Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Fall 2026 Colloquia Schedule
All colloquia will be held in room 109 Nicholson Hall at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2026 | Why Magnets with Holes Are Better: Porous Ferrimagnetic Particles and Very Large Magnetic Susceptibility | Vicki Colvin, College of Engineering Dean | Louisiana State University | Phil Sprunger |
| September 3, 2026 | The [New] Physics of Atomic Nuclei | Kristina Launey, Associate Professor | Louisiana State University | Internal |
| September 10, 2026 | Quantum invariants of multitudes on manifolds | Scott Baldridge, Professor | Louisiana State University | Parampreet Singh |
| September 17, 2026 | Anomalous and Topological Hall Effect in quantum materials | Pengcheng Dai, Professor | Rice University | Xiaojian Bai |
| September 24, 2026 | Altermagnetism, Polar Metallic State in Epitaxial RuO2 Films | Bharat Jalan, Professor | University of Minnesota | Prosper Ngabonziza |
| October 1, 2026 | Excitons, magnons and exciton-magnon interactions in antiferromagnetic semiconductors from first-principles | Sahar Sharifzadeh, Associate Professor | Boston University | Ka-Ming Tam |
| October 8, 2026 | Fall Break | |||
| October 15, 2026 | Wataru Horiuchi, Associate Professor | Osaka Metropolitan University | Kristina Launey | |
| October 22, 2026 | Hanyu Wei, Assistant Professor | Louisiana State University | Internal | |
| October 29, 2026 | Jason Wright, Professor | The Pennsylvania State University | Tabetha Boyajian | |
| November 5, 2026 | Mehdi Zarea, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher | Louisiana State University | Parampreet Singh | |
| November 12, 2026 | Breann Sitarski | NASA | Eric Burns | |
| November 19, 2026 | Manos Chatzopoulos, Associate Professor | Louisiana State University | Internal | |
| December 3, 2026 | Jianwei Sun, Professor | Tulane University | William A. Shelton |