1/10/2025, The Milky Way Laboratory
Cara Battersby, University of Connecticut
Video

1/17/2025 Graduate Talks

Physics Beyond the Lab: Spectral Analyses for Healthcare Applications
Clair Hinrichs, Dartmouth College
Video

Modeling the World with Analog Circuits
AJ Cressman, Dartmouth College
Video

A Field-Theoretic Model of Gravitationally Induced Entanglement
Jackson Yant, Dartmouth College
Video

Effects of shear flows on relativistic magnetic reconnection
Sarah Peery, Dartmouth College
Video

1/24/2025, Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST
Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Rochester Institute of Technology
Video

1/31/2025 Postdoc Talks 

ID-MAGE: Identifying Dwarves of Magellanic Analog GalaxiEs
Laura Hunter, Dartmouth College
Video

Evidence of Over-Massive Black Holes in Massive Relic Galaxies
Jonathan Cohn, Dartmouth College
Video

2/7/2025, Novel Probes of the Primordial Hot Quark Soup
Krishna Rajagopal, MIT
Video

2/14/2025, The ZEUS Petawatt laser facility and high field science research at the University of Michigan
Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
Video

2/21/2025, Variational Quantum Algorithms and the Path to Quantum Sensing in NISQ Era
Akira Sone, University Massachusetts Boston
Video

2/28/2025, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Nicolás Yunes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Video

3/7/2025, Remote Sensing of Earth's Magnetosphere with Energetic Charged Particles
Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College
Video

9/20/2024, Neutrinos as the key to the universe as we know it
Yuval Grossman, Cornell University
Video

9/27/2024, Quantum Many-Body Physics under the Microscope
Martin Zwierlein, MIT
Video

10/4/2024, Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars
Tracy Slatyer, MIT
Video

10/11/2024, Yukawa-SYK model as a paradigmatic model for a strange metal-superconductor transition (?): the role of superconducting fluctuations
Nikolay Gnezdilov, Dartmouth College
Video

10/11/2024, Non-Markovian non-classical noise: Why a constant gate error cannot necessarily be defined in realistic controlled quantum hardware
Michiel Burgelman, Dartmouth College
Video

10/18/2024, Near, far, wherever you are: Dwarf galaxies across a range of distances and resolutions
Mia de Los Reyes, Amherst College
Video

10/25/2024, Resolved Stellar Populations Studies with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
Kristin McQuinn, Rutgers University

11/1/2024, Koopman and transfer operator methods from the perspective of quantum mechanics
Dimitrios Giannakis, Dartmouth College
Video

11/8/2024, Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments
Jack Hare, MIT
Video

11/15/2024, Superconductivity with a Twist: Realizing exotic superconductivity in 2D materials and interfaces
Pavel Volkov, University of Connecticut
Video

3/29/2024, Symmetry Breaking and Persistent Flow in Superfluid Circuits
Kevin Wright, Dartmouth College
Video

4/3/2024, The Universe is not Isotropic
Glenn Starkman, CASE University
Video

4/12/2024, The Ultraviolet View of Stellar Activity
Allison Youngblood, NASA GSFC
Video

4/19/2024, A variety of Postdocs' research projects from Astronomy, Physics and Quantum
PandA Postdocs' Day, Dartmouth College

4/26/2024, Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt
Paul Sutter, Stony Brook University
Video

5/24/2024, Schrödinger's Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe
Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago
Video

1/5/2024, It's Not Easy Being Green: Unveiling an Imposter Aurora with Quantitative Modeling of Emissions Driven by Local Parallel Electric Fields
Claire Gasque, UC Berkeley
Video

1/26/2024, The Dawn of a Mindful Universe
Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College
Video

2/2/2024, How magnetar magnetospheres erupt in electromagnetic fireworks
Jens Mahlmann, Columbia University
Video

2/9/2024, Unveiling the key physical processes shaping the solar wind
Chen Shi, UCLA
Video

2/16/2024, The Importance of Energetic, Self-generated Particles on Collisionless Shock Waves in the Magnetosphere, the Solar Wind and Beyond
Colby Haggerty, University of Hawaii
Video

2/20/2024, Magnetogenesis in collisionless plasma --- how does the Universe magnetize?
Muni Zhou, IAS
Video

2/23/2024, Electron precipitation into the Earth's atmosphere — from practical applications to basic physics
Xin An, UCLA
Video

9/22/2023, Gravitational-wave astrophysics, today and tomorrow
Salvatore Vitale, MIT
Video

9/29/2023, What happens when you throw something into a black hole? Probing the causal connection between inflow and outflow in accreting black holes
Erin Kara, MIT
Video

10/6/2023, Mitigating Measurement Errors on Quantum Computers
Paul Nation, IBM Quantum
Video

10/20/2023, Observing the Evolution of Stars and Planets
Elisabeth Newton, Dartmouth College
Video

10/27/2023, Precision measurement and spectroscopy with Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond
Victor Acosta, University of New Mexico
Video

11/3/2023, Dark Matter Physics with Tiny Galaxies
Annika Peter, Ohio State University
Video

3/31/2023, Magnetic Explosions in Space
Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College
Video

4/14/2023, Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors
Peter Maurer, University of Chicago

4/21/2023, New Perspectives from Out-of-equilibrium Quantum Materials
Gregory Fiete, Northeastern University
Video

5/5/2023, Low mass galaxies and their dark matter halos: lessons learned from satellite galaxies and the dynamics of globular clusters
Shany Danieli, Princeton University
Video

5/12/2023, Hyperbolic quantum matter
Joseph Maciejko, University of Alberta
Video

5/19/2023, Various Topics
Graduate Student Forum, Dartmouth College

5/26/2023, The extremes of galaxy and black hole formation
Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth College
Video

1/6/2023, Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates
David Kaiser, MIT
Video

1/20/2023, Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues
Katelin Schutz, McGill University
Video

1/27/2023, Fireworks produced by extreme plasmas near neutron stars and black holes
Sasha Philippov, University of Maryland
Video

2/3/2023, The Black Hole Photon Ring
Dr. Alex Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University
Video

2/10/2023. When a clock (transition) is good for more than telling time
Jonathan Friedman, Amherst College
Video

2/17/2023, Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Emergence of Statistical Mechanics
Victor Galitski, University of Maryland
Video

2/24/2023, Microhertz spectroscopy, teraelectronvolt physics, and the origin of matter: A measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment
Eric Cornell, University of Colorado
Video

9/16/2022, Quantum Kinematics, the Prediction of Anyons, and Some Wider Implications
Gerald A. Goldin, Rutgers University
Video

9/23/2022, Quantum Engineering with Superconducting Circuits
Mattias Fitzpatrick, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Video

9/30/2022, Tracing Dark Matter with Stars around the Milky Way
Lina Necib, MIT
Video

10/7/2022, Towards molecular electronics with single molecule-metal junctions
Maria Kamenetska, Boston University
Video

11/4/2022, Lighting Up Inspiraling Binary Black Hole Systems
Scott C. Noble, NASA GSFC
Video

11/11/2022, A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death
Andrew Vanderburg, MIT
Video

9/17/2021, The Physics of Virus Self-Assembly
Vinothan N. Manoharan, Harvard
Video

9/24/2021, Proton and Nuclear Structure from the Standard Model
Phiala Shanahan, MIT
Video

10/1/2021, Using quantum mechanics based computations (DFT) to search for new materials
Geoffroy Hautier, Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering
Video

10/8/2021. Cosmic Dawn: The Next Frontier in Cosmology
Julián B. Muñoz, Harvard
Video

10/15/2021, Progress Towards Net Fusion Energy in SPARC
Ryan Sweeney, MIT
Video

10/22/2021. Seeking Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Jillian Bellovary, Research Associate / AMNH
Assistant Professor / CUNY-QCC
Video

10/29/2021, Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas
Charles Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Video

11/12/2021, Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information Meets Thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern, NIST QuICS University of Maryland
Video

4/2/2021, Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: A Heliophysics Mission Concept for Decoding the Aurora
Kristina Lynch, Dartmouth College

4/9/2021, Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets
Cora Dvorkin, Harvard University

4/16/2021, Cosmology Without Assuming a Cosmology
Luca Amendola, University of Heidelberg (Germany)

4/23/2021, What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer?
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, U of Toronto
Video

4/30/2021, How to Find Life on Exoplanets
Lisa Kaltenegger, Carl Sagen Institute at Cornell
Video

5/7/2021, Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble
Norman Yao, UC Berkeley
Video

5/14/2021, Why is color special? Identifying fundamental differences between red and blue quasars
David Alexander, Durham University
Video

1/15/2021, The Volatile Reservoir of Planet-Forming Disks
Jenny Bergner, University of Chicago
Video

1/22/2021, Smashing Solitons of Cosmology
Mustafa Amin, Rice University
Video

1/29/2021, A physics Approach to Study Urban Systems
Gourab Ghoshal, University of Rochester
Video

2/5/2021, Is Basketball Scoring Just a Random Walk?
Sid Redner, Santa Fe Institute
Video

2/19/2021, As Worlds Turn
Caleb Scharf, Columbia University
Video

3/5/2021, Generating and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Pulses for Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction
Catherine Kealhofer, Williams College
Video

1/10/2020, Entangled Butterflies: Chaos in Complex Quantum Systems
Brian Swingle, University of Maryland
Video

1/17/2020, Collective Dynamics of Fast Swimming Bacteria Near a Surface
Alexander Petroff, Clark University
Video

1/24/2020, Scanning the Sky for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter   (1/24/2020)
Kerstin Perez, MIT
Video (We unfortunately had technical issues this day so the slides are not visible.)

1/31/2020, Path to Building Quantum Spin Liquids and Topological Qubits Within Existing Quantum Hardware
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Video

2/7/2020, Hedging One's Bets on Dark Matter
James Buckley, Washington University in St. Louis
Video

2/21/2020, A Scientist's Guide to Interacting with the Media
Rick Fienberg, American Astronomical Society
Video

2/28/2020, El Niño as a Topological Insulator: A Surprising Connection Between Climate, and Quantum, Physics
John (Brad) Marston, Brown University
Video

3/6/2020, Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Sheperd Doeleman, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

9/20/2019, How to Construct a Quantum Computer
Kenneth Brown, Duke University

9/27/2019, Testing Inflation with the BICEP/Keck Array and South Pole Telescope
Kimmy Wu, University of Chicago
Video

10/4/2019, Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus
Fiona Harrison, Caltech
Video

10/11/2019, SPARC and the High-Field Path to Fusion Energy
Martin Greenwald, MIT
Video

10/18/2019, The Theory and Search for Axions
Anson Hook, University of Maryland
Video

10/25/2019, How to Avoid HEATED Arguments Among Your Spins
Paola Cappellaro, MIT
Video

11/1/2019, Hockey Sticks are Everywhere! The Recent Emergence of Climate Change in Greenland and New England
Erich Osterberg, Dartmouth College
Video

11/8/2019, Topological Bound States and Topological Quantum Dynamics
William Coish, McGill University
Video

11/15/2019, Spin Squeezing in Optical-Clock Atoms
Vladan Vuletic, MIT
Video

3/29/19, Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Magnetic Resonance
Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Dartmouth College
Video

4/5/19, Driving Forbidden Vibrational Overtones in Molecular Ions
David Hanneke, Amherst College
Video

4/12/19, Pulsar Magnetosphere: The Incredible Machine
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
Video

4/19/19, The Direct Observation of Gravitational Waves
Bruce Allen, AEI
Video

4/26/19, Topological States of Matter - Now What?
Tami Pereg-Barnea, McGill University
Video

5/3/19, The Evolution of Cool Dwarf Spin Rate: Data, Models, and Tensions
Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University
Video

5/10/19

Laser Spectroscopy and Cooling: Tools to Probe Fundamental Physics
Clayton Simien, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
 

Next Generation Smart Materials: Understanding the Role of Homogeneous Nanomaterials For Materials Processing
Daneesh Simien, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Video of both talks

5/17/19, That Spin 0 Boson Changes Everything: The Future of the Energy Frontier in Particle Physics
Raymond Brock, Michigan State University
Video

5/24/19, Magnetic Reconnection and the Explosive Release of Plasma Energy
Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland
Video

1/4/19, Black Hole Feedback in Action? Investigating the Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution
Lauranne Lanz, Dartmouth College
Video

1/18/19, Algorithmically Extending the Capabilities of Near-Term Quantum Computers
Peter Johnson, Zapata Computing
Video

1/25/19, Origin of Diffuse Aurora at Earth and Jupiter
Wen Li, Boston University

2/1/19, Galaxy-Scale Fountains with Black Hole Pumps
Grant Tremblay, Harvard & Smithsonian
Video

2/8/19, Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay
Chen-Yu Liu, Indiana University
Video

2/15/19, Disks, Jets, and Other Black Hole-Powered Transients
Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University
Video

9/14/18, Shining a Light on the Mysterious World of Quantum Materials
Kevin Wright, Dartmouth College
Video

9/21/18, High Order Imaging Techniques for Synethetic Aperture Radar
Anne Gelb, Dartmouth College
Video

9/28/18, Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Space and Astrophysical Systems
Jim Drake, University of Maryland
Video

10/5/18, Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Via Nitrogen-Vacancy in Diamond: Physics and Applications
Carlos Meriles, CUNY City College of New York
Video

10/12/18, The Parker Solar Probe and Origin of the Solar Wind
Benjamin Chandran, University of New Hampshire
Video

10/26/18, Is Spacetime a "Structural Quality of the Field"?
Jim Binkoski, Dartmouth College
Video

11/2/18, Venus Missions: Past, Present, Planned and Pretend
David Grinspoon, Dartmouth College
Video

3/30/18, A Physics Education and Beyond
Michael Andrews, WadeandWendy.ai
Video

4/6/18, Nanometer-Scale Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
Raffi Budakian, University of Waterloo

4/13/18, Quantum Transport in Ultracold Atoms
Chih-Chun Chien, University of California, Merced
Video

4/20/18, Precision Measurements for the LHC
Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Video

4/27/18, News From Particle Physics Precision Frontier
Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati
Video

5/4/18, New Insights Into Plasma Turbulence
Nuno Loureiro, MIT
Video

5/11/18, Modifying Gravity to Explain the Cosmic Acceleration
Valerio Faraoni, Bishop's University
Video

5/18/18, Understanding Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models
Anne White, MIT
Video

5/25/18, Experimental Searches for Dark Matter
Masahiro Morii, Harvard University
Video

1/5/18, Hunting for Dark Matter
Joshua Burger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Video

1/12/18, Dartmouth and its Shattuck Observatory: Science and Identity at a 'Small College' From 1848 to 2018
Richard Kremer, Dartmouth College
Video

1/19/18, How Astronomers Are Saving the World and the Sky
James Lowenthal, Smith College
Video

1/26/18, Quantizing Time
Alexander Smith, Dartmouth College
Video

2/2/18, The Astrophysics of the Smallest Stars and Their Planets
Elisabeth Newton, MIT
Video

2/5/18, Transiting Planets and Eclipsing Disks as a Guide for Planet Formation
Joseph Rodriguez, Harvard University
Video

2/9/18, The Low-Mass Galaxy Frontier
Kristin McQuinn, University of Texas at Austin

2/12/18, Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using Radio Detection Techniques
Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago

2/16/18, Blazar Astrophysics in the 2020s: Building the Case Now for the Observations of the Future
Jedidah Isler, Vanderbilt University

2/23/18, Resolving Black Holes in Space and Time
Jason Dexter, MPE Garching

3/9/18, The Accelerating Universe and Relativity
Mark Hertzberg, Tufts University
Video

9/15/17, Tabletop Searches for Ultralight Dark Matter
Ken Van Tilberg, IAS
Video

9/22/17, Higgs, Weak Interactions and Gravitation
Roberto Onofrio, Dartmouth, University of Padua
Video

9/29/17, The Search for WIMP Dark Matter: New Approaches to Stubborn Problems
Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard
Video

10/6/17, Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider
Matthew Schwartz, Harvard
Video

10/13/17, Dynamics of Radiation Belt Electrons and the BARREL Experiment
Robyn Millan, Dartmouth
Video

10/20/17, Quantum Matter Without Quasiparticles: Strange Metals and Black Holes
Subir Sachdev, Harvard
Video

10/27/17, Beyond the WIMP Dark Matter Paradigm: Asymmetric Dark Matter Nuclei
Moira Gresham, Whitman College
Video

11/3/17, Weighing Neutrinos
Joseph Formaggio, MIT
Video

11/10/17, New Insights Into Plasma Turbulence (Cancelled)
Nuno Loureiro, MIT/PSFC

11/17/17, Atomic Clock Based on Quantum Matter
Jun Ye, Univ. of Colorado, JILA, NIST