2023-2024 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:35 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
Sept. 8 | Ice Cream Social! Science quad or Eco Cafe if weather is bad |
Sept. 15 | Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia) Title: “Clocks with ultra cold molecules” |
Sept. 22 | Physics after Williams: grad school, jobs |
Sept. 29 | Chelsea Davis (U Delaware Mechanical Engineering) Title: “Illuminating Interfacial Mechanics: Utilizing Mechanophores to “See” Failure of Polymer Interfaces” |
Oct. 6 | Fred Strauch (Williams) …or Mountain Day? Title: “Special Relativity before Special Relativity” |
Oct. 13 | Mountain Day! |
Oct. 20 | Kevin Flaherty (Williams) Title: “The Turbulent Life of Planet Forming Disks” |
Oct. 27 | Jim Nolan (Williams) Title: “The Atomic Bomb and the Technological Imperative” |
Nov. 3 | Daniel Aalberts (Williams) Title: “What determines RNA’s Kinetics” 1:10PM, Biology Dept Colloquium, TBL 112 |
Nov. 10 | Jim Partan ’94 (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) Title: “Arctic Observing Systems 2012-2023: Engineering for Under-Ice Exploration” |
Nov. 17 | David Kawall (UMass) Title: “An anomaly in an Anomaly? Recent Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment” |
Nov. 24 | (Thanksgiving Break) |
Dec. 11 | Midterm Thesis Talks 1PM, TPL 203 |
Feb. 2 | All about Physics and Astronomy Research (including summer and thesis research opportunities!) Physics and Astronomy Faculty |
Feb. 9 | |
Feb. 16 | (Winter Carnival) |
Feb. 23 | Carlos Trallero, University of Connecticut Title: “Ultrafast Laser Physics” |
Mar. 1 | Luis Orozco, Maryland (APS DLS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer) |
Mar. 8 | |
Mar. 15 / Mar. 29 | (Spring Break) |
Apr. 5 | |
Apr. 12 | Mia de los Reyes, Amherst College Topic: Galaxy formation and evolution |
Apr. 19 | |
Apr. 26 | Brianna Zawadzki, Wesleyan |
May 3 | |
May 13-24 | (tentative: thesis final presentations) |
Megamenu Social