Seminars, News, and Events
Seminars, News, and Events
Stay connected with the Physics and Engineering Physics community at Tulane. From visiting speakers and research talks to faculty honors and department milestones, our seminars, news, and events offer a window into the ideas, discoveries, and people shaping physics and engineering physics here in New Orleans and beyond. Whether you’re a current student, a prospective applicant, a fellow scientist, or an alum, there’s always something new to explore.
Seminars
FALL 2026: Seminars are held throughout the Fall semester, normally on Mondays, 3-4pm in Boggs 239 unless specified otherwise.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
Aug 24 | PEP faculty | TU / PEP | State of PEP / Overview of current research projects by PEP faculty |
Aug 31 | Prof. Rath Vannithamby | TU / PEP | Wireless Technology Evolution Towards Intelligent & Connected World of 6G |
Sep 14 | Prof. Yunfeng Shi | RPI | Atomistic Modeling of Ferroelectric Materials in Devices |
Sep 21 | Dr. Alexis Myers | NLR | From Electrons, to Molecules, to Communities |
Sep 28 | Dr. Prashant Padmanabhan | LANL | Light-Driven Phenomena in Gapless Topological Matter |
Oct 5 | Prof. Tianze Liu | Tulane / EES | New Frontiers in Geological Hydrogen Exploration Using Seismology |
Oct 12 | Prof. Denis Seletskiy | U of New Mexico | Photons Are Overrated: Bright, few-cycle quantum light and what you can do with a field |
Oct 19 | Prof. Chunli Huang | U of Kentucky | From Pencil Lead to Quantum Matter: Magnetism and Superconductivity in Stacked Graphene |
Oct 26 | Prof. Elizabeth Scott | Centre College | Measuring Energy with Circuits and Superconductors- An Introduction to Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors |
Nov 2 | Dr. Kyle Steffen | Tulane | Probing Gravity and Non-Inertial Effects with Polarized Neutron Interferometry |
Nov 9 | Prof. Georgi Rozenman | MIT | TBA |
Nov 16 | Prof. Mark Pedersen | UTEP | TBA |
PEP News
Tulane team testing hybrid solar energy converter
A Tulane University researcher is leading a U.S. Department of Energy project to develop a hybrid solar energy converter that generates electricity and steam with high efficiency and low cost.
Working on a miracle
Daniel Rees, a graduate student in the Bioinnovation IGERT program, loads samples into an aggregation rate generator (ARGEN) instrument in the Center for Polymer Reaction Monitoring and Characterization (PolyRMC). Rees is working under the supervision of physics professor Wayne F. Reed to quantitatively characterize the stability of therapeutic protein drugs. The stability of these “miracle drugs” is an important issue in the biotechnology sector and carefully monitored by the Food and Drug Administration.
Get smart
Aide Wu, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in materials science, works with a second generation automatic continuous online monitoring of polymerization reactions instrument (ACOMP) in the Tulane University Center for Polymer Reaction Monitoring and Characterization (PolyRMC). Wu works at PolyRMC under the supervision of professor Wayne Reed to develop means of monitoring and controlling the synthesis of “smart polymers,” which can react to changes in their environment, such as temperature and light, to yield desired properties.
Tulane team advances knowledge toward more efficient electronics
A recent discovery by a team of researchers led by Tulane University advances fundamental knowledge that could one day lead to more energy-efficient computers, televisions, cellphones and other electronics.
The researchers’ discovery of a new magnetic topological semimetal is featured in the latest edition of the prestigious journal Nature Materials.
LightLab illuminates science for middle-schoolers
Angel Allen has a long way to go before she has to decide on a career path. But if you ask her now, the rising eighth-grader at Paul Habans Charter School will tell you that she wants to be an engineer. She wants to design cars that are powered by wind energy, and hopes her love of math and science will help her succeed.