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Spring 2025 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
A map of campus highlighting parking locations and buildings of interest for visiting speakers can be found here.
Below is the schedule for this semester's colloquia. Beneath that are the talks from previous years, with some of the talks during the height of the pandemic having links to video recordings. Note that colloquia marked with * are exceptions to the norm (e.g. occuring on a Tuesday rather than a Thursday).
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 | Mike Ray | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | A Semi-Constructive Talk on Semiconductor Physics | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 | Anna Nierenberg | UC Merced | Testing the Nature of Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 | Atul Parikh | UC Davis | Mixing Water, Shaping Membranes, Remodeling Vesicles | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 6, 2025 | Cassandra Paul | San José State University | Lessons from Introductory Physics Course Reform at Two Different Institutions | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 13, 2025 | Wesley Frey | McClellan Nuclear Research Center | Maintaining and Advancing US Neutron Radiography Capability at the UC Davis McClellan Nuclear Research Center | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 20, 2025 | Aman Sharma | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Bayesian Model Mixing with Multi-Reference Energy Density Functional | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 27, 2025 | Arran Phipps | CSU East Bay | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Narrow-Gap Semiconductors | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apr. 17, 2025 | Maxwell Chertok | UC Davis | The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apr. 24, 2025 | Micah Wofford Sigma Pi Sigma Inductions and Department Awards Night | California Energy Commission and CSUS Physics Alumnus, Class of 2018 | Physics to Policy: Applying Science at the California Energy Commission | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, May. 1, 2025 | Jackson Abello | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Probing the Quenching Effect on Star Formation in Simulated Giant Molecular Clouds due to Modeling Turbulence | MND 1015 |
| Rocco Marshall | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Commissioning the Four Jig Setup with Preparatioin for Loaded Module Cell Production | ||
| Ethan Potter | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Simulating the Cosmos: Insights into Jets from Compact Mergers | ||
| *Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Sean Currier | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Mechanical Characterization of the Degradation of Plastics and Biocompatible Alternatives | MND 1015 |
| Victor Hernandez | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Exploring Actin Dynamics in Phase-Separated Coacervates | ||
| Jorden Naguria | Sac State Physics Major Indepdent Research Talk | 3D Printing Galaxy Models | ||
| Thursday, May. 8, 2025 | Lenee Echols | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Enhancing Higgs Boson Detection in the ATLAS Experiment using Multivariable Analysis and Machine Learninig | MND 1015 |
| Trent Ghorley | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | The Role of Environment in Supressing Star Formation: A Twin Cluster Analysis | ||
| Towy Zheng | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Earth's Perspective of the Spurs of the Milky Way Galaxy |
Fall 2024 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 | Physics Majors' Summer Research 1: Victor Hernandez, Sean Currier, Ethan Potter |
Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Three short talks on student research experience over summer break | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 | Physics Majors' Summer Research 2: Justin Alejandro, Towy Zheng, Rocco Marshall | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Three short talks on student research experience over summer break | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 | Veronika Kruse | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Physics Careers and Navigating Your Path | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 | Vishal Gajjar | UC Berkeley, SETI | A New-Era in Search for Technologically Advanced Life in the Universe | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 | Erika Holmbeck | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | The Origin of the Elements: Astronomy at the Intersection with Nuclear Physics | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024 | Ali Behzadan | Sac State Mathematics | Understanding Einstein: From Differential Geometry to General Relativity | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 | Shahzad Ali | CSU East Bay | Quantum Entanglement in Top Quarks: A Landmark Observation at the LHC | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 | Daniel Jontof-Hutter | University of the Pacific | Three-body Resonances in Multitransiting Expolanetary Systems | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 | Haley Steuber - Sacramento State Physics Major Senior Project | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Calculating the Gamma-ray Luminosity Function Expected in Neutron Star Mergers' Jets | MND 1015 |
Spring 2024 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 | N/A | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Welcome Back Physics Majors Ice Cream Social | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 | CSUS Faculty 1: Michael Ray, Brianna Santangelo, Alexander Pettitt | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Research opportunities in the department | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 | Kinjal Dasbiswas | UC Merced | Active Mechanics of Cells and Tissues | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 | Inna Vishik | UC Davis | Quantum Materials and Adventures in Momentum Space | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024 | Gina Quan | San Jose State University | Supporting Physics Instruction through Learning Assistant–Faculty Partnerships | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 14, 2024 | CSUS Faculty 2: Rodolfo Barniol, Mikkel Jensen, Eliza Morris | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Research opportunities in the department | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024 | Francois Foucart | University of New Hampshire | From Chirps to Gold: Colliding Neutron Stars as a Laboratory for Extreme Physics | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024 | Alessandro Savino | UC Berkeley | The Distant Past of Nearby Galaxies | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024 | Samantha Abbott | UC Davis, Sac State Physics Alum, Class of 2018 | Search for Pair-Produced Vector-Like Quarks in the All-Hadronic Final State using the Boosted Event Shape Tagger with Full Run 2 Data Collected by CMS | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024 | Department Awards Night; Dr Eliza Morris | Sac State Physics Alum | Oh, the Places You’ll Go! From Particle Physics and Lasers to Biophysics and Education Research (and Everything in Between) | MND 1015 |
| *Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | Sacramento State Physics Major Senior Project 1 | Sac State Physics Majors | Xuan Gip - Using Monte Carlo Simulations to Analyze the Striped Jet Model Phillip Sommerfeld - Initial Studies of diHiggs Production Through the ttHH Mode in the ATLAS Detector |
MND 1015 |
| Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Sacramento State Physics Major Senior Project 2 | Sac State Physics Majors | Wesley Eby - Semi-Automated Analysis of Stress vs. Strain Data Jeydon Jennings - Permeability of Polylactic Acid (PLA) at Low Temperatures Justin Vian-Reagan - Measuring the Thermal Expansion of Polylactic Acid at Low Temperatures |
MND 1015 |
| *Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | Sacramento State Physics Major Senior Project 3 | Sac State Physics Majors | Ryan Caywood - From Black Hole to Afterglow Chevy Cecil - Idealistic Simulations of Multidimensional Quantum Many-body Systems |
MND 1015 |
Fall 2023 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
Spring 2023 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 | Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Mikkel Jensen, Alexander Pettitt | Sac State | Topic: Faculty-Student Research Opportunities | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023 | Brianna Santangelo | North Dakota State University | Measuring More than Physics Content Understanding | MND 1015 |
| *Tuesday, Feb 7, 2023 | Salem Mosleh | Harvard University | The Making of Flatland: From Bacteria to Batteries | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 | Felipe González | UC Berkeley | Quantum Simulations at Extreme Conditions: from Planetary Interiors to Dense Plasmas | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 | Claudio Savarese | Princeton University | Exploring the Frontier of Light Dark Matter | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Mar. 2, 2023 | Marina Radulaski | UC Davis | Quantum Nanophotonic Hardware with Integrated Color Centers | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Kathryn Grimm | CSU East Bay | Di-Higgs Production - Results from the ATLAS Particle Physics Experiment | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Hilary Hurst | San Jose State | Quantum State Engineering through Weak Measurement | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, March 30, 2023 | Na Ji | UC Berkeley | Imaging the Brain at High Spatiotemporal Resolution | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, April 6, 2023 | Wing To | CSU Stanislaus | Developing Undergraduate Research in High Energy Physics at Minority Serving Institutions with Multi-Institutional Consortium | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 | Pawan Kumar | University of Texas at Austin | Spectacular Explosive Events in the Universe Associated with Black Holes and Neutron Stars | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, April 20, 2023 | Grad school panel | Sac State | Panel consisting of Professor's Block, Lege, Morris and Moss. | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Apriil 27, 2023 | Sasha Asghari and Sigma Pi Sigma Awards Night | Sac State Physics Aluma Class of 2012 | Brownian Motion, or: One CSUS Physics Major's Path (so far) | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, May 4, 2023 | Sac State Physics Majors Senior Projects | Sac State | Anna Gagnebin: Exoplanet Model Atmospheres for JWST Spectroscopy Artyom Filippov: Phase Transition in the Diamond Lattice Using Quantum Monte Carlo |
MND 1015 |
| *Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | Sac State Physics Majors Senior Projects | Sac State | Kyle Miller: Evaluating the Thermal Conductivity of 3D-Printed PLA Nisha Wilson: Electrical Characterization of Pixel Modules for the ATLAS Group at Cern |
MND 1015 |
| Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Pei-Chun Ho | CSU Fresno | Intriguing High-TemperatureHigh-Magnetic-Field Phase Boundary due to Valence Transition in CeOs4Sb12 | MND 1015 |
Fall 2022 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 | Sac State Physics Majors Summer Research Summaries: Part 1 | Sac State | 5 short talks on student research experience over summer break | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 | Andrew Wetzel | UC Davis | Simulating the Formation of our Milky Way Galaxy | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 | Sac State Physics Majors Summer Research Summaries: Part 2 | Sac State | 5 short talks on student research experience over summer break | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Daniel Kasen | UC Berkeley | The Brightest Stellar Explosions | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, October 27,2022 | Justin Perron | CSU San Marcos | Probing Quantum Mechanics with Silicon Electronics | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, November 3, 2022 | Charli Sakari | San Francisco State | Galactic Archaeology: Unraveling the Complex Assembly Histories of Galaxies with Chemical Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, November 10, 2022 | Hyewon Pechkis | Chico State | Making a Difference in First Generation and Underrepresented Students' Education Through Research: Quantum Coherence in a Bose Thermal Gas | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, December 8, 2022 | Hannah Redhead and Kyle Granados |
Sac State Physics Majors' Senior Project Talks | Modelling the Afterglow and Prompt Emission of Neutron Star Mergers and Optimization of the κ2V Parameterization Metric in the HH→bbτhadτhad Decay Channel |
MND 1015 |
Spring 2022 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 3, 2022 | Sarah Loebman | UC Merced | Connecting Across Scales: Simulating & Understanding the Evolving Milky Way | This talk was not recorded for later viewing. |
| Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 | Short research presentations by our faculty: Mikkel Herholdt Jensen Michael Ray Rodolfo Barniol Duran |
Sac State | “Quantitative analysis of liquid-liquid phase separation in biological cell model systems”; Research in “The Coolest Place in Sacramento”; "Understanding Astrophysical Jets in Neutron Star Mergers" |
MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022 | Short research presentatiions by our faculty: Alexander Pettitt Joshua Moss |
Sac State | "The Structure of Spiral Galaxies" "ATLAS, CERN, and the LHC" |
MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 | Panel discussion on graduate school in astronomy: Professors Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Vera Margoniner, Alexander Pettitt, Christopher Taylor, and Kyle Watters | Sac State | MND 1015 | |
| Thursday, Mar. 3, 2022 | Brian Morsony | Stanislaus State | Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves | Recording of Dr. Morsony's talk |
| Thursday, Mar. 3, 2022 - *6pm | Alexander Pettitt | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | STEM Scholars Lecture, “Understanding the Grandeur of Spiral Galaxies.” | Questions can be directed to the Center for Science and Math Success at (916) 278-2789 or via email. |
| Thursday, March 10, 2022 | Nathan Erickson | Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. | Operating a Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor | Recording of Dr. Erickson's talk |
| Thursday, March 17, 2022 | Kevin Geoghegan | Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA) | The Defense MicroElectronics Activity: Your Local Neighborhood DoD Federal Laboratory | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, April 14, 2022 | David Smith | University of California, Santa Cruz | High-Energy Radiation from Thunderstorms | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, April 28, 2022 - also Awards Night | Rob Custodio | California Department of Public Health, Radiologic Health Branch; Sac State Alumnus Class of 2008 | So, You Want to Be a Health Physicist? An introduction to radiation followed by a sight-seeing tour of your friendly, local radiation control agency | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, May 5, 2022 | Mikkel Herholdt Jensen | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | The Role of Mechanics in the Gut-brain Axis | Recording of Dr. Jensen's talk |
| *Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | Prince Yadav | Sac State Physics major | Quantifying the Intestinal Tissue Mechanics in Drosophila Fruit Flies Carrying Genetic Mutations | No recording available for this talk. |
Fall 2021 Physics & Astronomy Virtual Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021 | Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew | UNAM / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | What Do Astronomical Observations Tell Us of Stars and Exoplanets? (Poster) (Abstract) | Recording of Dr. Gomez Maqueo Chew's talk |
| Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 | Alexandra Miller | Sonoma State University | How Hole-y is your Spacetime? aka How to Measure Topology in Quantum Gravity. | Recording of Dr. Alexandra Miller's talk |
| Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 | Daniel Hayden | Michigan State University | Combination of Heavy Resonance Searches Using the ATLAS Detector | Recording of Dr. Daniel Hayden's talk |
| Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 | John Davis | University of Alberta | Quasi-2D Superfluid 3He | Recording of Dr. John Davis's talk |
| Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021 | Nikhil Malvankar | Yale University | How Do Environmentally-important Bacteria Breathe Without Oxygen? Structures, Functions and Electron Transfer Mechanisms of Protein Nanowires. | Recording of Dr. Nikhil Malvankar's talk |
| Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 | Samantha Benincasa | Ohio State University | BESPOKE Galaxy Samples: A Tailor-made Approach to Galaxy Simulations | Recording of Dr. Benincasa's talk |
| Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 | Michael Loverude | CSU Fullerton | Beyond Procedures: Student Sensemaking in Mathematical Methods in Physics | Recording of Dr. Loverude's talk |
| Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 | Christina Pino (Sac State Physics Alumna, Class of 2020) and Tyler Johnson (Sac State Chemistry Alumnus, Class of 2014) | SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) | Experimental Control Systems at LCLS | Recording of C. Pino's and T. Johnson's talk |
| Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021 | Alexander Pettitt | Sac State Physics and Astronomy | How Stars Bite at the Mouths That Feed Them | Recording of Dr. Pettitt's talk |
Spring 2021 Physics & Astronomy Virtual Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 | Raffaella Margutti | Northwestern University | "The Renaissance of Astrophysics: a landscape of opportunities in the era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger investigations" | Recording of Dr. Margutti's talk |
| Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 | Richard Lebed | Arizona State University | "The XYZ Affair: Tales of the Third (and Fourth) Hadrons" | Recording of Dr. Lebed's talk |
| Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Amy Furniss | California State University - East Bay | “Coping with Impostor Syndrome” | Recording of Dr. Furniss's March 4 talk. |
| Thursday, March 11, 2021 | Amy Furniss | California State University - East Bay | “Let’s Talk About Implicit Bias” | Recording of Dr. Furniss's March 11 talk. |
| Thursday, March 18, 2021 | Ashkan Salamat | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | "Room Temperature Superconductivity in a Carbonaceous Sulfur Hydride" | Recording of Dr. Salamat's talk |
| Thursday, April 1, 2021 | Arvinder Sandhu | University of Arizona | "Attosecond Science: Resolving the electron dance" | Recording of Dr. Sandhu's talk |
| Thursday, April 8, 2021 | Paula Heron | University of Washington | "Improving Student Learning in Physics: The dual roles of conceptual understanding and reasoning ability" | Recording of Dr. Heron's talk |
| Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Raúl Herrera | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Sac State Physics Alumnus, Class of 2010 | "Applications of Operator Strength Decompositions to Computational Nuclear and Stellar Physics" | This talk was not recorded. |
| *Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | Ryann Hee | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project | "Measurement of the Low Temperature Porosity of 3D Printed Materials" | Recording of Ryann Hee's talk (beginning of recording) |
| *Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | Alejandro Reyes Borunda | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project | "Thermal Conductivity of Polylactic Acid at Low Temperatures" | Recording of Alejandro Reyes Borunda's talk (starting at 25:10) |
| Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Herminio Carrillo | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project | "Numerically Calculating the Time Evolution of an Off-Axis Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow" | Recording of Herminio Carrillo's talk (beginning of recording) |
| Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Jared Sutton | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project | "Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of an SO(N) Singlet Projector Model on the Pyrochlore Lattice" | Recording of Jared Sutton's talk (starting at 26:15) |
Fall 2020 Physics & Astronomy Virtual Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location | Time | Notes - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 1, 2020 | Dimitrios Giannios | Purdue University | The Journey of Relativistic Astrophysical Jets | Recording of Dr. Giannios's talk | 4:00-5:15 pm | |
| Thursday, October 8, 2020 | Shima Parsa | Rochester Institute of Technology | The Anomalous Origin of Polymer Enhanced Oil Recovery | Recording of Dr. Parsa's talk | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | |
| *Friday, October 16, 2020 | NSM Virtual Research Symposium 2020 | Sac State NSM majors | Line-up of Physics Majors presenting research posters | *3:00 - 7:00 pm | Line-up and times of student presenters is in the Title/Abstract column to your left | |
| Thursday, October 22, 2020 - this talk has been cancelled and replaced - see next row | Laura Chomiuk - Cancelled | Michigan State University | What's So Classical about Classical Novae? | This talk will be rescheduled for a future date | ||
| Thursday, October 22, 2020 | Jaroslav Trnka | UC Davis | Geometric Picture for Scattering Amplitudes | Recording of Dr. Trnka's talk | *4:05-5:15pm | |
| Thursday, October 29, 2020 | Allison Fleshman | Lawrence University | Adventures at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Tracking Single Molecules with a Really Fancy Laser for a Really Good Cause | Recording of Dr. Fleshman's talk | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | |
| *Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 2020 Student Research & Creative Activity Fall Poster Forum | Sac State (campus-wide) Undergraduate, Master's and Doctoral Students | Link to view ALL the posters from the Poster Forum | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | All posters have now been archived and are available to anyone to view via link to your left. | |
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 | Elizabeth Fernandez | Forbes Magazine Science Contributor | Being (and Talking to) a Scientific Journalist | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | ||
| Thursday, November 19, 2020 | Klaus van Benthem | University of California, Davis | Imaging Nanofunctionality: Evolution of Atomic Scale Defect Structures under Applied Stress | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | ||
| *Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | Nicholas Sanders | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Short Gamma Ray Bursts and the Intrinsic Nature of their Luminosity | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | ||
| *Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | Christopher Carnahan | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Analyzing Structures in Artificial Biological Cells | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | ||
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | Nathaniel Shepard | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Investigation of Shock-induced Star Formation in Merging Cluster ZwCl 0008.8+5215 | Recording of today's talks: Nathan's talk begins approximately 00:40 | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | Kathleen Scanlon | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Star Formation Rates in the Galaxy Cluster Merger Abell 3365 | Recording of today's talks: Katie's talk begins approximately 26:45 | 4:00 - 5:15 pm | |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | Jeffery Cavanaugh | Sac State Physics Major Senior Project Talk | Developing Instruments for a New Soft Condensed Matter lab: From Lasers to Guts | Recording of today's talks: Jeff's talk begins approximately 48:30 | 4:00 - 5:15 pm |
Spring 2020 Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 2/20/20 | Dr. Chris Weber | Santa Clara University | "Toward Ultrafast Control of Dirac Electrons: Coherent Phonons in a Topological Semimetal" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | |
| Tuesday, 3/3/20 | Dr. Jordan Stone | University of Arizona | "Understanding the Giant Planet Formation Process with Direct Imaging" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | |
| Thursday, 3/5/20 | Dr. Nicholas McConnell | Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators, UC Santa Cruz | "Supermassive Black Holes and Extreme Astrophysics in Massive Galaxies" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | |
| Tuesday, 3/10/20 | Dr. Triana Almeyda | University of Southampton, UK | "Mapping Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | |
| Thursday, 3/12/20 | Dr. Alex Pettitt | Hokkaido University, Japan | "The Structure and Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | |
| Tuesday, 5/5/20 | Brandon Thomas | Sac State Physics Major | "Modeling electron capture in simulated 3-D semiconductor detector" | Via Zoom | 3:30pm | Senior Project talks |
| Tuesday, 5/5/20 | Rafael Umeda | Sac State Physics Major | "Improvements and Application of the Quantum Anti-Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Monte Carlo Simulator to the Honeycomb Lattice" | Via Zoom | 4:30pm | Senior Project talks |
| Wednesday, 5/6/20 | Mason Bender | Sac State Physics Major | TBA | Via Zoom | 4:00pm | Senior Project talks |
| Wednesday, 5/6/20 | Kevin Coan | Sac State Physics Major | "Measuring the Low-Temperature Porosity of 3D printed Polylactic Acid" | Via Zoom | 4:45pm | Senior Project talks |
| Thursday, 5/7/20 | Jeremy Tollefson | Sac State Physics Major | "Designing an Advanced Lab for Undergraduate Physics: Heat Propagation and Thermal Diffusivity" | Via Zoom | 4:00pm | Senior Project talks |
| Friday, 5/8/20 | Joseph Moore | Sac State Physics Major | "Thermal Contraction of Polylactic Acid" | Via Zoom | 3:00pm | Senior Project talks |
Fall 2019 Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 8/27/19 | Alexander Tchekhovskoy | Northwestern University | Disks, Jets, and other Black Hole-powered Transients | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 9/12/19 | Wesley Frey | UC Davis - McClellan Nuclear Research Station | Public Health Consequences of a Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 9/26/19 | David Strubbe | University of California, Merced | Computational studies of materials for solar cells and space exploration | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 10/3/19 | Amy Furniss | California State University, East Bay | Studying the Most Extreme Processes in the Universe with VERITAS | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 10/17/19 | Riccardo Bassiri | Stanford University | LIGO, the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, and the Science that Makes it Possible | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 10/24/19 | Hernan Garcia | University of California, Berkeley | Physical Biology of Living Embryos | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 11/7/19 | Cassandra Paul | San Jose State | Equitable Grading Practices: grade-scales in introductory physics classes | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 11/14/19 | Jake Koralek | SLAC National Accelerator Lab | The Linac Coherent Light Source: SLAC’s two-mile-long X-ray laser | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM | |
| Thursday, 12/5/19 | Elizabeth Gabler | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | NASA’s DART Mission | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15PM |
Spring 2019 Colloquium Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/14/19 | Sydney Schreppler | University of California, Berkeley | Building, Measuring, and Entangling Superconduction Qubits |
| 3/7/19 | Tammy Ma | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Creating a Star on Earth: Ignition Experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) |
| 3/28/19 | Lauren Tompkins | Stanford University | The World's Most Complicated Game of Bingo: Pattern Recognition at the Large Hadron Collider |
| 4/4/19 | Sattar Taheri-Araghi | California State University, Northridge | Dying Bacteria Absorb Antibiotics to Help Survival of a Population Under Attack by Antimicrobial Peptides |
| 4/11/19 | Krista Lynne Smith | Stanford University | Exoplanet Satellites and High Energy Astrophysics |
| 4/18/19 | Joel Fajans | University of California, Berkeley | Fundamental Tests with Antihydrogen Atoms |
| 4/25/19 | AJ Sisneros | Luther Burbank High School, Sac State Alumnus Class of 2011 | Teaching Physics: a persepctive from a high school physics teacher |
| 5/2/19 | John Jaycee Cao | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Improving Electrostatics Labs by Identifying Student's Conceptual Difficulties |
| 5/2/19 | Andrew Pace | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Grasping Physics on the Autism Spectrum |
| 5/7/19 | Jeremy Rowe | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Magnetic Field Measurements of the Niobium-Tin Quadrupole Magnet for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Program |
| 5/7/19 | Sonny Shachar | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Gamma-Ray Bursts: Unveiling the Mystery of the Gamma-Ray Emission |
| 5/9/19 | Andrew Fruneaux | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Simulated Annealing of Nanowire Structures using a Quantum-Based Model |
| 5/9/19 | Kai Hu | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | The Global Feature Extractor: An Upgrade to the ATLAS Calorimeter Trigger |
| 5/9/19 | Kenia Medina | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project Talk | Data Quality Monitoring Display for the FLIC Board in the ATLAS FAST TracKer Trigger at CERN |
Fall 2018 Colloquium Schedule
| Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| John Gillaspy | National Science Foundation | How NOT to get a grant from NSF |
| Helene Flohic | University of the Pacific | Observations of Supermassive Black Holes in Transition States |
| Rae Robertson-Anderson | University of San Diego | Untangling the Mechanics of Entangled Biopolymer Composites |
| Laura McWilliams | California State Senate, Energy Policy Committee | From Lasers to the Legislature |
| John Estrada | Head of eFX Trading at Credit Suisse, Sac State Physics Alumnus Class of 1995 | Out of the Box, Physics in Finance |
| Derek Kimball | California State University, East Bay | Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Magnetic Resonance Experiments |
| Christopher Garnier | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project | |
| Dustin Johnson | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project | |
| Gino Fabricante | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project | |
| Matthew Idler | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project | |
| Danielle Taylor | Sac State Physics Major - Senior Project |