| 18 Sept. | Physics and Astronomy faculty Title: “All about Graduate School” Student Common Room, TPL 104 |
| 25 Sept. | Miles Blencowe, Dartmouth College Title: “Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime” |
| 2 Oct. | Michael Person, MIT Title: “The Atmosphere of Pluto from Occultation Studies” |
| 9 Oct. | Elizabeth Petrik, Harvard Title: “The Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron” |
| 23 Oct. | Dr. Swati Singh, ITAMP, Harvard Title: “Coupling single quantum systems to spin baths” |
| 6 Nov. | Computer Science Colloquium Fred Strauch, Williams College Title: ” A bit about qubits: quo vadis quantum computer?” 2:30pm, TCL 202 |
| 13 Nov. | Gordon Jones ’89, Hamilton College Title: “Fundamental Physics with Decaying Neutrons” |
| 20 Nov. | Duane Lee ’01, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Title: “Understanding the Nature of Chemical Abundance Ratio Distributions (CARDs) in Galactic Components and Dwarf Galaxies” |
| 5 Feb. | Physics and Astronomy Faculty “All About Research” |
| 12 Feb. | Scott Tenenbaum, SUNY Polytechnic Inst. Title: “sxRNA: A Trans-Regulated, miRNA Activated, Switch Technology” |
| 26 Feb. | Matthew Evans, MIT Physics Department Title: “Gravitational Wave Detection with LIGO” |
| 4 March | Craig Martin, UMass, Amherst Title: “Development of a Model System to Study the Co-transcriptional Folding of Large Structured RNAs in Biology and in Biotechnology” |
| 11 March | Michael Goldman, Harvard University Title: “Nature’s Own Trapped Atom: Coherent Control of Atom-Like Defects in Diamond“ |
| 8 April | All Science Event with Douglas Hofstadter, sponsored by Computer Science Title: “A Tale of Luck and of Pluck: The Fortuitous Discovery, Forty-two Years Ago, of the Hofstadter Butterfly” 2:30PM, Wege Auditorium |
| 22 April | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratory Title: “Quantum computing and the War on Noise” |
| 29 April | Jonathan Petruccelli, SUNY Albany Title: “Computational Phase Imaging” |
| 6 May | Reina Maruyama, Yale University Title: “DM-Ice 17 Dark Matter Experiment at the South Pole” |
| 11 June | Physics & Astronomy Alumni Reception 2:15 – 3:15 PM, David Park Teaching Laboratory, TPL 215 |