Colloquium Archive

The following are Colloquia from previous semesters.

Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 29, 2024Neutrinos from Nuclear Reactors: Status and OutlookDr. Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, UC Irvine
April 22, 2024Topological Tuning of DNA-Based Active MatterDr. Rae Robertson-Anderson, University of San Diego
April 15, 2024Gravitational Wave Sources at the Heart of GalaxiesDr. Smadar Naoz, UCLA
April 8, 2024Energy: The True Final Frontier (Distinguished Lecture in Physics)Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice University
April 8, 2024Vortices, Skyrmions and Cycloids: A New Era in FerroelectricsDr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice University
March 27, 2024Gravitational Waves from f-modes as a Tool to Probe the Neutron Star InteriorDr. Debarati Chatterjee, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
March 25, 2024Exploring Topological Phase Transitions and Dynamic Strain Engineering in Quantum MaterialsDr. Luis A. Jauregui, UC Irvine
March 18, 2024DNA LiquidsDr. Omar Saleh, UC Santa Barbara
March 11, 2024The Gravity Tunnel in a Non-Uniform EarthDr. Alex Klotz, CSU Long Beach
February 26, 2024A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Zach Weinersmith, illustrator and writer for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
February 19, 2024Driving Quantum Matter to ExtremesDr. Sarah Grefe, CSU Long Beach
February 12, 2024Solar System Archaelogy: Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Understanding Planetary System Formation and Environmental ScienceDr. Gerardo Dominguez, CSU San Marcos
February 5, 2024Assembly, Disassembly, and Mechanics of Entropic ColloidosomesDr. Zvonimir Dogic, UC Santa Barbara
January 29, 2024What Quantum Materials Can Reveal When Interrogated with Photoemission and Electronic Transport ProbesDr. Claudia Ojeda-Aristizaba, CSU Long Beach

Fall 2023

Fall 2023 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 4, 2023Visualizing Novel Phases of Matter Using the Quantum Tunneling and Photoelectric EffectsDr. Christopher Gutiérrez, UCLA
November 27, 2023Physical Principles of Elastic MovementsDr. Mark Ilton, Harvey Mudd College
November 13, 2023Self-assembly of Colloidal Particles: How Binary Systems Help Us Design Microscopic Order in Driven and Equilibrium AssembliesDr. Nabila Tanjeem, CSU Fullerton
November 6, 2023Investigations of Ultracold Atoms in Microgravity EnvironmentsDr. Maren Mossman, University of San Diego
October 30, 2023From Cytoskeletal Assemblies to Living MachinesDr. Peter Foster, USC
October 23, 2023From Kepler to the Habitable Worlds Observatory: The Emerging Picture of Planet PopulationsDr. Jessie Christiansen, Caltech
October 16, 2023Topic: PhotoemissionLuca Moreschini, UC Berkeley
October 9, 2023Nuclear Astrophysics with Gravitational Wave ObservationsDr. Jocelyn Read, CSU Fullerton
October 2, 2023Probing Quantum Mechanics with Silicon ElectronicsDr. Justin Perron, CSU San Marcos
September 25, 2023Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Their Evolutionary Histories & Galactic CorrelationsDr. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly, CSU San Bernardino
September 18, 2023How We've Failed to Discover Dark MatterDr. Flip Tanedo, UC Riverside
September 11, 2023Meet and GreetAll Physics Students and Faculty, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2023

Spring 2023 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 3, 2023Student PresentationsStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 1, 2023Student PresentationsStudents, CSU Long Beach
April 24, 2023Curved Magnetism: Magnetic Nanocap Thin FilmsDr. Jiyeong Gu, CSU Long Beach
April 17, 2023Aneutronic Fusion as a Driver for Technology InnovationDr. Artem Smirnov, TAE Technologies Inc.
April 10, 2023From 'Spooky Action at a Distance' to Quantum ComputersDr. Tibor Rakovszky, Stanford University
April 3, 2023Building an Extremely Bright Compton X-ray and Gamma Source, the Physics Behind ItFerenc Raksi, Lumitron Technologies
March 20, 2023Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the MuonDr. Zoltan Fodor, Penn State
March 13, 2023Polymers and Parkinson's: Elucidating Protein Function through Soft Matter Paradigms and TechniquesDr. Peter Chung, USC
March 3, 2023Quantum Computing: From the Basics to ApplicationsDr. Rubem Mondaini, Beijing Computational Science Research Center
March 1, 2023Non-equilibrium and Topological Phenomena in the Era of Quantum Systems by DesignIan Mondragon-Shem, Northwestern University
February 27, 2023Unconventional Superconductivity in Dirac MaterialsDr. Tommy Li, Freie Universität Berlin
February 24, 2023Intersections of Quantum MatterDr. Sarah E. Grefe, Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 20, 2023The Confining Phase Transition in Lattice Quantum ElectrodynamicsDr. Lee C. Loveridge, Pierce College
February 13, 2023Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the Spallation Neutron SourceDr. Samuel Hedges, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
February 6, 2023Spintronics: Ultrafast Spin Currents at Room TemperatureDr. Thomas Gredig, CSU Long Beach
January 30, 2023Shedding Starlight on the Galaxy's PastDr. Joel Zinn, CSU Long Beach

Fall 2022

Fall 2022 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 5, 2022Student PresentationsStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 28, 2022Quantum Computing in the Cloud and Industrial Quantum TechnologyDr. Grant Salton, Amazon
November 14, 2022The Insidious Neutrinos, Entropy, and Gravitational CollapseDr. George Fuller, UC San Diego
November 7, 2022How well do neurons, humans and artificial neural networks predict?Dr. Sarah Marzen, Claremont Colleges
October 31, 2022Microfluidics tools for hydrodynamic studies of aquatic organismsDr. Siavash Ahrar, CSU Long Beach
October 24, 2022Open Quantum Systems Engineering with Superconducting CircuitsDr. Eli Levenson-Falk, USC
October 17, 2022Squeezing 3D to 2D: ultrathin topological bismuth crystals grown inside an atomically-flat van der Waals moldDr. Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, UC Irvine
October 10, 2022Molecular, Vesicular, and Cellular Profiling Using Nanopore Devices: What Information Is Obtainable?Dr. Kevin Freedman, UC Riverside
October 3, 2022Planet Nine from Outer SpaceDr. Mike Brown, Caltech
September 26, 2022Atomic-scale visualization of topological spin texturesDr. Jay Gupta, The Ohio State University
September 19, 2022Fundamental Physics at the Center of Our GalaxyDr. Tuan Do, UCLA
September 12, 2022SrCoO3: Stretching and Straining towards new Ferroic PropertiesDr. Sara Callori, CSU San Bernardino
August 29, 2022Meet 'n' MixAll Physics Students and Faculty, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2022

Spring 2022 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 25, 2022Hunting long-lived particles at the CMS experimentDr. Daniel Diaz, UC San Diego
April 18, 2022Looking Forward at CERN's Large Hadron ColliderDr. Jonathan Lee Feng, UC Irvine
April 11, 2022Walking The World Back From the Nuclear Brink: What can Scientists do?Dr. Sebastien Philippe, Princeton University
March 21, 2022Statistical Challenges in Big Data AstrophysicsDr. Alexander Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
March 14, 2022What does optimal human practice look like?Dr. Joshua Samani, UCLA
March 7, 2022Exploring the Milky Way's past and present using the atomic hydrogen emissionDr. Juan Diego Soler, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy
February 28, 2022Mapping Active Galactic Nuclei using Light EchoesDr. Triana Almeyda, South Carolina State University
February 23, 2022A stellar census for the ages: Surveying Galactic & extragalactic history with asteroseismologyDr. Joel Zinn, American Museum of Natural History
February 21, 2022What's the (dark) matter with dwarf galaxies?Dr. Ferah Munshi, University of Oklahoma
February 16, 2022Star-Planet Interactions and Resolved Galaxy EvolutionDr. Tara Fetherolf, UC Riverside
February 14, 2022Einstein on the Computer: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Computational AstrophysicsDr. Maria Okounkova, Flatiron Institute
February 7, 2022Investigating the Origin of the Stars Closest to the Milky Way Supermassive Black HoleDr. Devin Chu, UCLA
January 31, 2022What are Majorana zero modes and why should you care?Dr. Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland College Park

Fall 2021

Fall 2021 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 13, 2021Student Research PresentationsStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 6, 2021Student Research PresentationsStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 29, 20214D Chromosome Organization: Combining Polymer Physics, Knot Theory and High Performance ComputingDr. Anna Lapala, Harvard University
November 15, 2021Introduction to Quantum Computing and Trapped Ion-based Technologies at Honeywell Quantum SolutionsDr. Natalie Brown, Honeywell Inc.
November 8, 2021Shedding 'Nu' Light on the Nature of Matter: the Search for Majorana NeutrinosDr. Julieta Gruszko, University of North Carolina
November 1, 2021Tangled Worm Blobs: Living Polymers That Inspire Collective RoboticsDr. Saad Bhamla, Georgia Tech
October 25, 2021Fluid Mechanics of Modern Artistic PaintingDr. Roberto Zenit, Brown University
October 18, 2021Taking the Measure of Neutron Stars with NICERDr. M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland
October 11, 2021Constraining the Drake Equation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for LifeDr. Kaitlin Rasmussen, University of Michigan
October 4, 2021Using Microwaves to Search for New Physics in Nuclear Beta DecayDr. Alejandro Garcia, University of Washington
September 27, 2021Synthetic Microswimmers in Complex EnvironmentsDr. William Uspal, University of Hawaii at Manoa
September 20, 2021Coupling Diamond Defects to High-finesse Optical MicrocavitiesDr. Lilian Childress, McGill University
September 13, 2021The Last Supernova EverDr. Matt Caplan, Illinois State University
August 30, 2021Gravitational Wave Astronomy with a Precision Pulsar Timing Array DetectorDr. Michael Lam, Rochester Institute of Technology
August 23, 2021Meet and MixPhysics faculty and guests, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2021

Spring 2021 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 5, 2021Student Research Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 3, 2021Student Research Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
April 26, 2021Bringing Physics into the Fold: from origami fashion to atomic origami for micro-scale robotsDr. Itai Cohen, Cornell University
April 19, 2021How Do You Make a Binary Black Hole?Dr. Carl Rodriguez, Carnegie Mellon University
April 12, 2021Transient Spatiotemporal ChaosDr. Renate Wackerbauer, University of Alaska Fairbanks
April 5, 2021The Trouble with Traditional Physics LabsDr. Natasha Holmes, Cornell University
March 26, 2021Shaken is Different: Out-of-equilibrium Quantum MatterDr. Martin Rodriguez-Vega, University of Texas, Austin
March 24, 2021What is the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect?Dr. Benjamin Fregoso, Kent University
March 22, 2021The Magic of Moiré Quantum MatterDr. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,  MIT
March 17, 2021Moiré Materials and Incommensurability-driven Phases in Two-dimensionsDr. Justin Wilson, Rutgers University
March 15, 2021Electron and Photon Impact Induced Processes in MoleculesDr. Samantha Fonseca, Rollins College
March 8, 2021Frontier of quantum computation and quantum machine learningDr. Murphy Niu, Google AI Quantum
March 1, 2021Magnetohydrodynamics and Convection in Accretion Disks: From Dwarf Novae to Luminous QuasarsDr. Omer Blaes, UC Santa Barbara
February 22, 2021Power at the Nanoscale: Speed, Strength and Efficiency in Biological MotorsDr. Carlos Bustamante, UC Berkeley
February 15, 2021Reverberation Mapping Black Hole Accretion FlowsDr. Erin Kara, MIT
February 8, 2021Emerging Electrical and Optical Properties from the 2D WonderlandDr. Long Ju, MIT
February 1, 2021Magnetism meets mesoscopics: Synthetic spin hamiltonians in nanoscale devicesDr. Takis Kontos, Laboratorie de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
January 25, 2021High Magnetic Fields: a "magnifying glass" to spy on what electrons do!Dr. Paula Giraldo-Gallo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Fall 2020

Fall 2020 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 9, 2020Student Research Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 7, 2020Student Research Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 30, 2020Unveiling the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductors Using High Magnetic FieldsDragana Popovic, Florida State University
November 23, 2020Nanotechnology-enabled IoT Sensors and ApplicationsJeongwon Park, University of Nevada, Reno
November 16, 2020Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational ChemistryClara Sousa-Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 9, 2020Theoretically Searching for Topological Phases in Realistic Condensed Matter SystemsMichael Peterson, CSU Long Beach
November 2, 2020Revealing the molecular players that regulate synovial joint lubricationRoberto C. Andresen Eguiluz, UC Merced
October 26, 2020Hunting Dark Particles at CollidersStefania Gori, University of California Santa Cruz
October 19, 2020Neutron Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental PhysicsSanjay Reddy, University of Washington
October 12, 2020Imaging Spins in MotionKristen Buchanan, Colorado State University
October 5, 2020Tunneling Probe of 2D MagnetismAdam Tsen, University of Waterloo
September 28, 2020The Strange World of Fractionalized Quantum Numbers in Quantum MatterNandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
September 21, 2020Relativistic Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions in Heavy-Ion Collisions and AstrophysicsAzwinndini Muronga, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
September 14, 2020Molecular motors robustly drive active gels to a critically connected stateJosé Alvarado, University of Texas, Austin
August 31, 2020Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2020

Note: Colloquia after March 9 were cancelled due to COVID-19.

Spring 2020 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
March 9, 2020From Heat Engines to Green Leaves: An Experimental Physicist's Perspective on PhotosynthesisDr. Nathan Gabor, UC Riverside
March 2, 2020Learning about Neutron-rich Matter with Gravitational WavesDr. Jocelyn Read, CSU Fullerton
February 24, 2020Placing calculus and conservation laws at the center of introductory physicsDr. Christopher Fischer, University of Kansas
February 17, 2020Parasite Chainmail: a 2D polymerDr. Alex Klotz, CSU Long Beach
February 10, 2020Manipulating Light with Nanostructured MaterialsDr. Michelle Povinelli, USC
February 3, 2020Taming Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas: From Plasmas for Fusion Energy to Black Hole Accretion DisksDr. Troy Carter, UCLA
January 27, 2020Mastering Quantum MechanicsDr. Zoltan Papp, CSU Long Beach

Fall 2019

Fall 2019 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 9, 2019Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 2, 2019Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 25, 2019Functional Analysis of MetabolismDr. Matteo Mori, UC San Diego
November 18, 2019Diversity in Undergraduate PhysicsDr. Galen Pickett, CSU Long Beach
November 13, 2019Road to Room Temperature SuperconductivityDr. Vladimir Z. Kresin, UC Berkeley
November 4, 2019New mechanism of electro-magnetic coupling in composite multiferroicsDr. Igor Beloborodov, CSU Northridge
October 28, 2019Unsolved Mysteries in Fundamental PhysicsDr. John Baez, UC Riverside
October 21, 2019Exotic Matter Produced in Neutron star MergersDr. Veronica Dexheimer, Kent State
October 14, 2019Magnon Condensation in Magnetic HeterostructuresDr. Igor Barsukov, UC Riverside
October 7, 2019Controlling magnetism in a Mott insulator by optical pumpingDr. David Hsieh, CalTech
September 30, 2019Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum TechnologiesDr. Pankaj Jha, CalTech
September 23, 2019The Explosive Astrophysics of Gravitational WavesDr. Jonah Kanner, CalTech
September 16, 2019Opportunities for CSU Students to Work at CERN with NSF IRES GrantDr. Yongsheng Gao, CSU Fresno
September 9, 2019Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2019

Spring 2019 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 29, 2019Classical and quantum computing for problems in biophysical chemistryRosa Di Felice, USC
April 22, 2019Magnetism, superconductivity and non-trivial topology in quantum materialsNi Ni, UCLA
April 15, 2019Sequencing DNA with Single Molecule ElectronicsPhil Collins, UC Irvine
April 8, 2019Little Pieces of Big Problems (or Electron Microscopy for Computers and Batteries)Chris Regan, UCLA
March 25/27, 2019Distinguished Lecture: Probing topological protection of Bismuth nanowire hinge states.Sophie Guéron, Laboratoire de Physique des solides, Orsay France
March 18, 2019Cosmological NeutrinosKev Abazajian, UC Irvine
March 11, 2019Towards Rapid Sequencing of Individual DNA Molecules in Graphene NanogapsHenk Postma, CSU Northridge
March 4, 2019Innovative Approaches in mm-Wavelength Cosmology: From Inflation to the Epoch of Reionization and BeyondAbigail Crites, Caltech
February 20, 2019The Anomalous Origin of Polymer Enhanced Oil RecoveryShima Parsa, Harvard
February 18, 2019Physics of Knots in Stretched DNAAlexander Klotz, MIT
February 13, 2019Visualizing brain chemistry using optical nanomaterialsJackson Travis Del Bonis-O'Donnell, UC Berkeley
February 11, 2019Optical Imaging with Super-resolution and Light Sheet Microscopy to Unravel Transient Processes in Live Cells, Tissues and OrganismsPer Niklas Hedde, UC Irvine
February 4, 2019Materials Science, Where Chemistry and Physics MeetShahab Derakhshan, CSU Long Beach
January 28, 2019Improving Tests of Quantum Entanglement by using Light from Distant QuasarsJason Gallicchio, Harvey Mudd College

Fall 2018

Fall 2018 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 12, 2018Students Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 5, 2018Students Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 3, 2018Microfluidics @ The BeachRoger C. Lo, CSU Long Beach
November 28, 2018Physics after the lab and the desk: Your work in PRLSamindranath Mitra, American Physical Society
November 26, 2018Exploration of Research ProjectsChuhee Kwon, CSU Long Beach
November 6, 2018Basic Research and Basic Needs: Two sides of the same coinNaresh Menon, ChromoLogic LLC
October 29, 2018Investigations into the nature of magnetism in transition-metal-doped phthalocyaninesZhengjun Wang, West Virginia University
October 24, 2018What we're up to at the Google quantum hardware labJosh Mutus, Google Inc.
October 22, 2018Theory and observations of planet formation: the modern viewWladimir Lyra, CSU Northridge
October 15, 2018Plasmonic Superconductivity in Layered MaterialsStephan Haas, USC
October 10, 2018Imaging Topological States in Two-Dimensional Quantum MaterialsYongtao Cui, UC Riverside
October 1, 2018Modeling Complexity: Theoretical Approaches to Multiorbital Correlated SystemsLaura Fanfarillo, International School of Advanced Studies, Italy
September 24, 2018Using Research to Improve the Teaching of Quantum MechanicsGina Passante, CSU Fullerton
September 17, 2018Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach
September 10, 2018Shell structure and superconducting pairing in size selected meta nanoclustersVitaly Kresin, USC

Spring 2018

Spring 2018 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 30, 2018Highlights in Fusion Energy Research and Fast Ion Physics in TokamaksCami Collins, General Atomics
April 23, 2018A Physicist's Career In and Out of PhysicsGene Dantsker, Qualcomm Life, Inc.
April 16, 2018Galaxies on FIRE: stellar feedback and galaxy evolutionDusan Keres, UC San Diego
April 9, 2018Field-effect control of emergent properties in low dimensional materialsWu Shi, UC Berkeley
April 2, 2018Self-replicating Tangles and Applications to Quantum ComputationRyan Blair, CSU Long Beach
March 19, 2018Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Many-Body PhysicsAna Cadavid, CSU Northridge
March 12, 2018Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Many-Body PhysicsEhsan Khatami, San Jose State University
February 26, 2018The Forces that Keep Our Cells AliveWylie Ahmed, CSU Fullerton
February 21, 2018Cannibals in the Standard ModelCraig D. Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
February 12, 2018A Brief Introduction to Rotor DynamicsLouis Komzsik, UC Irvine
February 5, 2018Superconductivity versus Magnetism in Electron-Doped Iron SelenideJose Rodriguez, CSU Los Angeles
January 29, 2018Chasing the SunDavid Yu, DULY Research Inc.

Fall 2017

Fall 2017 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 4, 2017The Next Questions in Neutrino PhysicsRyan Patterson, California Institute of Technology
November 27, 2017A Curious Supergravity StoryZvi Bern, UCLA
November 13, 2017Density Functional Theory and its Applications to Physics and ChemistryKurt Fredrickson, Applied Materials (Sunnyvale, CA)
November 6, 2017Force Sensing by BacteriaAlbert Siryaporn, UC Irvine
October 30, 2017What is a skyrmion?Hector Ochoa, UCLA
October 23, 2017Majorana MaterializesJason Alicea, California Institute of Technology
October 16, 2017Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Graphene: Hydrogen Desorption and Nitrogen DopingLi Gao, CSU Northridge
October 9, 2017A Paradigmatic Study of Exo-Academia Economic Opportunites in the Absence of a Physics DoctorateJohn Milligan, Logical Approach Engineering
October 2, 2017Topological Order in Condensed Matter PhysicsMichael R. Peterson, CSU Long Beach
September 25, 2017Neutron Stars: Challenges and OpportunitiesThomas Klähn, CSU Long Beach
September 18, 2017Constraining Planet Formation with Directly Imaged ExoplanetsQuinn Konopacky, UC San Diego
September 11, 2017Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2017

Spring 2017 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
June 6, 2017Moire Superlattice of Graphene on Boron NitrideValeri Kotov, 
University of Vermont
May 10, 2017Student Research Presentations IIResearch Students
CSU Long Beach
May 8, 2017Student Research Presentations IResearch Students
CSU Long Beach
May 1, 2017Radiography at the Nevada National Security Site Cygnus FacilityStephen E. Mitchell
Nevada National Security Site
April 17, 2017Large shift current generation in two-dimensional FerroelectricsBenjamin Fregoso
Kent State University
April 10, 2017Allosteric Regulation of Integrin Adhesion ReceptorsTobias Ulmer
University of Southern California
April 3, 2017Random Walk to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory:Opportunities and Interactions in Materials ScienceR. Peter Dillon
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 13, 2017Student Learning in the Upper-division: Difficulties and AssessmentQing Ryan
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
March 6, 2017Wiring up Biology: Natural and Bioinspired Materials for Long-Range Electronic TransportAllon I. Hochbaum
University of California, Irvine
February 27, 2017Is the Higgs Elementary or Composite?Dr. Daniel Nogradi
Eotvos University
February 20, 2017Quark Matter in Neutron StarsDr. Thomas Klaehn
University of Wroclaw, Poland
February 13, 2017Dark Matter in the Cosmic ContextDr. Katherine J. Mack
University of Melbourne, Australia

Fall 2016

Fall 2016 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
November 28, 2016Topological "spin" transport through magnetic insulatorsYaroslav Tserkovnyak, UCLA
November 14, 2016 Alexander Levine, UCLA
November 7, 2016Tuning electron interactions and stabilizing novel phases in quasi two- dimensional superconductorsDr. Nicholas P. Breznay
October 31, 2016Topological "spin" transport through magnetic insulatorsFangyuan Tian, CSU Long Beach
October 24, 2016 Steven White, UC Irvine
October 17, 2016Gravitational Waves from Vibrating Neutron StarsPrashanth Jaikumar, CSU Long Beach
October 10, 2016Radar Sounding of Icy Worlds: From ice fields to Mars, Europa, and BeyondYonggyu Gim, JPL
October 3, 2016A State of Matter that is Soft on the Outside, but Tough on the InsideCenke Xu, UC Santa Barbara
September 26, 2016From Imaginary Experiments to Quantum InformationLuis Orozco, University of Maryland
September 19, 2016Mathematical Structures in Quantum Field Theory in Curved SpaceAlfonso Agnew, CSU Fullerton
September 12, 2016Properties of low-mass AGN as they relate to unification and massive AGNCarol Hood, CSU San Bernardino
August 29, 2016Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2016

Spring 2016 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 25, 2016Low energy electrodynamics of strongly disordered superconductorsGötz Seibold, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
April 18, 2016What can we learn from neutron stars?Lee Lindblom, UC San Diego
April 11, 2016Painting on canvases of 2D CrystalsJay Gupta, Ohio State University
April 4, 2016Current and future gravitational-wave discoveries with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGOJoshua Smith, CSU Fullerton
March 21, 2016Dark SunshineFlip Tanedo, UC Irvine
March 14, 2016Probing the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Interior Using HelioseismologyEdward J. Rhodes, USC
March 7, 2016The Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC: News from the Front LinesOwen Long, UC Riverside
February 24, 2016Investigating Complexity One Atom at a TimeEric Hudson, Penn State University
February 22, 2016On the Dynamics of Planets, Stars and Black Holes – New Insights from TriplesSmadar Naoz, UCLA
February 8, 2016Anyonics: Designing Exotic Circuitry with Non-Abelian AnyonsKirill Shtengel, UC Riverside
February 1, 2016Functionalizing Graphene for Spintronics and Quantum Information Applications: Density Functional StudiesRuqian Wu, UC Irvine
January 25, 2016Time Fluctuations in Quantum Systems Out-of-EquilibriumLorenzo Campos Venuti, USC

Fall 2015

Fall 2015 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 9, 2015Student Presentations IIIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 7, 2015Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 2, 2015Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 30, 2015Confining Energetic Ions in Magnetic Fusion ExperimentsWilliam Heidbrink, UC Irvine
November 16, 2015Magnetic Force Microscopy of Magnets with Competing InteractionsYeong-Ah Soh
November 9, 2015Quadratic Magneto Optical Kerr Effect and Chirality of Magnetization Reversal in Py/SmFe/Py Exchange SpringsJiyeong Gu, CSU Long Beach
November 2, 2015The Unpredictable, the Predetermined, and the Postdetermined Unfold TogetherR.G. James, UC Davis
October 26, 2015Heating up Quantum MechanicsS. Parameswaran, UC Irvine
October 19, 2015From Physics to Data ScienceD. Benveniste, EMC Corporation
October 12, 2015Searching for the dark universe with matter wave interferometryP. Hamilton, UCLA
October 5, 2015The Role of Physics in Medicine: Examples from X-Ray Computed TomographyM. McNitt-Gray, UCLA
September 28, 2015Magnetoresistance Measurements on SmB6 – Cornering the Parameter Space of an Illusive Correlated Topological InsulatorCagliyan Kurdak, University of Michigan
September 21, 2015Looking for unconventional quantum states in layered materials & heterostructuresClaudia Ojeda-Aristizabal, CSU Long Beach
September 14, 2015Light Nuclei, the Universe, and EverythingKenneth Nollett, San Diego State University
August 31, 2015Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2015

Spring 2015 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
April 27, 2015Metamorphosis of Superconducting Correlations in a Magnetic MaterialAndreas Bill, CSU Long Beach
April 20, 2015Cosmic LightAsantha Cooray, UC Irvine
April 13, 2015When Spin meets Momentum?Vivek Aji, UC Riverside
April 6, 2015The Role Of Quantum Geometry In Topological PhasesRahul Roy, UCLA
March 23, 2015The Cosmos seen through the Planck Satellite's EyesElena Pierpaoli, USC
March 16, 2015Local Probes of the Early Universe: Using Nearby Brown Dwarfs to Measure Lithium Production in Big Bang NucleosynthesisAdam Burgasser, UC San Diego
March 9, 2015What is a Sagnac interferometer and what can it do?Jing Xia, UC Irvine
February 25, 2015Quantum Phenomena and Layered HeterostructuresClaudia Ojeda-Aristizabal, UC Berkeley
February 23, 2015Molding Light with Flat OpticsMyoung Hwan Kim, Columbia
February 18, 2015Few-body Physics in Ultracold Atoms: Observation of Geometric Scaling Symmetry in Li-Cs-Cs Efimov StatesShih-Kuang Tung, NU
February 16, 2015Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Condensed Matter Physics: Unconventional Superconductivity, Quantum Magnetism, and Other Magnificent TalesGeorgios Koutroulakis, UCLA
February 11, 2015Transparent Conducting Oxide Active Plasmonics and Metasurfaces: Ultrasmall and Ultrathin OpticsHoward Lee, Caltech
February 9, 2015Probing and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Motion with Attosecond Transient Absorption SpectroscopyMichael Chini, UC Fullerton
February 2, 2015Rapid Sequencing of Individual DNA Molecules with Graphene NanogapsHenk Postma, CSU Northridge

Fall 2014

Fall 2014 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 8, 2014Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 5, 2014Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 1, 2014Self-Organized Pattern Formation in Thin Liquid FilmsMichael Bestehorn, BTU, Germany
November 24, 2014Understanding Stellar NeutrinosMichael Smy, UC Irvine
November 17, 2014Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics: A Tool to Reveal and Harness Nature’s Most Cherished SecretsWendell T. Hill, III, UMD
November 10, 2014Spin Dynamics Applied to Iron PhthalocyanineThomas Gredig, CSU Long Beach
November 3, 2014Probing the Interior of Neutron Stars through Non-radial OscillationsPrashanth Jaikumar, CSU Long Beach
October 27, 2014Simulation and spectroscopy of many-body systems with cold atoms and moleculesWes Campbell, UCLA
October 20, 2014Theoretical Approaches towards HIV Vaccine Designs and Prevention EffortsHa Youn Lee, USC
October 13, 2014Searches for Particle Dark MatterTim Tait, UC Irvine
October 6, 2014Electronic correlations in multi-orbital systems and iron based superconductorsElena Bascones, ICMM, CSIC
September 29, 2014Radiationless Decay Studied by Time- Dependent Density Functional TheoryEnrico Tapavicza, CSU Long Beach
September 22, 2014BME/Medical Physics; Assisted management of cardiopulmonary diseasesChristopher Druzgalski, CSU Long Beach
September 15, 2014Density Functional Theory: A great physics success storyKieron Burke, UC Irvine
September 8, 2014Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach
June 2, 2014Development of Micro-Devices for Intra-Cellular Recordings in Awake Active BrainsM. Barbic, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2014

Spring 2014 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 7, 2014Students Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 5, 2014Students Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
April 28, 2014Large Graphs in Physics: From Statistical Mechanics of Networks to Quantum CosmologyDmitri Krioukov, UC San Diego
April 21, 2014Planet Formation Revealed by High-Contrast ImagingMichael Fitzgerald, UCLA
April 14, 2014X-ray and Infrared Observational Studies of Star Formation Across the Milky WayMatthew Povich, Cal Poly Pomona
April 7, 2014Engineering Light Matter Interactions with Colloidal SystemsRegina Ragan, UC Riverside
March 24, 2014Effective Field TheoryA. Manohar, UC San Diego
March 17, 2014Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene MembranesJ. Lau, UC Riverside
March 10, 2014Nonlinear dynamics and phase transitions in heart cellsY. Shiferaw, CSU Northridge
March 3, 2014Space Situational Awareness: Providing advanced, innovative space surveillance technologies to the warfighterKenneth A. Abeloe, Integrity Applications Incorporated
February 24, 2014My Favorite Elementary Particle: The NeutrinoJames Hill, CSU Domingez Hills
February 17, 2014Heating up the Vacuum: a new Spin on QCD at RHICKenneth R. Barish, UC Riverside
February 10, 2014Superconducting States in pseudo-Landau levels of Strained GrapheneYafis Barlas, UC Riverside
February 3, 2014Computational Approach to Undergraduate Physics LaboratoryZoltan Papp, CSU Long Beach
January 27, 2014Laser Eye Surgery: Applied Physics at its FinestF. Raksi

Fall 2013

Fall 2013 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 11, 2013Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 9, 2013Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 2, 2013What Shuts Down Star Formation in Galaxies?Alison Coil, UC San Diego
November 25, 2013Extracellular Charge Transport in Microbial Communities: Physics meets MicrobiologyMoh El-Naggar, USC
November 18, 2013First Light on the Cosmological Dark AgesPeng Oh, UC Santa Barbara
November 12, 2013Sub-wavelength Scale Light-matter Interaction:Y. Abate, CSU Long Beach
November 4, 2013Peer LearningZvonko Hlousek, CSU Long Beach
October 28, 2013Supercomputer simulations of colliding black holesGeoffrey Lovelace, CSU Fullerton
October 21, 2013Investigating the Physics of Mass Transfer in Algol Binaries from Spacecraft DataGeraldine Peters, USC
October 14, 2013Opening A New Window to Charged Particle AstronomyKonstantin Belov, UCLA
October 7, 2013Developing large-enrollment, conceptual physics courses: Active learning and science practices for non-majorsEdward Price, CSU San Marcos
September 30, 2013The Time-Dependent Aharonov-Bohm EffectDoug Singleton, CSU Fresno
September 23, 2013Building Electronic Circuits at the Single Molecule ScalePhil Collins, UC Irvine
September 16, 2013Under Siege: Searching for the Identity of Dark MatterManoj Kaplinghat, UC Irvine
September 9, 2013Meet & MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach
August 19, 2013Spectral Analysis and Applications of Plasmonic Gold NanoconesU. Tuebingen

Spring 2013

Spring 2013 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 8, 2013Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 6, 2013Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
April 29, 2013The Search for Majorana Modes in Solid-State SystemsR. Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q
April 22, 2013Studying Gravity to Defying Gravity: A Physicist in AerospaceSam Waldman, SpaceX
April 17, 2013TBAJ. Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics
April 15, 2013The Physics of Wall StreetJ.O. Weatherall
April 8, 2013Heavy Electrons and SuperconductivityZ. Fisk, UC Irvine
March 25, 2013X-Ray Microscopy at a Synchrotron - Large Machines and Small DevicesH. Ohldag, SLAC
March 11, 2013Graphene KoansB.C. Regan, UCLA
March 4, 2013Effect of Gravity and Finite Temperature on the Decay of the False VacuumL.C. Loveridge, Pierce College
February 25, 2013Strain Induced Quantum Hall States in GrapheneS. Haas, USC
February 18, 2013ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Students Presenting their ResearchW. Klink, U. of Iowa
February 11, 2013Holographic QCD: Insights and ApplicationsJ. Day, U. of Graz, Austria
February 4, 2013High Temperature Superconductivity: Taming SerendipityL. H. Greene, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 28, 2013ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Students Research Presentations S.E.Grefe and S.HedgesCSU Long Beach

Fall 2012

Fall 2012 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 12, 2012Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 10, 2012Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 3, 2012Topological Quantum ComputationChetan Nayak, Station Q & KITP UC Santa Barbara
November 26, 2012Stringy Surprises at Strong CouplingClifford Johnson, USC
November 19, 2012Multi-Component Equations in Quantum MechanicsZ. Papp, CSU Long Beach
November 13, 2012Extreme Tides: The Dynamic Response of Neutron Stars in Merging BinariesJ. Read, CSU Fullerton
November 5, 2012Keeping it Light: Sculpting the Color and Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Ultrafast Laser Beams Using Spatial Light ModulatorsMatt Anderson, San Diego State University
October 29, 2012Raman Probe Force MicroscopeK. Wickramasinghe, UC Irvine
October 22, 2012Superconductivity in Fe-Based Superconductors: Competing Orders and Cooper-pairingIlyia Eremin, University of Bochum, Germany
October 15, 2012Graphene Plasmonics: Tunable Resonators with Extreme Light ConfinementVictor Brar, Caltech
October 8, 2012My Journey Back to the BeachKevin Dwyer, CSU Long Beach
October 1, 2012Physics Education Research and the Upper DivisionMichael Loverude, CSU Fullerton
September 24, 2012Physics of Medical Imaging: Seeing Inside the Human Body with Radiation – A Career in Healthcare for PhysicistsLeh-nien Loo, Kaiser Permanente
September 17, 2012Bifurcations and Phase-Locking Dynamics in Hair Cells of the Inner EarDolores Bozovic, UCLA
September 10, 2012Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2012

Spring 2012 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 9, 2012Student Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 7, 2012Student Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
April 30, 2012Magnetism and Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous SystemsRichard Scalettar, UC Davis
April 23, 2012Learning Solutions 4 the Social AgeZ. Hlousek, T. Gredig, C. Kwon, J. Kisiel, CSU Long Beach
April 16, 2012Physics in Medicine: A Condensed Matter Physicist’s Journey into Medical PhysicsDaniel Scanderbeg, UC San Diego
April 9, 2012Astronomy and Fundamental Physics with Space-Based Gravitational-Wave DetectorsMichele Vallisneri, JPL & Caltech
April 2, 2012Polymer Solar CellsGang Li, UCLA
March 19, 2012Thick Graphene / Thin Graphite: Electronic Transport in ABA Trilayer GrapheneErik Henriksen, Caltech
March 12, 2012Noise in Superconducting Qubits and Spin GlassesClare Yu, UC Irvine
March 5, 2012SOFIA - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared AstronomyDana Backman, SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center
February 27, 2012Unruh-DeWitt Detectors: Measuring the Temperature of the VacuaDoug Singleton, CSU Fresno
February 20, 2012Metallic Nanoclusters: Properties, Clusters vs Nuclei, High Temperature Superconducting StateVladimir Kresin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
February 13, 2012The Way of the Physicist. A Brief Picture of of the Fun/Trouble I have Had & CausedHarald Butch Miller, Northrop Grumman
February 6, 2012Gravitational Waves, a New Window on the UniverseJay Marx, LIGO, Caltech
January 30, 2012Not Yet the Last to Lay the Old AsideVirginia Trimble, UC Irvine

Fall 2011

Fall 2011 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 16, 2011Gaia, a Mission to Map our GalaxyL. Eyer, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
December 7, 2011Radiometric Dating as a Reliable Clock of GeologyZ. Pecskay, Inst. of Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary
December 5, 2011Students Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 30, 2011Students Presentations IStudent, CSU Long Beach
November 21, 2011Pure Spin Currents: Discharging SpintronicsAxel Hoffmann, Argonne National Lab
November 14, 2011Surface Plasmon Resonance: Instrumentation and Applications to Studies of Electrode Reactions and Detections of Biomakers.Feimeng Zhou, CSU Los Angeles
November 7, 2011Topological Non-Abelian Anyons and the Fractional Quantum Hall EffectMichael Peterson, CSU Long Beach
October 31, 2011Results from the First Two Years of the Large Hadron ColliderBeate Heinemann, UC Berkeley
October 24, 2011Superconductivity in Synthetic MetalsStuart Brown, UCLA
October 19, 2011Science & Discovery - Life of a ScientistCharles Townes, UC Berkeley
October 17, 2011Mid-Infrared Variability of Orion Protostars using SpitzerSusan Terebey, CSU Los Angeles
October 10, 2011Physics of the SunWerner Däppen, USC
October 3, 2011Physics Education, Interactive Engagement, and Technology: Understanding the Complexity of the ClassroomEdward Price, CSU San Marcos
September 26, 2011Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Involving Magnetic Flux Ropes and Current SheetsWalter Gekelman, UCLA
September 19, 2011High School Physics Standards: A Nationwide ComparisonKathryn Beck, CSU Long Beach
September 12, 2011Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach

Spring 2011

Spring 2011 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
May 11, 2011Students Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 9 2011Students Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
May 2, 2011Interaction of Composite ParticlesZ. Papp, CSU Long Beach
April 25, 2011Dark EnergyB. Desai, UC Riverside
April 18, 2011Magnetothermopower as a Tool for Studying the Electronic Properties of Layered Organic ConductorsD. Krstovska, National High Magnetic Field Lab., Florida State Univ., & Ss. Cyril and Methodius Univ., Skopje, Macedonia
April 11, 2011Quantum Computing: Harnessing a New Force of NatureE. Ladizinsky, D-Wave Systems, Inc.
April 4, 2011Hubble's New View of the Evolving Universe of GalaxiesM.A. Malkan, UCLA
March 25, 2011Plasmonics and the Near FieldM. Moskovits, UC Santa Barbara
March 21, 2011Translational Research in Proton Therapy: A Medical Physics PerspectiveA.J. Wroe, Loma Linda University
March 14, 2011The Development of Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Using Particle Accelerators to Watch Atoms Move in Real TimeP. Musumeci, UCLA
February 28, 2011Topological Phases of Matter, the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, and the Reality of Non-Abelian AnyonsM. Peterson, UC Santa Barbara
February 23, 2011Quantum Phases in Ultracold Atomic and Molecular Lattice SystemsB. Capogrosso-Sansone, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics and Harvard Physics Department
February 21, 2011Few-Body Physics with Ultracold Quantum Gases: from Efimov Physics to Controllable Chemical ReactionsJ.P. D'Incao, JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST
February 16, 2011Topological Insulators: from Clean Energy to Exotic Particles!P. Ghaemi, UC Berkeley
February 14, 2011Very Broad Band Sensors for Global Seismic RecordingT. VanZandt, Metrozet LLC
February 7, 2011The First Realistic Quantum Spin LiquidS. White, UC Irvine
January 31, 2011Physics Education OnlineZ. Hlousek, CSU Long Beach

Fall 2010

Fall 2010 Colloquia
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
December 8, 2010Students Presentations IIStudents, CSU Long Beach
December 6, 2010Students Presentations IStudents, CSU Long Beach
November 29, 2010Exploring the Unknown Universe with the LHCD. Whiteson, UC Irvine
November 22, 2010Recent Advances in High-Temperature SuperconductivityN-C. Yeh, Caltech
November 15, 2010Creating an Effective Professional PresentationD. Davis, McNair Scholars Program
November 8, 2010The Role of Orbital and Spin Ordering in Manganites – A Direct View from Static and Time-Resolved Resonant Soft X-Ray ScatteringS. Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
November 3, 2010Broadband Infrared Near-Field NanoscopyF. Keilmann, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany
November 1, 2010Quantum Phases of Cold Atom MixturesS-W. Tsai, UC Riverside
October 25, 2010Phases of Dense Matter in Compact StarsF. Weber, San Diego State University
October 18, 2010Spectroscopic Characterization of Extra-Solar PlanetsP. Deroo, JPL
October 11, 2010Simplicity Through Innovation - The Path to High Gain SolarB. MacDonald, Skyline Solar
October 4, 2010Progress Towards Discovering the Biophysical Basis of Magnetic SensingT. Ritz, UC Irvine
September 27, 2010Fundamental Studies of Fast-Ion Physics in Magnetically Confined PlasmasW.W. Heidbrink, UC Irvine
September 20, 2010What I've Learned - 25 Years Teaching High-School PhysicsRod Ziolkowski, CSU Long Beach
September 13, 2010Meet and MixFaculty and Staff, CSU Long Beach