Fall 2024 Semester - Hannan 108

Date: Wednesday, 04 -Sept 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Gangkai Poh      
                  Research Associate Professor
                  Dept. of Physics, Catholic University of America
Title:         Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability: Where and How to Find Them at Mars?!
Host:   John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 11 -Sept 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Grzegorz Kalicy      
                  Associate Professor
                  Dept. of Physics, Catholic University of America
Title:         
How to Push Limits Without Looking Crazy?
Host:   John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 18 -Sept 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Swara Ravinandranath
                 Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:        Understanding the Sources of Reionization of the Universe

Host:   Tommy Wiklind       

Date: Wednesday, 25 -Sept 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Axel Schmidt
                 Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics
                 George Washington University
Title:       Two-photon Exchange and the Goal of Describing the Charge Inside a Proton

Host:   Carlos Yero   

 Date: Wednesday, 2 -Oct 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Santino Cozzi, Senior Scientist
                  Kiersten Reeser, Junior Engineer
                  RAPID Research in Acoustics, Physics, and Impact Dynamics
                  Applied Research Associates, Inc
Title:         Does one size fit all? Translating laboratory-based insights into tools that enable action 
Join on ZOOM:  https://cua.zoom.us/j/87349921839

Host:   John Philip  

Date: Wednesday, 9 -Oct 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Jaewoong Jung
                  Research Assistant Professor
                  University of Rhode Island
Title:         Investigating Earth's Outer Atmosphere via X-Ray Emissions
Join on ZOOM:  https://cua.zoom.us/j/83438693181
Host:   Gangkai Poh   

Date: Wednesday, 16 -Oct 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Nitya Agarwala
                  PhD Candidate, The Catholic University of America
                  Applied Physics and Nanotechnology
                  Graduate Research Assistant
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:         Exploring Solar Wind Influence on Earth's Magnetosphere Dynamics: Insights into the  
                         Cusp and Magnetotail Interactions

Host:   Gangkai Poh   

Date: Wednesday, 23 -Oct 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Aparna Bhattacharya
                  Postdoctoral Research Assocaite 
                  University of Maryland at College Park
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:         
Discovering Exoplanets with Nature's own Lensing
Host:        Steve Kraemer

Date: Wednesday, 30 -Oct 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Hadi Madanian
                  PHaSER Research Scientist
                  Catholic University of America
                  Heliophysics Division
                 Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:        Plasma Boundaries and Scale Dependent Processes Around Planetary Objects

Host:   Robert Robinson     

Date: Wednesday 6 - Nov -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:  Dr. Rachel Bartek
                 Associate Research Professor
                 High Energy Particle Physics
                The Catholic University of America - Physics Department
Title:          How to upgrade a pixel detector: lessons from Phase-1 being applied
                       to Phase-2 CMS Pixel Upgrade
Host:     John Philip      

Date: Wednesday, 13 -Nov 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Dr. Sean Terry
                  Postdoctoral  Assocaite 
                  University of Maryland at College Park
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:         A Precursor Survey of the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Fields 

Host:        John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 20- Nov -2024
Time: 4:00 pm  
Speaker:  Dr. Frederick C. Bruhweiler
                  Physicist-in-Residence
                  Integrated Space Science & Technology Institute 
                  American University - Department of Physics          
Title:     The Interstellar Medium toward the  X-ray Source, Cyg  X-1.
Host:    Tommy Wiklind   

Date: Wednesday, 4- Dec -2024
Time: 4:00 pm  
Speaker:  Elizabeth Fletcher 
                  PhD Candidate
                 The Catholic University of America - Department of Physics
Title:     Far-Infrared Metallicity Diagnostics
Host:    Tommy Wiklind