2024-2025 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:35 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
| Sept. 6 | Welcome back Ice Cream Social – Science Quad Eco Cafe if weather is bad |
| Sept. 13 | No colloquium |
| Sept. 20 | Physics and Astronomy after Williams: grad school, jobs |
| Sept. 27 | Brian Fields, University of Illinois Title: “When Stars Attack! Near-Earth Supernova Explosions” |
| Oct. 4 | Betül Pamuk (Williams!) Title: “Design of quantum materials from first principles for energy applications” |
| Oct. 11 | Ben Augenbraun (Williams) or Mt. Day |
| Oct. 18 | Ben Augenbraun (Williams) or Mt. Day Title: “Searching for PeV Physics Using neV Molecules” |
| Nov. 1 | Steve Girvin, Yale University Title: How to Make a Schrödinger Cat with Microwaves |
| Nov. 6 | Zoom seminar with Jason Young, Williams 11AM Title: “Star Formation in the Diffuse Universe”https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88448149570?pwd=TmR5dGVIcTY1SVNDdEEwcDNOWFlrdz09 |
| Nov. 7 | Dr. Renee Horton (NASA) “Flying on a Rocket: How I Got Here” At MCLA: 4PM – 6PM in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121 |
| Nov. 8 | Sriram Ganeshan (CCNY) Title: Ocean Waves and the Quantum Hall Effect |
| Nov. 15 | Daniel McCarron (UConn) at 1:10pm (Joint with Chemistry Department) Title: “Optical cycling in CH radicals: A path towards ultracold organic chemistry” TCL 123 |
| Nov. 22 | |
| Nov. 29 | (Thanksgiving Break) |
| Monday Dec. 9 | Midterm thesis presentations 1-4PM TPL 205 |
| Feb. 7 | All about Physics and Astronomy Research (including summer and thesis research opportunities!) Physics and Astronomy Faculty |
| Feb. 14 | (Winter Carnival) |
| Feb. 21 | Felix Knollmann ’19 (MIT) Title: “E&M adventures with diffraction gratings and trapped ions” |
| Feb. 28 | Julia Dshemuchadse (Cornell) Title: “Self-assembly models for crystal growth and phase transitions” |
| Mar. 6 | Dr. Ed Buie II, Vassar College Title: “A theoretical view of turbulence and magnetic fields in the CGM of galaxies” At MCLA: 5PM – 6PMin the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121 |
| Mar. 14 | |
| Mar. 21 / Apr. 4 | (Spring Break) |
| Apr. 11 | Daniel Castro (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Title: “Exploding Stars, Black Holes and Clusters of Galaxies: 25 Years with Chandra, NASA’s Flagship X-ray Observatory” |
| Apr. 15 | Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire Title: “The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic” Michael A. Dively ’61 Lecture The Davis Center at 7PM in Multipurpose Room |
| Apr. 18 | Tracy Slatyer (MIT) Title: “Searching for Dark Matter with the Universe’s Highest-Energy Light” |
| Apr. 25 | Jeff Nivala, University of Washington Title: “Stepping towards nanopore single-molecule protein sequencing” |
| May 2 | |
| May 9 | Frans Spaepen (Harvard SEAS) Title: “Colloidal crystals: ultrasoft and yet ultrastrong” |
| May 19 | Thesis Final Presentations 1:30PM – 5PM, TPL 205 |