Department Colloquia 2025-2026
Physics department colloquium takes place in the Lehman Auditorium in the Science & Engineering Hall, usually on Thursdays 4-5pm.
Update: All department colloquia will be held in a hybrid mode (in-person and on Zoom). Please email physics
gwu [dot] edu (physics[at]gwu[dot]edu) if you want to get on the mailing list for updates and Zoom links.
Past Colloquia
April 17, 2025
Geraldine L. Cochran, Ohio State University
Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences
March 20, 2025
Grace Cummings, Fermi Lab
When They Go Low, We Go Lower: Extending the Reach of Collider Experiments with Low-Level Detector Information
April 18, 2024 (the Walker Lecture)
Lois Pollack, Cornell University
Using the Tools of Physics to Watch Biomolecules Work
April 11th, 2024 (the Berman Lecture)
Lei Ren
The Quantum Leap: Bridging AI, Physics, and Medicine for Revolutionary Innovations in Radiation Therapy
March 28th, 2024
Yuri Dokshitzer
TBD
March 7th, 2024 (the Bennhold Lecture)
Steven Pollock, University of Colorado
A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses
February 29, 2024
Yaojun Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
Why do biomolecular condensates ripen so quickly?
February 22, 2024
Samuel Schaffter, NIST
RNA computation and metrology for engineering biology
February 16 (Friday!), 2024 (joint event with Computer Science, 11:15am-12:15pm)
Adam Hughes, PhD, GW Physics Alum
Why You should be excited to be a software engineer in 2024
February 1, 2024
Kumiko Kotera
(Cancelled)
November 30, 2023
Charles Steinhardt, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Is the Stellar Initial Mass Function Truly Universal?
November 16, 2023 (remote only)
Chengxin Zhang, University of Michigan
Deep learning and Template-based Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
November 9, 2023 (remote only)
David Bailey, University of Toronto
Not Normal: The Uncertainty of Scientific Measurements
November 2, 2023
Thomas Boettcher, University of Cincinnati
Studying dense gluonic matter at the LHC
October 26, 2023
Simonetta Liuti, University of Virginia
Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Physics
October 19, 2023 (in-person location: Corcoran 203)
Tiffany-Rose Sikorski, George Washing University
A conversation about how we arrange topics in our physics classes
October 5, 2023
Alexander van der Horst, George Washington University
Radio View of Particle Acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts
April 1, 2021
Norbert Linke, University of Maryland
February 18, 2021
Marco Battaglieri, Jefferson Laboratory
February 11, 2021
Paul Demorest, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
November 21, 2019
Natasha Holmes, Cornell University
Bennhold Lecture -- Why traditional labs fail (and what to do about it) (PDF)
November 14, 2019
Nicholas White, George Washington University
The Gamow Explorer: A High Redshift Universe Gamma-Ray Burst Mission (PDF)
October 24, 2019
Alexander Turbiner, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Stony Brook University
Choreography in Nature, in Newtonian Gravity (living in motion) (PDF)
October 17, 2019
Laurence Arcadias, Maryland Institute College of Art and NASA GSFC
Robin Corbet, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and NASA GSFC
AstroAnimation: Bridging Two Cultures in the Post-Truth World (PDF)
October 10, 2019
Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society - Head of Career Programs
Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates (PDF)
October 3, 2019
Eric Bellm, University of Washington
Searching for X-Ray Binaries with Large-Scale Optical Variability Surveys (PDF)
September 26, 2019
Neil Johnson, George Washington University
Slaying the Online Hydra of Hate, Distrust and Anti-Science (PDF)
September 19, 2019
Rodrigo Nemmen, Universidade de São Paulo
Accelerating Scientific Computing with GPUs (PDF)