General information:

• The SIUC Physics Seminar is a forum for technical discussions pertaining to ongoing pursuits in SIUC School of Physics and Applied Physics.
  
  
• Venue:
  • Physics Seminar: Neckers Building Room 440, School of Physics and Applied Physics, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. [Map]
  • Journey to the Sun Live: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium.

Forthcoming Events:

• 2025 May 02 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: School of Physics and Applied Physics Update on Graduate Program Changes and Modifications
      Speaker: Saikat Talapatra (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Mandatory event for Physics Graduate Students
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Summer: (No Seminars.)
  
  

Fall 2025: Tentative speakers

• 2025 Aug 22 Friday 3:00 PM: (First Week of Classes, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Aug 29 Friday 3:00 PM: (Last Friday of the month, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Sep 05 Friday 3:00 PM: (tentative)
  Title: To be announced
      Speaker: Christopher Mandrell (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Sep 12 Friday 3:00 PM: (tentative)
  Title: To be announced
      Speaker: Praveena Satkunam (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Sep 19 Friday 3:00 PM: (tentative)
  Title: To be announced
      Speaker: Dushmantha Gusthignghadurage (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Sep 26 Friday 3:00 PM: (Last Friday of the month, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Oct 03 Friday 3:00 PM: (tentative)
  Title: To be announced
      Speaker: Bob Baer (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Oct 10 Friday 3:00 PM: (Fall Break, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Oct 17 Friday 3:00 PM: (tentative)
  Title: To be announced
      Speaker: Jackson S. Lewis (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 Oct 24 Friday 3:00 PM:
  
  
• 2025 Oct 31 Friday 3:00 PM: (Last Friday of the month, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Nov 07 Friday 3:00 PM:
  
  
• 2025 Nov 14 Friday 3:00 PM:
  
  
• 2025 Nov 21 Friday 3:00 PM:
  
  
• 2025 Nov 28 Friday 3:00 PM: (Thanksgiving Break, No Seminar.)
  
  
• 2025 Dec 05 Friday 3:00 PM: (Last week of classes, No Seminar.)
  
  

Past Events (since Fall 2024)

Spring 2025

• 2025 April 25 Friday 3:00 PM:
  Title: Understanding Sun Exposure Risks in Military Personnel: A Public Health Perspective
      Event: Journey to the Sun Live. Monthly heliophysics talks hosted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
      Venue: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium. Watch and discuss on YouTube Live @NASASolarSTEAM
  
  
• 2025 April 18 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Analyzing the Magneto-optical Kerr effect using a rotating polarizer method
      Speaker: Shusmita Podder Pooza (SIUC Physics)
      Team: Shusmita Podder Pooza, Hailey Potts, and Dipanjan Mazumdar
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 April 11 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Introduction to Magnetic Skyrmions
      Speaker: Thayne Dean and Lance Griswold (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 April 08 Tuesday 3:00 PM:
  Title: Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
      Event: Journey to the Sun Live. Part of heliophysics talks hosted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
      Venue: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium. Watch and discuss on YouTube Live @NASASolarSTEAM
  
  
• 2025 April 04 Friday 4:00 PM: (Confirmed)
  Title: Bringing biomolecules to life: The power of Molecular Dynamics
      Speaker: Dhulakshi Karuna Hewage (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 March 28 Friday 3:00 PM:
  Title: Impact of a Solar Eclipse on a Bee Colony
      Event: Journey to the Sun Live. Monthly heliophysics talks hosted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
      Venue: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium. Watch and discuss on YouTube Live @NASASolarSTEAM
  
  
• 2025 March 21 Friday 4:00 PM: (Confirmed)
  Title: Atomically Thin Two Dimensional Materials
      Speaker: Saikat Talapatra (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 March 07 Friday 4:00 PM: (Confirmed)
  Title: Automated Quantum Error Correction Protocols without Measurement
      Speaker: Pradip Bhattarai (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 February 28 Friday 3:00 PM:
  Title: Eclipse Soundscapes: Partnering with the public to illuminate the effect of eclipses on wildlife
      Event: Journey to the Sun Live. Monthly heliophysics talks hosted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
      Venue: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium. Watch and discuss on YouTube Live @NASASolarSTEAM
  
  
• 2025 February 21 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Effects of Partial Isoelectronic Substitution (In for Ga) on Phase Transitions, Magnetic Properties and Magnetocaloric Effect in Mn₆₀Ga₂₀C₂₀ Alloys Fabricated by Ball Milling Technique
      Speaker: Abhiyan Oli (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 February 14 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Physically motivated decomposition of qutrit gates
      Speaker: Aryan Iliat (SIUC Physics)
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 February 7 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Modular Representations of the Special Linear Groups over a Finite Field
      Speaker: Devjani Basu (SIUC Math)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2025 January 31 Friday 3:00 PM:
  Title: Remembering the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: SIU Student Experiences
      Event: Journey to the Sun Live. Monthly heliophysics talks hosted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
      Venue: Morris Library, Guyon Auditorium. Watch and discuss on YouTube Live @NASASolarSTEAM
  
  
• 2025 January 24 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Quantum Fisher information and Curvature of Entanglement
      Speaker: Anjala Mullaparambil Babu (SIUC Physics)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  

  Fall 2024

• 2024 December 6 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: The Vacuum Pulls, Pushes, and Twists: Quantum Vacuum Forces and Torques
      Speaker: Kimball A. Milton (The University of Oklahoma)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440
  
  
• 2024 November 15 Friday 4:00 PM:
  Title: Close to Home: How studying quantum cryptography brought me around the world and back
      Speaker: Sarah M. Hagen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
      Event: Physics Seminar
      Venue: Neckers Building Room 440