January 20, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): An Introduction to D-Wave Quantum & Quantum Annealing Computing

  • Speaker: Dr. Ken Robbins (D-Wave Quantum)

February 17, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Ferromagnetism in van der Waals Antiferromagnet Via Anisotropy Engineering

  • Speaker: Dinesh Upreti (Physics Department, University of Arkansas)

• 4:30 PM (CST): A MEMS Cantilever for the Strain Tuning of 2D Materials in Cryogenic Conditions

  • Speaker: Nikolas Torgerson (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State Univer

March 3, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Photoluminescence characterization of 2D semiconductor nanoribbons

  • Speaker: Sam Wyss (Physics Department, Montana State University)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Dominance of deformation potential in the photostriction of layered ferroelectrics

  • Speaker: Sudeep Puri (Physics Department, University of Arkansas)

March 24, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Charge Density Waves in Thin Crystallites of K_0.3_Mo_O_3

  • Speaker: Patrick White (Physics Department, Montana State University)

• ‍ ‍4:30 PM (CST): Characterization of Room Temperature Single Phonton Emitters in hBN: an Ab-Initio Approach

  • Speaker: Christopher Patino(Physics Department, San Diego State University)

April 7, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Direct Growth of Moiré Semiconductor Supperlattices on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

  • Speaker: Hugo Mixco (Physics Department, San Diego State University)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Predicting Properties of Functionalized Janus TMD Nanoribbons: Corrections and New Understandings

  • Speaker: M Wittkop (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University)

April 21, 2026

• ‍4:00 PM (CST): Progress Toward Automated Van der Waals Heterostructure Stacking

  • Speaker: Timmy Rosno (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Robotic exfoliation and heterostructure assembly using the 2D-Quantum Materials Pipelines

  • Speaker: Jane Peabody (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Utah)

August 25, 2026

• ‍4:00 PM (CST):Spin-Dependent Transport and Resistive Switching in CuCrP2S6-Based Tunnel Junctions

  • Speaker: Dr. Khimananda Acharya (Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

September 8, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of Boron Vacancy Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

  • Speaker: Antonio Cobarrubia (Department of Physics and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University)

• 4:30 PM (CST): QUACOD: Quantum Optimization via Coordinate Descent for Scalable Drone Scheduling

  • Speaker: Van Quang Huy Nguyen (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Arkansas)

September 22, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): OpenQlaw: An Agentic AI Assistant for Analysis of 2D Quantum Materials

  • Speaker: Sankalp Pandey (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Arkansas)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Model-dependent bias in fit parameters for Gaussian, Lorentzian, and Voigt shaped excitonic spectra in 2Dsemiconductors

  • ‍ Speaker: Alex Petrizze (Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Utah)

October 6, 2026

• ‍4:00 PM (CST): Topological polar textures in semiconductor oxide hetero-structures

  •  Speaker: Dr. Maxim Makeev (Department of Physics , University of Arkansas)

October 20, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): van Hove singularity engineering via homo- and hetero-strain in twisted bilayer graphene

  • Speaker: Dinesh Kumar Yadav (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Spectrally resolved imaging of exciton and biexciton diffusion in monolayer WSe2

  • Speaker: Sheikh Parvez (Department of Physics, Montana State University)

November 3, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Comparison of GaSe Film Growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on SiO2/Si(001) versus Si(111) Substrates

  • Speaker: Christopher Hocevar (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas)

• 4:30 PM (CST): Planar Hall Effect in Mn0.33NbSe2

  • Speaker: Prince Anagbonu (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas)

September 23, 2026

• 4:00 PM (CST): Wafer-Scale Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Built-In Single Photon Emitters

• Speaker: Dr. Choudhury Abinash Bhuyan (Department of Physics, San Diego State University)