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Fall 2024 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - 4pm
Scroll down for past colloquia, some which have links to recordings in case you weren't able to attend on the day.
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, Aug. 29, 2024 | N/A | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | Introduction session for new students | MND 1015 |
| 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 | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 | Vishal Gajjar | UC Berkeley, SETI | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 | Erika Holmbeck | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024 | Ali Behzadan | Sac State Mathematics | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 | MND 1015 | |||
| Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 | MND 1015 | |||
| Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024 | MND 1015 | |||
| Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 | Eric Ma | UC Berkeley | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 | Daniel Jontof-Hutter | University of the Pacific | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 | Atul Parikh | UC Davis | TBD | MND 1015 |
| Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 | No talks - Thanksgiving | - | - | - |
| Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 | Sacramento State Physics Major Senior Project [tentative] | Sac State Physics & Astronomy | TBD | 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 |
| Thursday, May 9, 2024 | No talk scheduled | - | - | - |
| Thursday, May 16, 2024 | No talks - Finals Week | - | - | - |
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 |
| Thur., May 18, 2023 | No talks - Finals Week | N/A | N/A |
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 |
| CANCELED - Thursday, November 17, 2022 | Pei-Chun Ho | Fresno State | Talk is postponed until Spring 2023 | |
| CANCELED - Friday, December 2, 2022 | Pawan Kumar | University of Texas at Austin | Talk is postponed until Spring 2023 | |
| 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 | |
| *CANCELLED Tuesday, 3/17/20 |
Dr. Curtis Asplund | Franklin & Marshall College, PA | "Dialogue Concerning Two Great Theories" | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | CANCELLED |
| *CANCELLED Thursday, 3/19/20 |
Dr. Dimitrios Giannios | Purdue University | "The Journey of Relativistic Astrophysical Jets" | Will be rescheduled for an upcoming semester | CANCELLED - Rescheduled for October 1, 2020. | |
| *CANCELLED Thursday, 4/23/20 |
Rob Custodio | Sac State Physics Class of 2008, Radiologic Health Branch, California Dept. of Public Health | CANCELLED | MND 1015 | 4:00 - 5:15pm | CANCELLED |
| 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 |