | Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium. | Host: A. Lupsasca |
| Nov 2 | Karen Kasza | Columbia University | Stress management: cell packings and tissue flows in developing embryos | Host: S. Hutson |
| Nov 9 | Daniel Jafferis (Cancelled) | Host: A. Lupsasca | ||
| Nov 14 | Carl Wieman | Emeritus, Stanford University | Foreman Lecture: Taking a scientific approach to science education | Host: J. Wikswo |
| Nov 16 | Ken Regan | Fraught Issues in Detecting Chess Cheating Via a Statistical Model | Host: R. Scherrer | |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 30 | Sokrates Pantelides | Vanderbilt University | A journey on the nanoscale with a combination of theory and microscopy | Host: S. Hutson |
| Dec 7 | Peter Steinberg | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Collisions with light at the LHC: photon-photon and photonuclear physics with ATLAS | Host: J-F Paquet |
Past Colloquium
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title | Notes |
| 12-Jan | Jorge Noronha | U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: J.-F. Paquet |
| 19-Jan | Sam Gralla | U. Arizona | Alice's adventures with bombs, Bobs, and black holes | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: A. Lupsasca |
| 26-Jan | Kimberly Boddy | U. Texas, Austin | Opportunities for Dark Matter Searches in Cosmology | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: R. Scherrer |
| 2-Feb | Chris Monahan | William & Mary | Pictures of a proton: quarks, gluons and hadrons from first principles | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli |
| 9-Feb | Veronica Dexheimer | Kent State University | Exotic matter in neutron stars | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: J. Velkovska |
| 23-Feb | Duncan Lorimer | West Virginia University | Making Sense of the Census -- The Cosmological Population of Fast Radio Bursts | Host: S. Hutson |
| 2-Mar | Bill Press | U. Texas, Austin | Science in the White House | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: R. Scherrer |
| 9-Mar | James Dent | Sam Houston State University | Gravitational Waves and Physics Beyond the Standard Model | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: T. Kephart |
| 23-Mar | Andrew Strominger | Harvard University | Black Holes: The Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: A. Lupsasca |
| 30-Mar | Edgar Shaghoulian | U. California, Santa Cruz | Black holes, cosmology, and quantum entanglement | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: A. Lupsasca |
| 6-Apr | Travis Humble | Oak Ridge National Lab | Discovery and Innovation in Quantum Science and Technology | Co-sponsored by Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Host: S. Hutson |
| 13-Apr | Charles Gale | McGill University | Light from the little bang: Photons from strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: J.-F. Paquet |
| 20-Apr | Mark Trodden | U. Pennsylvania | Gravity in the Age of Precision Cosmology | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: R. Scherrer |
| 27-Apr | Frans Pretorius | Princeton University | Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes | Co-sponsored by VandyGRAF Host: M. Disconzi |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title | Notes | |
| 01- Sept | Ashok Goel | Georgia Tech | Using AI for Transforming Adult Learning and Online Education | Guy and Rebecca Forman Lecture Host: S. Hutson |
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| 15-Sept | Josh Caldwell | Vanderbilt University | Strong Coupling and Extreme Anisotropy in Infrared Polaritonic Media | Host: N. Tolk | |
| 22-Sept | Leo Stein | University of Mississippi | Gravitational waves from black hole mergers: The big picture and subtle details | Host: A. Lupsasca | |
| 29-Sept | Charles Gammie | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Portrait of a Black Hole | Host: A. Lupsasca Co-hosted by VandyGRAF |
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| 06-Oct | Monica Pate | New York University | Celestial Holography | Alice Clair Kimbler Hankla Lecture Hosts: S. Hutson and A. Lupsasca |
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| 20-Oct | Shane Larson | Northwestern University |
The Landscape of Multi-messenger Astronomy in the Lisa Era |
Host: S. Taylor | |
| 03-Nov | Randy Knight | California Polytechnic State University | What do we know about the teaching and learning of physics? | Host: S. Hutson | |
| 10-Nov | Robert Pisarski | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Golden Ages in nuclear collisions: past, present, and future | Co-hosted by VandyGRAF and the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | |
| 01-Dec | Michael Johnson | Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. For Astrophysics | Black Hole Shadows and Photon Rings: Experimental Relativity with Radio Interferometry |
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| 08-Dec | Ronald E. Mickens | Clark Atlanta University | 2022 Wendell G. Holladay Lecture in Physics: Pitfalls, Perils, and Other Dangers for the Numerical Integration of Differential Equations |
Host: The Department of Physics and Astronomy |