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This page contains the schedules and abstracts for past colloquiums. Choose a semester, or click "All Pages" to see all.
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Friday Jan 28 |
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Friday Feb 4 |
No colloquium | |||
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Friday Feb 11 |
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Friday Feb 18 |
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Friday Feb 25 |
Prof. Yusui Chen | New York Institute of Technology | Open Quantum System Dynamics: from Markovian to non-Markovian | Dr. Meng Shen |
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Friday Mar 4 |
Department meeting | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday Mar 11 |
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Friday Mar 18 |
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Friday Mar 25 |
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Friday Apr 1 |
Spring recess | |||
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Friday Apr 8 |
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Friday Apr 15 |
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Friday Apr 22 |
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Friday Apr 29 |
Dr. Russ Laher | California Institute of Technology |
Image Processing/Analysis of Infrared Telescope Data |
Dr. Khakoo |
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Friday May 6 |
Graduate student presentations | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday May 13 |
Graduate student presentations | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday May 27 |
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Friday Aug 20 |
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Friday Aug 27 |
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Friday Sept 3 |
Department meeting | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday Sept 10 |
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Friday Sept 17 |
Dr. Gabriel Bonilla | CSUF | Beyond-GR Waveform Models and Numerical Relativity | Dr. Geoffrey Lovelace, Dr. Joshua Smith |
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Friday Sept 24 |
Department meeting | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday Oct 1 |
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Friday Oct 8 |
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Friday Oct 15 |
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Friday Oct 22 |
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Friday Oct 29 |
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Friday Nov 5 |
Dr. Erik Muniz | Syracuse University | A Solid-State Phase Camera for Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors | Dr. Joshua Smith |
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Friday Nov 12 |
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Friday Nov 19 |
Prof. Yun Shen | University of California - Riverside |
Transmission and control of pathogens across water and air Zoom link: Zoom |
Dr. Meng Shen |
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Friday Nov 26 |
Fall recess | |||
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Friday Dec 3 |
Department meeting | Dept. of Physics | ||
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Friday Dec 17 |
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Friday Jan 29 |
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Friday Feb 5 |
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Friday Feb 12 |
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Friday Feb 19 |
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Friday Feb 26 |
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Friday Mar 5 |
Dr. Jennifer Ross | Syracuse University |
Self-Assembly and Self-Propulsion of Active Biological Elements [video] |
Dr. Ahmed |
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Friday Mar 12 |
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Friday Mar 19 |
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Friday Mar 26 |
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Friday Apr 2 |
Spring Recess | |||
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Friday Apr 9 |
Dr. Kimberly Weirich | Clemson University |
Self-organization and shape change in biopolymer liquid crystals |
Dr. Shen |
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Friday Apr 16 |
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Friday Apr 23 |
Michael Williams (PhD candidate) | University of Glasgow |
Why is machine learning relevant to astronomers? [video] |
Dr. Read |
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Friday Apr 30 |
Dr. Gary Uppal | CFD Research Corporation |
Evolution of Microbial Coorperation in Dynamic Fluids [video] |
Dr. Tifrea |
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Friday May 7 |
MS student presentations | CSUF |
Keqin Cai, Jean-Baptiste Faure, Ryan Muoio, Courtney White [video] |
Department of Physics |
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Friday May 14 |
MS student presentations | CSUF |
Samuel Rodriguez, Hunter Seyforth, David Matalon [video] |
Department of Physics |
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Friday Aug 28 |
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Friday Sept 4 |
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Friday Sept 11 |
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Friday Sept 18 |
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Friday Sept 25 |
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Friday Oct 2 |
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Friday Oct 9 |
Dr. Vivek Sharma | University of Illinois at Chicago | Surface Forces and Stratification in Micellar Foam Films & Soap Bubbles [video] | Dr. Shen |
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Friday Oct 16 |
Dr. Jocelyn Read and Dr. Geoffrey Lovelace | CSU Fullerton | Discussion of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics [video] | Phys. Dept |
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Friday Oct 23 |
Dr. Jos Zwanikken |
University of Massachussets, Lowell |
Nucleation of Active Particles & The unknown forces in everyday matter [video] | Dr. Shen |
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Friday Oct 30 |
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Friday Nov 6 |
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Friday Nov 13 |
Dr. Meng Shen | CSU Fullerton | Computational physics in materials design: bottom-up and top-down approaches [video] | Dr. Ahmed |
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Friday Nov 20 |
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Friday Nov 27 |
Fall Recess | |||
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Friday Dec 4 |
Dr. Graziano Vernizzi | Siena College | Multicanonical Population Monte Carlo | Dr. Shen |
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Friday Dec 11 |
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Friday Jan 24 |
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Friday Jan 31 |
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Friday Feb 7 |
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Friday Feb 14 |
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Friday Feb 21 |
Campus Closed | |||
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Friday Feb 28 |
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Friday Mar 6 |
Dr. Tri Van | Applied Research Associates | Computational Physical Sciences (CPS) Group at Applied Research Associates, Inc. | Dr. Smith |
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Friday Mar 13 |
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Friday Mar 20 |
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Friday Mar 27 |
Dr. Krishna Sigdel (cancelled) | Cal Poly Pomona | Insights into Protein-Membrane Interactions via Atomic Force Microscopy | Dr. Ahmed |
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Friday Apr 3 |
Spring Break | |||
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Friday Apr 10 |
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Friday Apr 17 |
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Friday Apr 24 |
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Friday May 1 |
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Friday May 8 |
Fall 2019 Colloquium Schedule
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Friday Aug 30 |
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Friday Sept 6 |
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Friday Sept 13 |
Dr. Fabian Magana-Sandoval | University of Florida | Wave Front Sensor Upgrade for Advanced LIGO | Dr. Josh Smith |
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Friday Sept 20 |
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Friday Sept 27 |
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Friday Oct 4 |
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Friday Oct 11 |
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Friday Oct 18 |
Dr. Michael Flatté | University of Iowa | New Mateials and Devices for Quantum Coherent Technologies | Dr. Ionel Tifrea |
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Friday Oct 25 |
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Friday Nov 1 |
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Friday Nov 8 |
Dr. Murtadha Khakoo | Cal State Fullerton | Low energy electron scattering from fundamental atoms and molecules | Phys Dept |
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Friday Nov 15 |
Dr. Alex Klotz (at 1PM) | Cal State Long Beach |
DNA polymer physics with knots and chainmail |
Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Nov 22 |
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Friday Nov 29 |
Campus closed | |||
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Friday Dec 6 |
Dr. Kinjal Dasbiswas | Univ. of California Merced | How do molecular motors create order in the noisy interior of cells? | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Dec 13 |
Spring 2019 Colloquium Schedule
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Friday Jan 25 |
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Friday Feb 1 |
Dr. Charalampos Markakis | University of Cambridge | Helmholtz's third theorem imprinted on gravitational wave signals | Dr. Jocelyn Read |
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Friday Feb 8 |
Dr. Jun Allard | University of California, Irvine | Force-sensitivity and cooperativity arising from polymer properties of formins and other intrinsically disordered molecules | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Feb 15 |
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Friday Feb 22 |
--------- | --------- | Black Family Fellowship Celebration (12:30PM) | Physics Dept. |
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Friday Mar 1 |
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Friday Mar 8 |
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Friday Mar 15 |
Dr. Ryan Mcgorty | University of San Diego | DNA Diffusion and Capillary Waves: Soft Matter Studied with Novel Microscopy Methods | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Mar 22 |
Dr. Mark Ilton | Harvey Mudd College | The Physics of Fast, Elastic Energy Release in Biological and Synthetic Systems | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Mar 29 |
Dr. Eneko Axpe | Stanford University and NASA | Hydrogels: from modeling their behavior to applications in biomedicine | Veronica Lockett-Ruiz |
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Friday Apr 5 |
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Friday Apr 12 |
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Friday Apr 19 |
Dr. Marissa Walker | California State University, Fullerton | Expanding our view of the gravitational-wave sky | Dr. Josh Smith |
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Friday Apr 26 |
Dr. Paul Nerenberg | California State University, Los Angeles | Structural consequences of DNA methylation at atomistic resolution | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday May 3 |
Luis (Angel) Rios Eric Flynn Amauri Tapia Jeff Bidler Paul Matsumoto |
California State University, Fullerton | MS Presentations | Phys Dept |
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Friday May 10 |
Wesley Baxter Dakota Rose Mikayla Mays Zong Yu Wang |
California State University, Fullerton | MS Presentations | Phys Dept |
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Friday Aug 31 |
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Friday Sept 7 |
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Friday Sept 14 |
Graduate Students | California Institute of Technology | So you want to learn about grad school? Come chat! | Physics Department |
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Friday Sept 21 |
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Friday Sept 28 |
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Friday Oct 5 |
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Friday Oct 12 |
Dr. Bhargav Rallabandi | University of California Riverside | Complex Fluids Across Scales: From Suspensions near Membranes to Sea Ice Transport | Dr. Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Oct 19 |
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Friday Oct 26 |
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Friday Nov 2 |
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Friday Nov 9 |
Dr. Benjamin Schermerhorn | CSU Fullerton & Pomona |
Student construction of a differential length vector in an unconventional spherical coordinate system
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Dr. Gina Passante |
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Friday Nov 16 |
Dr. Cynthia Trevisan | CSU Maritime Academy | The Fate of Quantum Superposition | Dr. Murtadha Khakoo |
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Friday Nov 23 |
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Friday Nov 30 |
E. Tarbell, D. Johnson, C. Romo, and A. Giacinto | CSU Fullerton | The Lambda Boo Puzzle | Dr. Patricia Cheng |
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Friday Dec 7 |
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Friday Dec 14 |
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Friday Jan 26 |
Dr. Etienne Fodor | University of Cambridge | Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of active matter | Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Feb 2 |
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Friday Feb 9 |
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Friday Feb 16 |
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Friday Feb 23 |
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Friday Mar 2 |
Dr. Cliff Surko | University of California San Diego |
Antimatter in Our World of Matter |
Murtadha Khakoo |
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Friday Mar 9 |
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Friday Mar 16 |
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Friday Mar 23 |
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Friday Mar 30 |
Cesar Chavez Day - Campus Closed | |||
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Friday Apr 6 |
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Friday Apr 13 |
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Friday Apr 20 |
Dr. TJ Massinger | Caltech | Increasing the amount of gravitational-wave science we can do with LIGO | Josh Smith |
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Friday Apr 27 |
Dr. Nathan Inan | UC Merced | Formulations of general relativity and their applications to quantum mechanical systems | Heidi Fearn |
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Friday May 4 |
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Friday May 11 |
Master's Student Presentations | CSUF | TBA | Physics Dept |
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Friday May 18 |
Dr. Gary Mikaelian | NIDEK Co. Ltd. and Hedgefog Research Inc | The Eye with the eye of a Physicist | Murtadha Khakoo |
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Friday Aug 25 |
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Friday Sep 1 |
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Friday Sep 8 |
Undergraduate Students | CSUF | Semester welcome and undergraduate student research seminar | Various |
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Friday Sep 15 |
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Friday Sep 22 |
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Friday Sep 29 |
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Friday Oct 6 |
Stephen Pollock | University of Colorado, Boulder | TBA | Gina Passante |
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Friday Oct 13 |
Stephen Pollock | University of Colorado, Boulder | TBA | Gina Passante |
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Friday Oct 20 |
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Friday Oct 27 |
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Friday Nov 3 |
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Friday Nov 10 |
Veterans Day | |||
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Friday Nov 17 |
Sharon Gerbode | Harvey Mudd College | Sculpting crystals with light - optical blasting deforms colloidal crystal grains | Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Nov 24 |
Fall Recess | |||
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Friday Dec 1 |
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Friday Dec 8 |
John Barton | MIT and University of California Riverside | HIV evolution through the lens of statistical physics | Wylie Ahmed |
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Friday Aug 26 |
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Friday Sep 2 |
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Friday Sep 9 |
Brandon Eberly | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Searching for sterile neutrinos with MicroBooNE Eberly's Abstract | Josh Smith |
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Friday Sep 16 |
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Friday Sep 23 |
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Friday Sep 30 |
Qing Ryan | Cal Poly Pomona |
Physics Problem Solving: Customizable Computer Coaches for Physics Online (C3PO) Ryan's Abstract |
Gina Passante |
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Friday Oct 7 |
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Friday Oct 14 |
Lee Lindblom | UC San Diego | Neutron Stars: Where Gravitation Theory Meets Nuclear Physics Lindblom's Abstract | Geoffrey Lovelace |
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Friday Oct 21 |
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Friday Oct 28 |
Chris Griffo | Celestron | Roles of an Optical Engineer at Celestron Griffo's Abstract | Josh Smilth |
| Wednesday Nov 2 | Dragos Anghel | Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering | Electron-phonon interaction in nanostructures at sub-Kelvin temperatures Anghel's Abstract | Ionel Tifrea |
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Friday Nov 4 |
Daniel Slaughter | Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory | Bond-selective chemistry with low-energy electrons Slaughter's Abstract | Leigh Hargreaves |
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Friday Nov 11 |
No Colloquium - Veteran's Day | |||
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Friday Nov 18 |
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Friday Nov 25 |
No Colloquium - Fall Recess | |||
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Friday Dec 2 |
Mark Zammit | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Colliding particles and their applications Zammit's Abstract | Morty Khakoo |
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Friday Dec 9 |
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Friday Jan 29 |
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Monday |
Daniel Johnson | Rockefeller University | "Spinning, Poynting, Translating: Shining Light on a TIRF Field in Order to Visualize HIV Assembly" Johnson's Abstract | Leigh Hargreaves |
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Wednesday Feb 3 |
Ran Chen | Kansas State University | "Biophysical Interactions with Nanomaterials" Chen's Abstract | Leigh Hargreaves |
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Friday |
Wylie Ahmed | Institut Curie (France) | "Active mechanics keeps our cells alive" Ahmed's Abstract | Leigh Hargreaves |
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Friday Feb 12 |
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Friday Feb 19 |
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Friday Feb 26 |
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Friday March 4 |
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Friday March 11 |
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Friday March 18 |
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Friday March 25 |
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Friday April 1 |
No Colloquium - Spring Break | |||
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Friday April 8 |
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Friday April 15 |
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Friday April 22 |
Flip Tanedo | UC Irvine | "Dark Sunshine" Tanedo's Abstract | Josh Smith |
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Friday April 29 |
Geoffrey Lovelace | CSU Fullerton | "Observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes" Lovelace's S'16 Abstract | Jim Feagin |
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Friday May 6 |
Masters Students | CSU Fullerton | TBA | Ionel Tifrea |
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Friday May 13 |
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