Spring 2024 Semester
Date: Wednesday, 10- Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Carlos Yero
Title: Exploring the Deuteron Repulsive Core
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 17- Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Santiago Solares
Professor, St. Albert The Great Chair in Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Catholic University of America
Title: Strain-induced electronic structure and functionality changes in 2D Materials -
Understanding the nanomechanical underlying mechanisms governing strain engineering
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 24 - Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Grzegorz Kalicy
Title: How to blast a detector? Utilizing Geant4 and Pythia to investigate
the effectiveness of the hpDIRC system at the ePIC detector
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 31 - Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Mainak Singha
Title: Jet-Driven Outflow in a Radio-Quiet AGN
Host: Tommy Wiklind
Date: Wednesday, 7 - Feb 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Steve Kraemer
Professor, Department of Physics
Director, Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences
Title: Active Galactic Nuclei - Supermassive Black Hole Powered Engines
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 14 - Feb 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Liutauras Rusaitis
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Catholic University of America
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: The Formation of the Ring Current in Multi-Scale Simulations
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday 21- Feb 2023
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Jonathan Brashear
PhD Physics Graduate Candidate
The Catholic University of America
Title: Exploring the Circumstellar Environments of AGB Stars with Optical Interferometry
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday 28 - Feb 2023
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Biplab Pal
CTO and Co-Founder Prophecy Sensors
Adjunct Research Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Advancements in Breath Analyzer Technology
Host: Abhijit Sarkar
Date: Wednesday 6 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Nazma Islam
Assistant Research Scientist
CSST University of Maryland Baltimore County
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: Exploring the Hot and the Energetic Universe
Host: Duilia F. de Mello
Date: Wednesday 20 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Anna Trindade Falcão, Ph.D.
Astrophysicist
(HEA/SAO)
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Title: A Chandra study of the AGN-host interaction in NGC 5728:
extended ionized emission and ~0.1c outflows on kiloparsec-scales
Host: Steve Kraemer
Date: Wednesday 27 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Trevor Lipscomb
Director, The Catholic University of America Press
The Catholic University of America
Title: Sucking Worms -- a Firefighting Mystery from the History of Physics
Host: John Philip
Date: Wednesday, 3- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Weijie Sun
Assistant Research Physicist
Space Science Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Exploring Magnetic Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres:
Particle Energization, Magnetic Flux and Particle Transport
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday, 10- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Denny M. Oliveira
Research Scientist
Heliophysics Division
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: Perspectives on thermosphere mass density modeling during extreme magnetic storms:
A look to the future with an eye in the past
Host: Gangkai Poh
Date: Wednesday, 24- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker: Eliah São Sabbas
Research Associate
PhaSER Partnership
The Catholic University of America
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
National Institute of Space Research -INPE, Brazil
Title: FAIRIES revealing the Atmosphere-Space Electrodynamic Coupling and LEONA Network
Host: Steve Kraemer