Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Spring 2024
Valpo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy holds a regular colloquium series on Friday afternoons from 3:05 – 3:55 pm in NSC 224. These talks are designed primarily to introduce our students to recent research, potential careers, and work being done outside Valparaiso University. However, the talks are open to the public and we encourage anyone who is interested in a given talk to join us.
The schedule of talks for the Spring 2024 semester is given below.
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 12 | Attend MLK Jr. Day Activites | Monday, Jan. 15 |
| Jan. 19 | Cancelled | Snow/weather closure of campus |
| Jan. 26 | VU Dept. Faculty | Summer Research Opportunities for Summer 2024 |
| Feb. 2 | Dr. Becky Thompson, FNAL | Exciting the Masses, Careers in Public Engagement |
| Feb. 9 | Prof. Stan Zygmunt, VU | A Sum Of Histories: The Valpo Physics & Astronomy Department |
| Feb. 16 | PBS SpaceTime video | |
| Feb. 23 | Attend Math Phi Beta Kappa lecture | Wed. Feb. 28 The Mathematics of Hidden Figures |
| Mar. 1 | No Colloquium | Spring Recess starts |
| Mar. 8 | No Colloquium | Spring Recess |
| Mar. 15 | No Colloquium | Spring Recess |
| Mar. 22 | Prof. Aarran Shaw, Butler | New results on magnetic cataclysmic variables |
| Mar. 29 | No Colloquium | Good Friday, no classes |
| Apr. 5 | Prof. Shirvel Stanislaus, VU | Global Warming and Climate Change – Real or a Hoax? |
| Apr. 12 | Prof. Patrick Motl, IU Kokomo | Double white dwarf mergers as the progenitor for R Corona Borealis stars |
| Apr. 19 | Dr. Sarah Schlobohm, The Citation Group | How I Didn’t Find the Higgs Boson, and What I Did After |
| Apr. 26 | Attend SOURCE | Thursday, Apr. 25 – Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression |
| May 3 | VU Senior Physics & Astro majors | Senior Project Final Reports |