| 16 Sept. | Prof. Steven Strogatz – Cornell University Joint colloquium sponsored by the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Dept. of Physics, and the Class of 1960 Scholars Program Title: “The Mathematics of Collective Synchronization” |
| 18 Sept. | Physics and Astronomy faculty Title: “All about Graduate School” |
| 25 Sept. | Prof. Witold Skiba – Yale University (particle theory) Title: “The uncharted energy range at the Large Hadron Collider” |
| 2 Oct. | Prof. Kurt Jacobs – Boston University Title: “Putting the Quantum into Mechanics” [abstract] |
| 8 Oct. | Dr. William Phillips – N.I.S.T. – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics Title: “Almost Absolute Zero: Time and Einstein in the 21st Century” |
| 9 Oct. | Student meeting with Dr. William Phillips |
| 23 Oct. | Prof. David Hall – Amherst College (BEC experiment) Title: “Tunable Interatomic Interactions 1-2-3” |
| 5-6 Nov. | Sigma Xi Lectures – Michelle Thaller – Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 6 Nov. | Chemistry colloquium – Prof. Daniel Aalberts Title: “Loopy stabilization of RNA loops: how entropy creates order” |
| 6 Nov. | Prof. Dan Robb ’93 – Berry College Title: “Modeling the growth of a hexagonal nanoparticle” |
| 13 Nov. | Prof. Dave Mathews – University of Rochester Medical School Title: “Predicting the 3D Structure and Dynamics of RNA” |
| 4 Dec. | Prof. Melissa Eblen-Zayas – Carleton College Title: “Eu-rich EuO as a laboratory for exploring colossal magnetoresistance” |
| 8 Jan. | Thesis Students – Progress Reports – Alexandre Massicotte, Olufolajimi (Jimi) Oke, Joseph Skitka, Christopher Chudzicki, Steven Jackson, Shirish Poudyal, Scott Olesen, Katherine Dupré, Emma Lehman, Marcus Freeman |
| 5 Feb. | Physics and Astronomy department research introductions” |
| 26 Feb. | Prof. Larry Hunter – Amherst College Title: “Searching for Preferred Directions in Space and Time” |
| 5 March | Joint colloquium: Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy Bill Jannen ’09 and Prof. Daniel Aalberts Title: “Introducing Zfold: Somewhere over the RNAbow” |
| 12 March | Christopher Holmes ’03 – Harvard University Title: “Smoke stack to stomach, modeling the global spread of mercury pollution” |
| 9 April | Prof. Tiku Majumder – Williams College, Physics Dept. Title: “Heavy Metal, Cheap Lasers, and Tests of Fundamental Physics” |
| 16 April | Prof. Lori Goldner – University of Massachusetts Title: “Single molecule biophysics in subfemtoliter droplets” |
| 22-23 April | Sigma Xi talks – Prof. Joan Edwards, Biology Dept. |
| 30 April | Prof. Chad Orzel ’93 – Union College Title: “Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements” |
| 14 May | Dr. Leonardo DiCarlo – Yale University Title: “Harnessing multi-qubit entanglement in superconducting circuits” [abstract] |
| 18 May | Honors Thesis Presentations: Marcus Freeman, Emma Lehman, Katherine Dupré, Scott Olesen, Shirish Poudyal, Steven Jackson, Joseph Skitka, Olufolajimi (Jimi) Oke, Alexandre Massicotte |