2018-2019 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:30 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
| 7 Sept. | “Field Day/Welcome Back Party” |
| 14 Sept. | Brian Keating, UC San Diego Title: “Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background” |
| 14 Sept. | Brian Keating, UC San Diego Title: “Losing the Nobel Prize: A Cosmic Memoir” Public Lecture in Wege at 8:00PM |
| 21 Sept. | Sara Hashmi, Yale Title: “Nanoscale Properties Control Bulk Dynamics” |
| 27 Sept. |
Alan Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto “Quantum Computing: Today and Tomorrow” at 4:30pm (Wege Auditorium, Chemistry Bldg) |
| 28 Sept. | Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico Title: “Breaking Heisenberg: Controlling the Quantum World” |
| 5 Oct. | “Physics After Williams” |
| 12 Oct. | |
| 18 Oct. | Marek Demianski, University of Warsaw and Williams College Sigma Xi Fall Lecture Series “Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe” Wege Auditorium, 4:15PM |
| 19 Oct. | Marek Demianski, University of Warsaw and Williams College Sigma Xi Fall Lecture Series “Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe” Wege Auditorium, 4:15PM |
| 19 Oct. | Crystal Noel, UC Berkeley Title: “Ion Traps for Quantum Computing” |
| 26 Oct. | Seth Fraden, Brandeis Title: “Engineering reaction–diffusion networks with properties of neural tissue” |
| 2 Nov. | Michael Murrell, Yale Title: “Work and Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton” |
| 2 Nov. | Marcia Bartusiak, MIT Science Writer Title: “Dispatches from Planet 3” TPL 205 at 4PM |
| 9 Nov. | Michael Littman, Princeton Title: “Digital design, analysis, and manufacturing for the 21st century: powerful new tools for discovery, design, and education” |
| 15 Nov. | Marcelo Terra Cunha, University of Campinas, Brazil Title: “A simple proof of quantum contextuality” 4:15 PM, TPL 205 |
| 16 Nov. | John Hearnshaw, Canterbury U, New Zealand Title: “Angelo Secchi and his contemporaries: the dawn of stellar spectroscopy and spectral classification” |
| 30 Nov. | Jenny Ross, UMass Amherst Title: “Self-Organized Cellular Structures” |
| 10 Dec. | “Thesis Student Talks” 2PM, TPL 205 |
| 1 Feb. | Physics and Astronomy Faculty “All About Research” |
| 8 Feb. | Jared Strait ’07, NIST Title: “How a Simple Metal Feels Radiation Pressure: Apparently, Not So Simply” |
| 15 Feb. | Winter Carnival |
| 22 Feb. | Candice Etson, Wesleyan Title: “Using Single-Molecule Imaging to Investigate Protein-DNA interactions” |
| 1 March | Nathan Schine ’13, University of Chicago Title: “Materials Made of Light” |
| 8 March | Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook Title: “Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics” |
| 5 April | Samantha Weiss, MIT Lincoln Lab Title: “A Meandering Story of River Mathematics” |
| 12 April | Moumita Das, RIT Title: “Mechanical structure-function properties of cells and tissues” |
| 19 April | Kimberly Ward-Duong, Amherst College Title: “The Companions and Environments of the Lowest-Mass Stars” |
| 26 April | Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester Title: “Next Generation Integrated Photonics: Towards an Integrated Quantum Optoelectronic Circuit” |
| 1 May | Kelsey Thiem, University of Massachusetts Amherst Title: “Challenges facing Women in STEM: Understanding and Overcoming Stereotypes and Bias” 4PM, TPL 203 |
| 3 May | Ian Eisenman ’99, UCSD Title: “The Stability of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover” |
| 13 May | Honors Thesis Presentations 2PM, TPL 205 |