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2023

Dec

04

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "What are REU programs? How can I apply?" - Prof. Joseph Barranco

Mon, December 04, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Dec

01

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Shivam Gangwani - "Search for a Light Z Boson in the Higgs Phase of Su(2)xU(1) Lattice Gauge Higgs Theories"

Fri, December 01, 01:30 pm

Burke Hall 237
Dec

01

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Anass Oualla - "Phase Diagram of the Electroweak Gauge-Higgs Theory Using a Gauge-Invariant Order Parameter"

Fri, December 01, 09:00 am

Blakeslee Room, 10th Floor, Thornton Hall
Nov

30

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, November 30, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Nov

29

M.S. Physics Project Talk: Leonard Lupin-Jimenez - "Artificial Intelligence for the Simulation of Highly Nonlinear Physical Systems: Overview and Emphasis on Geophysical Flows"

Wed, November 29, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 428
Nov

27

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Nano-optical Imaging of 2D Materials and Cells" - Dr. Dmitri Voronine (U. South Florida)

Mon, November 27, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Nov

16

SPACE invites you to Friendsgiving Potluck!

Thu, November 16, 06:30 pm

TBD
Nov

13

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Monitoring Extrasolar Climate in 4D: Characterizing Brown Dwarf Atmospheres with HST and JWST" - Dr. Ben Lew (NASA AMES/BAERI)

Mon, November 13, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Nov

08

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Joshua Yaldaei - "Analyzing the Chemical Abundances of Low-alpha Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way Halo"

Wed, November 08, 04:00 pm

Zoom
Nov

07

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Amir Hashemizad - "Anderson Localization in Disordered Arrays of Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides"

Tue, November 07, 09:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor Thornton Hall
Nov

06

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "From Astrophysics to Data Science" - Dr. Jeffrey Silverman (Senior Data Scientist, Mozilla)

Mon, November 06, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Oct

31

Halloween Pumpkin Drop!

Tue, October 31, 12:00 pm

Cesar Chavez Building
Oct

30

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Galactic Archeology with Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: Prospects with Large-Scale Surveys" - Dr. Christian Aganze (Postdoc, Stanford U.)

Mon, October 30, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Oct

26

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, October 26, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Oct

23

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Scalable Quantum Nanophotonics: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping" - Prof. Marina Radulaski (Assoc. Prof., UC Davis)

Mon, October 23, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Oct

13

Ferguson Observatory Camping Trip - Organized by SPACE: Students of Physics & Astronomy - A Community for Everyone

Fri, October 13, 05:00 pm

Ferguson Observatory, Kenwood, CA
Oct

09

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Galactic Archaeology via high-resolution spectroscopy of stellar streams" - Dr. Tatyana Sitnova (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Mon, October 09, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Oct

02

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Towards EeV Neutrino Astronomy with GRAND" - Dr. Kumiko Kotera (Deputy Director, IAP Paris)

Mon, October 02, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Sep

28

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, September 28, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Sep

25

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "The Pleiades Experience: Intercultural Connections and the Science of Ancestral Timekeeping" - Dr. Isabel Hawkins (Senior Scientist, Exploratorium)

Mon, September 25, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Sep

18

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Faculty Mini-Talks II

Mon, September 18, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Sep

11

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Faculty Mini-Talks I

Mon, September 11, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Sep

08

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Alan Chew - "Radial Velocity Analysis with the Leuschner Échelle Specgtrograph"

Fri, September 08, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor, Thornton Hall
Aug

28

PHYS/ASTR Department Meet-and-Greet

Mon, August 28, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall Patio
Aug

09

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Ricardo Flores - "Investigating Helium White Dwarf Candidates in the Globular Cluster NGC 6752"

Wed, August 09, 02:00 pm

Zoom
Aug

08

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Rohit Chopra - "Towards a Full Two-Dimensional Analysis of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies"

Tue, August 08, 02:00 pm

Zoom
Aug

07

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Priyam Mavani - "AN INFORMATION CONTENT BASED APPROACH TO IDENTIFY MOLECULES IN JWST DATA"

Mon, August 07, 11:00 am

Zoom
Aug

01

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Sojin Han - "Extending the Physics Reach of Tonne-Scale Dark Matter Detectors"

Tue, August 01, 07:00 pm

Zoom
Jul

13

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Allison Swart - "High-Resolution Integrated Light Spectroscopy of M31 Globular Clusters B006 and B403"

Thu, July 13, 09:00 am

Zoom
Jun

29

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Vandana Kaushik - "Finding Extra Tidal Stars and the Percentage of Tidal Stripping of Palomar 8"

Thu, June 29, 02:00 pm

Zoom
Jun

27

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Dilpreet Kaur - A Boutique Chemical Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Stars Beyond the APOGEE Metallicity Grid"

Tue, June 27, 01:00 pm

Zoom
Jun

22

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Nick Provenzano - "Creating Inclusive Environments Through Peer Mentoring"

Thu, June 22, 02:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th Floor
Jun

21

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Preet Agnihotri - "Giant Radio Galaxies in a MeerKAT Legacy Survey"

Wed, June 21, 01:00 pm

Zoom
May

25

Physics & Astronomy Graduation Celebration

Thu, May 25, 05:00 pm

Studio One, Creative Arts Building 128
May

24

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Ken Luu - "Gamma-Ray Bursts and Binary Progenitors"

Wed, May 24, 08:00 am

Zoom (email barranco@sfsu.edu for Zoom link)
May

23

M.S. Astronomy Thesis Talk: Easton Honaker - "Identifying Optical Counterpart Candidates to Faint X-ray Sources in Globular Clusters"

Tue, May 23, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
May

15

M.S. Astronomy Thesis Talk: Brian Merino - "Resolving Sub-Kiloparsec Scales in Star-Forming Regions within Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift"

Mon, May 15, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
May

12

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Huy Quoc Minh Ho - "The Substrates and Temperature Dependent Behavior of Layered MoS2 from Quantum Mechanical View"

Fri, May 12, 11:00 am

Thornton Hall 434
May

08

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Tailoring and Manipulating Symmetry in Functional Nanomaterials at the Atomic and Nano-scale" - Dr. Aiming Yan (Asst. Prof., U.C. Santa Cruz)

Mon, May 08, 03:30 pm

Thornton 411
May

05

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Dominic Ditmyer - "Single-Photon Sources for Applications in Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits“

Fri, May 05, 11:00 am

Thornton Hall 434
Apr

27

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, April 27, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

26

M.S. Astronomy Thesis Talk: Cynthia Ibrahim - “Exploring Benefits, Challenges, and Relational Dynamics in an Expanding Learning Assistant Program”

Wed, April 26, 01:00 pm

Thornton Hall 434
Apr

24

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: “Engineering Chalcogenides and Topological Semimetals for Energy-Efficient Memory and Interconnects” - Asir Khan (PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford U.)

Mon, April 24, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

22

Explore SF State

Sat, April 22, 09:00 am

1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
Apr

18

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Andrew Freeman - "Dilaton Chiral Perturbation Theory at the Next-to-Leading Order"

Tue, April 18, 02:00 pm

Thornton Hall, Blakeslee Room, 10th Floor
Apr

17

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: “Cosmic Hotspots as Probes of Ultra-high Energy Particle Physics” - Dr. Soubhik Kumar (Postdoc, U.C. Berkeley & LLNL)

Mon, April 17, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall
Apr

03

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: “The Search for Other Earths” - Dr. Megan Bedell (Assoc. Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, New York)

Mon, April 03, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

30

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, March 30, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

27

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Skyglow, Satellites and Space Junk: Cultural Astronomy and the Transformation of our Night Sky" - Jessica Heim (PhD candidate, U. Southern Queensland)

Mon, March 27, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

08

SETI Live - Astronomers for Planet Earth: There is no Planet B

Wed, March 08, 03:00 pm

Online: https://www.seti.org/event/seti-live-astronomers-planet-earth-there-no-planet-b
Mar

06

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: High-Energy Astrophysics.

Mon, March 06, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Feb

23

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, February 23, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Feb

20

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Galaxy formation & evolution.

Mon, February 20, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Feb

13

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Exoplanetary Science.

Mon, February 13, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Feb

06

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Galaxy formation & evolution.

Mon, February 06, 03:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor