Physics/Theory Colloquium Series 2024

• P/T colloquia are scheduled every other Thursday at 3:45 at the Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 0001), or at the Physics Auditorium (TA-3, bldg. 215). Live P/T colloquia are also available via Webex. Light refreshments will be served beginning at 3:15 PM.
• To propose a speaker please send email to ptcolloquium@lanl.gov with information on desired date(s), name of proposed speaker, affiliation, title, abstract, and any WWW pages that could be referenced. The P/T colloquium organizing committee will make a decision and contact the speaker to invite her/him.
• The P/T organizing committee is formed by staff from P- and T- Divisions: Sara Calandrini (T-3), Kirk A. Flippo (P-2), Daniele Alves (T-2), Hermann Geppert-Kleinrath (P-4), Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6, T-div Chair), Ruian Ke (T-6), Chengkun Huang (T-5), Sean A. Kuvin (P-3,P-div Chair), Rene Reifarth(P-3), Avanish Mishra (T-1), Liz Peterson (T-4), Romain T. Perriot (T-1) and Mora Durocher (P-1).
• Guidelines for Guest Traveler's reimbursement
• If you have ideas, comments or suggestions to make the P/T colloquium more successful, please let the committee know by sending an email to: ptcolloquium@lanl.gov.
  
  

  	Date/Time	Place	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
  	Mar. 13th 2025 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Justin Wark	Oxford University	TBD: The study of shock compressed condensed matter by use of advanced light sources	Tim Germann (tcg@lanl.gov) and Romain Perriot (rperriot@lanl.gov)
  	Feb. 1st 2025 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Adam Coleman	XTD-SS	TBD: Hedonist/p-rad (Rescheduled - final date not set)	Sean Kuvin (kuvin@lanl.gov)
  	Sep. 26th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. William Priedhorsky	Laboratory Fellow, LANL	Why are the Laboratory’s technical publications on a plateau?	gnana@lanl.gov
  	Aug. 22nd 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215, Rm 182)	Dr. Gerhard Hummer	Max Planck Institute of Biophysics	Learning from molecular simulations
  	Aug. 15th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Jack Shlachter	LANL/ALDPS	The List Goes On: Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners in Physics	Gnana (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	Jul. 25th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215, Rm 182)	Prof. Mac Hyman	Tulane University and Los Alamos National Laboratory	An Agent-based Network Model to Inform Public Health Efforts for Controlling Sexually Transmitted Infections	Gnana (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	Jun. 20th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Alexander Scheinker	LANL AOT-AE	Adaptive Generative Deep Learning with Hard Physics Constraints and Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Dynamic Systems	kuvin@lanl.gov
  	Jun. 6th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Diane Oyen	LANL CCS-3	LANL AI Initiatives - Foundation Models	Gnana (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	May. 23rd 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Adam Frank	University of Rochester	Semantic Information and The Physics of Life	allobet@lanl.gov
  	May. 16th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215, Rm 182)	Dr. Greg Huber	Director of Theory, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco	Ambigrammia Genetica -- Brave New World or Narna-Viral Backwater?	Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6)
  	Apr. 4th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Kathryne Daniel and Joshua Smith	University of Arizona and California State University Fullerton	Cosmic Explorer: a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory	Romain Perriot (rperpiot)
  	Mar. 28th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Prof. Kevin McFarland	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester (NY)	Measuring the Structure of Protons with Accelerator Neutrinos	Oleksandr Tomalak (tomalak@lanl.gov) and Romain Perriot (rperriot@lanl.gov)
  	Mar. 14th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Dr. Kasra Nowrouzi	Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory	Charting a Coherent Path through Incoherence: Technical and Organizational Challenges to Useful Quantum Computing	Marianne Francois (mmfran@lanl.gov) and Gnana (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	Mar. 7th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Barbara Jacak	UC Berkeley	Experimental QCD	Ming Lui (mliu@lanl.gov)
  	Feb. 8th 2024 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Baylor Fox-Kemper	Brown University	Scale-dependent problems in climate and oceanography	Filipe Pereira (fspereira@lanl.gov)
  	Jan. 25th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Leslie Sherrill	LANL/XTD	The Los Alamos Common Modeling Framework Project	Anna Llobet (allobet@lanl.gov
  	Jan. 11th 2024 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Scott Marley	Louisiana State University	Fission Fragment Decay Spectroscopy at CARIBU	Matthew Mumpower (mumpower@lanl.gov)
  	Dec. 14th 2023 3:45 PM	VIRTUAL	Dr. Johan Frenje	MIT	Studying High-Energy-Density (HED) and Inertial-Confinement-Fusion (ICF) physics at the NIF, OMEGA, and the Z-facility using MIT-developed diagnostics and experimental platforms	Hermann Geppert-Kleinrath (geppert@lanl.gov)
  	Nov. 16th 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Michael Snow	Indiana University	Development and Characterization of "Challenging" Neutron Beams	Jeph Wang (zwang@lanl.gov) and Sean Kuvin (kuvin@lanl.gov)
  	Nov. 9th 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Ishay Pomerantz	Tel Aviv University	Nuclear Photonics	Sasi Palaniyappan (sasi@lanl.gov) and Kirk Flippo (kflippo@lanl.gov)
  	Nov. 2nd 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Carl Gagliardi	Texas A&M University	What Makes the Proton Spin?	Ming Liu (mliu@lanl.gov)
  	Oct. 26th 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Prof. Jacob Joseph	Brown University	TBD: Biological complexity of disease - heart failure	Gnana Gnanakaran (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	Oct. 19th 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Prof. Melanie Mitchell	Santa Fe Institute	Abstraction and Analogy are the Keys to Robust AI	Gnana (gnana@lanl.gov)
  	Sep. 21st 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Duncan Brown	Syracuse University	Cosmic Explorer: A Next-Generation Generation Ground-based Gravitational-Wave Observatory for Nuclear Astrophysics	Soumi De (soumide@lanl.gov)
  	Sep. 7th 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Adrian Brugger	Director of Robert A.W. Carleton Strength of Materials Laboratory	“Strategic Civil Infrastructure Resiliency and Failures: Insights into their Mechanics using Neutron Scattering and Imaging”	Don Brown (dbrown@lanl.gov) and Sean Kuvin (kuvin@lanl.gov)
  	Aug. 24th 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Prof. Andrew Steiner	University of Tennessee	Neutron-star equation of state from astrophysics	Ingo Tews (itews@lanl.gov)
  	Aug. 17th 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Christoph Weder	Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland	Bio-Inspired, Adaptive Polymer Systems	Roman Perriot (rperriot@lanl.gov)
  	Jul. 27th 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Bill Priedhorsky	ISR-DO (LANL)	The American Physical Society Report on Missile Defense	Seann Kuvin (kuvin@lanl.gov)
  	Jul. 13th 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker	Texas A&M University and Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey	How Putin’s invasion of Ukraine destroys the Global Nuclear Order	gnana@lanl.gov
  	Jun. 22nd 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Dr. Tammy Ma	LLNL	Ignition and the Path Toward an Inertial Fusion Energy Future	Kirk Flippo (kflippo@lanl.gov)
  	Jun. 15th 2023 3:45 PM	Physics Auditorium (TA-3, Bldg 215)	Ellen McGehee and Madeline Whitacre	LANL	Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project	gnana@lanl.gov
  	Jun. 1st 2023 3:45 PM	Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg 1)	Dr. Bill Rider	Sandia	The History of CFD, Part 1 – CFD before CFD	Filipe S. Pereira (fspereira@lanl.gov)

  
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