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Colloquium 2025-2026

All colloquium lectures will be offered online via Zoom.  Links to these sessions are provided below.  Students are encouraged, but not required, to attend in person in Physical Science Room 108 for presentations by ISU faculty.

Fall 2025    Schedule

Aug. 25 Dr. Brian Skinner, Ohio State University, Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement
  Link to Zoom Meeting
Sept. 1 Labor Day, No Colloquium
   
Sept. 8 Dr. James Dull, College of Idaho, Burning Bright: Exploring Be Stars and their Mysteries from our Campus Observatory
   
Sept. 15 Dr. Erdinch Tatar, Idaho State University, topic TBD
  Link to Zoom Meeting
Sept. 22
Dr. Masha Baryakhtar, University of Washington, Ultralight Particles from the Lab to the Cosmos
   
Sept. 29 Dr. Joshua Knobloch, Utah State University, Measuring Highly-Nonequilibrium Phonon Transport using
Ultrafast Ultraviolet Transient Gratings, Special in-person lecture in PS 108
   
Oct. 6  
   
Oct. 13
Dr. Dennis Soldin, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Particle Physics with Extensive Air Showers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
   
Oct. 20 Dr. Kihta Murase, Pennsylvania State University, Multimessenger View of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrino Sources
   
Oct. 27
 
   
Nov. 3
 
   
Nov. 10  
   
Nov. 17
 
   
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Break, No Colloquium
   
Dec. 1  
   
Dec. 8  



Spring 2026    Schedule


Jan. 12
 
   
Jan. 19
Martin Luther King Day.  No Colloquium
   
Jan 26
Dr. Sebastian Fischetti, Weber State University, topic TBD
   
Feb. 2
 
   
Feb. 9
 
   
Feb. 16
President's Day.  No Colloquium
   
Feb. 23
 
   
Mar. 2  
   
Mar. 9
 
   
Mar. 16
 
   
Mar. 23
Spring Break.  No Colloquium
   
Mar. 30
 
   
Apr. 6
 
   
Apr. 13
 
   
Apr. 20
 
   
Apr. 27  


All talks will be offered via Zoom using the links above, with presentations starting promptly at 4:00 PM on Mondays.  Presentations by ISU faculty will occur in PS 108 in addition to Zoom offering.

contact: shrostev@isu.edu
Last modified 08/15/2025

ISU Physics 2024-2025 Colloquium Schedule 

 

Fall 2024 Schedule

Aug. 19

Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran

School of STEM
University of Washington | BothellOpens in new window

Thermodynamics of Adsorbed Gases Studied on One- and Two-Dimensional Systems and Some Practical Implications

Zoom Link

Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

 


Aug. 26

 

Dr. Dustin McNulty

Idaho State UniversityOpens in new window

Ongoing Research within the ISU Physics Department, and Opportunities for Student Involvement

In-Person Presentation in PS 108

 

 

Sept. 2

Labor Day, No Colloquium

 

 


Sept. 9

Eva Barker

Idaho State University, Nuclear Engineering

Safeguards Sensitivity Studies Using Pyroprocessing Models

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Sept. 16

 

Dr. Kate Scholberg

Duke University

Scattering in Neutrino Alley

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Sept. 23

Dr. Daniel Ginosar

Idaho National Laboratory

Critical Materials for the Clean Energy Transition

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Sept. 30

Dr. Subramanian RamachandranOpens in new window

School of STEM
University of Washington | Bothell

Thermodynamics of Adsorbed Gases Studied on One- and Two-Dimensional Systems and Some Practical Implications, Part II

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Oct. 07

Kate Alexander

University of Arizona

Tidal Disruption Events: Unique Probes of Outflows and Accretion in Supermassive Black Holes

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Oct. 14

Dr. Brelon May

Idaho National Laboratory

Epitaxial Synthesis and Integration of Cubic Nitrides

In-Person Presentation in PS 108

 

 

Oct. 21

Dr. Nathan Powers

Brigham Young University

topic tbd

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Oct. 28

Speaker and topic tbd

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Nov. 4

Speaker and topic tbd

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Nov. 11

Dr. Brian Milbrath

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

topic to be determined

Zoom Session Link
Zoom Session Recordings
 

 

Nov. 18

Dr. Curtis Jonathan BernardOpens in new window

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Photoinduced Dynamics in Correlated Magnetic Insulators

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings

 

 

Nov. 25

Thanksgiving Break

No Colloquium

   

Dec. 2

Speaker and topic tbd

Zoom Link
Zoom Session Recordings
   
Dec. 13

Finals Week

No Colloquium