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
October 4, 2025
Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Tunable Matter
March 27, 2025
Gerd Kortemeyer, ETH Zurich and Michigan State University
From CAPA to AI: Technology for Physics Homework and Exams
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
March 6, 2025
Victoria Kaspi, McGill University
Fast Radio Bursts
February 27, 2025
Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Vanderbilt University
Back to fundamental QCD - a tale of quarks and gluons
February 20, 2025
Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
Life on the edge: reconnection-powered emission at the boundaries of black hole jets
February 13,2025
Eda Sonbas, George Washington University
Probing the intermediate-mass range of black holes
January 30, 2025
Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Detection of Gravitational Waves, and What They Are Telling Us
November 21, 2024
Regina Caputo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Achieving the science of the extreme universe through developments in gamma-ray instrumentation
November 14, 2025
Naveen Jha, George Washington University
Imaging Single Retrovirus Entry through Alternative Receptor Isoforms and Intermediates of Virus-Endosome Fusion
November 7, 2024
Kara Zielinski, Cornell University
Time-Resolved Serial Crystallography at X-ray Free Electron Lasers and Synchrotrons
October 17, 2024
Joel Coley, Howard University.
A Multiwavelength Study of High-mass Gamma-ray Binaries
October 3, 2024
Efrain Segarra, Paul Scherrer Institute
Next measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment: n2EDM at PSI
September 26, 2024
Rachael and Steven
Useful Resources and AI Tools for Early-Career Physicists
September 19, 2024
Marshall Scott
Investigating the proton through quark destruction and pion creation
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)
November 14, 2019
Nicholas White, George Washington University
The Gamow Explorer: A High Redshift Universe Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
October 24, 2019
Alexander Turbiner, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Stony Brook University
Choreography in Nature, in Newtonian Gravity (living in motion)
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
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
October 3, 2019
Eric Bellm, University of Washington
Searching for X-Ray Binaries with Large-Scale Optical Variability Surveys
September 26, 2019
Neil Johnson, George Washington University
Slaying the Online Hydra of Hate, Distrust and Anti-Science
September 19, 2019
Rodrigo Nemmen, Universidade de São Paulo
Accelerating Scientific Computing with GPUs (PDF)