| Jan. 22 |
Alan Chodos
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Dr. Chodos is a UTA Research Professor, a former Director of the Yale Center for Theoretical Physics, and the former Associate Executive Officer of the American Physical Society, where he is a Fellow. |
UT Arlington |
Changing the World: Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics |
Link |
| Jan. 29 |
James Rejcek
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Dr. Rejcek is Director, Pac-3 Mse Program at Lockheed Martin |
Lockheed Martin |
Antimatter Technology |
Link |
| Feb. 12 |
Chih-Ting Hsu
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Dr. Hsu is a Project Scientist I at the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory. She advances data assimilation techniques for whole-atmosphere models, integrating diverse geospace observation systems to enhance space weather forecasting capabilities. |
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory |
Thermospheric and Ionospheric Data Assimilation for current and future satellite missions |
Link |
| Feb. 19 |
Zhonghua Xu
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Dr. Xu is a clinical associate professor |
Virginia Tech University |
Enhancing Geospace Research with Autonomous
Magnetometers in Polar Regions: Current and Future |
Link |
| Feb. 26 |
Pauline Dredger
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Dr. Dredger is a postdoctoral research fellow and UTA alumna (Ph.D. Physics ’23) |
University of Michigan |
Solar Wind Input and its Effect on Space Weather Forecasting |
Link |
| Mar. 5 |
Kurtis Nishimura
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Dr. Nishimura is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy |
University of Hawaii |
From HEP to BCI & the Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces at Paradromics |
Link |
| March 19 |
Karl Stephan
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Dr. Stephan is a professor in the Ingram School of Engineering |
Texas State University |
Could Ball Lightning Be Magnetic Monopoles? |
Link |
| March 26 |
Justin Dressel
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Dr. Dressel is an associate professor of physics and principal investigator of the Spin Group |
Chapman University |
Continuous Monitoring and Feedback Control of Superconducting Qubits |
Link |
| April 2 |
Gabriel Sawakuchi
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Dr. Sawakuchi is a board-certified medical physicist and tenured associate professor in the Department of Radiation Physics at MD Anderson. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas, Houston and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biosciences at Rice University. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Oklahoma State University. His research is at the interface of radiation physics, radiobiology, DNA repair, and immunology and currently focuses on understanding how radiation-induced DNA damage, and repair can be leveraged to radiosensitize tumors and activate the immune system to combat cancer. His lab studies how different forms of clinical radiation including photons, protons, carbon ions and alpha particles modulate oxidative stress, DNA damage, DNA repair and immune activation. |
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
How to use ionizing radiation as a cancer vaccine? Hint: DNA damage |
Link |
| April 9 |
Mustafa Amin
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Dr. Amin is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. He obtained his undergraduate education at UTA, followed by graduate studies at Stanford University and postodoctoral fellowships at MIT and University of Cambridge. His work is aimed at understanding the origin of structure and matter in our cosmos. He specializes in exploring nonlinear dynamics of cosmological fields, especially implications of nonperturbative phenomenon for the end of inflation and dark matter. |
Rice University |
A Spin on Dark Matter |
Link |
| April 16 |
Billy Quarles
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Dr. Quarles is an assistant professor of physics & astronomy at East Texas A&M University (Fall 2024), where he returns to his academic roots to discuss the complex dynamics of exoplanetary systems, particularly circumbinary planets. He holds a B.S. from TCU (’06), M.S. from Stephen F. Austin State University (’08), and, notably, a Ph.D. in Physics from UTA (’12). As a NASA postdoctoral researcher, he worked with the Kepler Mission applying those skills to validate exoplanet candidates and characterize eclipsing binaries for the Kepler Catalogs. His research utilizes computational modeling and observational data analysis to determine exoplanet masses, identify exomoon candidates, and model the radiative transfer governing potential exoplanet climates. |
East Texas A&M University |
Planets of the Twin Suns: Revealing the Orbital Dynamics of Binary Star Planets |
Link |
April 16
Note special time
and location:
2:30 p.m.
CPB 303 |
Kimberly Palladino
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Dr. Palladino is an associate professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include dark matter, particle astrophysics, and neutrinos. She works on the international LZ experiment.
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University of Oxford |
In Pursuit of Particle Dark Matter: Recent Results from LZ and Plans for XLZD |
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| April 23 |
Andrew Brandt
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Dr. Brandt is a distinguished professor of physics at UTA. His research focuses on particle physics. He is a member of the UTA Center of Excellence for High Energy Physics and is a part of the international ATLAS experiment utilizing the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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UT Arlington |
Triggers, Protons, and Gaps (Oh My) |
Link |
April 24
Note special
time and location:
2 pm, SH 325 |
Paul Leisher
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Dr. Leisher is Vice President of Research and Fellow at Luminant. He leads the company's research and development of laser sources for LIDAR.
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Luminar Technologies |
Progress in Brightness, Power, and Efficiency of Semiconductor Lasers for High Power Applications |
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