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Semester At A Glance

Fall 2025

8/29/25 

Dr. Susan Gardner 

 

UK Department of Physics & Astronomy 

 

Evidence for Missing Matter in the Inner Solar System: Does the Sun have a Dark Disk?

 

Host: UK Department of Physics & Astronomy 

 

9/5/25 

Dr. Tim Gorringe 

UK Department of Physics & Astronomy 

Final result from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment

Host: Susan Gardner 

9/12/25 

Dr. Elise Novitski

The University of Washington

A new approach to measuring neutrino mass

Host: Wolfgang Korsch

9/19/25 

Dr. Daniel Tataru

University of California, Berkeley

Free boundary problems for Euler flows

Host:  Mihai Tohaneanu

9/26/25 

Dr. Ambrose Seo

UK Department of Physics & Astronomy 

 

Host: Joe Brill

10/3/25 

Dr. Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu 

Brookhaven National Laboratory 

 

Host: Renee Fatemi 

10/10/25 

Dr. Stephen Taylor 

Vanderbilt University 

 

Host: Susan Gardner 

10/17/25 

Dr. Matt Bayliss

University of Cincinnati

 

Host: Ryan Sanders

10/24/25 

Dr. Hendrik Schatz

Michigan State University

 

Host: Ruchi Mahajan

10/31/25 

Dr. Roger Pynn 

Indiana University 

 

Host: Bill Gannon 

11/7/25 

Dr. Paul Torrey

University of Virginia

 

Host: Ryan Sanders

11/14/25 

Dr. Shahnawaz Rather 

UK Department of Chemistry 

 

Host: Ryan Sanders 

11/21/25 

Dr. Ming Sun 

The University of Alabama in Huntsville 

 

Host: Jiayi Sun 

12/5/25 

Dr. Erik Henriksen

Washington University

 

 Host: Bill Gannon

 

Spring 2025

1/17/2025 Cyprian Lewandowski

Florida State U./

Magnetic Lab

``The APS Career Talk'' Host: Chunli Huang
  (faculty job interviews...)      
3/7/2025 John Anthony University of Kentucky ``From power generation to quantum information science - material development for enhanced singlet fission'' Host: Susan Gardner
4/11/2025 Hee-Jong Seo  Ohio University Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from the 3 years of the DESI data  Host: Susan Gardner
4/18/2025 Gordan Krnjaic Fermilab/U Chicago From ALPs to 'ZILLAS: Discovering Dark Matter In Novel Laboratories Host: Susan Gardner
4/25/2025 Eric Hudson UCLA Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus  Host: Wolfgang Korsch

Fall 2024

8/30/2024 Renee Fatemi University of Kentucky  ``The Electron-Ion Collider : The Next QCD Frontier'' Host: Susan Gardner
9/06/2024 Thomas Papenbrock University of Tennessee, Knoxville ``Electroweak interactions of nuclei'' Host: Susan Gardner
9/13/2024 Mohammadreza Zakeri Eastern Kentucky University ``Pulsars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics" Host: Susan Gardner
9/20/2024 Hirohiko Shimizu Nagoya University, Japan ``Experimental Study of the Time Reversal Invariance in Polarized Epithermal Neutron Optics
(J-PARC E99 : NOPTREX)"
 
Host: Christopher Crawford
9/27/2024 Anatoly Dymarsky University of Kentucky ``Codes, CFTs, and ensemble holography" Host: Bradley Plaster
10/04/2024 Andra Stroe Space Telescope Science Institute ``Shocking tales of structure formation: Evolving galaxies and black holes in evolving environments" Host: Yuanyuan Su
10/11/2024 Surjeet Rajendran John Hopkins University  ``Opening up the Gravitational Wave Spectrum" Host: Susan Gardner

Special

 10/17/2024

Event 

Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study

van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics: 

``What is Quantum Field Theory?"

Host: Sumit Das
10/18/2024 Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study  ``Quantum Field Theory, Separation of Scales, and Beyond" Host: Sumit Das
10/25/2024 Florian Piegsa University of Bern, Switzerland ``Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics'' Host: Christopher Crawford
11/01/24 Zein-Eddine Meziani Argonne National Laboratory ``Visible Matter: Origin and Structure'' Host: Wolfgang Korsch
11/08/2024 Matthew D. Schwartz Harvard University ``10,000 Einsteins: AI and the future of theoretical physics'' Host: Anatoly Dymarsky
11/15/2024 Danielle A. Berg University of Texas, Austin ``Observational Benchmarks of Galaxy Evolution from CNO Emission in Extreme Emission Line Galaxies'' Host: Ryan Sanders
11/22/2024 Glyn A. Collinson NASA / GSFC ``The Discovery of Earth's Third Global Energy Field by NASA’s Endurance Rocketship'' Host: Susan Gardner
12/06/2024 James Sauls Louisiana State University  (to be rescheduled) Host: William Gannon
12/13/2024 Keh-Fei Liu University of Kentucky ``Cosmological Constant and Archimedes' Principle" Host: Susan Gardner