Title: "Gravitational Waves"

By Dr. Doug Singleton

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Title: "Maxwellian Mirages in General Relativity"

Dr. Nathan Inan, Clovis Community College

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Title: "The Higgs Boson in Superfluids and Superconductors"

 Dr. Ettore Vitali, Fresno State Physics Department

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Title: "Identifying Cataclysmic Variable Stars in Automated Synoptic Surveys"

Dr. Fred Ringwald, Fresno State Physics Department

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Title: "X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Methods for in vivo Bone Lead (Pb) Concentration Measurements"

Dr. Mihai Gherase, Fresno State Physics Department

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Title: "The Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope"

Dr. Varoujan Gorjian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Fresno State Physics Research Overview

By Dr. Fred Ringwald, Dr. Doug Singleton, Dr. Mihai Gherase. Dr. Pei-Chun Ho, Dr. Ettori Vitali, and Don Williams

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Strained α-Sn Thin Films on Highly Lattice-Mismatched GE
Substrates

Prof. Yize Li, CSU Bakersfield.

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Gravitational Casimir Effect

Joint FAMP Seminar & Physics Colloquium

NOTE SPECIAL TIME:  Beginning at 4PM.

Dr. James Quach, University of Adelaide

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Neutral Fermions and a New State of Matter: Weird Metals Disguised as Electrical Insulators

Dr. John Singleton, LANL

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Bonus (Starts at 12:30PM):  Careers and Science at Los Alamos National Laboratory - information about careers and internships at LANL:  more information

Here is a recording of the presentation.

No Colloquium, but we encourage you to visit the APS Far West Section meeting. We have several students presenting there.

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Our students presenting are:

Friday, Oct. 9th:

The links for the L2, D1 and D2 sections are

Nonlinear Astrophysics at Fresno State

Dr. Fred Ringwald, Fresno State Physics

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Highlights from Current Work at the ATLAS Particle Physics Experiment

Dr. Kathryn Grimm, California State University, East Bay

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Oct. 30

Note special times.

There is no Physics Dept. Colloquium today, but there are two other sessions that may interest you.

At 9:00 AM: Fresno State Math Seminar "On Weak Spectral Mapping Theorems, Spectral Structure and Asymptotcs of c_0-Semigroups Generated by Scalar Type Spectral Operators"

by Dr. Marat Markin, Fresno State

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At 11:00 AM:  FAMP Interdepartmental Research Group: "Spectral Bounds for Damped Systems

by Dr. Carsten Trunk, TU Ilmenau, Germany

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Assessing DNA Damage in Radiotherapy Applications Using a DNA-Based Detector

Dr. Mauro Tambasco, SDSU

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FAMP at 11 AM:

Asymptotic Analysis of the Boltzmann Equation for Dark Matter Relic Abundance

Jaryd Ulbricht, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Student Research Talks

Dan Brown, "The Search for the Higgs Boson Continues Beyond the Standard Model"

Blanca Nino,"The Search for Dark Matter in ZH -> γγD"

and Joey Contreras, "Photon Dispersion in Quantum Gravity"

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At 11:00 AM:  FAMP Interdepartmental Research Group: "In How Many Dimensions Do We Live?"

by Dr. Piero Nicolini, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

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At 3:00 PM:  Progress Towards Long Range, Coherent Coupling in Quantum Annealing Processors

Dr. Daniel M. Tennant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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At 2:00 PM:  FAMP Interdepartmental Research Group: "An Introduction to Complex Dimensions: The Case of Fractal Strings"

by Dr. Michel L. Lapidus, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Burton Jones Endowed Chair in Pure Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside.

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STEM Majors in High Tech: An Alumni Prospective

Dr. Nima Dinyari, University of Oregon with Shoji Hishida and Cody Hughson.

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Special Event:  Academic Decathalon Presentation, "The Space Race - Old and New"

Dr. Frederick Ringwald, Fresno State Physics

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At 11:00 AM:  FAMP Interdepartmental Research Group: "From Rainbows to Resurgence: Asymptotics of the Airy Function"

by William Hoffer, University of California, Riverside

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May 1 at 10AM

(please note the earlier  time)

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A joint colloquium from the Physics Department and the Functional Analysis and Mathematical Physics (FAMP) Interdepartmental Research Group

Title:  Fermionic Superfluidity: from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars

By Dr. Ettore Vitali, California State University, Fresno, Department of Physics

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Abstract: In this presentation, I will provide an overview of fermionic superfluidity, which is a very interesting and puzzling phenomenon that occurs in some of the most mysterious systems in the universe, like unconventional superconductors and neutron stars. I will discuss the basic physical mechanism, involving a subtle interplay among quantum mechanics, quantum statistics and interatomic forces. I will also stress the importance of cold atoms as one of the most promising "laboratories" to observe Fermi superfluidity in a controlled environment. Finally, I will discuss many open exciting research opportunities in theoretical and computational physics related to superfluid fermions.

April 17 at 3PM via Zoom

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Title: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and an Application in Observational Astronomy

By Dr. Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos, California State University, Fresno, Department of Computer Science.

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Abstract: In recent years, artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming an integral part of our everyday life, assisting in solving challenging problems in various domains such as energy sustainability, transportation, medicine, and physics. This shift is supported by concurrent advances in computational and data storage technologies, connectivity, data availability, and theoretical understanding. In this context, AI is also altering the way we do research and get to know the world around us. In this talk, we will delve into the essence of the AI revolution and investigate its potential in supporting our research endeavors. We will see how AI builds on the basic principles of natural/biological intelligence, the challenges, and current trends. Importantly, we will investigate how AI can assist our research by automatically detecting patterns in our data. As a particular example, we will explore how AI can help to detect r-mode gravitational wave signals from newborn neutron stars using artificial neural networks and pattern recognition techniques.

Title "A Shift Toward Scientific Reasoning: The Introductory Physics Lab" by Dr. John Walkup, Roger Key, and Stephan Squire

Abstract: "For the past year, John Walkup and Roger Key have spearheaded a transformation of our introductory physics labs to elevate scientific reasoning. In a revised lab manual that is currently under development, every one of our existing PHYS-4A lab activities would either receive an overhaul or be replaced altogether. These efforts have culminated in four publications, with another one in preparation. Stephan Squire, a graduate student of physics at the time, measured the efficacy of this new approach in his M.S. thesis research, although the sample sizes were likely too small to generate conclusive results. In this colloquium, John, Roger, and Stephan will discuss this new paradigm in lab design and how it alters the learning environment for our future scientists and engineers."

If you missed it, here is the recording.... https://youtu.be/gzx64l_0Ohk

Title: "What Really Happens at the Event Horizon?" by Spacetime Physics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mht-1c4wc0Q&list=PLkAojrA9stI4xJLkMW9SnAnBOLdTlomup   

Supplemental Material 

Title: "Exponential Growth and epidemics" by 3blue1brown

https://www.3blue1brown.com/videos-blog/exponential-growth-and-epidemics 

Supplemental Material

(i) (Exponential vs. Logistic growth) https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-ecology/hs-population-ecology/v/exponential-and-logistic-growth-in-populations   

 (ii)(Covid-19 infection in Italy) https://towardsdatascience.com/covid-19-infection-in-italy-mathematical-models-and-predictions-7784b4d7dd8d