Spring 2026
| 1/16/26 | Dr. Brent Seales | UK Department of Computer Science | Host: Susan Gardner | |
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| 2/6/26 | Dr. Stefan Spanier | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Host: Susan Gardner | |
| 2/13/26 | Dr. Kate Scholberg | Duke University | Host: Susan Gardner | |
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| 2/27/26 | Dr. Emmanual Momjian | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Host: Yuanyuan Su | |
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Fall 2025
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8/29/25 |
Dr. Susan Gardner |
UK Department of Physics & Astronomy
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Evidence for Missing Matter in the Inner Solar System: Does the Sun have a Dark Disk? |
Host: UK Department of Physics & Astronomy
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9/5/25 |
Dr. Tim Gorringe |
UK Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Final result from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment |
Host: Susan Gardner |
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9/12/25 |
Dr. Elise Novitski |
The University of Washington |
A new approach to measuring neutrino mass |
Host: Wolfgang Korsch |
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9/19/25 |
Dr. Daniel Tataru |
University of California, Berkeley |
Free boundary problems for Euler flows |
Host: Mihai Tohaneanu |
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9/26/25 |
Dr. Ambrose Seo |
UK Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Shaping Light and Charge in Two-Dimensional Materials with Plasmonic Nanostructures |
Host: Joe Brill |
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10/3/25 |
Dr. Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Exciting the Entangled Vacuum - A New Era in Understanding Visible Matter |
Host: Renee Fatemi |
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10/10/25 |
Dr. Stephen Taylor |
Vanderbilt University |
Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths |
Host: Susan Gardner |
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10/17/25 |
Dr. Matt Bayliss |
University of Cincinnati |
Taking Galaxies Apart and Putting Them Back Together Again |
Host: Ryan Sanders |
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10/24/25 |
Dr. Hendrik Schatz |
Michigan State University |
Rare Isotopes in the Cosmos |
Host: Ruchi Mahajan |
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10/31/25 |
Dr. Roger Pynn |
Indiana University |
What are Entangled Neutrons, Anyway? |
Host: Bill Gannon |
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11/7/25 |
Dr. Paul Torrey |
University of Virginia |
Host: Ryan Sanders |
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11/14/25 |
Dr. Shahnawaz Rather |
UK Department of Chemistry |
Host: Ryan Sanders |
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11/21/25 |
Dr. Ming Sun |
The University of Alabama in Huntsville |
Host: Jiayi Sun |
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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 |
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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 |