Physics Colloquia

Spring 2026

Date / Location

Speaker

Title

April 24
2pm
Room SE 319

Kasra Mokhtarpour

Machine-Learning Identification of Changing-State AGN Candidates in Gaia DR3 View Abstract

April 17
2pm
Room SE 319

Gianni Sims

Seeding Supermassive Black Holes View Abstract View Abstract

April 10, 2026
at 2pm
Room 319

Yingjie Wang

Towards Moving Picture Simulations in a Discontinuous Galerkin framework View Abstract

April 10
Noon
in room SE 319

Bushra Intakhab

Patient-Level Breast Cancer Classification from Multi-View Mammography with Side-Specific Evidence for Interpretability View Abstract

March 27

11:30am in room SE 319

Saad Bin Saeed Ahmed

Spot Scanning Proton Beams Characterization via Plastic Scintillator Detector View Abstract

March 6
4pm in room SE 319

Ian Bornhoeft Diffeomorphisms in Quantum Black Hole Interiors. Visit Abstract

Feb. 27
2 pm

Shicong Song Coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations for Bose-Fermi mixture system. View Abstract

Feb 6
2 pm

Location - usual room

Ke Wang Kekulé Superconductivity in Twisted Magic Angle Bilayer Graphene. View Abstract

Jan. 30

Location - GS-102

Professor Christo Z. Christov from Michigan Technological University Catalytic Strategies of Non-Heme Iron(II) and 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Enzymes. View Abstract

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?