Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2018
Thursdays - 3:45 pm in Nielsen Hall 170.
Coffee and cookies are served at 3:15 pm in the Nielsen Hall Atrium.
The Physics and Astronomy colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at a graduate level.
If you have questions about our colloquia, please contact Ferah Munshi at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Date/Host |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 23 | No Colloquium | 1st week of Classes |
| Aug 30 | Open Date | |
| Sep 06 | Aida Wofford | Stars and gas in the most metal-poor galaxies: SBS 0335-052E |
| Henry | IA-UNAM (Ensenada) | |
| Sep 13 | Amanda Moffett | Constraining the Growth of Structure with Galaxy Surveys |
| Munshi | Vanderbilt | |
| Sep 20 | Alexander Turbiner | Quantum (classical) many-body problem: recent advances |
| Milton | UNAM - Mexico City | |
| Sep 27 | Peter Engels | From artificial gauge fields to negative-mass hydrodynamics: Studying quantum mechanics with ultracold atoms |
| Blume | Washington State University | |
| Oct 04 | Kevin Beach | Quantum Evolution in Doodles and Sketches |
| Uchoa | University of Mississippi | |
| Oct 11 | Doreen Wackeroth | News from the Precision Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider |
| Kao | University at Buffalo – SUNY | |
| Oct 18 | Nienke van der Marel | Zooming into the structures of planet-forming disks with ALMA |
| Wisniewski | NRC- Herzberg | |
| Oct 25 | Duane Lee | Playing Your CARDs Right: Leveraging (One-Shot) Galactic Chemical Evolution Models to Understand and Predict Chemical Abundance |
| Munshi | MIT | |
| Nov 01 | Thomas Prete | CANCELLED |
| Gutierrez | Pratt & Whitney | |
| Nov 08 | David Curtin | Particle Physics at the Lifetime Frontier |
| Stupak | University of Toronto | |
| Nov 13 (Tuesday 3:45pm) | Grant Biedermann | Measuring inertial forces with ultracold neutral atoms |
| Blume | Sandia National Lab | |
| Nov 15 | Bonnie Meinke | The Wonderful Worlds of Webb: What JWST means for planetary science |
| Wisniewski | STSci | |
| Nov 22 | No Colloquium | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 27 (Tuesday 3:45pm) | Ronald Walsworth | Quantum diamond sensors and their diverse applications |
| Blume | Harvard, SAO | |
| Nov 29 | Brian Anderson | Quantum Turbulence in Flatland |
| Blume | Arizona | |
| Dec 06 | Allison Kirkpatrick | Dusty Galaxies in the Distant Universe |
| Munshi | Kansas | |
| Dec 13 | No Colloquium | Finals Week |
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