Events

Oct

8

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Tomography of Quark-Gluon Plasma with Heavy Quarks" Presented By Dr. Deepa Thomas - UT Austin

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

October 8, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) create the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) -- a hot, dense, deconfined state of QCD matter governed by strong interactions. While decades of measurements have…

Oct

15

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Modeling Fluidization in Growing Biological Systems and Morphogenesis" Presented by Dr. Min Wu - Worcester Polytech

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

October 15, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

In this talk, I will first survey various biological systems where concepts around fluidity or fluidization play critical roles in their deformation and flow, with an emphasis on Maxwell-type fluidization and its parallel formulations. Then, I will talk about our work on tip-growth…

Oct

22

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Hydrodynamics: from water to QGP to black holes and cosmology" Presented by Dr. Alex Buchel - University of Western Ontario

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

October 22, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

"What do the recent OpenAI claim to have resolved the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Problem on Navier–Stokes, the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, black holes, and cosmology have in common? In this talk, I will review the remarkable recent…

Nov

5

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Interplay of Topology and Geometry in Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids" Presented By Dr. Kun Ynag - Florida State

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

November 5, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids (FQHL) are the ultimate strongly correlated electron systems, and the birthplace of topological phase of matter. Early theoretical work has emphasized the universal or topological aspects of quantum Hall physics. More recently it has become increasingly…

Nov

12

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: Presented by Dr. Cameron Dean - Iowa State

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

November 12, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

Nov

19

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: "Too Creative for Science?” Bridging Art and Discovery in Research" Presented by Dr. Ahna Skop - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

November 19, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm

In a field that demands precision, can you be "too creative" for science? Dr. Ahna Skop shares her journey as a geneticist and artist, revealing how visual thinking, artistic practice, and creative risk-taking have driven her discoveries in cell biology—from pioneering midbody…

Dec

3

Seminar

Physics Colloquium: Presented by Dr. Arjun Yodh - University of Pennsylvania

Location:

Lewis Lab 316

December 3, 2026, 4:25 - 5:25pm