Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2021

Dr. Renee Sher and Dr. Fred Ellis

Thursdays, 11.50 am - 1.10 pm

Exley 058 (*except where noted)

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept

09

Lea Ferreira dos Santos

Yeshiva University
Quantum Chaos:  Recent Developments and Applications to Realistic Many-Body Systems

Sept

30

Reika Katsumata

University of Massachusetts
Multi-Scale Dynamics of 'All-Interfacial' Polymer Nanocomposites

Oct

7

Ying Li

University of Connecticut
Machine Learning Accelerated Molecular Design of High-Temperature Polymers:  Shifting from Thomas Edison to Iron Man

Oct

14

Physics Open House*

See the labs; meet the department; hear about how to major or minor in physics.

*Meets in Exley 150

Oct

21

Daniel Mittleman

Brown University
Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Nanoscopy

Oct

28

Daniel Wang*

University of Massachusetts

Interstellar Magnetism of the Galactic Center and Beyond

*Meeting over zoom on your own, or together in Exley 058

Nov

4

SeungYeon Kang

University of Connecticut
Use of Light in Advanced Additive Manufacturing:  From Digital Light Processing to Ultrafast Laser Direct Writing

Nov

18

Joseph Schindler

University of California, Santa Cruz
Entanglement Entropy and the Statistical Mechanics of Coarse-Graining

Dec

2

 Walter F. Smith

Haverford College
Solar Cell Activity and Photoconductivity of Self-assembling Nanowires and of Modified DNAs

Dec

9

 Jan Wiersig*

Otto Von Guericke Universitat Magdeburg

Non-Hermitian Optics in Microcavities:  from Exceptional Points to Exceptional Sensors

*meeting over zoom on your own, or together in Exley 058