Fall 2024 Colloquia
Colloquia are at 3:30 - 4:45 Pacific time. This semester, most colloquia will be in-person, on-campus in the new building SEC 210. Some colloquia will be online and streamed via Zoom. Note that in-person, on-campus colloquia will not be streamed online. Prof. Oscar Macías is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2024.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/26/2024 | No colloquium - First day of instruction |
| 09/02/2024 | No colloquium - Labor Day holiday |
| 09/09/2024 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks I Professors Macías, Brewer, Sakari, Coble |
| 09/16/2024 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks II Professors Xu, Man, Barranco, Gonzales |
| 09/23/2024 | Dr. Nicholas Rodd (Divisional Fellow, LBNL) "Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes" |
| 09/30/2024 | Dr. Ben Indini (Vera Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Santa Cruz) "From Icy Moons to Giant Planets: Exploring the Deep Structure of Solar System Worlds with Tidal Observations" |
| 10/07/2024 | Dr. Michelle Sinapuelas (Asst. Prof., SF State Chemistry & Biochemistry) "Promoting Student Success in Chemistry" |
| 10/14/2024 | Dr. Brianna Lacy (51 Peg b Fellow, U.C. Santa Cruz) "Exploring the Diversity of Cold Worlds" |
| 10/21/2024 | Dr. Raja GuhaTakurta (Professor, U.C. Santa Cruz) "The Shadow the Scientists program and two recent highlights from my research group" |
| 10/28/2024 | |
| 11/04/2024 |
Dr. Kim Stanley Robinson (Author) Special time & place: 1:30-3:00 in Seven Hills Conference Center. Co-hosted by Climate HQ. |
| 11/11/2024 | No colloquium - Veterans Day holiday |
| 11/18/2024 | Dr. Rob Kolasinski (Research Scientist, Sandia National Lab) "Making Fusion Happen: Evaluating the Performance of Next-Generation Plasma-Facing Materials" |
| 11/25/2024 | No colloquium - Thanksgiving week-long holiday |
| 12/02/2024 | Dr. Raul Briceno (Asst. Professor, U.C. Berkeley) "Modern-Day Nuclear Physics" |
| 12/09/2024 | Prof. Joe Barranco and PHYS/ASTR REU students "What are REU programs? How can I apply?" |
Fall 2023 Colloquia
Colloquia are at 3:30 - 4:45 Pacific time. This semester, most colloquia will be in-person, on-campus in Thornton Hall 411. Some colloquia will be online and streamed via Zoom. Note that in-person, on-campus colloquia will not be streamed online. Prof. Eileen Gonzales is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2023.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/28/2023 | Physics & Astronomy Meet-and-Greet Patio in front of Thornton Hall |
| 09/04/2023 | Labor Day (No colloquium) |
| 09/11/2023 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks I |
| 09/18/2023 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks II |
| 09/25/2023 | Dr. Isabel Hawkins (Senior Scientist, Exploratorium) "The Pleiades Experience: Intercultural Connections and the Science of Ancestral Timekeeping" |
| 10/02/2023 | Dr. Kumiko Kotera (Deputy Director, IAP Paris) "Towards EeV Neutrino Astronomy with GRAND" |
| 10/09/2023 | Tatyana Sitnova (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences) "Galactic Archaeology via High-resolution Spectroscopy of Stellar Streams" |
| 10/16/2023 | No colloquium |
| 10/23/2023 | Dr. Marina Radulaski (Assoc. Professor, U.C. Davis) "Scalable Quantum Nanophotonics: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping" |
| 10/30/2023 | Dr. Christian Aganze (Postdoc, Stanford U.) "Galactic Archeology with Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: Prospects with Large-Scale Surveys" |
| 11/06/2023 | Dr. Jeffrey Silverman (Senior Data Scientist, Mozilla) "From Astrophysics to Data Science" |
| 11/13/2023 | Dr. Ben Lew (Postdoc, BAERI/NASA Ames) "Monitoring Extrasolar Climate in 4D: Characterizing Brown Dwarf Atmospheres with HST and JWST" |
| 11/20/2023 | Thanksgiving Week (No colloquium) |
| 11/27/2023 | Dr. Dmitri Voronin (Asst. Prof., University of South Florida) "Nano-optical Imaging of 2D Materials and Cells" |
| 12/04/2023 | Prof. Joe Barranco, PHYS/ASTR majors Tonya Peshel & Richard Truong "What are REU programs? How can I apply?" |
Fall 2022 Colloquia
Colloquia are at 3:30 - 4:45 Pacific time. This semester, most colloquia will be in-person, on-campus in Thornton Hall 411. Some colloquia will be online and streamed via Zoom. Note that in-person, on-campus colloquia will not be streamed online. Prof. Maarten Golterman is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2022.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/29/2022 | Physics & Astronomy Meet-and-Greet Patio in front of Thornton Hall |
| 09/05/2022 | Labor Day (No colloquium) |
| 09/12/2022 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks I AKM Newaz, W. Man, J. Greensite, C. Sakari, J. Brewer |
| 09/19/2022 | SF State Physics & Astronomy Faculty Mini-talks II J. Barranco, H. Xu, K. Coble, A. Cool |
| 09/26/2022 | Dr. Santosh KC (Asst. Prof., San José State U.) "Surface and Interface Properties of 2D Materials" |
| 10/03/2022 | Andy Mayo (Ph.D. candidate, U.C. Berkeley) "Detecting and Characterizing Small Exoplanets in Diverse Environments" |
| 10/10/2022 | Sarah Wagner (Ph.D. candidate, U. Würzburg) "The gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211" |
| 10/17/2022 | Dr. Phiala Shanahan (Assoc. Prof., MIT) “From quarks to nuclei: computing the Standard Model" |
| 10/24/2022 | Dr. Brianne Gutmann (Asst. Prof., San José State U.) “Reframing physics student preparation: supporting conversation about ethics, science, and society in the classroom" |
| 10/31/2022 | Dr. Eileen Gonzales (51 Pegasi b Fellow, Cornell U.) "Read Between the Spectral Lines: Characterizing Substellar Atmospheres" |
| 11/07/2022 | Dr. Matthew Lawlor (Software Engineer, Google) "Tech Careers and the Physical Sciences" |
| 11/14/2022 | Dr. Aaron Meyer (Postdoc, U.C. Berkeley/LBNL) "Informing Neutrino Oscillation Experiments with Lattice QCD" |
| 11/21/2022 | Thanksgiving Week (No colloquium) |
| 11/28/2022 | SF State REU Student Mini-talks Gabriel Zarazua Muñoz (B.S. Physics/Astrophysics) & Preet Agnihotri (M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics) |
| 12/05/2022 | Dr. Nicole Adelstein (Assoc. Prof., SF State) "Simulating Li-diffusion in amorphous and polycrystalline LLZO" |
Fall 2021 Colloquia
Colloquia will be broadcast over Zoom from 3:30-4:45 PM Pacific Time. Prof. Charli Sakari is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2021. Zoom link will be emailed to the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy listserv. Others may contact the Dept. for the link.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/23/2021 | Welcome Meet-and-Greet |
| 08/30/2021 | SFSU Faculty Mini-Talks I |
| 09/06/2021 | Labor Day (No colloquium.) |
| 09/13/2021 | SFSU Faculty Mini-Talks II |
| 09/20/2021 | Dr. Garima Singh (Postdoc, Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre) "How to Directly Image Exoplanets" |
| 09/27/2021 | Dr. Jennifer Lukes (Prof., U. Pennsylvania) "Atomistic Transport Processes in Energy Conversion and Thermal Management" |
| 10/04/2021 | Dr. Aaron Maxwell (Data Scientist, Paladin AI) "From the Stars Above to the People Below" |
| 10/11/2021 | Dr. Rekha Gautam (Senior Scientist, Tyndall National Institute) "Optical Assessment of Red Blood Cells Quality" |
| 10/18/2021 | Dr. Jorge Moreno (Asst. Prof., Pomona College) "Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter" |
| 10/25/2021 | Dr. Benjamin Hendricks (Software Engineer, SoundSpace Analytics) "From Sea to Sky: applying physics to discover the universe above and below" |
| 11/01/2021 | Dr. Robert Fisher (Prof., U. Massachusetts, Dartmouth) "The Thermonuclear Explosions of White Dwarfs and the Stars Which They Formed From" |
| 11/08/2021 | Dr. Robert Crockett (Software Engineer, Creare) “Exploring the Options: Scientific and Engineering Simulation Software Development in Industry, Academia, and In-Between” |
| 11/15/2021 | Dr. Kai Wang (Postdoc, Stanford U.) "Non-Hermitian topological photonics in synthetic dimension" |
| 11/22/2021 | Thanksgiving Week (No colloquium.) |
| 11/29/2021 | Dr. Camille Avestruz (Asst. Prof., U. Michigan) "Computational Models for Cluster-based Cosmology" |
| 12/06/2021 | Dr. Shu Jia (Asst. Prof., GA Tech & Emory U.) “Toward Systems Biophotonics: Imaging Biology across High Dimensions and Scales” |
Fall 2020 Colloquia
Colloquia will be broadcast over Zoom from 4:00-5:15 PM Pacific Time. Prof. Charli Sakari is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2020. Zoom link will be emailed to the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy listserv. Others may contact the Dept. for the link.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/24/2020 | Welcome Meet-and-Greet |
| 08/31/2020 | Dr. Sylvester James "Jim" Gates (Prof., Brown University) "Two Einsteinian Paths & My Life" |
| 09/07/2020 | Labor Day (No colloquium.) |
| 09/14/2020 | SFSU Faculty Mini-Talks I |
| 09/21/2020 | SFSU Faculty Mini-Talks II |
| 09/28/2020 | Dr. Jonathan Hu (Assoc. Prof., Baylor University) "TERS imaging of single stranded DNA" |
| 10/05/2020 | SFSU Student REU Mini-Talks: Hector Ramirez-Serrano, Ami Dabokemp, and Imani Ware |
| 10/12/2020 | Dr. Joseph Barranco (Chair of PHYS/ASTR, SFSU) "Applying to Graduate School" |
| 10/19/2020 | Dr. Samantha Lawler (Asst. Prof., U. of Regina) "Planet 9 or Planet Nein Discoveries in the Outer Solar System" |
| 10/26/2020 | Ani Chiti (Ph.D. candidate, MIT) "Finding the most ancient, metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's satellite galaxies" |
| 11/02/2020 | Dr. Thomas Blum (Prof., U. Connecticut) "The muon anomalous magnetic moment and the hunt for new physics" |
| 11/09/2020 | Dr. Erika Holmbeck (Postdoc, Rochester Institute of Technology) "The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements" |
| 11/16/2020 | Dr. Gleb Finkelstein (Prof., Duke U.) "Superconducting devices in the quantum Hall regime in graphene" |
| 11/23/2020 | Thanksgiving Week (No colloquium.) |
| 11/30/2020 | Dr. Nathaniel Gabor (Assoc. Prof., U.C., Riverside) "Electronic Gases and Liquids in Atom-Thin Solids" |
| 12/07/2020 | Jamie Law-Smith (Ph.D. candidate, U.C. Santa Cruz) TBD |
Fall 2019 Colloquia
Colloquia take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 (unless otherwise noted). Colloquia start at 4:05 PM with light refreshments being served at 4:00. Prof. John Brewer is the Colloquium Organizer for Fall 2019. Refreshments provided by the SFSU Physics & Astronomy Club. Pizza lunch with students and speakers takes place in Thornton 115 or 123, 12:30-1:30 PM.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/26/2019 | No colloquium (First Day of Classes!) |
| 09/02/2019 | No colloquium (Labor Day!) |
| 09/09/2019 (Blakeslee Room) | Faculty Research Introductions I followed by Dept. Meet & Greet with refreshments (5-7 PM)
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| 09/16/2019 | Faculty Research Introductions II |
| 09/23/2019 | Dr. Rebecca Jensen-Clem (Miller Fellow, U.C. Berkeley) "Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes: A New Era of Detailed Exoplanet Characterization" |
| 09/30/2019 | Undergrad presentations from summer REU internships |
| 10/07/2019 | Dr. Rachel Bezanson (Asst. Prof. U. Pittsburgh) "The Formation of Massive Galaxies: Deep, High-redshift Spectroscopy from the LEGA-C Survey and Beyond" |
| 10/14/2019 | Dr. Thomas Hartman (Asst. Prof. Cornell U.) "Black Holes, Causalities & Critical Phenomena" |
| 10/21/2019 | No colloquium. |
| 10/28/2019 | Dr. Gina Quan (Asst. Prof. SJSU) "Cultivating Institutional Change in University STEM Departments" |
| 11/04/2019 | Dr. Marta Bryan (51 Pegasi B Fellow, U.C. Berkeley) "Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" |
| 11/11/2019 | No colloquium (Veterans' Day!) |
| 11/18/2019 | No colloquium |
| 11/25/2019 | No colloquium (Thanksgiving Week Break!) |
| 12/02/2019 | Dr. Alexandra Miller (Asst. Prof. Sonoma State U.) "Symmetry: From Noether to the Higgs" |
| 12/09/2019 | Dr. Ian Czekala (Sagan Fellow, U.C. Berkeley) "Disks & Dynamics of Protoplanetary Systems" |
| 12/10/2019, 4:30-6:30, Blakeslee Room | Rick Davis (Asst. Dir. Science & Exploration, NASA) "Looking Ahead to the Human Exploration of Mars" |
Fall 2018 Colloquia
Colloquia take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 (unless otherwise noted). Colloquia generally start at 4:10 PM with light refreshments being served at 4:00.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 08/27/2018 | No colloquium |
| 09/03/2018 | Labor Day (No colloquium) |
| 09/10/2018 | Dr. Cheng Gong (Postdoc, UC Berkeley Physics) "Magnetic 2D Materials: Discovery, Challenges and Opportunities" |
| 09/17/2018 | Faculty research introductions I (Coble, Jensen, Newaz, Xu) Followed by Physics & Astronomy Club Meet & Greet, 5-7 pm, food & drinks provided |
| 09/24/2018 | Faculty research introductions II (Cool, Greensite, Mahdavi, Man) |
| 10/01/2018 | Dr. Shambhu Ghimire (P.I., Pulse Institute at Stanford U) "Novel Ultrafast Probe for Materials" |
| 10/08/2018 | Dr. Cassandra Paul (Asst. Prof., San Jose State U Physics) "Grading Practices in Introductory Physics: Hidden Inequities" |
| 10/15/2018 | Dr. Aaron Roodman (Professor, Stanford U Physics) "The Fastest Eye on the Sky: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope" |
| 10/22/2018 | Dr. Daniel Weisz (Asst. Prof., UC Berkeley Astronomy) "The Lowest-Mass Galaxies In the Early Universe: Insights from the Local Group" |
| 10/29/2018 | What are REU Programs? |
| 10/15/2018 | Dr. Yat Li (Professor, UC Santa Cruz Chemistry) "Hierarchical porous carbon structures for supercapacitors" |
| 11/12/2018 | Veteran's Day (No colloquium) |
| 11/19/2018 | Thanksgiving Break (No colloquium) |
| 11/26/2018 | Dr. Eric Ayars (Professor, CSU Chico Physics) CANCELLED due to wild fires near Chico |
| 12/03/2018 | Dr. Jessica Lu (Asst. Prof., UC Berkeley Astronomy) "Star Formation in Extreme Environments" |
| 12/10/2018 | Dr. Courtney Dressing (Asst. Prof., UC Berkeley Astronomy) "Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Nearby Stars" |
Fall 2017 Colloquia
All colloquia will take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia generally start at 4:05 PM with refreshments being served at 3:50.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
| 10/9 | No colloquium |
| 10/16 | Meng Xiao (Stanford) |
| 10/23 | No colloquium |
| 10/30 | Ehsan Kahtami (SJSU) |
| 11/6 | Linda Shore (PASP) |
| 11/13 | Andrew Berkley (D-Wave Systems) |
| 11/20 | No colloquium (fall break) |
| 11/27 | Jairo Velasco (UCSC) |
| 12/4 | Christopher Weber (Santa Clara U) |
Spring 2025 Colloquia
Colloquia are Mondays, 3:30-4:45 pm Pacific Time. This semester, most colloquia will be in-person, on-campus in SEC 210. Prof. Eileen Gonzales is the Colloquium Organizer for Spring 2025.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 02/03/2025 | Dr. Rixin Li (51 Peg b Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley) "Forming Planetesimals in Solar and Extrasolar Nebulae" |
| 02/10/2025 | Dr. Hui Cai (Asst. Prof., UC Merced) "Tailoring the Properties of 2D and Topological Materials from Controlled Synthesis" |
| 02/17/2025 | No colloquium. |
| 02/24/2025 | Dr. Alex Miller (Assoc. Prof., Sonoma State U) "The Search for a Quantum Theory of Chaos" |
| 03/03/2025 | No colloquium. |
| 03/10/2025 | Dr. Ben Gerard (Research Scientist, LLNL) "Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Technology Development" |
| 03/17/2025 | Dr. Carlos Sierra (KIPAC Fellow, Stanford U) "Mapping the Millimeter Universe from the Atacama Desert" |
| 03/24/2025 | No colloquium (Spring Break) |
| 03/31/2025 | No colloquium (Cesar Chavez Day) |
| 04/07/2025 | Jeffrey Laprade (Senior Process Engineer, Sonera.io) "Theory, Fabrication, and Testing of Acoustically Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance-based Magnetometers for Biosensing Applications" |
| 04/14/2025 | Dr. Jairo Velasco (Assoc. Prof., UC Santa Cruz) "Imaging Quantum Chaos in Electronic Graphene Billiards" |
| 04/21/2025 | Dr. Mattia di Mauro (Research Scientist, U. Turin) "Indirect Searches for Dark Matter within a Multi-disciplinary Approach" |
| 04/28/2025 |
Dr. Desiré Whitmore (Staff Physics Educator, Exploratorium) (Note change venue: SEIC 116) |
| 05/05/2025 | Dr. Madeleine McKenzie (Hubble Fellow, Carnegie Observatories) "Nucleosynthesis at the isotopic level: magnesium isotope ratios in globular clusters" |
| 05/12/2025 | Dr. Ioana Ciucă (Postdoc, Stanford U) "The Vision We Choose: Towards Human-AI Co-discovery" |
Spring 2024 Colloquia
Colloquia are Mondays, 3:30-4:45 pm Pacific Time. This semester, most colloquia will be in-person, on-campus in Thornton Hall 411. Some colloquia will be online and streamed via Zoom. Note that in-person, on-campus colloquia will not be streamed online. Prof. Oscar Macías is the Colloquium Organizer for Spring 2024.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 01/29/2024 | Special Colloquium to Honor the Legacy of Prof. AKM Newaz 3:30-6:30 at Seven Hills Conference Center |
| 02/05/2024 | Dr. Brandon Brown (Professor, U. of San Francisco) "Sharing Our Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Communicating STEM" |
| 02/12/2024 | Ellianna Abrahams (PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley) "Towards Physically-Contextualized Computer Vision through Studies in the Cryosphere" |
| 02/19/2024 | Dr. Kimmy Wu (Postdoc, Stanford U.) "Testing Inflation and Constraining Cosmology with the Oldest Photons" |
| 02/26/2024 | Dr. Alexis Kaminski (Asst. Prof., UC Berkeley) "Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean Transition Layer" |
| 03/04/2024 | Dr. Patrick El Khoury (Senior Research Scientist, PNNL) "Everything You Need to Know about TERS and More" |
| 03/11/2024 | Dr. James Sikora (Postdoc, Lowell Observatory) "Eccentric Hot Jupiters as Dynamic Laboratories" |
| 03/18/2024 | Tenley Hutchinson-Smith (PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz) "Challenging the Standard Paradigm of Thorne-Zytkow Object Formation" |
| 03/25/2024 | No colloquium (Spring Break) |
| 04/01/2024 | No colloquium (Cesar Chavez Day) |
| 04/08/2024 | Andrea Antoni (PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley) "Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following “Failed” Supernovae" |
| 04/15/2024 | Dr. Sanjana Curtis (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) "Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis & Kilonovae from Compact Object Mergers" |
| 04/22/2024 | Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala (Assoc. Prof., Sonoma State U.) "Why are some hurricanes seasons more active than others? The case of the Atlantic Ocean" |
| 04/29/2024 | Dr. Ariane Dekker (Postdoc, KICP Chicago) "Probing dark matter properties with Milky-Way satellite observations" |
| 05/06/2024 | Dr. Rajan Gupta (Senior Research Scientist, Los Alamos) "Can we ignore anthropogenic climate change?" |
| 05/13/2024 | Dr. Rachel Roettenbacher (51 Pegasi b Fellow, University of Michigan) "Imaging Spotted Stars" |
Spring 2023 Colloquia
Colloquia are Mondays, 3:30-4:45 pm Pacific Time. From Feb. 6 - Mar. 13, colloquia will be on the Blakeslee Room (Thornton Hall, 10th floor). From Mar. 20 - May 15, colloquia will be in Thornton Hall 411. Prof. Kim Coble is the colloquium organizer until March 13, and Prof. Jeff Greensite is the colloquium organizer for the remainder of the semester.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 02/06/2023 | Astronomy & Astrophysics Faculty Candidate #1 Topic: Galaxy formation & evolution |
| 02/13/2023 | Astronomy & Astrophysics Faculty Candidate #2 Topic: Exoplanetary science |
| 02/20/2023 | Astronomy & Astrophysics Faculty Candidate #3 Topic: Galaxy formation & evolution |
| 02/27/2023 | No colloquium |
| 03/06/2023 | Astronomy & Astrophysics Faculty Candidate #4 Topic: High energy astrophysics |
| 03/13/2023 | No colloquium |
| 03/27/2023 | Jessica Heim (PhD candidate, U. Southern Queensland) "Skyglow, Satellites and Space Junk: Cultural Astronomy & the Transformation of our Night Sky" |
| 04/03/2023 | Dr. Megan Bedell (Assoc. Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute) "The Search for Other Earths" |
| 04/10/2023 | No colloquium |
| 04/17/2023 | Dr. Soubhik Kumar (Postdoc, U.C. Berkeley & LLNL) “Cosmic Hotspots as Probes of Ultra-high Energy Particle Physics” |
| 04/24/2023 | Asir Khan (PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford U.) “Engineering Chalcogenides and Topological Semimetals for Energy-Efficient Memory and Interconnects” |
| 05/01/2023 | No colloquium |
| 05/08/2023 | Dr. Aiming Yan (Asst. Prof., U.C. Santa Cruz) "Tailoring and Manipulating Symmetry in Functional Nanomaterials at the Atomic and Nano-scale" |
Spring 2022 Colloquia
Colloquia will be broadcast over Zoom from 3:30 – 4:45 PM Pacific Time. Professor John Brewer is the Colloquium Organizer for Spring 2022. Zoom link will be emailed to the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy listserv. Others may contact the department for the link.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 01/24/2022 | "Special seminar for undergraduate majors: REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates) and how to apply" |
| 01/31/2022 | Dr. Anne Abramson (Editor, Annual Reviews) "Make Your Own Off-Ramp: Finding Your Way After Grad School" |
| 02/07/2022 | Samuel Cabot (Ph.D. candidate, Yale U.) "Hidden Low-Mass Exoplanet Populations" |
| 02/14/2022 | Dr. Joanna Behrman (Asst. Public Historian, AIP) "When Physics was a Girl's Subject" |
| 02/21/2022 | No colloquium.
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| 02/28/2022 | Dr. Noemie Globus (Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Santa Cruz) "The Chiral Puzzle of Life" |
| 03/07/2022 | Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh (Asst. Prof., Rice U.) "Fluid dynamics of some types of midlatitude weather extreme events" |
| 03/14/2022 | Dr. Charles Baldner (Research Scientist, Stanford U.) "Listening to the Sun: Twelve Years of Science With NASA's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager" |
| 03/21/2022 | Spring Break (No colloquium) |
| 03/28/2022 | Dr. Ricardo Toledo-Crow (Dir. Next Generation Environmental Sensor Lab, CUNY "Community Environmental Sensors and Networks in NYC" |
| 04/04/2022 | Dr. Sebastien Philippe (Professor, Princeton U.) "Walking The World Back From the Nuclear Brink: What can Scientists do" |
| 04/11/2022 | Dr. Jenn Rossmann (Professor, Lafayette College) "Modeling Biological Flows: Fluids, Rheology, & Soft Materials" |
| 04/18/2022 | Dr. Leila Kasaei (Postdoctoral Fellow., Rutgers U.) "Helium Ion Microscope (HeIM) for materials and biological sciences" |
| 04/25/2022 | Dr. Matthew Lew (Asst. Professor, Washington U.) "Single-Molecule Orientation Localization Microscopy: Visualizing Molecular Organization at the Nanoscale" |
| 05/02/2022 | Dr. Daryl Preece (Asst. Professor, U.C. Irvine) "A study in biophotonics: Using lasers to study mechano-biology of the brain" |
| 05/09/2022 | Dr. Danqing Wang (Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley) "Emerging Optics from Structured Nanomaterials" |
Spring 2021 Colloquia
Colloquia will be broadcast over Zoom from 3:30 – 4:45 PM Pacific Time. Professor John Brewer is the Colloquium Organizer for Spring 2021. Zoom link will be emailed to the Department of Physics & Astronomy listserv. Others may contact the Dept. for the link.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 02/01/2021 | Dr. Elisabeth Newton (Asst. Prof., Dartmouth College) "Observing the evolution of small stars and planets" |
| 02/08/2021 | Dr. Phillip Mannheim (Prof., U. Connecticut) "Is Dark Matter Fact or Fantasy - Clues from the Data" |
| 02/15/2021 | Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva (51 Pegasi b Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) "Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry" |
| 02/22/2021 | Dr. Keith Hawkins (Asst. Prof., U. Texas, Austin) "Galactic Archaeology: Piecing Together the History of Our Galaxy" |
| 03/01/2021 | Dr. Aristotle Socrates (Head of Data, TextNow) "From Black Holes to Big Data" |
| 03/08/2021 | Dr. Andrew Mannix (Asst. Prof., Stanford U.) "Atom-Scale Engineering of Synthetic Layered Materials" |
| 03/15/2021 | Dr. Paul Arpin (Asst. Prof., CSU Chico) "Interpreting coherent dynamics in femtosecond spectroscopy" |
| 03/22/2021 | Spring Break (No colloquium) |
| 03/29/2021 | Dr. Frank Narducci (Assoc. Prof., Naval Postgraduate School) "Novel Atom Inteferometers" |
| 04/05/2021 | Dr. Dara Norman (Deputy Dir. of Community Science & Data Center, NOIRLab) "Advancing the Astronomical Inclusion Revolution" |
| 04/12/2021 | Dr. Jonathan McDowell (Group Leader, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) "A Sky Full of Satellites: The changing orbital population and the impact of megaconstellations" |
| 04/19/2021 | Dr. Aida El-Khadra (Prof., U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon" |
| 04/26/2021 | Dr. Jingyong Ye (Prof., U. Texas, San Antonio) "Development of a unique open-cavity optical sensor for biomedical applications" |
| 04/28/2021 (Special Colloquium, 3:30 - 5:30) | Dr. Kimberly Ennico-Smith (VIPER Mission Deputy Project Scientist, NASA-Ames) "A next great leap in mapping water on the Moon"
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| 05/03/2021 | Geev Nahal (PhD Candidate, Northwestern U.) "g-2 Measurement of Electron: How what you learn in your physics program is crucial for performing one of the most precise measurements known to man!" |
| 05/10/2021 | Dr. Paolo Turri (Post-doc, U. British Columbia) "Analyzing Adaptive Optics Data: Challenges and Solutions" |
Spring 2020 Colloquia
Colloquia take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 (unless otherwise noted). Colloquia start at 4:05 PM with light refreshments being served at 4:00. Prof. Charli Sakari is the Colloquium Organizer for Spring 2020. Refreshments provided by the SFSU Physics & Astronomy Club. Pizza lunch with students and speakers takes place in Thornton 115 or 123, 12:30-1:30 PM.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 01/27/2020 | Dr. Yongshen Gao (Prof., CSU Fresno) "Opportunities for CSU Students to Work at CERN with NSF IRES Grant" |
| 02/03/2020 | Dr. Matthew Shetrone (Deputy Dir., UC Observatories) "Galactic Archaeology: Uncovering the Construction of the Milky Way" |
| 02/06/2020 12:00-1:00 PM Blakeslee Room |
Malena Rice (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale U.) "Mapping the Trans-Neptunian Solar System" |
| 02/10/2020 | Dr. John Realpe (Asst. Dir., LRC Systems) "On Complexity and Cognition" |
| 02/17/2020 | Dr. James Lee (Asst. Prof., Sonoma State U.) "Skyrmions: Magnetism With a Twist" |
| 02/24/2020 | Dr. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (Prof., U.C. Santa Cruz) CANCELLED |
| 03/02/2020 | Dr. James Osborne (Postdoc, UCSD) "The Energy Frontier After the Higgs" |
| 03/09/2020 | Dr. Diana Hernandez Juarez Madera (Stanford U.) "Space and Ground Based Measurements of Radiation Belt Precipitation: Extending the Capabilities of Cubesats and Radars" |
| 03/16/2020 | Dr. Nancy Chanover (Prof., New Mexico State U.) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 03/23/2020 | No colloquium (Spring Break). |
| 03/30/2020 | No colloquium (Cesar Chavez Day). |
| 04/06/2020 | Dr. Kimberly Ennico-Smith (Research Scientist, NASA/Ames) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 04/13/2020 | Dr. Thomas Blum (Prof., U. Connecticut) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 04/20/2020 | Ryan Wyatt (Dir. Morrison Planetarium, Cal. Academy of Sciences) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 04/27/2020 | Dr. Frank Narducci (Assoc. Prof. Naval Postgraduate School) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 05/04/2020 | Dr. Yvonne Cagle (Astronaut, NASA) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
| 05/11/2020 | Dr. Alexandra Liguori (Lecturer, SFSU) CANCELLED because of COVID-19. |
Spring 2019 Colloquia
Colloquia take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 (unless otherwise noted). Colloquia generally start at 4:10 PM with light refreshments being served at 4:00.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 01/28/2019 | No colloquium (First Day of Classes!) |
| 02/08/2019 (Friday, Blakeslee Room) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #1 Topic in Extragalactic Astronomy |
| 02/20/2019 (Wednesday, Thornton 411) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #2 Topic in Extragalactic Astronomy |
| 02/25/2019 (Blakeslee Room) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #3 Topic in Exoplanetary Science |
| 03/01/2019 (Friday, Blakeslee Room) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #4 Topic in Exoplanetary Science |
| 03/04/2019 (Blakeslee Room) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #5 Topic in Astrophysical Transients |
| 03/11/2019 (Blakeslee Room) | Candidate for Asst. Prof. Observational Astronomy #6 Topic in Galactic Astronomy |
| 03/18/2019 | Dr. Chris Smallwood (Asst. Prof. Physics, SJSU) "The bright side of flawed material: Coherent spectroscopy of color centers in diamond" |
| 03/25/2019 | No colloquium (Spring Break!) |
| 04/01/2019 | No colloquium (Cesar Chavez Day!) |
| 04/08/2019 | Dr. Daniel Beller (Asst. Prof. Physics, U.C. Merced) "Topological defect loops in liquid crystals far from equilibrium" |
| 04/15/2019 | Dr. Aaron Romanowsky (Assoc. Prof. Astronomy, SJSU "Dark Questions about Extreme Galaxies" |
| 04/22/2019 | Dr. Shuo Sun (Post-doc, Electrical Engineering, Stanford U.) "Quantum nanophotonics: engineering atom-photon interactions on a chip" |
| 04/29/2019 | Dr. Naomi Ginsberg (Assoc. Prof. Chem. & Phys., U.C. Berkeley) "How do emerging light harvesting materials form, transform, and transport energy at the nanoscale?" |
| 05/06/2019 | Dr. Jessica Kirkpatrick (Director of Data Science, KoBold Metals) "Astrophysicist to Data Scientist" |
| 05/13/2019 | Dr. Shamit Kachru (Prof. Physics, Stanford U.) "Black holes and number theory" |
Spring 2018 Colloquia
All colloquia will take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia generally start at 4:05 PM with refreshments being served at 3:50.
| Date | Speaker and Title |
|---|---|
| 02/19/2018 | Shoufeng Lan (Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley) |
| 02/26/2018 | Sui Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley) |
| 03/05/2018 | Lei Wang (Associate Professor, UCSF) |
| 03/12/2018 | Linda Strubbe (Postdoc, Univ. British Columbia) |
| 03/26/2018 | Prashanth Jaikumar (Associate Professor, CSU Long Beach) |
| 04/02/2018 | Nicholas Nelson (Assistant Professor, CSU Chico) |
| 04/09/2018 | Katy Tschann-Grimm (Assistant Professor, CSU East Bay) |
| 04/16/2018 | Jeffrey Fung (Sagan Fellow, UC Berkeley) |
| 04/30/2018 | Connie Rockosi (Professor, UC Santa Cruz) |
| 05/14/2018 | Stephen Kane (Associate Professor, UC Riverside) |