Physics Seminar Series
Spring 2024 Physics Seminar Schedule
Coordinator: Doug Kurtze, Ph.D.
Date/Time: The Seminar Series for Spring 2024 will be held on Wednesdays from 3:20 - 4:10 p.m. in SC314A unless otherwise noted.
Date | Topic | Speaker |
Jan. 24 | Opening Ceremony | |
Jan. 31 | Hearing the gravitational wave background with a galaxy-sized detector | Prof. Paul T. Baker, Widener University |
Feb. 7 | A fluid driven out of equilibrium by information alone: simulation and theory | Prof. Bryan VanSaders, Drexel University |
Feb. 14 | From the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere: impacts of the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet on the global climate system | Prof. Rebecca Beadling, Temple University (Earth and Environmental Science) |
Feb. 21 | Traffic waves, vehicle automation, and the future of traffic modeling | Prof. Benjamin Seibold, Temple University (Mathematics) |
Feb. 28 | The Role of Direct Observability in Physics: Critically Examining Multiverse Models | Prof. Paul Halpern, SJU |
March 6 | Spring Break | |
March 13 | No seminar | |
March 20 | Adventures in Frustrated Magnetism | Prof. Jeremy Carlo, Villanova University |
March 27 | Elements of IC Manufacturing with Comments on the CHIPs Act | Dr. Thomas Seidel '57 |
April 3 | The Cold Heart of Cosmology: a look into the Simons Observatory's Large Aperture Telescope Receiver | Alex Manduca '22, University of Pennsylvania |
April 10 | MS Opportunities in Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel | Prof. Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Materials Science & Engineering Dept., Drexel U. |
April 17 | Approaching the Complex Dynamics of Glasses Using Energy Landscape Models | Prof. Xin Du, Widener University |
April 24 | Quantum steampunk: Quantum information meets thermodynamics | Prof. Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland |
May 1 | Closing Ceremony |