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ALT Four people gather around a black telescope on an outdoor picnic table. One looks through the eyepiece while another leans beside the telescope. A bicycle wheel and colorful demonstration materials sit nearby.
ALT Four people stand behind a cart holding brightly colored flexible tubes and other physics demonstration materials. A telescope and outdoor fair tables are behind them on Wake Forest's campus.
ALT Physics Colloquium flyer with Dr. Muhammad Asaduzzaman’s portrait. “Simulating Open Quantum Systems,” Thursday, October 22, 2026, 4 p.m. in Olin 101; reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin lobby. Speaker: Department of Physics, NCSU. The flyer includes the research abstract.
ALT Flyer for Lee Pryor’s M.S. defense public talk, “Comparing an f(R,T) alternate gravity theory with type Ia supernovae and exploring a limiting case.” Friday, October 23, 2026, at 3 p.m. in Olin 101. The flyer includes his photograph, research abstract, and Wake Forest Physics logo.
ALT Prof. Nickolas Pingel gestures beneath the title slide for “The Resolved Atomic Interstellar Medium: From the Milky Way to Nearby Galaxies” at Wake Forest’s October 15, 2026 Physics Colloquium.
ALT A wide classroom view shows Prof. Nickolas Pingel at the lectern beneath his talk’s title slide, with a blue image of interstellar gas projected above him.
ALT Colloquium attendees gather in a lounge with refreshments, with some seated on sofas and others standing nearby.
ALT A gloved person leans toward a microscope at a lab bench, with cabinets, instruments and a glovebox visible around the room.
ALT A person wearing blue gloves works at a bench under a microscope in Wake Forest’s Organic Electronics Lab.
ALT Two people work beside a glovebox; one handles equipment through the glove ports while the other holds a notebook and pen.
ALT A person in a light blue lab coat handles a small vial inside a glovebox.
ALT A speaker stands beneath a projected title slide reading “Quantum trajectories and feedback control of stochastic thermal machines,” with Gabriel T. Landi and the University of Rochester listed below.
ALT A speaker gestures toward a projected diagram of a quantum refrigerator and a target qubit. Visible slide questions ask how long cooling takes and the probability that it works. The top of the slide is outside the photograph.
ALT Pablo Ruales stands beside a projected slide titled “Bayesian Evidence for Inspiraling Hotspot Motion in the Galactic Center” at NCAM 2026. The slide includes a bright ring around a black hole and a Wake Forest University logo.
ALT Isabelle Coughlin stands at a GTCC lectern beside a projected slide titled “Testing Thin-Disk Assumptions in Black Hole X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy” at NCAM 2026. The slide includes a galaxy image and a Wake Forest logo.
ALT Wake Forest Physics Colloquium flyer for Prof. Wenjun Zhao, October 8, 2026, at 4 p.m. in Olin 101; reception at 3:30 p.m. in Olin Lobby. The talk is on data-driven methods for biological imaging.
ALT Wake Forest Physics Colloquium flyer with a portrait of Prof. Gabriel Landi of the University of Rochester. “Quantum trajectories and stochastic thermal machines,” Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 4 p.m. in Olin 101; reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin Lobby. The talk covers quantum thermodynamics, measurement, fluctuations, and feedback, with examples from superconducting qubits, quantum dots, and atomic masers.
ALT AI-generated or edited image of Salvatore Vitale presenting in Olin 101 at Wake Forest. The projected slide, “Gravitational-wave anatomy: source,” diagrams a binary system. The selected photo includes white outlines and handwritten notes about gravitational waves and learning.
ALT Wake Forest Physics Colloquium flyer with a portrait of Prof. Shailesh Chandrasekharan of Duke University. “Building Our Universe with Qubits,” Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 4 p.m. in Olin 101; reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin Lobby. The talk explores qubit formulations of particle physics and recent results from simple models. Chandrasekharan earned his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1996 and joined Duke in 1998.
ALT Dr. Taylor Ordines sits at the front of a lecture hall answering a question beside a faculty moderator, with audience members in the foreground.
ALT A wide view from the back of a lecture hall shows students and faculty facing Dr. Taylor Ordines and a faculty moderator at the front.
ALT Dr. Taylor Ordines sits beneath a periodic table speaking to the audience while a faculty moderator stands at the right.
ALT A wide side view shows students and faculty gathered in a lecture hall for the Q&A with Dr. Taylor Ordines.
ALT Prof. Martin Seifrid speaks beside the title slide for “Establishing the Data-Driven Organic Materials Lab” at Wake Forest University on September 3, 2026.
ALT Prof. Martin Seifrid speaks to students and faculty in Olin 101 during the Wake Forest Physics colloquium.
ALT Students and faculty gather for the reception before Prof. Martin Seifrid’s Wake Forest Physics colloquium.
ALT Wake Forest Physics students and faculty talk over refreshments at the September 3 colloquium reception.
ALT AI-generated illustration of a small compact object beside a supermassive black hole, surrounded by looping gold orbital paths against a star field. NASA and Wake Forest emblems appear at lower right. Conceptual illustration created with Gemini and supplied by Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño.
ALT Updated Physics Colloquium flyer featuring Dr. Taylor Ordines of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and “Geometry and dynamics of attainable sets of interacting decision makers.” Thursday, September 10, 2026, 4 p.m., Olin 101, Wake Forest University. Reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin lobby. Includes his portrait, talk abstract, and revised biography: Allegheny College physics degree in 2015, Wake Forest MBA in 2020 and Ph.D. in 2022, and his roles at APL.
ALT Wake Forest Physics career event graphic for Dr. Taylor Ordines of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The event is Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at noon in the Physics foyer and is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Free pizza will be provided.
ALT Wake Forest Physics colloquium flyer for Prof. Martin Seifrid’s September 3 talk, with his portrait and the title “Establishing the Data-Driven Organic Materials Lab.”
ALT A large group of graduate students, faculty, and staff faces the camera in a Farrell Hall lecture room.
ALT A graduate student explains a large research poster to attendees in the Farrell Hall corridor.
ALT A graduate student presents molecular-model images to an audience in the lecture room.
ALT Three people stand together at the outdoor closing gathering; the person in the center holds a certificate.