2021-2022 Colloquia Schedule

Colloquiums presented by non-Physics faculty will take place via Zoom for this academic year. The link to the Zoom meeting is below. The meeting ID is: 917 8154 8183. For further information, please call the Physics & Astronomy Department at 402-472-2770.

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Annual Safety Training, August 26 at 4:00 p.m. in Jorgensen Hall 136 or via Zoom

Physics & Astronomy Faculty



Departmental Safety Colloquium

Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021

Host: Kees Uiterwaal & Don Umstadter


Christian Binek

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Voltage Controlled Neel Vector Rotation in Zero Magnetic Field

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021

Host: Peter Dowben


Xia Hong

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Emerging Phenomena at Correlated Oxide Nanostructures and Interfaces

Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021

Host: Peter Dowben


Christine Harendt

Institut fur Mikroelektronik Stuttgart

Hybrid-Systems-in-Foil for Flexible Electronics - Technology and Applications

Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021

Host: Peter Dowben


Tom Russell

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Structuring Liquids

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021

Host: Robert Streubel



Peide Ye

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University

Single-Layer and Bilayer Quantum Hall States in an N-Type Wide Tellurium Quantum Well

Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021

Host: Xia Hong


Maria Asensio

Materials Science Institute of Madrid

Electronic and Chemical Imaging of Nanomaterials

Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021

Host: Peter Dowben


Indara Suarez

Boston University

Colliding Worlds

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 **3:30 PM @ Nebraska Champions Club**

Host: WoPhys 2021 Conference


Dawn Williams

University of Alabama

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the Beginning of Neutrino Astrophysics

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021

Host: Peisi Huang


Zlatko Minev

IBM Quantum

To Catch and Reverse a Quantum Jump Mid-Flight

Thursday, Nov. 1, 2021

Host: Herman Batelaan


Igor Bray

Curtin University, Australia

Atomic and Molecular Collisions: What are they, What are they good for, and How do we calculate them

Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021

Host: Ilya Fabrikant


Denys Makarov

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

Curvilinear Magnetism

Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021

Host: Robert Streubel


Camille Avestruz

University of Michigan

Computational Models for Cluster-based Cosmology

Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021

Host: Peisi Huang


Franklin Tao

University of Kansas

Progressive Switch From Petroleum to Methane and Its Challenge

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022

Host: Peter Dowben


Clifford Surko

University of California San Diego

New Physics with Antimatter Traps and Trap-based Beams

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022

Host: Tim Gay


Dmitry Ovchinnikov

University of Washington, Seattle

Van der Waals Topological Magnets

Monday, Feb. 28, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Kelly Luo

Cornell University

Spintronics with 2D and Topological Materials: Outstanding Opportunities in Van der Waals Heterostructures

Thursday, Mar. 3, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Zhong Lin

University of Washington

Two-Dimensional Magnetic Quantum Materials

Monday, Mar. 7, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Hongchao Xie

University of Michigan

Probing and Engineering 2D Magnetism in Magnetic Atomic Crystals

Thursday, Mar. 10, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Gang Qiu

University of California, Los Angeles

Quantized Hall States in Emerging Two-Dimensional Topological Materials towards Device Applications

Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Fabian Natterer

University of Zurich

Quantum Sensing and Quantum Materials Discovery with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Thursday, Mar. 24, 2022

Host: Christian Binek


Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Discovery of Archimedean Spiral Vortex Patterns from Electron Matter Waves

Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2022

Host: Dan Claes


Bjoern Penning

University of Michigan

Searching for Dark Matter from the Lowest to the Highest Energies

Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022

Host: Peisi Huang


Geoff Greene

University of Tennessee

The Life and Death of the Free Neutron

Thursday, Apr. 14, 2022

Host: Tim Gay


Giovanni Cuniberti

TU Dresden

Mens Agitat Molem: The Age of Intelligent Materials

Thursday, Apr. 21, 2022

Host: Robert Streubel


Mike Eads

Northern Illinois University

First Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment

Thursday, Apr. 28, 2022

Host: Peisi Huang


Christine Aidala

University of Michigan

Spin-Momentum Correlations, Aharonov-Bohm, and Color Entanglement in Quantum Chromodynamics

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Host: Dan Claes