Seminar-Fall-2024

Physics Colloquium Schedule – Fall 2024

Previous and Future Colloquia

All colloquia will be held at 4 PM in Olin 101 (unless noted otherwise). Refreshments will be available at 3:30 PM in Olin Lobby prior to each seminar. For additional information contact wfuphys@wfu.edu.

Tues. Aug. 6, 2024 — Professor Dr. Vojislav Krstić, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg (FAU), Germany, “Triggering new functionalities and states in materials: from nano-structuring to symmetry-breaking”, (Host: D. Carroll)

Thurs. Aug. 29, 2024 — Professor Michael Hecht, Princeton University, “Exploring Alternative Origins of Life with Genes and Proteins Designed De Novo” , (Host: J. Macosko)

Thurs. Sept. 5, 2024 — Welcome Colloquium

Thurs. Sept. 12, 2024 — Undergraduate Summer Research

Thurs. Sept. 19, 2024 — George Holzwarth Memorial Biophysics Lecture: Professor M. Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University, “Something’s wrong in the cellular neighborhood: the biophysics of how cells respond to nearby wounds”,  (Host: D. Kim-Shapiro)

Thurs. Sept. 26, 2024 — Members of Professor David Carroll’s Research Group, NanoteQ, Wake Forest University

Thurs. Oct. 3, 2024 — Professor Kui Tan,  University of North Texas, “In situ Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Chemical and Molecular Interactions in Metal-Organic Frameworks”, (Host: T. Thonhauser)

Thurs. Oct. 10, 2024 — Dr. Xuanfeng (Leo) Ding, Beaumont Proton Therapy Center, “A Journey to SPArc:  Spot-scanning proton arc therapy”, (Host: F. Salsbury)

Thurs. Oct. 17, 2024 — Fall break

Thurs. Oct. 24, 2024 — Dr. Angika Bulbul, Wake Forest University, “Imaging Through Unusual Apertures by Advanced Digital Methods and 3D Tracking Comparison of a Refractive vs. a Geometric Phase Plate”

Thurs. Oct. 31, 2024 — Dr. Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, CCS-2/CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory (WFU Assistant Professor of Physics Starting Fall 2025), “From stable trapping to turbulence: Nonlinear dynamics in gravitational systems”, (Host: P. Anderson)

Thurs. Nov. 7, 2024 —  Professor Christianne Beekman, Florida State University, “Exploring phase transitions in frustrated magnets using capacitive torque magnetometry”, (Host: S. Winter)

Thurs. Nov. 14, 2024 — Professor Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The ties that bind: understanding nuclear forces from lattice QCD”, (Host: E. Carlson)

Thurs. Nov. 21, 2024 — Professor Carl Rodriguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The lives and deaths of star clusters, and the black holes they make along the way”, (Host: P. Anderson)

Thurs. Nov. 28, 2024 — Thanksgiving holiday