Physics Colloquia Titles and Speakers
Friday, 11 December 2015
Magnetic Toys in the Sky
Dr. Yuri Levin, Assoc. Professor & ARC Future Fellow, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Friday, 4 December 2015
Untangling Conformational Heterogeneity in Allosteric Enzymes
Dr. Nozomi Ando, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
Monday, 23 November 2015
Time-Resolved, Near Atomic Resolution Structural Studies at the Free Electron Laser
Jason Tenboer, PhD Candidate/UWM Dept. of Physics
Friday, 20 November 2015
The Effect of Mechanical Force on the Free-Energy Landscape of Proteins in Single Molecule Experiments
Dr. Ronen Berkovich, Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Ilze Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev (Israel)
Friday, 13 November 2015
SPIN-UP Findings Applied Revive Faltering Department
Dr. Eric Hagedorn, Upper School Physical Science Teacher, University School of Milwaukee
Friday, 6 November 2015
The Magnetism of Massive Stars
Dr. Véronique Petit, Asst. Professor of Physics & Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Friday, 30 October 2015
Outbursts Around Dead Stars: How Dwarf Novae Are Testing Our Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Theory of Accretion Disks
Dr. Omer Blaes, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California – Santa Barbara
Friday, 16 October 2015
Quaternary Structure and Binding Interfaces of the M2 Muscarinic Receptor as Determined from FRET Measurements in Living Cells and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Koki Yokoi, PhD Candidate/UWM Dept. of Physics
Friday, 9 October 2015
The Fate of Ionizing Radiation from Massive Stars in Star-Forming Galaxies
Dr. Sally Oey, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan
Friday, 18 September 2015
Structural Mechanisms of DNA Replication Restart
Dr. James L. Keck, Dept. of Molecular Chemistry, UW-Madison
Friday, 11 September 2015
The Cyclying of Baryons Between Stars and Circumgalactic Space
Dr. Hsiao-Wen Chen, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Kevli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
Thursday, 9 June 2015
Tunneling Experiments with Dirac Electrons in Graphene Heterojunctions
Shivani Rajput, PhD Candidate/UWM Dept. of Physics
Monday, 18 May 2015
Myosin V: A Molecular Motor designed for intracellular cargo transport
Dr. M. Yusuf Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Mutant Ribosomes and the Action of Antibiotics
Dr. Hasan Demirci, Research Associate, Stanford PULSE Institute; Research Associate, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lighthouse, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA
Friday, 8 May 2015
New Views of Black Hole Disk Winds
Dr. Jon M. Miller, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Broken Time-Reversal in High-Tc Superconductors
Manoj Kumar Kashyap, PhD Candidate/UWM Dept. of Physics
Friday, 1 May 2015
Modeling Binary Black Hole Systems with Black Hole Perturbation Theory
Thomas M. Linz, PhD Candidate/UWM Dept. of Physics
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Uncovering the nano-mechanics of giant muscle protein titin using a novel single molecule approach
Dr. Ionel Popa, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
Monday, 27 April 2015
Towards in vivo NMR: Putting prions in context
Dr. Kendra King Frederick, Postdoctoral Scholar, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Friday, 24 April 2015
Hunting the First Generation of Stars and Galaxies
Dr. Anna Frebel, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, 17 April 2015
Measuring the Neutron-Star Equation of State Using Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Leslie E. Wade, UWM Physics PhD Candidate
Thursday, 16 April 2015
When Galaxies Collide: the road to gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays
Sydney Chamberlin, UWM Physics PhD Candidate
Monday, 13 April 2015
Physical Search for Gravitational Waves from Sub-solar Mass Binary Systems
Madeline Wade, UWM Physics PhD Candidate
Friday, 10 April 2015
How Culture Helps or Hinders You and Your Colleagues
Dr. Edmund Bertschinger, Dept. of Physics & The Institute Community & Equity Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, 27 March 2015
NASA Science Update
Dr. Madeline Thaller, Assistant Director for Science at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Monday, 23 March 2015
Physical Modeling of Sound – From Structure-Preserving to Inaudible Sources
Dr. Georg Essl, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Friday, 13 March 2015
A Century of Superfluidity & the Evolution from BCS to BEC: from Mercury to Neutron Stars, from Nuclei to Ultra-cold Atoms
Dr. Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo, Dept. of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, 5 March 2015
Astrobiology and Anomalies: Applications of Machine Learning in Astronomical Surveys
Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, Adler Planetarium