Fall 2022 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
8/22	Tim Bolton	K-State Physics		Welcome (Back)
9/5	University Holiday - Labor Day
9/12	Matt Berg	K-State	T. Bolton	Aerosol Characterization with Digital Holography
9/26	Wendy Freedman	Univ. of Chicago	T. Bolton	Increasing Accuracy in Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Is There Evidence for New Physics?
9/27, Tues	Wendy Freedman	Univ. of Chicago	T. Bolton	Peterson Lecture: How Fast is the Universe Expanding?
10/10	Frederick K. Lamb	Univ. of Illinois	T. Bolton	Determining the properties of neutron stars using NICER
10/11, Tues	Frederick K. Lamb	Univ. of Illinois	T. Bolton	Neff Lecture: 65 years after Sputnik: A critical juncture in humanity’s use of space
10/31	Stewart Prager	Princeton Univ.	L. Greenman	Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: and how physicists can help reduce the threat
11/7	Jerome Delhommelle	Univ. of North Dakota	C. Sorensen	Assembly, Cooperativity, and Emergence: An Entropic Viewpoint on Phase Transitions inSoft and Active Matter
11/14	Hee-Jong Seo	Ohio Univ.	L. Samushia	Accelerating Universe through DESI
11/21	Thanksgiving Break
12/5	Martin Centurion	Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln	L. Greenman	Imaging of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with Electron Diffraction

Colloquium Committee: Loren Greenman (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Chii-Dong Lin, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Terry Salava, Jr.

Kansas State University

Department of Physics

Fall 2022 Colloquia