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Nicholas Dimakis
Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.115, ESCNE 1.606A
Email: nicholas.dimakis@utrgv.edu
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6679
Phone Edinburg: (956) 665-2041

Administrative Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.102, ESCNE 1.606A
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6779
Phone Edinburg: (956) 665-3136

Colloquium 2016

Date Speaker Institution Title Info
Feb 12 Laura Chomiuk University of Michigan Black holes in Globular Clusters abstract
Mar 4 Eva Noyola McDonald Observatory at UT Austin Intermediate Mass Black-Holes in Globular Clusters abstract
Apr 29 Caitlin Casey UT Austin The Universe's most extreme star-forming galaxies abstract
Sept 9 Matthew Benacquista UTRGV Making Massive Black Hole Binaries abstract
Sept 16 Hyun-Chul Lee UTRGV Stellar Populations in Star Clusters and Galaxies abstract
Sept 30 Teviet Creighton UTRGV If Earth falls, could interstellar travel be our salvation? abstract
Oct 7 Nicolas Pereyra UTRGV On the disk wind mass loss rates in QSOs abstract
Oct 14 Soumya Mohanty UTRGV Pulsar timing array based search for supermassive black hole binaries in the SKA era abstract
Oct 28 Nanfang Yu (host: Dr. Kim) Columbia University Flat Optics abstract
Nov 4 Nicholas Dimakis UTRGV The search for high efficient fuel cell anode catalysts: The Pt-Ru-Os-Ir Quaternary Alloy abstract
Nov 11 Madhab Pokhrel UTRGV Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of rare earth doped optical materials and their potential applications abstract
Dec 2 John Cerne (host: Dr. Kim) State Univ. of New York at Buffalo Shedding new light on graphene, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors using polarized infrared magneto-spectroscopy abstract
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