USF Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

Student presenting talk on electrons and superconductors in the Physics Colloquium class.
Dhruvika Randad '24 presenting her student talk on electron and hole-doped Tc cuprate superconductors in the Fall 2023 Colloquium class.

Fall 2024 Schedule and Speakers

Fridays from 1:00 to 2:30pm in Harney G56. All talks are preceded by a coffee hour starting at 1pm.

September 6

  • Newtonian Physics in Curved Space
  • Prof. Steve Trettel, University of San Francisco, Department of Mathematics

September 13

  • Keeping Quantum States Alive: An overview of lattice atom interferometry
  • Matthew Tao, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics

September 20

  • Fantastic spin-charge order in spintronic materials
  • Prof. Shan Wu, Santa Clara University, Department of Physics

October 4

  • From Darkness to Light: The Search for Axion Dark Matter
  • Jyotirmai Singh, Stanford University, Department of Physics

October 18

  • Multimessenger gamma-ray bursts: a cosmic gold mine
  • Prof. Davide Lazzati, Oregon State University's College of Science, Department of Physics

October 25

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once: Spatial Structure in Complex Bacterial Communities
  • Rachel Porter, Stanford University, PhD Biophysics Program

November 1

  • Controlling Light with Light: Towards All-Optical Quantum Computation and Beyond
  • Noah Row Flemens, Stanford University, Department of Physics