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. 10 | Diana Powell, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Topic TBD |
| Feb. 17 | (Winter Carnival) |
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| Mar. 10 | Clara Sousa-Silva (Bard College) Title: TBA |
| Mar. 17 / Mar. 31 | (Spring Break) |
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| May 5 | |
| May 15 and/or 16 | Honors thesis talks with physics seniors (Schedule TBD) |
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