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Physics

Physics Division Seminar

Schedule for the 2025-2026 season

The Physics Division Seminars are on Mondays at 3:30 p.m. The talks will be held in-person in R-150.
Date Title
12 September 2025 Bob Charity, Washington University in St. Louis
Exploring Exotic Resonances with Invariant-Mass Spectroscopy
Host: Walter Reviol
22 September 2025 No Seminar
29 September 2025 Daniel Lay, Argonne National Laboratory
Advances in Nuclear Fission Theory
Host: Anna McCoy
6 October 2025 Grace Cummings, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Duel-Readout Homogenous Inorganic Optical Calorimetry and Precision Timing
Host: Henry Klest
13 October 2025 Thomas Boettcher, Indiana University
Real-Time Chromodynamics at the Large Hadron Collider
Host: Maria Żurek
20 October 2025 No Seminar
2025 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Chicago, October 17-20, 2025
27 October 2025 Chao Peng, Argonne National Laboratory  will be rescheduled
Development of Polarized Lithium Sources for the EIC
Host: Calem Hoffman
3 November 2025 Alex Gnech, Old Dominion University
Ab-initio Calculation of Primakoff Production of the Pseudoscalar Mesons
Host: Bob Wiringa
10 November 2025 No Seminar
17 November 2025  No Seminar
24 November 2025 Thomas Heitmann, University of Missouri
Neutron Beam Science and Capabilities at the University of Missouri Research Reactor
Host: Vasil Karayonchev
  BREAK 
2 February 2026 Roy Ready, University of California, Santa Barbara 
Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Radium Ions
Host: Michael Bishof
9 February 2026 Francesca Bonaiti, Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Towards the Superheavy Element Frontier with Ab Initio Calculations
Host: Anna McCoy
16 February 2026 Stella Schindler, Hoffman Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Diffraction from First Principles
Host: Yong Zhao
23 February 2026 No Seminar - rescheduled 
2 March 2026 Volodymyr Vovchenko, University of Houston
Quarkyonic Matter: From Neutron Stars to Normal Nuclei
Host: Fernando Flor
9 March 2026 Jaspreet Randhawa, Mississippi State University
Nuclear Reactions to Decode Observations of Astrophysical Electromagnetic Transients
Host: Calem Hoffman
16 March 2026 No seminar
APS Global Summit
Denver, CO. March 15-20, 2026
23 March 2026 Thomas Richardson, UC Berkeley
Nonperturbative Constraints for Fundamental Symmetries in Nuclear Effective Field Theories
Host: Robert Wiringa
30 March 2026 Umesh Garg, University of Notre Dame
Nuclear Incompressibility: How Collective Excitation Modes of a Nucleus Characterize Astrophysical Processes
Host: Michael Carpenter
6 April 2026 Jacob Barandes, Harvard University
Quantum Theory, Indivisible Stochastic Processes, and the Tsirelson Bound
Host: Whitney Armstrong
13 April 2026 Zhoudunming (Kong)  Tu , Brookhaven National Laboratory 
Exciting the Entangled Vacuum - A New Era in Understanding Visible Matter
Host: Yong Zhao
20 April 2026 Tara Mastren, University of Utah
The Production and Purification on 161Tb at the University of Utah
Host: Jerry Nolen
27 April 2026 Matthew Otten, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Oh, the Places Quantum Will Go!: Toward Useful Quantum Simulation in chemistry and Materials
Host: Michael Bishof
4 May 2026 Marco Siciliano, Argonne National Laboratory
The Tin Paradox: When a Spherical Nucleus Isn’t
Host: Calem Hoffman