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Spring 2026 Colloquium Schedule
- Thursday, January 29 – Dr. Charles C. Hays, Cal State LA, "Cryogenically Cooled Superconducting Transition-Edge-Sensors (TES) Based On Superconducting Metallic Glasses"
- Thursday, February 5 – No Talk
- Thursday, February 12 – Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, JPL, "Highlights from Thirteen Years of Exploration with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover"
- Thursday, February 19 – No Talk
- Thursday, February 26 – Dr. Jose P. Rodriguez, Cal State LA, "Conducting Edge Channels in the Correlated Insulator States of Twisted Bi-Layer Graphene at the Magic Angle"
- Thursday, March 5 – Graduate Student Poster Presentation Practice for ORSCA Symposium
- Thursday, March 12 – Jose E. Fernandez, JPL, "The Role of Electronic Ground Support Equipment Integration and Test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)"
- Thursday, March 19 – No Talk; Physics & Astronomy Alumni Group Annual Dinner and Lecture
- Thursday, March 26 – Dr. Robert Pappalardo, JPL, "NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission: On the Way to Explore Ocean World Habitability"
- Thursday, April 2 – No Talk; Spring Break Week
- Thursday, April 9 – No Talk
- Thursday, April 16 – Laura Fredericks, Cal State LA, Astrophysics Honors Thesis: "The Solar System Before the Planets Formed: Investigating Physical Processes in the Young Star System L1527"
- Thursday, April 23 – Dr. Yun Wang, Caltech, "Illuminating Dark Energy"
- Thursday, April 30 – Dr. Charles C. Hays, Cal State LA, "Low-cycle Fatigue and Dynamic Fracture in Gold Thin Films on Si₃N₄ Supported Membranes"
Thursday, May 7 – Dr. Luke Bouma, Carnegie Science, Topic: Exoplanets
End of Spring 2026 Colloquium Series
Archived access to the Zoom recording of Dr. Caitlin Duffy's talk from October 9, 2025, "When Metals Become Strange"
Note: You will be prompted to login to Zoom; use passcode: 0#U@FS5$
