Past Physics Colloquia

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2024 Spring Semester

 

2023 Fall Semester

2023 Spring Semester

4/28/2023
Senior thesis presentations
[Flyer]

4/14/2023
Tomas Rube, University of California Merced 
Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity from sequencing data with interpretable machine learning
[Flyer] [Video]

4/7/2023
Andrea Liu, UPenn
Learning about Function
[Flyer] [Video]

3/24/2023
Beth Nowadnick, UC Merced
Ferroelectric oxides: from fundamental physics to next-generation electronics
[Flyer] [Video]

3/3/2023
Tobias Zier, University of California, Merced
Ultrafast light and Matter: The two get along!
[Flyer] [Video]

2/24/2023
Uroš Seljak, UC Berkeley
Machine Learning for Physics, Physics for Machine Learning
[Flyer] [Video]

2/17/2023
Jon Arenberg, Northrup Grumman 
The Ongoing Adventures of an Industrial Physicist
[Flyer] [Video]

2/10/2023
Sebastian Streichan, University of California Santa Barbara
Physics of living matter: from molecule to embryo
[Flyer] [Video]

1/27/2023
Carol Hood, California State University, San Bernardino
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – A discussion on professional development in STEM
[Flyer] [Video]

2022 Fall Semester

12/9/2022
Alex Pettitt, California State University Sacramento
The Morphology and Structure of Spiral Galaxies
[Flyer] [Video]

12/2/2022
Alexander Weber- Bargioni, LBNL
Engineering heterostructures in 2 – D solids to define new localized quantum states with quantum coherent properties
[Flyer] [Video]

10/28/2022
Nigel Goldenfeld, UCSD
The Life and Death of Turbulence
[Flyer] [Video]

10/14/2022
Joey Paulsen, Syracuse University 
The Wrinkle-to-Crumple Transition in Thin Elastic Solids
[Flyer] [Video]

10/07/2022
Vik Dakal, Iowa State University
Stability of Perovskite Materials and Solar Cells
[Flyer] [Video]

9/23/2022
Hilary Hurst, San José State University
Building a Robust Quantum Ecosystem in the Lab and the Classroom
[Flyer] [Video]

9/16/2022
Michelle Driscoll, Northwestern University
Drop impact of complex fluids: shear jamming with free surfaces
[Flyer] [Video]

9/9/2022
Simon Birrer, Stanford University
Measuring The Expansion Rate Of The Universe With Gravitationally Lensed Multiply Imaged Flickers
[Flyer] [Video]

2022 Spring Semester

5/6/2022
Senior thesis presentations
[Flyer]

4/29/2022
Senior thesis presentations
[Flyer]

4/22/2022
Raymond Hall, California State University, Fresno
The use of Social Media as a Museum of Science and Math
[Flyer]

4/15/2022
Ruqian Wu, UC Irvine
Theoretical Studies of Magnetic and Topological Materials
[Flyer]

4/8/2022
Paul Chaikin, New York University
Random Close Packing as a Dynamical Phase Transition: Jamming, Hyperuniformity and Photonics

4/1/2022
Yuriy Pershin, University of South Carolina
Probabilistic modeling of ReRAM networks
[Flyer]

3/18/2022
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University
"Kirigami"

3/11/2022
Karen Masters, Haverford College
Spiral Arms in Galaxies
[Flyer] [Video]

3/4/2022
Ahmed Farag Ali, UC merced
Quantum Gravity on Tabletop
[Flyer] [Video]

2/25/2022
Doug Cleaver, Sheffield Hallam University
Simulations of Soft Materials - Identifying and Accessing the Key Length-Scales
[Flyer] [Video]

2/18/2022
Ana Bonaca, Carnegie Observatories
Weaving the Milky Way Tapestry
[Flyer] [Video]

1/28/2022
Zia Mian, Princeton University
Dismantling the Nuclear Doomsday Machine: Scientists, the Bomb, and the Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament
[Flyer] [Video]

1/21/2022
Alexander Rudolph, California State Polytechnic University
Cal-Bridge: Overcoming Barriers to Engagement of Underrepresented Students in STEM PhD Programs
[Flyer] [Video]

2021 Fall Semester

12/3/2021
Kimberly Weirich, Clemson University
Self-organization and Shape Change in Anisotropic Biopolymer Assemblies
[Flyer]

11/19/2021
Anna Nierenberg, UC Merced
Testing the Nature of Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing
[Flyer]

11/12/2021
Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
Physics of Morphogenetic Matter
[Flyer] [Video]

11/5/2021
Mohamed Amine Gharbi, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Reconfigurable Assembly of Nanoparticles in Smectic Films Confined at Curved Surfaces
[Flyer] [Video]

10/29/2021
Frank van den Bosch, Yale University
New Insight into Cosmology and the Galaxy-Halo Connection from Non-Linear Scales
[Flyer] [Video]

10/22/2021
Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
New Quantum Materials by Twisting and Stretching
[Flyer] [Video]

10/08/2021
Xufeng Wu, NHLBI (NIH)
Principles and Applications of Super Resolution Imaging to Studies of Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Living Cells
[Flyer]

09/24/2021
Janice C. Lee, Gemini Observatories (NOIRLab)
The PHANGS HST & JWST Surveys: A Census of Star Clusters and Multi-Scale Stellar Associations in Nearby Spiral Galaxies
[Flyer] [Video]

09/17/2021
Dong Yu, UC Davis
Exciton Transport in Halide Perovskites and Topological Insulators
[Flyer] [Video]

09/10/2021
Gia-Wei Chern, University of Virginia
Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Metal-Insulator Transition In Correlated Electron Systems Theory
[Flyer]

09/03/2021
Kristina Callaghan, UC Merced
Strategies for Increasing the Effectiveness of Active Learning in the Classroom
[Flyer]

2021 Spring Semester

04/30/2021
Sarah Loebman, UC Merced
Connecting Across Scales: Simulating and Understanding the Evolving Milky Way
[Flyer]

04/23/2021
Hui Cai, UC Merced
Tailoring the Properties of 2D Materials from Controlled Synthesis
[Flyer]

04/16/2021
Francesca Serra, Johns Hopkins University
Liquid crystal topological defects across phases and materials
[Flyer] [Video]

04/09/2021
John Perdew, Temple University
Predictive Power of the Exact Contraints and Appropriate Norms in Density Functional Theory, with Interpretations of Ground-State Symmetry Breaking and Strong Correlation
[Flyer] [Video]

03/05/2021
Charlie Conroy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Mapping the Galaxy with the H3 Survey
[Flyer] [Video]

02/19/2021
Marla Geha, Yale University
The SAGA Survey: Exploring Satellite Galaxies Around Milky Way Analogs
[Flyer] [Video]

02/12/2021
Linda Hung, Toyota Research Institute
Machine Learning to Accelerate the Discovery of Energy Materials
[Flyer]

02/05/2021
TeYu Chien, University of Wyoming
Electronic Properties of Novel Materials – Photovoltaic, 2D Magnetic, and Topological Materials
[Flyer] [Video]

01/29/2021
Alison Patteson, Syracuse University
How Cells Cope with Stress and Handle COVID-19
[Flyer] [Video]

 

2020 Fall Semester

12/04/2020
Brian Utter, UC Merced
Jamming, clogging, and confinement in dense granular and suspension flows
[Flyer] [Video]

11/20/2020
Gurtina Besla, University of Arizona
The Milky Way In Motion
[Flyer] [Video]

11/13/2020
Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley
The Role of Chance in the Survival of the Fittest
[Flyer]

11/6/2020
Aristotle Socrates, TextNow and UCSC
From Black Holes to Big Data
[Flyer] [Video]

10/30/2020
Kelle Cruz, CUNY Hunter College
Software Development, Collaboration, and Removing Barriers to Access in Astronomy
[Flyer] [Video]

10/23/2020
Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Laser-Plasma Accelerators: Next Generation X-Ray Light Sources
[Flyer] [Video]

10/16/2020
Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich
From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the Early Universe Under the Microscope
[Flyer] [Video]

10/09/2020
Nathaniel Stern, Northwestern University
Playing with Photons in Flatland: Controlling Light and Matter in Two-Dimensional Materials
[Flyer] [Video]

10/02/2020
David Hogg, New York University
Seeing Orbits and Seeing the Dark Matter
[Flyer] [Video]

9/25/2020
Keir Neuman, National Institutes of Health
Cracking and buckling: Defect driven mechanics of collagen and DNA
[Flyer] [Video]

9/18/2020
Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology
Collective Behavior Underlying the Mechanobiology of Tissues
[Flyer] [Video]

9/11/2020
Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford
Self-Propelled Topological Defects
[Flyer] [Video]

9/4/2020
David Grier, New York University
Holography and the Pandemic: Using holographic video microscopy for rapid immunoassays
[Flyer] [Video]

8/28/2020
Sharon Gerbode, Harvey Mudd College
Shape Matters — How Wavy Crystal Grains Shrink Faster
[Flyer] [Video]

 

2020 Spring Semester

1/24/2020
Loren Hough, University of Colorado, Boulder
Disorder as a Driver of Biological Filtration
Biophysics Experiment
Jing Xu
Video Link

1/31/2020
Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Novel Materials for Energy Applications from First Principles
Condensed Matter Theory
David Strubbe (student invited)
Video Link

2/7/2020
Brian Nord, Fermi lab/UChicago
AI In the Sky: The Promise and Peril for the use of Artificial Intelligence in Cosmology and Society
Astrophysics
Sarah Loebman
Video Link

2/14/2020
Rena Zieve, UC Davis
Cyclone of a Cell: Single Vortex Studies
Condensed Matter Experiment
Dustin Kleckner
Video Link

2/21/20
Graduate visits  day

2/28/20
Adrian Lupascu, University of Waterloo
Design of High-Order and Long-Range Interactions for Quantum Annealers
Condensed Matter/AMO Theory
Lin Tian

3/6/20
UC Merced APS March Meeting sessions

3/13/20
Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute
The Physics of Cooperative Transport in Groups of Ants
Soft/Bio Theory
Kinjal Dasbiswas
Video Link

The remaining colloquia for the semester are cancelled until further notice because of the COVID-19 situation.

 

3/20/20
Sharon Gerbode, Harvey Mudd College
Soft/Bio Experiment
Kinjal Dasbiswas

3/27/20   
Spring Recess/César Chávez day

4/3/20
Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley
Biophysics Experiment/Theory
Daniel Beller

4/10/20
Steven Louie, UC Berkeley
Condensed Matter Theory
David Strubbe

4/17/20
Ari Socrates, Juvo and UCSC
Industry/Astrophysics
Ajay Gopinathan

4/24/20

5/1/20
L Mahadevan, Harvard University
Soft/Bio Theory
Ajay Gopinathan

5/8/20
Undergraduate Thesis presentations

 

2019 Fall Semester
Location: COB2 140

9/6/2019
Jorge G. Moreno Soto (Pomona College)
Galaxy Encounters: From the Interstellar Medium to the Cosmic Web
(Astrophysics simulation)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas
[Video Link]

9/13/2019
Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute)
Nonlinear Dynamics of Spontaneously Beating Heart Cells
(Soft/Bio theory)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas

9/20/2019
Tzu-Ming Lu (Sandia National Lab)
SiGe-based Quantum Electronic Devices
(Condensed Matter experiment)
Host: Michael Scheibner
[Video Link]

9/27/2019
Mehran Kardar (MIT)
Force From Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations in QED and Active Matter
(Soft/Statistical Physics Theory)
Host: Daniel Beller
[Video Link]

10/4/2019
Ettore Vitali (CSU Fresno)
Computational Physics: Computers as Virtual Laboratories to Study Quantum Systems
(Condensed Matter Theory)
Host: David Strubbe
[Video Link]

10/11/2019
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC)
Cosmic Alchemy in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
(Astrophysics Theory)
Host: Ajay Gopinathan
[Audio Link]

10/18/2019
Chih-Chun Chien (UC Merced)
Surprises in Transport of Particles and Energy
(Condensed Matter Theory)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas
[Audio Link]

10/25/2019
Tugrul Senger (İzmir Institute of Technology)
Thermoelectric Performance of Two-Dimensional Materials
(Condensed Matter Theory)
Host: Mehmet Baykara
[Video Link]

11/1/2019
Alexander Petersen (UC Merced)
Cross-Disciplinary Adventures in Complex Systems: From Physics to Management Science
(Complexity research)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas
[Video Link]

11/8/2019
Mark O. Robbins (Johns Hopkins University)
A "Rough" View on Friction and Adhesion
(Condensed Matter Theory)
Host: Mehmet Baykara
[Video Link]

11/15/2019
Julio Barreiro (UC San Diego)
Ultracold Strontium for Condensed-Matter Simulations and Quantum Sensing
(AMO/Condensed Matter Experiment)
Host: Chih-Chun Chien

11/22/2019
Srividya Iyer-Biswas (Purdue University)
From Frozen to Flowing Time
(Biophysics Experiment)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas

Thanksgiving

12/6/2019
Meng Shen (McGill University)
(Soft matter theory)
The Understanding and Design of Composite Soft Materials
Host: Daniel Beller

12/13/2019
Alexander Levine (UCLA)
(Soft/Bio Theory)
Host: Kinjal Dasbiswas
Exploring Soft Low-Dimensional Structures in the Cell: Fluctuations, Mechanics, and Geometry
 

 

2019 Spring Semester
Location: COB2 170

2018 Fall Semester
Location: COB2 170

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2018 Spring Semester
Location: SSB 120

2018 Spring Semester: SSB 120

January 19
James Palko (UC Merced)
          Understanding and Optimizing Energy and Mass Transport in Porous Materials for Energy, Water, and Thermal Management Applications
          [Host: David Strubbe]

January 26
Venkatt Ayyaswamy (UC Merced)
          The Exciting Future of Microplasma: Role of Computations

February 2
Babak Sanii (Claremont College)
          Engineering Self-Assembly at Micro and Macro Scales
          [Host: Anand Subramaniam]

February 9
Alex Noy  (UC Merced/LLNL)
          Molecular Transport and Nanoscale Confinement in Carbon Nanotube Porins

February 16
Victor Muñoz (UC Merced) 
          Probing the Mechanical Unfolding of Single Protein Molecules at High Resolution

February 23
Robin Selinger (Kent State) 
          Modeling Liquid Crystal Elastomers: From Auto-origami to Light-driven Autonomous Soft Robotics
          [Host:  Linda Hirst]

March 2
Jennifer Lu (UC Merced)
          A New Class of Submolecular Switches Based on Conformational Changes
          [Host: David Strubbe]

March 9
Barbara Jacak (UC Berkeley and LBNL)
          Strongly Coupled QCD Matter 
          [Host: Kevin Mitchel]

March 16
Linda Strubbe (Univ of British Columbia)
          Teaching Scientific Thinking in Canada, West Africa, and Central Asia
          [Host: David Strubbe]

April 6
Joshua Casara (UC Merced)
          Effects of Strain on the Optical Properties of Quantum Dot Molecules
          [Host: Michael Scheibner]

April 13
Arvind Gopinath (UC Merced) 
          Active Thermodynamics in Bacterial Swarms

April 20
Eric Dunham (Stanford)
          Physics of Earthquakes and Tsunamis
          [Host: Jing Xu]

April 27
L. Mahadevan (Harvard)
          Wisdom of Hives and Mounds: Collective Problem Solving by Super-organisms
          [Host: Ajay Gopinathan]

May 4
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations
          [Organizer: Lin Tian]

2017 Fall semester: COB 263

• 08/25 Jesse Silverberg - Soft, Structured, Living Materials (Wyss Institute, Harvard) --- Bin Liu
• 09/01 Raghuveer Parthasarathy - {Biophysics} (University of Oregon) --- Ajay Gopinathan
• 09/07 Roya Zandi - {Quantum Simulation} (UC Riverside) --- Sai Ghosh
• 09/15 Marco Bernardi - {Condensed Matter Theory} (Caltech) --- David Strubbe
• 09/22 Sophie Dumont - {Biophysics} (UCSF) --- Ajay Gopinathan
• 09/29 Roland Winston - {Solar Energy} (UCM) --- Dustin Kleckner
• 10/06 George Chapline - {Quantum Simulation} (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) --- Chih-Chun Chien
• 10/13 Doug Finkbeiner - {Astrophysics} (Harvard) --- Kevin Mitchell
• 10/20 Jing Xu {Biophysics/Soft matter} (UCM) --- Dustin Kleckner
• 10/27 Andrew Canning - {Condensed Matter Theory} (LBNL) --- David Strubbe
• 11/03 Far West Section meeting
• 11/10 Veterans Day
• 11/17 Fred MacKintosh - {Biophysics/Soft matter} (Rice) --- Ajay Gopinathan
• 11/24 Thanksgiving
• 12/01 Maxime Theillard - {Fluid/Active Matter Simulations} (UCM) 
• 12/08 Fall Undergraduate Thesis Presentations --- Lin Tian

 
2017 Spring semester

• 01/20 Mihai Gherase - Medical and Biological Applications of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) (CSU Fresno) --- Sharping
• 01/27 David Weitz - The Magic of Microfluidics: Dripping, Jetting, Drops & Wetting (Harvard) --- Jennifer Lu
• 02/03(9:15am SSM104) Gianluigi Ciovati - Non-linearities in the surface impedance of Nb for accelerator cavity applications (Jefferson Lab) --- Sharping
• 02/03(10:30am COB 267) Sarah Kurtz - Photovoltaic Technology - Fascinating Science & A Pathway to Prosperity (NREL) --- Hirst
• 02/10 Gergely Zimanyi - Nanoparticle Solar Cells: Upconversion, Downconversion, Transport (UC Davis) --- Strubbe
• 02/17
• 02/24 S. Gnanakaran - Targeting Efflux Pump Machinery at Multiple Scales (LANL) --- Gopinathan
• 03/03 Stefan Zollner - Precision Measurements of Optical Constants Using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (NMSU) --- Scheibner
• 03/10 Joshua Moss - Exploring the Building Blocks of Nature using Particle Collisions with the ATLAS Detector and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (CSUS) --- Menke
• 03/17 no seminars (APS March Meeting)
• 03/24 Samuel G. Carter - Spins in InAs quantum dots: qubits, sensors, and photon sources (NRL) --- Scheibner
• 03/31 spring break
• 04/07 Weihong Qiu - KlpA is a Novel Processive Kinesin-14 Motor with Tunable Directionality (Oregon State U) --- Xu
• 04/14 Xavier Andrade - Negative Differential Conductivity in Liquid Aluminum from Real-time Time-dependent Density Functional Theory (LLNL) --- Strubbe
• 04/21 David Ando - What are second generation biofuels, and how can we make them? (LBNL) --- Xu
• 04/28 Arvind Gopinath - Memory, persistence of strain and loss of coherence in active motor-filament assemblies (UCM) --- Liu
• 05/05 Senior Undergraduate Thesis Presentations --- Tian

 
2016 Fall semester

• 08/26 Kevin Wright - Ultracold Atom Circuits and Quantum Phases of Matter (Dartmouth) --- Chien
• 09/02 Pavan Kadandale - Enhancing the undergrad experience (UC Irvine) --- Menke
• 09/09 Ivan Smalyukh - Nanoparticles in liquid crystals (Boulder) --- Ghosh
• 09/16 Parveen Kumar - Nanosheets and Single Nanowire Heterostructures (UCM) --- Scheibner
• 09/23 Paul Goldbart - Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist’s view of vulcanized media (Georgia Tech) --- Gopinathan
• 09/30 Ram Seshadri - Solid-state chemistry in energy efficiency: Lighting phosphors and thermoelectric materials (UCSB) --- Hirst
• 10/07 On Shun Pak - Living a Complex Life at Low Reynolds Number (Santa Clara) --- Liu
• 10/14 Andrew Geraci - Hunting for axions and new short-range forces using AMO sensors (University of Nevada Reno) --- Sharping
• 10/21 Robijn Bruinsma - Lev Landau and the Physics of Viral Assembly (UCLA) --- Liu
• 10/28 David Strubbe - Computational simulations of solar-energy materials: amorphous silicon and solar thermal fuels (UCM) --- Liu
• 11/04 Daniel Axelrod - Evanescence in Optical Microscopy with Applications to Cell Biology (U Michigan Ann Arbor) --- Xu
• 11/11 Veterans Day
• 11/18 No seminar
• 11/25 Thanksgiving
• 12/02 Kimani Toussaint - Novel Applications of Plasmonic Bowtie Nanoantennas in the Presence of Heating (UIUC) --- Ghosh
• 12/09 Fall Undergraduate Thesis Presentations --- Sharping

 
2016 Spring semester

• 01/22 Severine Atis (Harvard) --- Mitchell
• 01/29 Dustin Kleckner (UC Merced) --- Liu
• 02/05 Mohammad Mofrad (UC Berkeley) --- Gopinathan
• 02/12 Sophia Economou (VT) --- Michael Scheibner
• 02/19 Rudolf Pogdornik (University of Ljubljana, UMass Amherst) --- Gopinathan
• 02/26 Aparna Baskaran (Brandeis University) --- Gopinathan
• 03/04 Yu Zeng (UC Merced) --- Liu
• 03/11 Jing Xu (UC Merced) --- Liu
• 03/18 APS March Meeting --- No colloquium
• 03/25 Spring break
• 04/01 Steve Gross (UCI) --- Xu
• 04/08 Malcolm Boshier (Los Alamos) --- Chien
• 04/15 Jenny Ross (UMAss Amherst) --- Xu
• 04/22 Cheng Zhu (LLNL) --- Jennifer Lu
• 04/29 Undergraduate research presentation

 
2015 Fall semester

• 08/28 Alex Noy (UC Merced) --- Chien
• 09/04 Francois Blanchette (UC Merced) --- Mitchell
• 09/11 Vivek Shenoy (UPenn) --- Gopinathan
• 09/18 Cecilia Leal (UIUC) ---Hirst
• 09/25 Erwin Frey (LMU Munich) --- Gopinathan
• 10/02 Fred Cooper (Santa Fe Institute) ---Chien
• 10/09 Prof Liang-Chy Chien (Kent State) ---Hirst
• 10/16 Richard Packard (UC Berkeley) --- Chien
• 10/23 Mohammad Mofrad (UC Berkeley) ---Gopinathan
• 10/30 --- No colloquium
• 11/06 Prashant Nagpal (CU Boulder) --- Ghosh
• 11/13 Tao Ye (UC Merced) --- Chien
• 11/20 Joshua Shaevitz (Princeton) --- Gopinathan
• 11/27 Thanksgiving holiday --- No colloquium
• 12/04 Hernan Garcia (UC Berkeley)--- Gopinathan
• 12/11 Undergraduate presentation

 
2015 Spring semester

• 01/23 Nick Ouellette (Yale) --- Mitchell
• 01/30 Michael Scheibner (UC Merced)
• 02/06 Bin Liu (UC Merced) 
• 02/13 Rajiv Singh (UC Davis) --- Gopinathan
• 02/20 Michael Covin (UC Merced) 
• 02/27 Anand Bala Subramaniam (UC Merced) 
• 03/06 APS March Meeting --- No colloquium
• 03/13 Cheo Park (NASA) --- Sharping
• 03/20 Siyuan Han (U. Kansas) --- Lin
• 03/27 Holiday --- No colloquium
• 04/03 Jinghua Guo (LBNL) ---- Ghosh
• 04/10 Michael Zwolak (NIST) --- Chien
• 04/17 Omar Saleh (UCSB) --- Gopinathan
• 04/24 Oscar Murrillo (NASA) ---  Sharping
• 05/01 Orlando Guzman --- Ghosh
• 05/08 Undergraduate presentations --- Sharping/Menke

 
2014 Fall semester

• 08/29 Roland Winston (UC Merced) 
• 09/05 Chen-Yen Lai (UC Merced) --- Chien
• 09/12 Victor Munoz (UC Merced)
• 09/19 Jian-Xin Zhu (Los Alamos National Lab) --- Chien
• 09/26 Giacomo Vacca (Kinetic River Corp) --- Sharping
• 10/03 Peter Fischer (LBNL/UC Santa Cruz) --- Ghosh
• 10/10 Robin Selinger (Kent Sate) --- Hirst
• 10/17 Graduate student presentation --- Chien
• 10/24 Massimiliano Di Ventra (UC San Diego) --- Chien
• 10/31 Tom Solomon (Bucknell University) --- Mitchell
• 11/07 Jim Franson (UMBC) -- Sharping
• 11/14 Chen-Lung Hung (Caltech/Purdue) --- Chien
• 11/21 Suckjoon Kim (UCSD) - Gopinathan
• 11/28 Thanksgiving holiday
• 12/05 Senior Thesis presentations --- Senior Thesis coordinator
• 12/12 Kerwyn Huang (Stanford) - Gopinathan
• 12/19 Final exams (No colloquium)