Spring 2020 Physics Seminars

Supported by the Eddy and April Lucas Fund. Talks are open to all for free

Wednesdays 2:00 to 3:00 PM, in Jabara Hall room 128.

Seminars after Spring break will be canceled or online through Zoom. The link to join the Zoom meeting online is https://wichitastate.zoom.us/j/3169785224.

Date Speaker Title Slides Audio
22 Jan. --- --- --- ---
29 Jan. SPS room (Jabara 030) at 12:30-3:00 Physics Welcome Back lunch --- ---
5 Feb. Prof. Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University The accelerating expanding universe: dark matter, dark energy, and Einstein’s cosmological constant, or why Jim Peebles was awarded half of the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize pdf  
12 Feb. --- --- --- ---
19 Feb. --- --- --- ---
26 Feb. Prof. Loren Greenman, Kansas State University Molecular Physics at the Attosecond timescale pptx  
4 Mar. Prof. Mat Muether, Wichita State University New Technologies for Measuring Massive Neutrinos From the NOvA and DUNE Experiments    
11 Mar. --- --- --- ---
17 Mar. 4:00p.m Prof. Charles Beichman, Caltech CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AT CALTECH & NASA --- ---
18 Mar. Prof. Charles Beichman, Caltech CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AT CALTECH & NASA --- ---
25 Mar. --- Spring Break --- ---
1 Apr. Kristyn Harpool (by Zoom, see above) From Shocker to Medical Physicist: How My WSU Experiences Shaped My Career (OCSRI, Tulsa, OK)   youtube
8 Apr. Prof. Ian Lewis, University of Kansas (by Zoom, see above) The Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider pdf youtube
15 Apr. Rejwan Ali, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (by Zoom, see above) Quantum Signature of Chemical Bond-Breaking in Force Field Based Molecular Potentials pdf youtube
22 Apr. (Earth day) (Prof. Michael Ranney, UC Berkeley) (postponed to Fall 2020) --- ---
29 Apr. --- --- --- ---
6 May --- --- --- ---

Physics seminars in past semesters