Physics Colloquium
About the Colloquium
The Physics Department Colloquium is a series of seminars from scientists about their research. It also provides an opportunity for physics graduate students to deliver professional talks. All seminars are open to anyone who is interested.
Times and Locations
The Physics Colloquium is held in Engineering/Physics 122 each Monday at 3:30 p.m.
Colloquium sessions are also offered via Zoom this semester.
We do not have presentations on UI holidays or school breaks.
Join us in EP 122 or via zoom: https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/89732737401 Password: UIPHYS
Fall 2023
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2023 | No Class - No Colloquium | |
| Aug 28, 2023 | Christine Berven Physics Department, University of Idaho |
The Physics of Sailing
|
| Sep 4, 2023 | UI Holiday - No Colloquium | |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Rup Machleidt Physics Department, University of Idaho |
The Dream of the German Atomic Bomb |
| Sep 18, 2023 |
John Hiller |
Studying the deuterium nucleus with electron and photon beams |
| Sep 25, 2023 |
Krzysztof Gofryk |
Strong Electronic Correlations and Topology in Actinide Materials |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oliver Stone Film | "Nuclear Now", Part 1 |
| Oct 3, 2023 (Special Seminar) | Miles Beaux Ph.D., Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab |
Statistical Mechanics Treatment of Multiconfigurational Ground States in Isolated Neutral Atoms |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Oliver Stone Film | "Nuclear Now", Part 2 and discussion |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Dario Machleidt, JD Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Seattle |
Alternate Careers in Physics: Patent Law |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Don Baer PNNL |
TBA |
| Oct 30, 2023 | Azusa Tojo School of Global Studies, UI |
Passing the Torch of Peace: Remembering Hiroshima |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Todd Nagel Western University |
Physical Reality Without Spacetime |
| Nov 13, 2023 | David Entem University of Salamanca, Spain |
Exotics in the quark model |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Fall Recess - No Colloquium | |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Deniz Hernandez DESS, UI |
Neutrinos put to use in Earth Science |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Student Presentations(TBA) | TBA |
Previous Semesters:
Spring 2023
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|
| John Hiller (Physics Department, University of Idaho) | Gravity and quantum mechanics: Newton-Schrodinger and Einstein-Klein-Gordon solitons |
| Jia Song (University of Idaho) | A Grammar-guided Smart Fuzzer |
| Jeunghoon Lee Associate Professor, Organic/Materials Chemistry, Boise State University |
Investigation of Exciton Delocalization Properties of DNA-Templated Squaraine and Squaraine:Rotaxane Dye Aggregates. |
| You Qiang (Physics Department, University of Idaho) |
Nano-Watermelon: Synthesis, Nanostructure and Nanomagnetism |
| UI Holiday - No Colloquium | N/A |
| Peter Engels (Washington State University) | Exploring the quantum world: Experiments with ultracold quantum gases |
| Michael Forbes (Washington State University) | About the 2022 Nobel Prize: "What is Quantum Entanglement?" |
| John McCloy (Washington State University) | Summary of CdTe and Ga2O3 crystal growth |
| Indrajit Charit (University of Idaho) |
Advanced Manufacturing Research at the University of Idaho for Nuclear Applications |
| Dong Ding (Idaho National Laboratory (INL)) | Flexible chemical/fuel/hydrogen production at intermediate temperatures using solid oxide electrochemical cells for decarbonized economy |
| Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington) | Interacting Opto-Moire Quantum Matters |
| Lan Li (Boise State University) | Computational and Machine Learning Studies of DNA-Templated Dye Aggregate Design |
| Brianna Mount (Black Hills State University) | Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics and Low Background Counting at the Sanford Underground Research Facility |
| Student Presentations (TBA) | TBA |
Fall 2022
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|
| Alistair Smith Interim Chair, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, College of Science Professor of Wildland Fire Science, College of Natural Resources |
Using physics to search for general mechanistic responses of trees to fire |
| Shirley Luckhart Dept. of Biological Sciences (COS) and Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology (CALS), Co-Director, Institute of Health in the Human Ecosystem |
6.5 million deaths and the unimaginable impacts that we don’t even know about yet
|
| Jennifer A Sundararajan and Lokendra Khanal (Intel) | From College to Corporate: Exposure & Experience |
| Heidi Wu (Boise State University) |
Probing Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clusters |
| Amy Reines (Montana State University) |
The Smallest Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies |
| Dakota Roberson (Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), U of I (Idaho Falls)) |
Cyber-Physical Security for High-Consequence Energy Systems |
| Erika Rader (Department of Earth and Spatial Science, U of I) |
Beyond thermal: VNIR imaging of molten lava |
| Vivienne Baldassare (Physics Department, Washington State University) | The population of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies |
| Matt Duez (Physics Department, Washington State University) | Turbulence Theory |
| John Hiller (Physics Department, University of Idaho) | Gravity and quantum mechanics: Newton-Schrodinger and Einstein-Klein-Gordon solitons |
| Dean Lee (Physics Department, Michigan State University and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory) |
Science at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams |
| Student Presentations (TBA) | TBA |
Spring 2022
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|
| Andy Rivkin (Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)) | The DART Mission - A Crash Course |
| Mark Panning (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)) | Planetary Seismology: Results from Mars crust to core and a return to the Moon |
| Janet Vertesi (Princeton University) | TBD |
| Paul Withers (Boston University) | New views of the ionosphere of Mars from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft |
| Carol Paty (University of Oregon) | Searching for (Habitable) Ocean Worlds |
| Dana Longcope (Montana State University) |
How and Why we Study the Sun from Space |
| Briony Horgan (Purdue University) | First year on Mars with the Perseverance rover and next steps in the search for life beyond Earth |
| Mark Marley (University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) | TBD |
| Rebecca Bishop (The Aerospace Corporation) | TBD |
| Ross Beyer (NASA Ames Research Center) | NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) |
| Krzysztof Gofryk (Idaho National Laboratory) |
Strong magnetoelastic interactions and piezomagnetism in uranium dioxide |
| Student Presentations (TBA) | TBA |
Fall 2021
Speaker |
Title |
| Zach Etienne (Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Idaho) | Advancing Multimessenger Astrophysics with Next-Generation Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Merger Simulations |
| David Sivak (Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University) | Maximizing power and velocity of an information engine |
| Becky Tallent (Associate Professor Emeritus,School of Journalism and Mass Media, University of Idaho) | Working with the News Media |
| James Bull (Professor,Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho) | Gene Drives |
| Jeremy Tamsen (Director ofOffice of Tech Transfer, University of Idaho) | Intellectual Property Basics |
| Abhi Singh (University of Delaware) | Modeling stochasticity in the timing of intracellular events: A first-passage time approach |
| Brian Collins (Washington State University) | Resonant X-rays as spatiochemical nanoprobes within organic structures and devices |
| Bill Cannon (PNNL) | Thermodynamics and Learning in Biological Cells |
| Margaret S. Cheung (UW-PNNL) | Proteins in a crowd under heat and pressure |
| Barrie Robison (University of Idaho) | Video Games and Data Science at U of I (provisional) |
| Sofia Chabysheva (University of Idaho) | Impact of the quantum vacuum (provisional) |