16 Sept. | Joshua Cooperman ’05 – University of California, Davis Title: “Causal dynamical triangulations: How to simulate quantum gravity on your laptop” |
23 Sept. | Physics and Astronomy Faculty Title: “All about Graduate School” 2:30pm, Student Common Room |
30 Sept. | Patty Liao ’09 – University of Michigan Title: “Physics-Engineering Continuum: Focus on Energy Applications” |
14 Oct. | Louisa Gilder, author of The Age of Entanglement Title: “The Early History of Entanglement: EPR before 1935” [abstract] |
21 Oct. | Prof. David Tucker-Smith – Williams College Title: “The Latest From the LHC” |
28 Oct. | Prof. Daniel Reich – Johns Hopkins University Title: “Probing Sub-Cellular Force Dynamics and Soft Matter using Magnetic Nanowires” |
4 Nov. | Prof. Eric Dufresne – Yale University Title: “Electrostatics Meets Entropy” [abstract] |
11 Nov. | Prof. Zosia Krusberg – Vassar College Title: “The Phenomenology of Maverick Dark Matter” |
17 Nov. | Prof. Fred Strauch – Williams College Sigma Xi Lecture Part I Title: “Entanglement: Schrodinger’s Quirky Quantum Conundrum” 4:15pm, Wege Auditorium |
18 Nov. | Physics and Astronomy honors thesis students – Williams College Title: Thesis progress talks |
18 Nov. | Prof. Fred Strauch – Williams College Sigma Xi Lecture Part II Title: “Entanglement in Superconducting Quantum Circuits” 4:15pm, Wege Auditorium, Room 123 Chemistry |
2 Dec. | Prof. Peter Clote and Kourosh Zarringhalam – Boston College Title: “Recent results on the thermodynamics and kinetics of RNA secondary structure” [abstract] |
1 Feb. | Cristina Lopez ’14, Joseph Iafrate ’14, and Nathan Bricault ’14 Title: “Design and Construction of a Four-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” 4:00pm, TPL 205 |
3 Feb. | Williams Astronomy and Physics Faculty Title: “Quick Introductions to Astronomy and Physics Research Opportunities at Williams” 2:30pm, Student Common Room |
10 Feb | Dr. Leon Golub, Senior Astrophysicist – Smithsonian Astrophsyical Observatory Title: “A New View of the Solar Corona” |
23 Feb. | Prof. Dave Tucker-Smith – Williams College Title: “Searching for the Higgs at the LHC” Faculty Lecture Series, Wege Auditorium at 4pm |
2 Mar. | Dr. Timothy McConnochie ’98 – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Title: “Observing the Dynamics of the Mars Polar Vortex” |
9 Mar. | Combined Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry Colloquium Dr. Debra Rolison, Physical Chemist – Naval Research Lab Title: “Integrating the Multifunction Necessary for Electrochemical Power into Energy and Size-Scalable Ultraporous Nanoarchitectures” |
13 Apr. | Prof. Anne Goodsell – Middlebury College Title: “Exciting Physics with Excited Atoms” [abstract] |
27 Apr. | Prof. Thomas Baumgarte – Bowdoin College Title: “Binary Black Hole Mergers” [abstract] |
4 May | Dr. David Butts ’06 – Draper Laboratory Title: “Inertial Sensing with Cold Atoms” [abstract] |
14 May | Physics and Astronomy honors thesis students – Williams College Title: Honors thesis talks |