Physics Colloquia

Fall 2024

Date Speaker Title
Oct. 4 Prof Jeffrey Teo from University of Virginia  
Oct. 11 Dr Stephen Shang Epigenomic Insights into Cancer Treatment Resistance: Implications for Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy. View Abstract
Oct. 18 In partnership with Center of Complex Systems, Christian Uhl from Hochschule Ansbach Dynamical Component Analysis: Theory and Applications. View Abstract
Nov. 8 Prof Xueda Wen from Georgia Institute of Technology View Abstract
Nov. 13 Rafael Dias Thesis Defense: Quantizations of the Schwarzschild interior from diffeomorphism covariance and other criteria. View Abstract

Past Events

Spring 2024

Colloquia will be offered Fridays at 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise stated in the listings below) and the location is in SE 319. For more information contact Karen Liu liuk@fau.edu

Date Speaker Title
Friday 2/23 Hongwei ‘Teddy’ Tan Thesis Defense: Symmetry Charges on Reduced Phase Space and Asymptotic Flatness. View Abstract
Friday 3/1 Silke Dodel  Artificial Intelligence in the Biomedical Sciences
Friday 3/8 Spring Break  
Friday 3/15 Mengyang Zhang from Princeton University A TQFT approach to 3d quantum gravity. View Abstract
Friday 3/22 TBA  
Friday 3/29 Liang Wu from the University of Pennsylvania  
Friday 4/19 Tousif Islam - Kavli Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSB High accuracy waveform models for high precision gravitational wave astronomy. View Abstract
Tuesday 5/14 Chen-Hung Tony Hsiao
Quantization of Constantly Curved Tetrahedron. View Abstract

2023

Colloquia will be offered Fridays at 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise stated in the listings below) and the location is in SE 319. For more information contact Karen Liu liuk@fau.edu

Date Speaker Title
Jan. 20 Zachary Slepian
Is Nature Its Own Mirror? Parity-Violation with Galaxy Quartets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. View abstract
Feb. 10 Vivian Merk 
Inorganic structures across kingdoms of life: From skeletal support to metabolic function. View abstract
Mar. 3 Ilyas Yildirim
Computational studies on RNA: From structure prediction to drug design. View abstract
Apr. 14 Fernanda Jongewaard de Boer
The paraxial approximation in quantum optics. View abstract

Apr. 27 
Building SE-319
10:00 AM

Nader Moshiri Sedeh
Comparative Pharmacokinetics, Biodistribution and Dosimetry of 212Pb (alpha-emitter) Labeled Antibody vs Peptide vs Small Molecule. View abstract

May 3

Alejandro Rene Llanes Lopez
A Monte Carlo study of the neutron ambient dose equivalent from a proton pencil beam medical therapy unit. View abstract

May 17

2:00 PM

Touhid Feghhi
pH Dynamics within the Drosophila Synaptic Cleft During Activit. View Defense Announcement

May 22

11:00 AM

Samaneh Rikhtehgaran
Microfluidic Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy for Blood Analysis. View absract

May 23
Building SE-319
3:00 PM

Panagiota Galanakou

Non-Radioactive Elements for Prompt Gamma Enhancement in Proton Therapy. View Dissertation Defense Announcement

Oct 20

Erdem Yigit

Thesis Defense: Dosimetric Influence on the Critical Organs Dose due to the PTV Dose Uniformity

Nov 3 

Dongxue Qu

Complex Critical Points and Effective Dynamics of Spinfoam Quantum Gravity

Nov 30

Boulent Aydogan

Biology Guided Cancer Treatment: Hope or Hype?