Events

Upcoming Events

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 15
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) atrium lobby

The College of Science presents our annual welcome back to campus event as part of Maverick Stampede for Spring 2025. We'll have free hot chocolate, coffee, and sweet treats, plus COS swag, and a student organization fair featuring many of our science student orgs.

4 p.m. Tuesday, February 11
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building 298

The College of Science welcomes Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Ph.D., professor of biogeochemistry and Felasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology at the University of California, Merced. Her talk will be titled "From Roots to Reach: One Scientist's Quest to Understand Soils, Confront Climate Change, and Open Doors in STEM." Dr. Berhe was director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science from May 2022 to March 2024, and was the first person of color to lead the office. Her research is broadly focused on soil science and global change science. Her research themes include the effect of climate changes (specifically rainfall and temperature) on storage and stabilization of soil organic matter; nano-scale biogeochemistry of iron oxides; erosion and terrestrial carbon sequestration; and political ecology of land degradation and ownership. A reception will be held preceding the talk at 3:30 p.m.

Monday, February 24 
Trivia Challenge
2-3 pm | UC Bluebonnet Ballroom

Join us for a fun trivia contest! Win prizes and compete against students visiting from the UTA-Fort Worth Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Download the Kahoot app to play.
 
Monday, February 24 
UTA-FWRSEF Poster Exhibition
3-7 pm | College Park Center

Come and see the amazing research projects done by inspiring young scientists from schools in Tarrant County and the surrounding region at the UTA-Fort Worth Regional Science & Engineering Fair  
 
Tuesday, February 25
UTeach Info Session
12-1 pm | Science Hall 103

Greg Hale, UTeach Arlington co-director, presents "What Is UTeach, and Why Will They Give Me $100?" Learn all about the UTeach teacher preparatory program and how to get paid just for trying it out!
 
Tuesday, February 25
JAMP Info Session
5-6 pm | Science Hall 121

Thinking about medical school? Come by this informative session on the Joint Admission Medical Program, hosted by Greg Hale, JAMP faculty director
 
Wednesday, February 26
Lunch Talk: Dylan Parks
12-1 pm | SEIR 298

Join us for a lunch talk by Dylan Parks, UTA assistant professor of biology. His talk will be titled "Integrating Academia and Industry through Brewing and Fermentation Science". Parks is the creator and director of UTA's Brewing and Fermentation Science Certificate program. Free food and "mocktails" will be served.
 
Thursday, February 27 
Free Planetarium Show
3-4 pm | UTA Planetarium

Come check out a free Planetarium show, Invaders of Mars! Explore the Martian surface through the eyes of various spacecraft "invaders" from Earth. Raffle prizes before and after the show!
 
Friday, February 28
UTA Calculus Bowl
12:30 pm | UH 108

The Department of Mathematics hosts the 23rd Calculus Bowl. The event features teams of area high school students competing in a quiz bowl format to answer a series of difficult calculus questions and claim the coveted championship trophy!
12-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9
UC Rio Grande Ballroom

The Spring Swing Health Professions Fair offers students a chance to meet and talk to admissions staff, directors and deans from health professions schools, colleges and programs. Represented programs include medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, physician assistant, chiropractic, nursing, public health, military medicine, test prep services, and more.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, April 18
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) and Planetarium

The College of Science's annual Discover Student Research Symposium features the amazing research being done by our undergraduate and graduate students. The event is a hybrid of online poster viewing followed by a live exhibition of posters in CPB and a showcase of the best of undergraduate and graduate posters in the UTA Planetarium, with awards going to the top entries.

COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Each semester, the Department of Physics hosts a weekly colloquium featuring a guest speaker discussing a topic related to their research. Colloquia are held each Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. in Science Hall (SH) Room 121 unless otherwise noted. Cookies, tea and coffee are served prior to each talk at 3:30 p.m. in SH 108.

Date Speaker Speaker Info Institution Title Video Link
Jan. 22

Alan Chodos

Alan Chodos 		Dr. Chodos is a UTA Research Professor, a former Director of the Yale Center for Theoretical Physics, and the former Associate Executive Officer of the American Physical Society, where he is a Fellow. UT Arlington Changing the World: Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics Link
Jan. 29

James Rejcek

James Rejcek 		Dr. Rejcek is Director, Pac-3 Mse Program at Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Antimatter Technology Link
Feb. 12

Chih-Ting Hsu

Chih Ting Hsu 		Dr. Hsu is a Project Scientist I at the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory. She advances data assimilation techniques for whole-atmosphere models, integrating diverse geospace observation systems to enhance space weather forecasting capabilities. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory Thermospheric and Ionospheric Data Assimilation for current and future satellite missions Link
Feb. 19

Zhonghua Xu

Zhonghua Xu 		Dr. Xu is a clinical associate professor Virginia Tech University Enhancing Geospace Research with Autonomous Magnetometers in Polar Regions: Current and Future Link
Feb. 26

Pauline Dredger

Pauline Dredger

 Dr. Dredger is a postdoctoral research fellow and UTA alumna (Ph.D. Physics ’23) University of Michigan Solar Wind Input and its Effect on Space Weather Forecasting Link
Mar. 5

Kurtis Nishimura

Kurtis Nishimura

 Dr. Nishimura is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy University of Hawaii From HEP to BCI & the Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces at Paradromics Link
March 19

Karl Stephan

Karl Stephan  		Dr. Stephan is a professor in the Ingram School of Engineering Texas State University Could Ball Lightning Be Magnetic Monopoles? Link
March 26

Justin Dressel

Justin Dressel  		Dr. Dressel is an associate professor of physics and principal investigator of the Spin Group Chapman University Continuous Monitoring and Feedback Control of Superconducting Qubits Link
April 2

Gabriel Sawakuchi

Gabriel Sawakuchi		 Dr. Sawakuchi is a board-certified medical physicist and tenured associate professor in the Department of Radiation Physics at MD Anderson. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas, Houston and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biosciences at Rice University. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Oklahoma State University. His research is at the interface of radiation physics, radiobiology, DNA repair, and immunology and currently focuses on understanding how radiation-induced DNA damage, and repair can be leveraged to radiosensitize tumors and activate the immune system to combat cancer. His lab studies how different forms of clinical radiation including photons, protons, carbon ions and alpha particles modulate oxidative stress, DNA damage, DNA repair and immune activation. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center How to use ionizing radiation as a cancer vaccine? Hint: DNA damage Link
April 9

Mustafa Amin

 Dr. Amin is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. He obtained his undergraduate education at UTA, followed by graduate studies at Stanford University and postodoctoral fellowships at MIT and University of Cambridge. His work is aimed at understanding the origin of structure and matter in our cosmos. He specializes in exploring nonlinear dynamics of cosmological fields, especially implications of nonperturbative phenomenon for the end of inflation and dark matter. Rice University A Spin on Dark Matter Link
April 16

Billy Quarles

Billy Quarles		 Dr. Quarles is an assistant professor of physics & astronomy at East Texas A&M University (Fall 2024), where he returns to his academic roots to discuss the complex dynamics of exoplanetary systems, particularly circumbinary planets. He holds a B.S. from TCU (’06), M.S. from Stephen F. Austin State University (’08), and, notably, a Ph.D. in Physics from UTA (’12). As a NASA postdoctoral researcher, he worked with the Kepler Mission applying those skills to validate exoplanet candidates and characterize eclipsing binaries for the Kepler Catalogs. His research utilizes computational modeling and observational data analysis to determine exoplanet masses, identify exomoon candidates, and model the radiative transfer governing potential exoplanet climates. East Texas A&M University Planets of the Twin Suns: Revealing the Orbital Dynamics of Binary Star Planets Link

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UTA has over 260 active student organizations – including more than 30 related to science. Student organizations are a great way for students to make new friends, meet peers with similar interests, participate in service activities, hear from industry professionals, and establish connections which can be helpful when it’s time to find a job. Visit the MavOrgs webpage for a listing of current events.

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