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These lectures feature speakers from around the country and globe. Each colloquium lasts about an hour and gives you a deeper understanding of the types of physics and astronomy researching going on around the world.
Colloquia will be held in a hybrid format and a recurring Zoom link is provided to access the virtual format.
The talks will be on Thursdays at 4:15PM in the Rogers Room (Jones PSC 409), unless stated otherwise.
If you are interested in being added to our e-mail distribution list regarding upcoming colloquia, please contact Ms. Nancy Kesar via e-mail at nkesar@mailbox.sc.edu. We appreciate your interest!
Fall 2025 Meet and Greet
Please join us for a Meet and Greet on Thursday, August 28, at 4:15pm in the Rogers Room (Jones 409). This is a great opportunity to meet our new faculty members and students, discuss research opportunities, and more.
We will have pizza and drinks available. Please let us know if you plan to attend or not by clicking here and completing the short form no later than noon on Wednesday, August 27. This will help ensure we order enough.
Upcoming Colloquium:
Fall 2025 Schedule:
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Past Colloquia:
April 17, 2025 - Andrew Zangwill
"That’s Not Physic"
April 10, 2025 - Mikhail Shifman
"Paradigm change in modern high-energy physics"
April 3, 2025 - Riccardo Penco
"Tales of Point Particles: Effective Theories from Black Holes to Superfluids"
March 27, 2025 - Anatoly Dymarsky
"Code CFTs: where generalized symmetries, quantum gravity and quantum information
meet"
March 20, 2025 - Hirohiku Shimizu
"Study of the Time Reversal Invariance in Polarized Epithermal Neutron Optics (J-PARC
E99 : NOPTREX)"
February 27, 2025 - Craig Group
"Career and Mentoring Resources for Physicists"
February 13, 2025 - Xiaoxuan Chu
"An Overview of Spin Physics at STAR"
January 30, 2025 - Mehrnoosh Tahani
"Exploration of the Magnetized Cosmos: From Innovative Observatory Development to
Multi-Wavelength Field Mapping"
January 27, 2025 - Michael Busch
"Shedding Light on the Dark Molecular Gas in the Galaxy and Beyond"
January 21, 2025 - Priyanka Chakraborty
"Probing the Universe’s Extremes: XRISM’s Precision X-ray Insights and JWST’s View
of Early Galaxies"
January 16, 2025 - Mark W. Meisel
"How are “Discoveries” Made? - A “condensed” perspective"
December 12, 2024 - Alexander von Hoegen
"Controlling THz Light-Matter Coupling to Manipulate Layered Quantum Materials"
December 09, 2024 - Wenli Bi
"Materials Research Under Pressure"
December 04, 2024 - Jiarui Li
"Understanding New Complexities in Correlated Oxides Using Resonant Photons"
November 14, 2024 - Tom Berlijn
"Virtual Exploration of Quantum Spin Liquid Materials"
October 31, 2024 - Mark Pederson
"Magneto-Electric Coupling, Chirality, and Symmetry Considerations in Molecular Spin
Systems"
October 24, 2024 - Edward "Rocky" Kolb
"Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon"
October 10, 2024 - Scott Watson
"Early Universe Cosmology as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model"
October 3, 2024 - Maura McLaughlin
"Pulsar Timing Arrays: A New Window on the Gravitational Wave Universe"
September 26, 2024 - Lucas Lindsay
"Insights from vibrational thermal transport modeling"
September 19, 2024 - Steven Ray Elliott
"Isomers and Dark Matter: 180mTa and 178mHf"
Semptember 12, 2024 - Ashely Byrd White
September 5, 2024 - Dr. Milind Kunchur
"Time and information resolution in human hearing and its implications for high-fidelity
audio and psychophysics"
April 11, 2024 - Dr. Ben Levy
"Toward Measuring the Stiffness of Blood Clots Using Magnetomotive Ultrasound"
April 04, 2024 - Dr. Yong Zhang
"II-VI Based Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Superlattices: Structures, Properties, and Stability"
March 28, 2024 - Dr. Wolfgang Christian
"How computers improve physics teaching through interactive engagement"
March 21, 2024 - Dr. Kirill Belashchenko
"Spin transport and spin-orbit torque in metallic heterostructures"
March 18, 2024 - Dr. Nikole Nielsen
"Revealing the Hidden Gaseous Ecosystem Around Galaxies over 10 Billion Years"
March 14, 2024 - Dr. Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez
"The effect of magnetic field on galaxy evolution"
March 11, 2024 - Dr. Andrey Vayner
"Probing Key Drivers of Massive Galaxy Formation in the Distant Universe with NASA’s
James Webb Space Telescope"
February 29, 2024 - Dr. Ievgen Lavrukhin
"Probing the Proton’s Inner Structure"
February 26, 2024 - Dr. Ye Tian
"Exploring the Structure of Matter via Electron Scattering Experiments at JLab"
February 22, 2024 - Dr. Pawel Nadel-Turonski
"Imaging the strong fields inside nucleons and nuclei"
February 19, 2024 - Dr. Kin Chung Fong
"Turning quantum materials into novel quantum technologies"
February 15, 2024 - Dr. Shafayat Hossian
"Room-temperature and many-body quantum states in topological materials"
February 8, 2024 - Dr. Martin Lonsky
"Skyrmions in Magnetic Multilayers for Novel Memory and Computing Applications"
November 16, 2023 - Dr. Vincente Guiseppe
"A Legendary Program: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge-76"
November 09, 2023 - Dr. John Perdew
"More-predictive density functionals, symmetry breaking, and strong correlation"
November 02, 2023 - Dr. David Mandrus
"Designing Emergent Matter: How Physicists Think about New Materials"
October 26, 2023 - Adam Taylor
"Advancements in process, packaging technology and Electrical Validation for Signal
Integrity at Intel"
October 12, 2023 - Dr. Ming Hu
"The Onset of Artificial Intelligence in Thermal Transport in Solids"
September 28, 2023 - Dr. Zheng Gai
"Seeing is Believing: Studying Quantum Matter at the Atomic Level via Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy"
September 21, 2023 - Dr. Wolfgang Lorenzon
"The search for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment"
September 14, 2023 - Dr. Tim Mousseau
"A Walk-about Chernobyl, Fukushima and other Hot Places"
September 7, 2023 - Dr. Michael Kohl
"Structure and Anomalies: Intersections between Old and New Physics"
April 20, 2023 - Dr. Sebastian König
"Nuclear Physics in a Box"
April 13, 2023 - Dr. Qui Wang
"Onsager Principle, Mathematical Modeling, and Numerical Algorithm Design"
April 06, 2023 - Dr. Maxim Tsoi
"Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: from Metals to Functional Oxides"
March 23, 2023 - Dr. David Tanner
"Shining Light Through Walls: Generation and Detection of Axions with ALPS II"
March 16, 2023 - Dr. Kai Schweda
"The ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider"
March 02, 2023 - Dr. John Singleton
"Neutral Fermions and a New State of Matter: Weird Metals Disguised as Electrical
Insulators"
February 23, 2023 - Dr. George Androulakis
"An Excursion into Quantum Information, with Highlights from Some of My Latest Research"
February 16, 2023 - Dr. Christopher Jarzynski
"Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics"
February 9, 2023 - Dr. Ed Cackett
"Mapping the Accretion Disk Around Supermassive Black Holes"
February 2, 2023 - Dr. Alexander Monin
"XXI Century Challenges of Theoretical Physics"
January 26, 2023 - Dr. Lori Ziolkowski
"The Physics of Climate Change"
January 19, 2023 - Dr. Joseph E. Johnson
"Riemannian Geometry Framed as a Generalized Lie Algebra to Incorporate General Relativity
with Quantum Theory"
November 17, 2022 - Dr. Ignatios Antoniadis
"Challenges in Particle Physics and Cosmology"
November 10, 2022 - Dr. Gang Cao
"Power and Control of Internal Loop Currents in an Exotic Quantum State"
November 3, 2022 - Dr. Shmuel Nussinov
"Dark Matter - or Matter in the Dark?"
October 27, 2022 - Dr. Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias
"Advancements in the Design of Optical Components for Efficient Optoelectronic Devices
Operating at High Temperature"
October 20, 2022 - Dr. Bob Bernstein
"Charged Lepton Flavor Violation and the Mu2e Experiment"
October 6, 2022 - Dr. Paul Reimer
"Exploring the Flavor Asymmetry of Antimatter in the Proton"
September 29, 2022 - Dr. Michael Dickson
"Anthropic Principles, Fine-Tuning Arguments, and Other Mistakes"
September 22, 2022 - Dr. Alexander Yankovsky
"Dynamics of Coastal Buoyancy Currents"
September 15, 2022 - Dr. Alexey Petrov
"Charming Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter"
July 29, 2022 - Dr. Garrett Darl Lewis
"Considerations for DEW as Part of a Force Mix, Now and Into the Future"
April 21, 2022 - Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
"James Webb Space Telescope: Status and Plans"
April 14, 2022 - Dr. Revaz Ramazashvili
"Skyrmion-Electron Bound States in a Néel Antiferromagnet"
April 7, 2022 - Dr. Céline Péroux
"The Cosmic Baryon Cycle"
March 17, 2022 - Dr. Alexey Petrov
"Marvelous Muons: Searching for New Physics with Bound States"
March 1, 2022 - Dr. Mu Wang
"Light Metastructure Interaction: From Classical to Quantum"
February 24, 2022 - Dr. Qi An
"Design Robust and Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials through Microstructure
and Light Irradiation"
February 22, 2022 - Dr. Sai Mu
"Harnessing Disorder to Tune, Tailor, and Design Novel Transition Metal Compounds"
February 17, 2022 - Dr. Oliviero Andreussi
"Multiscale Models in Computational Condensed-Matter Physics: Stability and Catalytic
Activity of Two-Dimensional Materials"
February 15, 2022 - Dr. Marc Dvorak
"Electronic Structure Theory: Triumphs, Failures, and New Ideas"
January 20, 2022 - Dr. Matthias Schindler
"A Colorful Look at Nuclear Physics"
December 2, 2021 - Dr. Jeffrey Hazboun
"Searching for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves with a Galactic-Scale Detector"
November 18, 2021 - Dr. David Ceperley
"The Physics of Dense Hydrogen"
November 11, 2021 - Mr. Travis Dore
"The Quark Gluon Plasma: Exploring a Physics Crossroads"
November 4, 2021 - Dr. Frank T. Avignone, III
"The Search for the Majorana Neutrino Under an Italian Mountain"
October 14, 2021 - Dr. Jerome Goldstein
"Is Diffusion Described by the Heat Equation or the Damped Wave Equation"?
September 16, 2021 - Dr. Robert Cava
"Finding New Materials - A Chemical Perspective"
April 29, 2021 - Dr. Michael Susner
"Functional Van der Waals Materials: A New Avenue for Next-Generation Electronics"
April 1, 2021 - Dr. James Tour
"Flash Graphene"
March 18, 2021 - Dr. Hariharan Srikanth
"Anisotropic Magnetic Particles for Nanomedicine Applications"
March 11, 2021 - Dr. Rongying Jin
"Topological Physics: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science"
March 4, 2021 - Dr. Luis Balicas
"Two-Dimensional and Topological Materials Research at the NHMFL"
January 21, 2021 - Dr. Larry Ford
"Quantum Energy Density Fluctuations"
November 19, 2020 - Dr. Pawel Mazur
"On the Physical Nature of Super-Compact Objects in the Merging Binaries Discovered
by Gravitational Wave Detectors"
November 12, 2020 - Dr. Michael Osofsky
"Engineering Superconductivity in Metamaterials"
October 22, 2020 - Dr. Rocky Kolb
"Schrödinger’s Alarming Phenomenon"
October 8, 2020 - Dr. Yuriy Pershin
"Are Resistance Switching Memories Memristors?"
February 27, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Crawford, Dr. Scott Crittenden, and Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics (Experimental)"
February 20, 2020 - Dr. Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Dr. Yuriy Pershin
"Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics
(Theoretical)"
February 13, 2020 - Dr. Ward Plummer
"Quantum Materials Driven Renaissance in Surface Physics"
February 6, 2020 - Dr. Smita Mathur
"The Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium"
January 30, 2020 - Dr. Richard Creswick
"A Laboratory Search for Axions/ALPS"
December 5, 2019 - Dr. William E. Mustain
"Founding and Emerging Materials for Li-ion Batteries"
November 21, 2019 - Dr. Dennis Bodewits
"Atomic and Molecular Physics of Comets"
November 14, 2019 - Dr. Daniel Scolnic
"New Excitement in Measurements of Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant"
October 31, 2019 - Dr. Varsha Kulkarni
"Extrasolar Planets: Understanding Earth's Place in the Cosmos"
October 3, 2019 - Dr. J. Michael Shull
"Where Do Galaxies End"?
September 26, 2019 - Dr. Craig Group
"A Renaissance for Muon Physics: (Who Ordered That?)"
September 19, 2019 - Dr. Peter Mättig
"Beyond the Higgs: LHC Physics in the Light of Philosophy"
September 5, 2019 - Dr. Revaz Ramazashvili
"Zeeman Spin-Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Antiferromagnetic
Conductors"
May 7, 2019 - Dr. Laurie E. McNeil
"Transforming Teaching and Learning: Self-Renewal and Institution-Building"
April 25, 2019 - Dr. Megan Donahue
"The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in the Growth of Galaxies"
April 18, 2019 - Dr. Monique Aller
"Investigating the Dust Grains in Galaxies Using Quasar Absorption Systems"
April 11, 2019 - Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra
"Memcomputing: Leaveraging Memory and Physics to Compute Efficiently"
April 4, 2019 - Dr. Leonid Pryadko
"Quantum Computation and Quantum Error Correction: A Contemporary Overview"
March 28, 2019 - Dr. Oleg Tchernyshyov
"Mechanics of Magnetic Solitons"
March 21, 2019 - Dr. Ashot Gasparian
"The Proton Radius: Preliminary Results from the PRad Experiment"
March 7, 2019 - Dr. Raul Briceno
"The Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons"
March 4, 2019 - Dr. Alexander Monin
"Current Challenges of Particle Physics and How to Address Them"
February 28, 2019 - Dr. Karen Livesey
"Magnetization Relaxation in Magnetic Nanoparticle Systems"
February 25, 2019 - Dr. Andrey Katz
"Beyond the Standard Model: Search for a Shadow World"
February 18, 2019 - Dr. Kimberly Boddy
"Unraveling the Structure of Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History"
February 7, 2019 - Dr. Igor Altfeder
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Quantum Materials"
January 31, 2019
"Remembering Dr. Horacio Farach"
December 6, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Tools Made of Light - An Overview of the Ideas Behind the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize"
November 29, 2018 - Prof. Valery Nesvizhevsky
"Gravitational Quantum States of Neutrons, Atoms, and Antiatoms"
November 15, 2018 - Ms. Lisa Hunter and Mr. Rafael Palomino
"ISEE's Professional Development Program: Preparation for Effective and Inclusive
Teaching and Mentoring"
November 8, 2018 - Dr. Sylvester N. Ekpenuma
"Efficient Modeling of Defects and Impurities in Semiconductors"
November 2, 2018 - Dr. Arthur Hebard
"Heterogeneous Interfaces with High-Tc Crystalline Bi-2212 for Teasing Out Proximity
and Electric-Field Screening Effects"
October 25, 2018 - Dr. Marco Ajello
"The Star-Formation History of the Universe Revealed by Gamma Rays"
October 4, 2018 - Dr. Luca Guazzotto
"A Physics-Based Criterion for Nuclear Fusion Energy Production"
September 27, 2018 - Dr. Pawel Mazur
"Superfluid Universe, the Ground State in Quantum Gravity, and Gravastars"
September 20, 2018 - Dr. Frank Avignone, III
"Dark Matter from Z to A and Beyond: The History and Status of Direct Searches"
September 6, 2018 - Dr. Nahum Arav
"Quasar Outflows and Their Contribution to Galactic-Scale Feedback Processes"
April 26, 2018 - Dr. Yordanka Ilieva
"Gluon Imaging"
April 19, 2018 - Dr. Robin Shelton
"The Clouds Around Our Galaxy"
April 12, 2018 - Dr. Vincente Guiseppe
"The (76)Ge Program to Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay"
April 5, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu
"Make Your Particles And Play With Them Too"
March 29, 2018 - Dr. Dean Lee
"Nuclear Lattice Simulations"
March 8, 2018 - Prof. Sergey Alekhin
"Strange, Non-Strange, and Heavy Quark Distributions"
March 1, 2018 - Dr. Joseph E. Johnson
"On Integrating General Relativity with Quantum Theory by Reframing Riemannian Geometry
as a Generalized Heisenberg Lie Algebra”
February 22, 2018 - Dr. Alessandro Pilloni
“Challenges for Hadron Spectroscopy”
February 15, 2018 - Dr. David B. Tanner
“The Search for the Invisible Axion: The Current Status of ADMX”
February 1, 2018 - Dr. Andrew B. Greytak
“Assembling the Future Through Control of Nanoscale Interfaces”
January 25, 2018 - Dr. Ronald D. Edge
“70 Years of Physics”
January 18, 2018 - Dr. Juan I. Collar
“News from PICO and COHERENT”