Fall 2024 Colloquia
All colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 102 Cardwell Hall unless stated otherwise. Colloquium refreshments are hosted in 119 Cardwell Hall. Talk titles and abstracts can be found in the title links below.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 8/26 | Tim Bolton | K-State Physics | Welcome to the 2024-25 Academic Year | |
| 9/2 | University Holiday - Labor Day | |||
| 9/9 | Cosmin Blaga | K-State Physics | T. Bolton | Dispersion Control in Ultrafast Physics: from Electromagnetic to Matter Waves |
| 9/23 | Nergis Mavalvala | MIT | T. Bolton |
Peterson Lecture: Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe (CW 103) |
| 9/24, Tues | Nergis Mavalvala | MIT | T. Bolton | Listening to Gravitational Waves Above the Quantum Din |
| 9/30 | Mick O'Shea | K-State Physics | T. Bolton | Preliminary Exam Process Meeting with Grad Students & Faculty |
| 10/7 | Edward "Rocky" Kolb | The Univ. of Chicago | T. Bolton | |
| 10/8, Tues | Edward "Rocky" Kolb | The Univ. of Chicago | T. Bolton | Neff Lecture: The Quantum and the Cosmos (CW 103) |
| 10/14 | Physics Undergraduates | K-State | J.T. Laverty | Physics Undergraduate Research Colloquium |
| 10/21 | Jagadeesh R. Sonnad | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | L. Greenman | Medical Physics as a Profession and the Graduate Program at OUHSC (Zoom) |
| 11/18 | Steven Prohira | Univ. of Kansas | A. Ivanov | New (old) approaches to detection of ultrahigh energy neutrinos |
| 11/25 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
Colloquium Committee: Loren Greenman (Chair), Barbara Fennell, Andrew Ivanov, Chii-Dong Lin, Bharat Ratra, and Uwe Thumm