2022-2023 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:35 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
| Sept. 9 | Field Day |
| Sept. 16 | Katherine Aidala, Mount Holyoke College Title: Studying charge trapping in organic semiconductors using time resolved Kelvin probe force microscopy |
| Sept. 23 | Physics after Williams: grad school, jobs |
| Sept. 30 | Ralf Bundschuh, The Ohio State University Title: Quantitative modeling of RNA-protein interactions |
| Oct. 7 | Jim Bern, Williams College Title: Harnessing Differentiable Simulation to Design and Control the Next Generation of Soft-Rigid Robots |
| Oct. 14 | Mountain Day |
| Oct. 21 | Jennifer Winters, Williams College Title: Measuring the Masses of Small Stars and Tiny Planets with the Doppler Method |
| Oct. 28 | Sigma Xi Lecture with Michael Allison, Williams College 4:15PM, Bronfman Auditorium in Wachenheim Bldg. |
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| Nov. 11 | Bill Wootters, Williams College Title: Entanglement, Bell’s Theorem, and This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Nov. 18 | Libby Maret, Intel Title: An Introduction to Optical Proximity in Semiconductor Fabrication |
| Nov. 25 | (Thanksgiving Break) |
| Dec. 2 | Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi, Amherst College Title: Reconstructing Planet Formation Using Dynamical and Chemical Fossils |
| Dec. 9 | Day One Senior Thesis Short Talks TPL 205 2:35-4PM |
| Dec. 12 | Day Two Senior Thesis Shorts Talks TPL 205 2:00PM to 5PM |
| Feb. 3 | All about Physics and Astronomy Research (including summer and thesis research opportunities!) Physics and Astronomy Faculty |
| Feb. 17 | (Winter Carnival) |
| Feb. 24 | Kirsten McMichael, RPI Title: Searching for New Physics with the nEXO Experiment |
| Mar. 10 | Clara Sousa-Silva, Bard College Title: “Life, and how to find it” |
| Mar. 17 / Mar. 31 | (Spring Break) |
| Apr. 6 | Charlie Doret, Williams Faculty Lecture, Wege 4:15PM Title: Learning Something by Measuring Nothing |
| Apr. 7 | Diana Powell, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Title: “Connecting Planetary Formation and Characterization” |
| Apr. 14 | Al Crosby, UMass-Amherst Title: Autonomously Moving and Assembling Soft Matter Systems |
| Thursday Apr. 20 4PM, Wachenheim 113 |
Amy Graves, Swarthmore College Title: “Myths, Memes and Marginality: A Conversation about Gender and Physics” |
| Apr. 21 | Amy Graves, Swarthmore College Title: “Oh Snap! The physics of jammed solids” |
| May 1 | Quaid Morris, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute Title: “RBPzoo: the motifs, binding interface and evolution history of 30,000 eukaryotic RNA-binding proteins (RBPs)” 4:15PM, TPL 205 |
| May 5 | Matthew Payne, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Title: “Interstellar Interlopers” |
| May 15 | Honors thesis talks with physics and astronomy seniors TPL 205 beginning at 2PM |
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