Events Calendar

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: “Forcing cells into shape”
2 Nov.	Marcia Bartusiak, MIT Science Writer Title:  “Dispatches from Planet 3” TPL 205 at 4PM
9 Nov.	Michael Littman, Princeton Title: “tunable lasers”
15 Nov.	Marcelo Terra Cunha, University of Campinas, Brazil Title:  TBA 4:15 PM, TPL 205
16 Nov.
7 Dec.	Jenny Ross, UMass Amherst Title: “Microtubule Biophysics”
10 Dec.	“Thesis Student Talks”
22 Feb.	Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook Title:  “Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics”
1 March	Nathan Schine, University of Chicago Title:  “Cold Topological Atoms”
26 April	Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester Title:  TBA

 

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