Colloquia & Seminars

Host: J.R. Dennison
April 15, 2025 | Tuesday | 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Bio: Tatiana Erukhimova is Texas A&M Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence and inaugural holder of M. L. ’69 and R. F. Schilling ’68 Endowed Chair in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. She received her PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999 and joined Texas A&M University in 2001. Tatiana organizes annual Physics & Engineering Festivals attended by thousands of visitors. She develops innovative educational programs by incorporating outreach activities as an integral element of the student learning experience. She is a recipient of numerous awards including 2023 APS Nicholson Medal for Outreach and 2024 AAPT Halliday and Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Tatiana’s recent videos featuring physics demonstrations attracted over 1 billion views on departmental social media. She appeared on CBS Mornings, ABC news, NPR, and Jennifer Hudson Show.
Recent Events
- Maria Rodriguez, New Frontiers in Astrophysics and Black Holes
- Albert Beardo, Thermal Transport in Semiconductors at the Nanoscale: from Phonon Hydrodynamics to Phonon Resonances
- Tengfei Luo, Multiscale Materials Modeling from Atom to Device for Thermal Transport
- Jia Yue, Upper Atmosphere Responses to Geomagnetic Storms
- Madison King, Cryogenic Electron Microscopy for Energy Storage Materials
- Ryan Hoffman, Environmental Effects of Space Weather: An Unexpected Journey
- Pavlos Protopapas, New Frontiers in Cosmology with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
- Nick Pedatella, Atmospheric Waves as a Source of Weather in Space
- Joshua Knobloch, Probing Highly-Nonequilibrium Phonon Transport Using Ultrafast, Deep-to-Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Gratings
- Reyhan Baktur, Optically Transparent Antennas