Past Events

2024

  • Nov 22, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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    Location
    Physics 18/19

    Speaker: Dr. JJ Hermes (Boston University)

    Title: Searching for signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae

    Abstract: Type Ia supernovae involve the thermonuclear detonation of white dwarf stars, and are an essential tool allowing us to study the Universe on vast scales. However, Type Ia supernovae are not the only byproducts of the mergers at the endpoints of binaries. I will discuss the growing number of observational signposts that can distinguish populations of white dwarf stars that descend from failed Type Ia supernovae. I will also discuss how photometric surveys have allowed us better select merger byproducts among the population of typical stellar remnants, allowing us to better characterize the fossils in our nearby stellar graveyard.

  • Nov 21, 2024 - 4:00 PM
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    Location
    Zaffarano A401

    Speaker: Timothy Kutnink (ISU)

    Title: Mass and Charge Renormalization of Fermions using the Relativistic, Minimally Coupled, Time-Dependent Dirac Equation

  • Nov 18, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano (U Washington)

    Host: Srimoyee Sen

    Title: The long and the short of neutrinoless double beta decay

    Abstract:   Searches for rare processes at low energy provide unique opportunities to uncover physics beyond the Standard Model and address open questions about our universe.  In this talk I will provide a theoretical perspective on nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay as a probe of lepton number non-conservation and its implications for the nature of massive neutrinos and the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. I will also discuss the theoretical challenges and progress associated with the interpretation of experimental searches. 

  • Nov 18, 2024 - 2:00 PM
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    Location
    Physics 18/19

    Prof. Gun-Do Lee, Seoul National University

  • Nov 7, 2024 - 4:00 PM
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    Location
    Zaffarano A401

    Speaker: Emilie Huffman (Perimeter Institute-Ontario)

    Title:  TBD

    Abstract:  TBD

  • Nov 1, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Nov 1, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    conference room 18/19

    Speaker:  Curtis Struck, Professor Emeritus

    Title:  The how and why of exponential surface density profiles in galaxy disks

  • Oct 31, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 31, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: Sri Sen (P&T Talk)

    Host: Chunhui Chen

    Title: Standard model, QCD and lattice

  • Oct 31, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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  • Oct 28, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 28, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: Charles Kerton (P&T talk)

    Host: Chunhui Chen

    Title: The Exciting Star VES 735

    Abstract: 

  • Oct 25, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 25, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Phys 18/19

    Speaker: Dr. Tabassum Tanvir (Iowa State University)

    Title: Environmental variation of the low-mass IMF

  • Oct 21, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 21, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: David Mandrus (Univ. of Tennessee)

    Host: Paul Canfield 

    Title: The Search for New Materials

    Abstract: Although new materials are the engine that drives much of condensed matter physics, the conceptual process by which new materials are discovered is rarely discussed. In this talk I will try to remedy this situation, and will discuss strategies for finding new materials that challenge our physical understanding. I will also discuss the role of theory in this process, stressing that new materials can be regarded as a playground for testing new theoretical ideas. Several examples will be discussed.

  • Oct 16, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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    Location
    This is a Zoom seminar

    Title: Measurements of Pion and Muon Nuclear Capture at Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment

  • Oct 14, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 14, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: David Radice (Penn State) 

    Hosts: Srimoyee Sen and Jake Simon

    Title: Probing Dense Matter with Neutron Star Mergers

  • Oct 7, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Oct 7, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: Greg Salvesen (LANL)

    Host: Jake Simon

    Title:  Black Hole Accretion Geometry in X-ray Binaries

  • Oct 4, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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    Location
    Physics 18/19

    Speaker: Eli Brunner-Huber (Iowa State)

    Title: Hunting for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Using X-ray and Optical Images of Galaxies.

  • Sep 30, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Sep 30, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speakers: Michelle Zhai and Katie Wampole

     Host: Jake Simon

    Title: Research Data Services information session

    Abstract:

    Quality research calls for quality data! Learn how the library's Research Data Services unit can help you.

    For research groups and faculty members, we can help with DMPs (data management plans) and support for data sharing and publishing. For early-career researchers such as students, we also provide training on a wide variety of data topics and individual consultation sessions to kickstart good data practices. Our goal is to make data management and data sharing easier while staying in compliance with local, publisher, and federal policies. 

  • Sep 26, 2024 - 2:00 PM
    to Sep 26, 2024 - 3:00 PM
    Location
    Zaffarano A401

    Speaker: Hersh Singh (Fermilab)

    Title: Fermionic anomalies and topological phases on the lattice: Ginsparg-Wilson relation and its generalizations

  • Sep 23, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Sep 23, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    We will have two speakers in honor of Doug Finnemore and Vladimir Kogan

    Speaker 1:  David Larbalestier (in honor of Doug Finnemore)

    Title: Reflections on the impact of Doug Finnemore on Progressing Superconductivity from Science to Applications and on encouraging a continuing feedback cycle

    Speaker 2: John Kirtley (in honor of Vladimir Kogan)

    Title: Vladimir Kogan’s 90th birthday celebration

    Hosts: Paul Canfield and Sergei Budko

     

  • Sep 20, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Sep 20, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 18/19

    Speaker: Dr. Lee Anne Willson (ISU)

    Title: Energy Balance and Radiative Transfer in Earth’s Atmosphere: An astronomer’s perspective
     

  • Sep 16, 2024 - 4:10 PM
    to Sep 16, 2024 - 5:10 PM
    Location
    Physics 003

    Speaker: Evan Kirby (Notre Dame University)

    Host: Jake Simon

    Title: The Extremes of Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy
     

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