| Date/Host | 
Speaker/Institution | 
Title/Abstract | 
January 21 
Host: Bob Glosser | 
Dr. Julia Chan 
UT Dallas | 
Adventures in Crystal Growth: Targeted Rare Earth Intermetallics with Synergistic Magnetic and Electrical Properties | 
January 28 
Host: Anvar Zakhidov | 
Dr. Hugh Churchill 
MIT | 
Atomically Thin Semiconductors: New Devices and New Physics | 
February 4 
Host: Michael Kesden | 
Dr. Joe Izen 
UT Dallas | 
ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider: what they look like, how they work, and what was done during the long 2013-2015 shutdown | 
February 11 
Host: Bob Glosser | 
Dr. Michael Zhang 
UT Dallas | 
On the Journey of Deciphering the Secret Code of Life | 
February 18 
Host: Anvar Zakhidov | 
Dr. Jairo Velasco 
UC Berkeley | 
Strongly Interacting Electrons and Novel Electronics in Graphene-Based Transistors | 
February 25 
Host: Jason Slinker | 
Dr. David Dunlap 
New Mexico | 
The Classical Mechanics of Non-adiabatic Quantum Transport | 
March 11 
Host: Lloyd Lumata | 
Dr. Matthew Merritt 
UT Southwestern | 
Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 and Magnetic Resonance Enables Real Time Estimates of Metabolic Flux | 
March 13 
Host: Anvar Zakhidov | 
Dr. Bing Lv 
University of Houston | 
From Superconductors to Super-thermal-conductors: Three Examples | 
| March 18 | 
No colloquium – Spring Break | 
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March 25 
Host: Michael Kesden | 
Dr. Steve Sekula 
SMU | 
To See Beyond the Higgs: Searches for Additional Higgs Bosons with the ATLAS Experiment | 
April 1 
Host: Mustapha Ishak | 
Dr. Michael Kesden 
UT Dallas | 
Effective Potentials and Morphological Transitions for Binary Black-Hole Spin Precession | 
April 8 
Host: Mustapha Ishak | 
Dr. Salman Habib 
Argonne National Lab | 
Computing the Universe | 
April 15 
Host: Xingang Chen | 
Dr. Sonia Paban 
UT Austin | 
Initial Conditions for Inflation | 
April 22 
Host: Anton Malko | 
Dr. Evgeny Danilov 
North Carolina State University | 
Metal-organic Photochemical Sensitizers: Insight from Ultrafast Spectroscopy | 
April 24 
Host: Anvar Zakhidov | 
Dr. Xiaoyan Shi 
Sandia National Laboratories | 
Hybridizing Superconductors and Topological Matter | 
April 27 
Host: Anvar Zakhidov | 
Dr. Ilya Sochnikov 
Stanford | 
Scanning SQUID Microscopy of Emergent Phenomena | 
April 29 
Host: Fan Zhang | 
Dr. Lincoln Carr 
Colorado School of Mines | 
Ultracold Molecules in Crystals of Light: A Highly Tunable System for Exploring Novel Materials, Quantum Dynamics, and Quantum Complexity | 
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