{"id":27038,"date":"2026-04-22T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=27038"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:10:26","slug":"undergraduate-stem-research-seminar-dr-smain-sekal-ttu-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/research\/undergraduate-stem-research-seminar-dr-smain-sekal-ttu-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Smain Sekal, TTU Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday\u2019s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will feature Dr. Smain Sekal, a postdoctoral researcher here at TTU. Dr. Sekal is a nuclear physicist, and in his talk <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/04\/c_Apr-24-2026-Smain_Sekal_TTU.pdf\">Exploring Nuclear Structure and Its Evolution<\/a>, he will describe how he uses experimental techniques to better understand why exotic nuclei deviate from the usual patterns observed in stable and nearly-stable nuclei. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday\u2019s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will feature Dr. Smain Sekal, a postdoctoral researcher here at TTU. Dr. Sekal is a nuclear physicist, and in his talk Exploring Nuclear Structure and Its Evolution, he will describe how he uses experimental techniques to better understand why exotic nuclei deviate from the usual patterns observed in stable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-27038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-research","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/2026-04-21_69e76d7fa0a62_SeminarLogo.001.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions\/27046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}