Spring 2025 Semester - Hannan 108
Date: Wednesday, 15 -January 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Maksymillian Bujok
Coordinator of the Computer Science Program/Faculty of Design
Uniwersytet SWPS / SWPS University
Warsaw, Poland
AND Adam Mata, Ph.D. Candidate
Warsaw University of Technology Doctoral School
Warsaw, Poland
Title: Probabilistic Shoenfield Machines
Host: Grzegorz Kalicy
Date: Wednesday, 22 -January 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Flandez
Title: Quantifying Interchange Reconnection Between Coronal Hole Boundary
and Equatorial Coronal-hole Jets
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 29 -January 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Jonathan Nosowitz
Ph.D. Candidate - Physics Department
The Catholic University of America
Title: Isotopic Ratios in Titan’s Nitriles & Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 5 -February 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Raffele Resta
Title: Quantum Geometry and Adiabaticity
Host: Lorenzo Resca
Date: Wednesday, 19 -February 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Santiago Solares
St. Albert the Great Professor of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Catholic University of America
Title: Viscoelastic Parameterization of Living Cells to Characterize Material Behavior at Multiple Characteristic Timescales Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 26 -February 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Sang-Yun Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Catholic University of America
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: Simulation Study on the Variability of Earth's Exosphere
Also on Zoom
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday, 5 -March 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Andres Vargas
Title: From Physics Research to AI: A journey from CERN to AI Research In Industry
ALSO on ZOOM
Host: Rachel Bartek
Date: Wednesday 19 - March 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Roodra Manogaran
Title: Evidence for fluid migration and formation of pit complex in Pioneer Terra, Pluto
Presented via Zoom:
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday, 26 -March 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Drs.Yasmina Martos & Juan Ignacio Martin de Blas
Associate Research Scientist & Postdoctora Research Associate
Title: The GeoLife expedition to the planetary analog of Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) and the
magnetic signature of lava tubes
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday, 9- April 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Dana Louie
Roman Space Telescope Wide-Field Instrument Integration
& Test Research Scientist
The Catholic University of America, Physics Department
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
CRESST
Title: Exploring Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope
Host: Tommy Wiklind
Date: Wednesday, 16- April 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Nicohlas A. Mecholsky
Research Scientist - Vitreous State Laboratory
Research Associate Professor-Physics
The Catholic University of America
Title: Low-dimensional Representations of High-dimensional Labelled Glass Data
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 23- April 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Sergio Picozzi
Associate Professor of Practice
School of Engineering
The Catholic University of America.
Title: Out with MACs and PCs; In with Atoms, Photons, and Quasi-particles
Presented In-Person and on Zoom
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 30- April 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Rachel Morin
PhD Candidate
Physics Department
The Catholic University of America
Presented In-Person and on Zoom
Title: Bridging Atomic and Macroscopic Scales: The Role of the Structure Parameter in Brittle Fracture
Host: John Philip