Physics Colloquia Titles and Speakers
Friday, 9 December 2016
Self-assembly of DNA Nanomechanical Devices
Dr. Carlos Castro, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University
Friday, 30 November 2016
Investigation of Membrane Receptors’ Oligomers Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Multiphoton Microscopy in Living Cells
Ashish Mishra, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Friday, 11 November 2016
Dichotomy of Strong and Weak Correlation Physics: An Example of Sr(3)Ru(2)O(7)
Dr. Shantanu Mukherjee, SUNY – Binghamton
Wednesday, 11 November 2016
Reduction of Graphene Oxide & Soluble Molybdenum Oxide Mixture in High Vacuum for Production of Materials for Energy Storage Devices
Binod Manandhar, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Friday, 4 November 2016
New Results from the WFC3 IR Spectroscopic Survey
Dr. Claudia Scarlata, Assoc. Professor – School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Minnesota
Friday, 30 September 2016
The Dynamic Lives of Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies
Dr. Laura Blecha, Director, JSI Prize Postdoc, Dept. of Astronomy – Univ. of Maryland (College Park)
Friday, 16 September 2016
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question
Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director, Berkeley SETI Research Center & Project Director, Breakthrough Listen Initiative
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Spatial Inhomogeneous Barrier Heights at Graphene/Semiconductor Schottky Junctions
Dushyant Tomer, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Reconstruction of 3D Image for Particles by the Method of Angular Correlations from XFEL Data
Sung Soon Kim, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Symmetry and Reconstruction of Particle Structure in X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)
Sandi Wibowo, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Friday, 13 May 2016
Monsters in the Dark: High Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy
Alex Urban, UWM Physics – PhD Candidate
Friday, 6 May 2016
Early Star Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization
Dr. Daniel P. Stark, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, The University of Arizona
Friday, 22 April 2016
Making Movies of Molecules – The Science and Application of X-rays Lasers
Dr. Uwe Bergmann, Distinguished Staff Scientist, Stanford PULSE Institute; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Intersections of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
Luiz H. M. da Silva, UWM Physics PhD Candidate
Friday, 8 April 2016
Bone Tissue Composition and Heterogeneity At the Micro- and Nano-scale
Dr. Adele L. Boskey, PhD, Starr Chair in Mineralized Tissue Research – Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology and Professor, Biochemistry – Weill Cornell Medical and Graduate College of Cornell Univ.; Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Cornell Ithaca & City College of New York (CUNY)
Friday, 1 April 2016
Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment
Dr. Clifford Will, University of Florida & Institu d’ Astrophysique de Paris
Friday, 25 March 2016
Superconductivity of High-Spin Electrons
Dr. Philip M. R. Brydon, Lecturer, Dept. of Physics – University of Otago (New Zealand)
Friday, 11 March 2016
Nanoscale Raman Miroscopy
Dr. Renee R. Frontiera, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Friday, 4 March 2016
The Lifecycle of Supermassive Black Holes
Dr. Jenny Greene, Assistant Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Friday, 26 February 2016
Observation of Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Merger
Dr. Patrick Brady, Professor, UWM Dept. of Physics
Friday, 5 February 2016
Colloidal Crystals: Structure and Dynamics
Dr. Ivan A. Vartaniants, DESY (Hamburg, Germany), National Research Nuclear Univ., MEPhi (Moscow)
Friday, 29 January 2016
Research with Free-Electron Lasers: New horizons for ultrafast X-ray sciences
Dr. Christoph Bostedt, Argonne National Laboratory, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy/Northwestern Univ.