Spring 2021 Physics Seminars
Supported by the Eddy and April Lucas Fund. Talks are open to all for free
Wednesdays 2:00 to 3:00 PM
Seminars will be online through Zoom. The meeting id is 94420060756 with passcode 128.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb. | --- | --- | --- |
| 10 Feb. | Dr. Oleg Kamaev, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd, Chalk River , K0J 1P0, Canada | Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' Initiatives in Application of Cosmic Muons to Nuclear Security and Safeguards | not available |
| 17 Feb. | Prof. Terrance Figy, Wichita State University | Introduction to High-Performance Computing at WSU | YouTube |
| 24 Feb. | Prof. Michael Coughlin, University of Minnesota | A Technical Ecosystem to Enable Multi-Messenger Astrophysics | YouTube |
| 3 Mar. | Dr. P. Albright, HRL | A Career in Physics Outside the Academy | YouTube |
| 10 Mar. | Dr. Shannon Ray, AFRL | The Purification of 3-Level Quantum States and Surfaces of Ignorance | YouTube |
| 17 Mar. | Prof. Fred Sarazin, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO | The Search for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origins | YouTube |
| 24 Mar. | Prof. Mercedes Peniccia, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland | High-Precision Measurements with the AMS Experiment on the ISS | YouTube |
| 31 Mar. | Prof. KC Kong, University of Kansas | Particle Physics in the Computing Frontier | YouTube |
| 7 Apr. | Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Marine Biological Laboratory | Leveraging Computer Vision with Advanced Optical Imaging | YouTube |
| 14 Apr. | Prof. Karl Unruh, University of Delaware | Ultrafast Optical Pump/X-ray Probe Measurements of Nanostructured Solids | YouTube |
| 21 Apr. | Dr. Linda Cremonesi, Queen Mary University of London | The Secrets of Neutrino Interactions in the NOvA experiment | YouTube |
| 22 Apr. 2:00 PM Earthday | Prof. Michael Ranney, UC Berkeley (look for connection information here!) | Ten Quick, Tested Ways to Reduce Denial of Human-Caused Global Warming: Skeptics Welcome! | YouTube |
| 27 Apr. 12:00 PM | Prof. Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University, France (Watkin's Public Talk) Event Poster | Making Sense of the Quantum: Do Things Exist by Themselves? | YouTube |
| 28 Apr. 2:00 PM | Prof. Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University, France (Watkin's speaker) Event Poster | Black Holes and Quantum Theory: Can a Black Hole Become White? | YouTube |
| 5 May | Prof. Christian Bauer, Theory Group Leader, PI Quantum Computing, Physics Division LBNL | Quantum Computing for Collider Physics using Effective Field Theories | YouTube |