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Current and Past Colloquium Schedules
Spring 2021 Physics & Astronomy Virtual Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location | |
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| 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. 11, 2021 | No colloquium | ||||
| 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, Feb. 25, 2021 | No colloquium | ||||
| Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Amy Furniss | California State University - East Bay | “Coping with Impostor Syndrome” | via Zoom - talk will be recorded | |
| Thursday, March 11, 2021 | Amy Furniss | California State University - East Bay | “Let’s Talk About Implicit Bias” | via Zoom - talk will be recorded | |
| Thursday, March 18, 2021 | Ashkan Salamat | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Topic: Recent observations of room temperature superconductivity | via Zoom | |
| Thursday, March 25 | No Colloquium | SPRING BREAK | |||
| Thursday, April 1, 2021 | Arvinder Sandhu | University of Arizona | Topic: Attosecond Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, and Nanomaterials |
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| Thursday, April 8, 2021 | Paula Heron | University of Washington | "Improving Student Learning in Physics: The dual roles of conceptual understanding and reasoning ability" |
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| Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Raúl Herrera | Berkeley Lab, Sac State Physics Alumnus, Class of 2010 | |||
| Thursday, April 29, 2021 | |||||
| Thursday, May 6, 2021 | Senior Project Talks | via Zoom | |||
| Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Senior Project Talks | via Zoom |
Fall 2020 Physics & Astronomy Virtual Colloquium Schedule
| Day/Date | Speaker | Institution | Title/Abstract | Location | Time | Notes - |
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| 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. |
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| Thursday, November 12, 2020 | Elizabeth Fernandez | Forbes Magazine Science Contributor | Being (and Talking to) a Scientific Journalist | Dr. Fernandez's talk is not available for future viewing. | 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 | Dr. van Benthem's talk is not available for future viewing. | 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 |
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| 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 | |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) 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 |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) 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 |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) 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 |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) Wednesday, 5/6/20 |
Mason Bender | Sac State Physics Major | TBA | Via Zoom | 4:00pm | Senior Project talks |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) 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 |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) 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 |
| *CLOSED to the public. (Open only to physics majors & faculty.) Friday, 5/8/20 |
Joseph Moore | Sac State Physics Major | "Thermal Contraction of Polylactic Acid" | Via Zoom | 3:00pm | Senior Project talks |