Past Events

Explore our latest events, seminar series and conferences.

Upcoming Past

Nov

18

2024

James Clarke Defense

Title: Investigations into Biomechanical Control of Reconstituted Actomyosin Systems

1:00 pm – 3:02 pm In Person

Speaker(s): James Clarke

Nov

13

2024

Physics Colloquia

Physics Colloquia: Showcase of the 2024 Mentors Mindset Initiative (MMI) Physics teaching program

Hosts: Christina Markert and Jonathan Perry

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Nicholas Galitzki, Andrew Loveridge, John Markert, Viranga Perera, John Yeazell, and Eric Smith

Nov

13

2024

Snehal Tibrewal Qualifying Exam

Title: Deciphering the influence of eccentricity and spin-precession in gravitational wave signals

11:00 am – 1:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Snehal Tibrewal

Nov

12

2024

IFS Seminar

IFS Seminar: Aaro Järvinen

Title: Developing machine learning facilitated pedestal models for tokamaks

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Aaro Järvinen

Nov

11

2024

Matt Dwyer Final Defense

Title: Measurement of Phonon Angular Momentum via the Einstein-de Haas Effect, Fiber-Optic Interferometry, and a High-Q Oscillator

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Matt Dwyer

Nov

8

2024

Casey Christian Qualifying Exam

Title: Investigations in Thermalization

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm In Person

Nov

7

2024

Relativity Seminar

Jake Doherty Qualifier presentation

Title: Black hole growth in a scalar field driven cosmology

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Jake Doherty

Nov

7

2024

Tong Wang Qualifying Exam

Title: Time-Dependent Parallel Electron Particle and Energy Transport in a Magnetized Plasma of Arbitrary Collisionality

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Tong Wang

Nov

7

2024

Jian Jun Liu Qualifier Exam

Title: Electromagnetically Induced Transparency for Quantum Sensing: Numerical Simulations and Experimental Studies of Narrow Linewidths in Doppler-Free Configurations

11:00 am – 1:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Jian Jun Liu

Nov

6

2024

Physics Colloquia

Physics Colloquia: Amaresh Sahu - Mechanical response of lipid membranes to passive and active forces

Amaresh Sahu is an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at UT Austin. His theoretical research group focuses broadly on understanding various soft and living matter systems across a wide range of length and time scales.

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm In Person

Speaker(s): Amaresh Sahu