Past Events

Don Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a core member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and the Texas Materials Institute.

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Don Siegel

Title: Epitaxial Growth of Barium Titanate on Vicinal Silicon

11:00 am – 1:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Jason Tischler

Building research ties across Texas in the areas of dark matter, cosmology, gravitational waves and astrophysics.

9:00 am – 6:00 pm • In Person

Title - Standard Sirens: Exploring the Evolution of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Alberto Salvarese

Timothy Tait is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UC Irvine. His research interests include theoretical physics beyond the Standard Model, particle phenomenology, high-energy collider physics, and cosmology.

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Timothy Tait

Title: Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers as a Magnetic Quantum Sensor

11:00 am – 12:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Andrew Perez

Dr. Gennadi Bersuker specializes in the physical and electrical characterization of microelectronic devices for high-performance applications. He is now the Principal Scientist & Executive Director at M2D Solutions.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Gennadi Bersuker

Guru Khalsa is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, where his research investigates the relationship between microscopic physics and the macroscopic behavior of condensed matter systems.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Guru Khalsa

Dr. Elena M. Zannoni is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin, core faculty in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, and holds a courtesy appointment at Dell Medical School.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Elena Zannoni

Matteo Ippoliti is an assistant professor of physics at UT Austin, specializing in the theory of quantum matter and the interactions of quantum objects like electrons and qubits.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Matteo Ippoliti