Spring 2020 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Note: All colloquia will be held on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

LSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Archives

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Host
Jan. 16	Understanding how the brightest objects in the Universe shine	Ioannis Liodakis	Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University	Michael Cherry
Jan. 21	What is beyond the “visible” galaxy?	Jiang-Tao Li	University of Michigan Astronomy	Michael Cherry
Jan. 23	Astrophysics from the Maw of The Monster	Peter Maksym	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Michael Cherry
Jan. 30	Understanding Cosmic Explosions with Sight and Sound	Eric Burns	NASA Goddard	Michael Cherry
Feb. 6	LSU Quantum Lecture Attosecond Probing of Atomic and Solid-State Dynamics	Steve Leone	University of California at Berkley	Rongying Jin / Ward Plummer
TBA	POSTPONED Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime	Kip Thorne	Caltech	Jorge Pullin
Feb. 20	Astronomers Turned Data Scientists	Chris Lindner	Indeed.com	Manos Chatzopoulos
Feb. 27	Lessons from physics education research: From the introductory classroom to reforming inter-disciplinary research	Cyrill Slezak	Utah Valley University	Juana Moreno
Feb. 28 - March 1	Mark Jarrell Memorial Symposium on Computational Condensed Matter Physics A Celebration of life and work of Mark Jarrell (1960-2019)		Location: LSU CCT Digital Media Center Theatre	LSU Center for Computation & Technology LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy
March 5	POSTPONED The Blind Men and the Elephant, or the Search for Origins of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays	Pierre Sokolsky	The University of Utah	James Matthews
Wednesday March 11, 5 p.m.	Hearne Eminent Lecture - Wed., March 11, 5p.m. Quantum Computational Supremacy and Its Applications	Scott Aaronson	The University of Texas at Austin	Jonathan Dowling
March 19	POSTPONED Clues to Globular Cluster Formation	David Nataf	Johns Hopkins	Matthew Penny
March 26	Spring Break
April 2	POSTPONED Searching for Signs of Life Beyond the Solar System with the Coming Generation of Extremely Large Telescopes	Andrew Szentgyogyi	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Jim Matthews
April 9	TBA	Cristian Batista	The University of at Knoxville	Ward Plummer
April 16 ZOOMOQUIUM	The Common Envelope Binary Interaction: the problem we used to have solved. Join Zoom Meeting https://lsu.zoom.us/j/854899826?pwd=dGlCa1AzOWFGeGpXVGRuekdrbERudz09	Orsola De Marco	Macquarie University Sydney, Australia	Geoff Clayton
April 23 ZOOMOQUIUM	Magnetism in Quasicrystals: Outlook and Challenges Join Zoom Meeting https://lsu.zoom.us/j/8705147953	Alan I. Goldman	Department of Physics and Astronomy Iowa State University Ames Laboratory, U.S. DOE	Rongying Jin
April 30	TBA	Brian Maple	University of California, San Diego	Ward Plummer