Sept. 8 | Ice Cream Social! Science quad or Eco Cafe if weather is bad |
Sept. 15 | Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia) Title: “Clocks with ultra cold molecules” |
Sept. 22 | Physics after Williams: grad school, jobs |
Sept. 29 | Chelsea Davis (U Delaware Mechanical Engineering) Title: “Illuminating Interfacial Mechanics: Utilizing Mechanophores to “See” Failure of Polymer Interfaces” |
Oct. 6 | Fred Strauch (Williams) …or Mountain Day? Title: “Special Relativity before Special Relativity” |
Oct. 13 | Mountain Day! |
Oct. 20 | Kevin Flaherty (Williams) Title: “The Turbulent Life of Planet Forming Disks” |
Oct. 27 | Jim Nolan (Williams) Title: “The Atomic Bomb and the Technological Imperative” |
Nov. 3 | Daniel Aalberts (Williams) Title: “What determines RNA’s Kinetics” 1:10PM, Biology Dept Colloquium, TBL 112 |
Nov. 10 | Jim Partan ’94 (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) Title: “Arctic Observing Systems 2012-2023: Engineering for Under-Ice Exploration” |
Nov. 17 | David Kawall (UMass) Title: “An anomaly in an Anomaly? Recent Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment” |
Nov. 24 | (Thanksgiving Break) |
Dec. 11 | Midterm Thesis Talks 1PM, TPL 203 |
Feb. 2 | All about Physics and Astronomy Research (including summer and thesis research opportunities!) Physics and Astronomy Faculty |
Feb. 16 | (Winter Carnival) |
Feb. 23 | Carlos Trallero, University of Connecticut Title: “Quantum Times” |
Feb. 29 | Luis Orozco, Maryland & APS DLS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer) Public Lecture, 4:15 pm, Wachenheim B11 (Bronfman Auditorium) From Imaginary Experiments to Quantum Information |
Mar. 1 | Luis Orozco, Maryland (APS DLS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer) Optical nanofibers: some experiments in optomechanics |
Mar. 8 | Robert Niffenegger, UMASS ECE Title: “Trapped ion qubit and clock operations with integrated technologies” |
Mar. 15 / Mar. 29 | (Spring Break) |
Apr. 5 | Sean Eddy, Harvard Univ, HHMI Sponsored by BigP Title: “Computational analysis of RNA structure and function” |
Apr. 12 | Mia de los Reyes, Amherst College Title: “The Loneliest Galaxies: Early Results from the Dwarfs In Void Environments (DIVE) Survey” |
Apr. 19 | Gabriela Moreira Lana, UMass Amherst Title: “Designing Architectured Adhesives: Applications in Soft Materials and Medical Science” |
Apr. 26 | Brianna Zawadzki, Wesleyan University Title: “Resolving Vertical Structures in Millimeter Debris Disk Observations with ARKS” |
May 3 | Meng-ju Renee Sher, Wesleyan University Title: “Remotely probing electron movements in hybrid perovskite solar cell materials” |
May 13 | Thesis Final Presentations 1PM – 5PM, TPL 205 |