Seminars
Spring 2020 Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held at 3:00 pm in FLN 2.02.06.
January 31, 2020
The Accelerating Expanding Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein's Cosmological Constant, or Why Jim Peebles Was Awarded Half of the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize
Dr. Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University
February 7, 2020
Muons and Magnets: The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab
Dr. Karie Badgley, Fermi National Accelerator Lab
February 14, 2020
Mechanical Stress Modulated Phase Transition in 2D TMDC Materials
Dr. Wei Gao, UTSA
February 21, 2020
Thermometry of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Heads
Dr. Patrick Fletcher, Seagate Technology
February 28, 2020
R Coronae Borealis Stars, Products of White‐Dwarf Mergers
Dr. Geoffrey C. Clayton, Louisiana State University
March 6, 2020
New Approaches for Measuring Magnetic Moments and Electrostatic Potentials in Materials at the Atomic Scale Using Electron Microscopy
Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Erns Ruka Centre for Microscopy
March 13, 2020
no seminar - Spring Break
March 20, 2020
Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions in Resonant Multilayered Structures
Dr. Andrey Chabanov, UTSA
March 27, 2020
no seminar
April 3, 2020
TBD
Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, University of Dallas
April 10, 2020
no seminar
April 17, 2020
TBD
Dr. Robert Ebert, Southwest Research Institute
April 24, 2020
Rigid Body Dynamics of Bacteria Swimming near Surfaces
Dr. Orrin Shindell, Trinity University
May 1, 2020
Mechanisms of Ligand Binding: A Critical Assessment
Dr. Enrico Di Cera, St. Louis University
