Fall 2024

Meeting time (if not specified explicitly): Fridays, 11am, Osborne 204A

Date	Speaker	Title and abstract	Sponsor
09/06	Prof. Merdith Joyce  University of Wyoming	When Will Betelgeuse Explode? Numerical and Computational Approaches to Problems in Stellar Astrophysics	Physics
09/27	Robbie Mears  University of Bath (UK)	Anti-resonant hollow core fibres - design and fabrication	Physics
10/18	Prof. Kerem Çamsari  UCSB	Probabilistic Computing With p-Bits: Optimization, Machine Learning and Quantum Simulation	Physics
10/25	Dr. Michael Tanksalvala  NIST	Tabletop, High-Frequency, Layer- and Element-Specific XFMR Spectroscopy Detected with Extreme Ultraviolet Light	Physics
11/08	Dr. Olle Heinonen  Seagate	Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording	Physics
11/15	Prof. Pamela Shockley Zalabak  UCCS, CommuniCon. Inc	Organizational Trust: What it Means, Why it Matters	Physics
12/06	Prof. Barry Zink  University of Denver	Spins in Antiferromagnets: Stories of the Supposedly “Useless”	Physics

Events organized by AIAA, Contact: Dr. Lynnane George, lgeorge2@uccs.edu

Date	Speaker	Title and abstract	Notes
09/05	Dr. Joel Mozer  US Space Force	Images of future space operations	Contact Dr. Lynnane George to RSVP. 5:30 to 7:00 pm Dwire 121
10/30	Lockheed Martin	Lockheed Martin Waterton plant tour	Contact Dr. Lynnane George to RSVP by Oct 15
10/30	Trip Carter	Engineering space systems: tackling the toughest challenges, one mission at a time	Contact Dr. Lynnane George for information.

 

Fall 2024

Date	Time	Place	Type of event	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Wednesday, September 25	8:00 am	ENGR 247	Ph.D. Defense	Markus H. Tyboroski	Robert Camley	Reflectance Studies of Nanostructured Metallic Gratings Using Effective Medium Theory and Attenuated Total Reflection
Friday, October 11	11:00 am	Osborne A204	Comprehensive Exam	Kyle Rockwell	Ezio Iacocca	Fun with solitons: approaching the discrete limit with pseudospectral and fractional PDEs