Spring 2024 Semester

Date: Wednesday, 10- Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:  Carlos Yero 
Title:     Exploring the Deuteron Repulsive Core
Host:     John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 17- Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:  Santiago Solares
                 Professor, St. Albert The Great Chair in Engineering
                 Department of Mechanical Engineering
                 The Catholic University of America 
Title:      Strain-induced electronic structure and functionality changes in 2D Materials -
               Understanding the nanomechanical underlying mechanisms governing strain engineering

Host:     John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 24 - Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Grzegorz Kalicy
Title:      How to blast a detector? Utilizing Geant4 and Pythia to investigate
                    the effectiveness of the hpDIRC system at the ePIC detector    

Host:   John Philip  

Date: Wednesday, 31 - Jan 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Mainak Singha
Title:      Jet-Driven Outflow in a Radio-Quiet AGN

Host:   Tommy Wiklind

Date: Wednesday, 7 - Feb 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Steve Kraemer
                  Professor, Department of Physics
                  Director, Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences
Title:      Active Galactic Nuclei - Supermassive Black Hole Powered Engines

Host:   John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 14 - Feb 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:   Liutauras Rusaitis
                  Postdoctoral Researcher 
                  The Catholic University of America 
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:      The Formation of the Ring Current in Multi-Scale Simulations

Host:   Gangkai Poh 

Date: Wednesday 21- Feb 2023
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:     Jonathan Brashear 
                     PhD Physics Graduate Candidate 
                     The Catholic University of America                        
Title:         Exploring the Circumstellar Environments of AGB Stars with Optical Interferometry
Host:         John Philip

Date: Wednesday 28 - Feb 2023
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:     Dr. Biplab Pal                        
                    CTO and Co-Founder Prophecy Sensors   
                    Adjunct Research Professor
                    University of Maryland, Baltimore County                
Title:         Advancements in Breath Analyzer Technology
Host:         Abhijit Sarkar

Date: Wednesday 6 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:     Dr. Nazma Islam
                     Assistant Research Scientist
                     CSST University of Maryland Baltimore County
                     NASA Goddard Space Flight Center                                    
Title:            Exploring the Hot and the Energetic Universe
Host:           Duilia F. de Mello   

Date: Wednesday 20 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:     Anna Trindade Falcão, Ph.D.
                    Astrophysicist
                   (HEA/SAO)
                   Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian                                
Title:          A Chandra study of the AGN-host interaction in NGC 5728:
                      extended ionized emission and ~0.1c outflows on kiloparsec-scales
Host:           Steve Kraemer  

Date: Wednesday 27 - March -2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Speaker:     Trevor Lipscomb
                    Director, The Catholic University of America Press
                    The Catholic University of America
Title:           Sucking Worms -- a Firefighting Mystery from the History of Physics
Host:           John Philip

Date: Wednesday, 3- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm  
Speaker:   Weijie Sun
                  Assistant Research Physicist 
                  Space Science Laboratory
                  University of California, Berkeley 
Title:        Exploring Magnetic Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres:
                     Particle Energization, Magnetic Flux and Particle Transport
Host:        Gangkai Poh

Date: Wednesday, 10- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm  
Speaker:   Denny M. Oliveira
                  Research Scientist  
                  Heliophysics Division
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title:        Perspectives on thermosphere mass density modeling during extreme magnetic storms:
                       A look to the future with an eye in the past

Host:        Gangkai Poh

Date: Wednesday, 24- April -2024
Time: 4:00 pm  
Speaker:  Eliah São Sabbas
                  Research Associate
                  PhaSER Partnership
                  The Catholic University of America
                  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
                  National Institute of Space Research -INPE, Brazil
Title:        FAIRIES revealing the Atmosphere-Space Electrodynamic Coupling and LEONA Network
Host:        Steve Kraemer