Events at Physics |
Events on Friday, April 24th, 2026
- Black and Brown in Physics
- BBiP Arab-American + APIDA Heritage Month Event
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2135
- Abstract: The Black and Brown in Physics (BBiP) student organization would like to invite you to our next Heritage Month Event (in honor of April being Arab American Heritage month, and May being Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage / APIDA month) on Friday April 24th at 1 PM in Chamberlin 2135. This time we have the privilege of inviting Faizah Siddique (BBiP’s very own secretary!) to give a 20-minute talk about Bangladeshi history, culture, and heritage followed by some time for Q&As. In addition to the talk, we will also have a short presentation highlighting the contributions that Arab physicists have made to the scientific community. We will also spend some time toward the end to talk about our upcoming executive member elections and give folks some time to apply/self-nominate themselves for a BBiP executive position for the next 2026-27 academic year (if you are interested in doing so), and maybe also play a fun singing game!
We will be broadcasting the talk over Zoom (see below for link) for those unable to make it to the event in-person.
Zoom Link:
We will be catering lunch from Kanto Fiesta (Filipino food), and Taza (Mediterranean food). We kindly ask that if you are planning on attending the lunch in-person that you stay for the talks as well. Our speakers put a lot of thought and time into making their presentations, and it’s important that we honor that by attending both parts of the event. - Host: Black and Brown in Physics (BBiP)
- Physics Department Colloquium
- The attosecond-Ångstrom frontier at x-ray free-electron lasers
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2241 -
- Speaker: Linda Young, ANL
- Abstract: The recent advent of x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) enables researchers to watch matter move on the natural time and length scales of electronic and atomic motion. Not only are freeze-frame snapshots with sub-femtosecond exposure times possible, these accelerator-based x-ray laser sources provide coherent radiation of sufficient intensity to perform nonlinear spectroscopy with x-rays. Within this context I will discuss two recent projects from our group, the realization of super-resolution stimulated x-ray Raman spectroscopy and attosecond-pump/attosecond-probe spectroscopy of liquid water, and some opportunities for future studies to understand x-ray interactions with matter.
- Host: Uwe Bergmann