These lectures feature speakers from around the country and globe. Each colloquium
lasts about an hour and gives you a deeper understanding of the types of physics and
astronomy researching going on around the world.
Colloquia will be held in a hybrid format and a recurring Zoom link is provided to access the virtual format.
The talks will be on Thursdays at 4:15PM in the Rogers Room (Jones PSC 409).
If you are interested in being added to our e-mail distribution list regarding upcoming
colloquia, please contact Ms. Nancy Kesar via e-mail at nkesar@mailbox.sc.edu. We appreciate your interest!
Upcoming Colloquium:
Virtual Exploration of Quantum Spin Liquid Materials
Speaker:Tom Berlijn Affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: November 11th
Abstract:
In recent years, quantum computing has emerged as a promising technology to revolutionize
fields like cryptography, quantum simulation, and drug discovery. A crucial step towards
fault-tolerant quantum computation lies in harnessing non-Abelian anyons, exotic quasiparticles
that can be braided to perform quantum logic operations. Quantum spin liquids, a state
of matter characterized by long-range quantum entanglement without magnetic order,
are promising platforms for realizing such anyons. While theoretical models have significantly
advanced our understanding of quantum spin liquids, a critical challenge remains:
bridging the gap between idealized models and the complex reality of materials. This
colloquium will present our research efforts to address this challenge using realistic
first-principles calculations.
October 8, 2020 - Dr. Yuriy Pershin "Are Resistance Switching Memories Memristors?"
February 27, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Crawford, Dr. Scott Crittenden, and Dr. Yanwen Wu "Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics (Experimental)"
February 20, 2020 - Dr. Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Dr. Yuriy Pershin "Research Directions at the SmartState Center for Experimental Nanoscale Physics
(Theoretical)"
February 13, 2020 - Dr. Ward Plummer "Quantum Materials Driven Renaissance in Surface Physics"
February 6, 2020 - Dr. Smita Mathur "The Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium"
January 30, 2020 - Dr. Richard Creswick "A Laboratory Search for Axions/ALPS"
December 5, 2019 - Dr. William E. Mustain "Founding and Emerging Materials for Li-ion Batteries"
November 21, 2019 - Dr. Dennis Bodewits "Atomic and Molecular Physics of Comets"
November 14, 2019 - Dr. Daniel Scolnic "New Excitement in Measurements of Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant"
October 31, 2019 - Dr. Varsha Kulkarni "Extrasolar Planets: Understanding Earth's Place in the Cosmos"
October 3, 2019 - Dr. J. Michael Shull "Where Do Galaxies End"?
September 26, 2019 - Dr. Craig Group "A Renaissance for Muon Physics: (Who Ordered That?)"
September 19, 2019 - Dr. Peter Mättig "Beyond the Higgs: LHC Physics in the Light of Philosophy"
September 5, 2019 - Dr. Revaz Ramazashvili "Zeeman Spin-Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Antiferromagnetic
Conductors"
May 7, 2019 - Dr. Laurie E. McNeil "Transforming Teaching and Learning: Self-Renewal and Institution-Building"
April 25, 2019 - Dr. Megan Donahue "The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in the Growth of Galaxies"
April 18, 2019 - Dr. Monique Aller "Investigating the Dust Grains in Galaxies Using Quasar Absorption Systems"
April 11, 2019 - Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra "Memcomputing: Leaveraging Memory and Physics to Compute Efficiently"
April 4, 2019 - Dr. Leonid Pryadko "Quantum Computation and Quantum Error Correction: A Contemporary Overview"
March 28, 2019 - Dr. Oleg Tchernyshyov "Mechanics of Magnetic Solitons"
March 21, 2019 - Dr. Ashot Gasparian "The Proton Radius: Preliminary Results from the PRad Experiment"
March 7, 2019 - Dr. Raul Briceno "The Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons"
March 4, 2019 - Dr. Alexander Monin "Current Challenges of Particle Physics and How to Address Them"
February 28, 2019 - Dr. Karen Livesey "Magnetization Relaxation in Magnetic Nanoparticle Systems"
February 25, 2019 - Dr. Andrey Katz "Beyond the Standard Model: Search for a Shadow World"
February 18, 2019 - Dr. Kimberly Boddy "Unraveling the Structure of Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History"
February 7, 2019 - Dr. Igor Altfeder "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Quantum Materials"
January 31, 2019 "Remembering Dr. Horacio Farach"
December 6, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu "Tools Made of Light - An Overview of the Ideas Behind the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize"
November 29, 2018 - Prof. Valery Nesvizhevsky "Gravitational Quantum States of Neutrons, Atoms, and Antiatoms"
November 15, 2018 - Ms. Lisa Hunter and Mr. Rafael Palomino "ISEE's Professional Development Program: Preparation for Effective and Inclusive
Teaching and Mentoring"
November 8, 2018 - Dr. Sylvester N. Ekpenuma "Efficient Modeling of Defects and Impurities in Semiconductors"
November 2, 2018 - Dr. Arthur Hebard "Heterogeneous Interfaces with High-Tc Crystalline Bi-2212 for Teasing Out Proximity
and Electric-Field Screening Effects"
October 25, 2018 - Dr. Marco Ajello "The Star-Formation History of the Universe Revealed by Gamma Rays"
October 4, 2018 - Dr. Luca Guazzotto "A Physics-Based Criterion for Nuclear Fusion Energy Production"
September 27, 2018 - Dr. Pawel Mazur "Superfluid Universe, the Ground State in Quantum Gravity, and Gravastars"
September 20, 2018 - Dr. Frank Avignone, III "Dark Matter from Z to A and Beyond: The History and Status of Direct Searches"
September 6, 2018 - Dr. Nahum Arav "Quasar Outflows and Their Contribution to Galactic-Scale Feedback Processes"
April 26, 2018 - Dr. Yordanka Ilieva "Gluon Imaging"
April 19, 2018 - Dr. Robin Shelton "The Clouds Around Our Galaxy"
April 12, 2018 - Dr. Vincente Guiseppe "The (76)Ge Program to Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay"
April 5, 2018 - Dr. Yanwen Wu "Make Your Particles And Play With Them Too"
March 29, 2018 - Dr. Dean Lee "Nuclear Lattice Simulations"
March 8, 2018 - Prof. Sergey Alekhin "Strange, Non-Strange, and Heavy Quark Distributions"
March 1, 2018 - Dr. Joseph E. Johnson "On Integrating General Relativity with Quantum Theory by Reframing Riemannian Geometry
as a Generalized Heisenberg Lie Algebra”
February 22, 2018 - Dr. Alessandro Pilloni “Challenges for Hadron Spectroscopy”
February 15, 2018 - Dr. David B. Tanner “The Search for the Invisible Axion: The Current Status of ADMX”
February 1, 2018 - Dr. Andrew B. Greytak “Assembling the Future Through Control of Nanoscale Interfaces”
January 25, 2018 - Dr. Ronald D. Edge “70 Years of Physics”
January 18, 2018 - Dr. Juan I. Collar “News from PICO and COHERENT”
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