Colloquia

Unless otherwise stated, all colloquia are at 4pm on Fridays in room 140 OPS.
This semester colloquium will be hybrid (Zoom and 140 OPS). Please check your email for how to connect via Zoom.
Contact Dr. Chen (hchen@fit.edu) if you would like to give a departmental seminar or would like additional information

Spring 2025 Colloquia

Searching For Habitable Worlds: Space Physics of Habitability

Dr. Vladimir Airapetian (NASA Goddard, American University)

February 13th at 4:45 pm in the OEC 118 Auditorium

APSS Colloquium

Satellite Systems Engineering

Dave Hutchieson, former paratrooper and a satellite systems engineer

January 24th at 3:30pm in the OEC 118 Auditorium

APSS Colloquium

Fall 2024 Colloquia

Unveiling the Progenitors of Gamma-ray Bursts

Dr. Binbin Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

December 18 th at 3:30pm in the OEC 118 Auditorium

APSS Colloquium

Using Cyclic Spectroscopy to Study the Interstellar Medium with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Dr. Jacob Turner (Green Bank Observatory)

September 9th at 3:30pm in the Ortega Observatory

APSS Colloquium

Hosted by the Ortega Observatory.

METALLIC MATERIALS BUILDING AND PROCESSING EMPLOYING NANOSECOND PULSED LASERS

Dr. Danilo de Camargo Branco

August 30 at 5pm in Olin Engineering 118

APSS Colloquium

Hosted by the Aerospace Engineering

Probing the Precursor Prebiotic Chemistry of Low-mass Star and Planet Formation

Dr. Samantha Scibelli (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, NRAO)

August 20 at 5pm in Olin Engineering 118

Special Astrochemistry colloquium (PSS and CHEM).

Hosted by the Ortega Observatory.

Past Colloquia

CUISINES of the worlds

Dr. Thomas J. Fauchez (NASA GSFC/American University)

September 1, 2023 at 4-5pm in the OEC 118 Auditorium

APSS Colloquium

Things that go bang in the night: Supernova, Gamma-ray Bursts and why you should care
Dr. Donald Warren | RIKEN iTHEMS
May 2, 2022

Star Stuff Meets Terrestrial Materials Experiments with Highly Charged Ions
Dr. Dhruva Kulkani | Berkeley Lab
April 29, 2022

On the Turbulence Characteristics of Field reversals (Switchbacks) Observed by Solar Parker Probe
Dr. Sofiane Bourouaine | APL
March 28, 2022

Hunting for Galactic PeVatrons
Dr. Shuo Zhang | Bard
March 25, 2022

Turning the LHC to the Dark Side: A Journey Through the Generic Way of Searching for Dark Matter at a Hadron Collider
Dr. Matteo Cremenosi | University of Notre Dame
March 23, 2022

Worlds Beyond: A Theoretical View of Extrasolar Planets in the Era of James Webb and Direct Imaging Missions
Dr. Howard Chen | GSFC
March 22, 2022

Searching for new physics with hadronic jets
Dr. David Yu | Brown University
March 21, 2022

Structure and Anomalies: Intersections between Old and New Physics
Dr. Michael Kohl | Jefferson Lab/Hampton
March 18, 2022

Energetic Ions, from the Sun to the Earth, and Beyond
Dr. Rachael Filwett | University of Iowa
March 16, 2022

Testing the Standard Model using Vector Boson Scattering
Dr. Yacine Haddad | CERN
March 15, 2022

Measuring astrophysical accelerations: near & far
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti | RIT
March 14, 2022

Terrestial Gamma-ray Flash Research with Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
Dr. Bagrat Mailyan | NYUAD
March 10, 2022

Studying the Milky Way stellar populations using multi-wavelength observations
Dr. Luis Henry Quiroga Nuñez | NRAO/UNM
March 9, 2022
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History and Methonds of Celestial Navigation
LCDR James Toomey | USCG
February 25, 2022

From Senior Design to Vomit Comet: Designing & Testing a Robotic Farming System for Microgravity
Dr. Markus Wilde | Florida Tech
February 18, 2022

Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Near Asteroids
Dr. Madhur Tiwari | Florida Tech
December 3, 2021

Direct imaging and spectral characterization of long period exoplanets and brown dwarfs
Dr. Emily Rickman | STScI
November 19, 2021

The Stability of electrostatic charge on suspended particles over long timescales
Dr. Josh Mendez | University of Oregon
November 12, 2021

Detecting and Localizing Objects in Space using Machine Vision for Space Debris Removal and On-Orbit Servicing
Ms. Trupti Mahendrakar | Florida Tech
November 5, 2021

Atmospheric Electricity: From Ground to Space
Dr. Levi Boggs | Georgia Tech
October 8, 2021