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Physics Division Colloquium

Schedule for the 2025-2026 season

The Physics Division Colloquia are on Fridays at 11 a.m. in the 203 Auditorium.
DateTitle
26 September 2025Midwest Theory Get Together 2025
Saori Pastore, Washington University, St. Louis
Electron and Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei
Host: Anna McCoy
3 October 2025Prof. Jacob Covey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Quantum Sensing with Delocalized Atomic Clocks
Host: Michael Bishof
10 October 2025Xuan Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory
Measurements of Dynamic Processes in Nuclear Materials
Host: Michael Bishof
17 October 2025No Colloquium
2025 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Chicago, October 17-20, 2025
24 October 2025No Colloquium
31 October 2025Mariel Pettee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invisible Cities: Imagining the Next Era of AI-Enabled Fundamental Physics Research
Host: Sylvester Joosten
7 November 2025Jiangyong Jia, Stony Brook University
Imaging Nuclei by Smashing Them:  How Are Their Shapes Revealed Despite Destruction?
Host: Henry Klest
14 November 2025Sergo Jindariani, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Towards the Muon Shot: A Path to the Muon Collider
Host: Henry Klest
21 November 2025 Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago 
Scale and Conformal Symmetry in Nuclear Reactions
Host: Henry Klest
5 December 2025Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Science, Ethics, and Global Nuclear Risk: Revisiting Oppenheimer in a New Arms Race
Host: Sylvester Joosten
 BREAK 
30 January 2026Benjamin P. Kay, Argonne National Laboratory
The Argonne-Pioneeted Solenoidal-Spectrometer Technique: Insights from the ATLAS, CERN, and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Programs
Host: Mike Carpenter
6  February 2026Taek Kim, Argonne National Laboratory
Nanofluid-Based Accelerator-Driven Transmutation Recycler (NATURE)
Host: Filip Kondev
13 February 2026Krishna Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hot and Cold Quark Soup Under Pressure
Host: Zein-Eddine Meziani
20 February 2026Nick Hutzler, Caltech
Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei
Host: Michael Bishof
27 February 2026Brendan Kiburg, Fermi National accelerator Laboratory
Muon g-2: A Humble Particle’s Journey to Probe the Standard Model 
Host: Michael Carpenter
6 March 2026Joshua Frieman, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center & Stanford University 
Is Dark Energy Evolving?
Host: Henry Klest 
13 March 2026No Colloquium 
20 March 2026No Colloquium
APS Global Summit
Denver, CO. March 15-20, 2026
27 March 2026No Colloquium
3 April 2026Dr. Karl Van Bibber, University of California, Berkeley Nuclear Engineering
Ultrasensitive Searches for the Axion
Host: Megan McIntyre
10 April 2026Paul Romano, Argonne National Laboratory
Fusion Energy R&D Activities at Argonne 
Host: Filip Kondev
17 April 2026Paul Fallon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA)
Host: Michael Carpenter
24 April 2026Prof. Yuri Litvinov, GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research
Where Nuclear, Atomic and Astrophysics Meet: Beta Decay of Highly Charged Ions
Host: Filip Kondev