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Department Seminars and Colloquia

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Clemson University typically presents several seminars each semester. Colloquia are typically scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Thursdays.

All seminars are in Kinard G01, unless otherwise noted.

Past seminars are displayed for reference. Any questions or suggestions may be directed to the Colloquia Committee chair, Jonathan Zrake.

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Seminar and Colloquia Schedule

Fall 2024 Seminars/Colloquia

October 24: Colloquium: “Multimessenger View of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources” — Kohta Murase, Ph.D.

October 31: Colloquium: “From Pebbles to Planets: Planetesimal Formation and Pebble Accretion” — Chao-Chin Yang, Ph.D.

November 7: Colloquium: “Biophysics” — Michael G. Poirier

November 14: Colloquium: “To See a World in a Trace of Air: Insights into Atmospheric Processes from Small-Scale Laboratory and Field Measurements” — Michael Larsen, Ph.D.

November 21: Colloquium: “Structural and Dynamic Properties of Nanoscale Biomolecular Condensates at the Single Molecules Level” — Jan-Hendrik Spille, Ph.D.

  • PAST: Spring 2023 Seminars/Colloquia

    March 16, 2023, 4 p.m.: Colloquium: “Not All Uniform B-Fields Are The Same!” — Benjamin Luna. Virtual: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/95662171730?pwd=OWNWdG9ISXBDZVlzTUZzc0E4cEVxZz09 Meeting ID 956 6217 1730, passcode 461889

    March 16, 2023, 2 p.m.: Biophysics seminar: “Modulate Nanodroplet Morphology Amyloid Peptides with Designed Flanking Sequences” — Zhenzhen Zhang

    March 15, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy seminar: “Radio Galaxies Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background” — Antonio Circiello

    March 15, 2023, 1:15–2:15 p.m.: Atmospheric and space physics seminar: “Discovering the Multi-Scale Energy Deposition Process and its Responses in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling System” — Haonan Wu. Zoom link: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/7165603555

    March 8, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy seminar: “Long-term Periodicity in Blazar PG 1553+113” — Sagar Adhikari

    March 8, 2023, 1:15–2:15 p.m.: Atmospheric and space physics seminar: “Quiet vs. Active Time Circulation and its Effect on the Latitudinal Distribution of O/N2” — Ben Martinez. Zoom link: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/7165603555

    March 2, 2023, 2 p.m.: Biophysics seminar: “High Throughput and High Purity Extracellular Vesicle Isolations via Liquid Chromatography using Capillary-Channeled Polymer Fiber Phases” — Ken Marcus

    March 1, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy seminar: “The First JWST Spectrum of a GRB Afterglow: No Bright Supernova in Observations of the Brightest GRB of All Time, GRB 221009A” — Dhruv Bal. Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07761.pdf

    March 1, 2023, 1:15–2:15 p.m.: Atmospheric and space physics seminar: “Quantified Uncertainty of the Electron Density, Plasma Drifts and Neutral Winds in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere” — Weijia Zhan, Ph.D. Virtual: Zoom link https://clemson.zoom.us/j/7165603555

    Feb. 22, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy Seminar: “Studying the Origin of Historical Galactic Transients With Fermi-LAT All-sky Variability Analysis”— Scott Joffre

    Feb. 22, 2023, 1:15–2:15 p.m.: Atmospheric physics seminar, “The Impact of Electron Transport Models on Auroral Conductance.” — Stephen Kaeppler. Virtual: Zoom link https://clemson.zoom.us/j/7165603555

    Feb. 15, 2023, 1:15–2:15 p.m.: Atmospheric physics seminar, “Abrupt Change in the Lower Thermospheric Mean Circulation During SSWs and its Impact on Trace Species” — Jiarong Zhang, Ph.D. Virtual: Zoom link https://clemson.zoom.us/j/8111381902, meeting ID 811 1138 1902

    Feb. 15, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy seminar, “Probing the Early Universe with high redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts” — Nikita Khatiya

    Feb. 9, 2023, 4 p.m.: Colloquiums “Finally! What is a Photon?” — Anthony Rizzi, Ph.D. Virtual: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/95662171730?pwd=OWNWdG9ISXBDZVlzTUZzc0E4cEVxZz09, meeting ID 956 6217 1730, passcode 461889

    Feb. 9, 2023, 2 p.m.: Biophysics Seminar: “Measuring Membrane Protein Energetics Using Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy” — David Jacobson, Ph.D.

    Feb. 8, 2023, 4 p.m.: Astronomy seminar, “A New Mid-Infrared and X-ray Machine-Learning Algorithm to Discover Compton-thick AGN” — Ross Silver

    Feb. 2, 2023, 4 p.m.: Colloquium, “Hunting hungry supermassive black holes in our nearest galactic neighbours ” — Peter Boorman, Ph.D. Virtual: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/95662171730?pwd=OWNWdG9ISXBDZVlzTUZzc0E4cEVxZz09, meeting ID 956 6217 1730, passcode 461889

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