Events Calendar

2019-2020 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:30 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.

6  Sept.	Field Day
13 Sept.	Don Fahey, Joint Quantum Institute Title: “Squeezing the Spin in a Bose-Einstein Condensate“
20 Sept.	David Poland, Yale Title: “Critical Phenomena and the Conformal Bootstrap”
27 Sept.	“Physics after Williams:  grad school, jobs”
4 Oct.	N.R. Sheeley, Jr., Astrophysicist Title: “Understanding the Sun’s magnetic fields”
11 Oct.
18 Oct.	Alphonse C. Sterling, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Title: “Solar Coronal Jets – Miniature Versions of Large-Scale Solar Eruptions”
25 Oct.	Manuel Morales, Williams College Sigma Xi Lecture Title: “Ecological Mutualism” 4:15PM, Wege Auditorium, Chemistry Blog.
1 Nov.	Antoniya Aleksandrova ’11, National Institutes of Health Title:  “Exploiting Symmetry to Understand Function in Membrane Proteins”
8 Nov.	Amy Steele ’08, University of Maryland Title: “Rocky remnants of stellar evolution: polluted white dwarf stars”
15 Nov.	John Scofield, Oberlin College Title:  “Measured Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from LEED-Certified Buildings”
22 Nov.	Raghu Mahajan, Princeton Title: “Quantum Black Holes”
6 Dec.	Steven Johnson, MIT Title:  “Upper Limits of Light-Matter Interactions”
10 Dec.	Thesis Progress talks TPL 205, 1-3PM
7 Feb.	Geneva Laurita-Plankis, Bates College Title:  ” Structural complexities in solids: directing functionality through lone pair distortions”
14 Feb.	“Winter Carnival”
21 Feb.
28 Feb.	Aaron Kammerer ’98, iRobot Title: “Physics Skills in the Workforce”
6 March	Terry-Ann Suer ’05, Harvard Title: “High-Pressure Diamond-Anvil Measurements”
13 March	Tracy Slatyer, MIT Title:  “Indirect Detection of Dark Matter”
10 April	Kerrin Hensley ’14, Boston University Title:  TBA
17 April	Ju Li, MIT Title:  Computational Materials Science:  Boosting Energy Capacity in Lithium Batteries”
24 April	Carlos Trallero, University of Connecticut Title:  “Strong Field Physics”
1 May
8 May
18 May	“Thesis Presentations”

 

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