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: “Work and Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton”
2 Nov.	Marcia Bartusiak, MIT Science Writer Title:  “Dispatches from Planet 3” TPL 205 at 4PM
9 Nov.	Michael Littman, Princeton Title: “Digital design, analysis, and manufacturing for the 21st century:  powerful new tools for discovery, design, and education”
15 Nov.	Marcelo Terra Cunha, University of Campinas, Brazil Title: “A simple proof of quantum contextuality” 4:15 PM, TPL 205
16 Nov.	John Hearnshaw, Canterbury U, New Zealand Title:  “Angelo Secchi and his contemporaries:  the dawn of stellar spectroscopy and spectral classification”
30 Nov.	Jenny Ross, UMass Amherst Title: “Self-Organized Cellular Structures”
10 Dec.	“Thesis Student Talks” 2PM, TPL 205
1 Feb.	Physics and Astronomy Faculty “All About Research”
8 Feb.	Jared Strait ’07, NIST Title: “How a Simple Metal Feels Radiation Pressure: Apparently, Not So Simply”
15 Feb.	Winter Carnival
22 Feb.	Candice Etson, Wesleyan Title: “Using Single-Molecule Imaging to Investigate Protein-DNA interactions”
1 March	Nathan Schine ’13, University of Chicago Title:  “Materials Made of Light”
8 March	Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook Title:  “Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics”
5 April	Samantha Weiss, MIT Lincoln Lab Title:  “The Mathematics of River Meandering”
12 April	Moumita Das, RIT Title:  “Physics of Cells and Tissues”
19 April	Kimberly Ward-Duong, Amherst College Title:  “Birth and early evolution of low mass stars”
26 April	Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester Title:  “Nanoscale and integrated photonics”
3 May	Ian Eisenman ’99, UCSD Title:  “Ocean circulation and climate”
13 May	Honors Thesis Presentations

 

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