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) |
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