Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

9/18/2020

Keith Baker

Yale University

Quantum Entanglement in High Energy Physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider   (Video)

10/23/2020

Jerry Goldstein

SWRI

Rediscovery of the Plasmasphere: History and Future of Plasmasphere Research

10/30/2020

Vivienne Baldassare

Washington State University

Searching for Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

11/6/2020

Geoff Crew

MIT Haystack Observatory

About that First Look at a Black Hole

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

4/3/2020

James D. Whitfield

Dartmouth College

Quantum Technology: Here and Now   (Video)

4/17/2020

Roger Melko

Perimeter Institute

Machine Learning the Quantum Many-Body Problem   (Video)

5/8/2020

Clara Sousa-Silva

MIT EAPS

Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry   (Video)

5/15/2020

Ana Maria Rey

JILA, University of Colorado Boulder

Observation of Dynamical Phase Transitions in Cold Atomic Gases   (Video)

5/22/2020

Daryl Haggard

McGill University

New Probes of Black Hole Variability   (Video)

5/29/2020

Marissa Giustina

Google LLC

Building Google’s Quantum Computer   (Video)

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

1/10/2020

Brian Swingle

University of Maryland

Entangled Butterflies: Chaos in Complex Quantum Systems    (Video)

1/17/2020

Alexander Petroff

Clark University

Collective Dynamics of Fast Swimming Bacteria Near a Surface   (Video)

1/24/2020

Kerstin Perez

MIT

Scanning the Sky for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter   (Video -- we unfortunately had technical issues this day; we will hopefully have the slides to add to the video in the future, but we don't know when this might happen.)

1/31/2020

Claudio Chamon

Boston University

Path to Building Quantum Spin Liquids and Topological Qubits Within Existing Quantum Hardware   (Video)

2/7/2020

James Buckley

Washington University in St. Louis

Hedging One’s Bets on Dark Matter    (Video)

2/21/2020

Rick Fienberg

American Astronomical Society

A Scientist's Guide to Interacting with the Media   (Video)

2/28/2020

John (Brad) Marston

Brown University

El Niño as a Topological Insulator: A Surprising Connection Between Climate, and Quantum, Physics   (Video)

3/6/2020

Sheperd Doeleman

Center for Astrophysics
Harvard & Smithsonian

Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

9/20/2019

Kenneth Brown

Duke University

How to Construct a Quantum Computer 

9/27/2019

Kimmy Wu

University of Chicago

Testing Inflation with the BICEP/Keck Array and South Pole Telescope  (Video)

10/4/2019

Fiona Harrison

Caltech

Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus  (Video)

10/11/2019

Martin Greenwald

MIT

SPARC and the High-Field Path to Fusion Energy  (Video)

10/18/2019

Anson Hook

University of Maryland

The Theory and Search for Axions  (Video)

10/25/2019

Paola Cappellaro

MIT

How to Avoid HEATED Arguments Among Your Spins  (Video)

11/1/2019

Erich Osterberg

Dartmouth College

Hockey Sticks are Everywhere! The Recent Emergence of Climate Change in Greenland and New England  (Video)

11/8/2019

William Coish

McGill University

Topological Bound States and Topological Quantum Dynamics  (Video)

11/15/2019

Vladan Vuletic

MIT

Spin Squeezing in Optical-Clock Atoms  (Video)

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

3/29/19

Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Dartmouth College

Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Magnetic Resonance (Video)

4/5/19

David Hanneke

Amherst College

Driving Forbidden Vibrational Overtones in Molecular Ions (Video)

4/12/19

Anatoly Spitkovsky

Princeton University

Pulsar Magnetosphere: The Incredible Machine (Video)

4/19/19

Bruce Allen

AEI

The Direct Observation of Gravitational Waves (Video)

4/26/19

Tami Pereg-Barnea

McGill University

Topological States of Matter - Now What? (Video)

5/3/19

Marcel Agüeros

Columbia University

The Evolution of Cool Dwarf Spin Rate: Data, Models, and Tensions (Video)

5/10/19

Clayton Simien

Daneesh Simien

Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

Laser Spectroscopy and Cooling: Tools to Probe Fundamental Physics      (Video of both talks)

Next Generation Smart Materials: Understanding the Role of Homogeneous Nanomaterials For Materials Processing

5/17/19

Raymond Brock

Michigan State University

That Spin 0 Boson Changes Everything: The Future of the Energy Frontier in Particle Physics  (Video)

5/24/19

Marc Swisdak

University of Maryland

Magnetic Reconnection and the Explosive Release of Plasma Energy (Video)

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

1/4/19

Lauranne Lanz

Dartmouth College

Black Hole Feedback in Action? Investigating the Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution (Video)

1/18/19

Peter Johnson

Zapata Computing

Algorithmically Extending the Capabilities of Near-Term Quantum Computers (Video)

1/25/19

Wen Li

Boston University

Origin of Diffuse Aurora at Earth and Jupiter (Video not available)

2/1/19

Grant Tremblay

Harvard & Smithsonian

Galaxy-Scale Fountains with Black Hole Pumps (Video)

2/8/19

Chen-Yu Liu

Indiana University

Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay (Video)

2/15/19

Sasha Tchekhovskoy

Northwestern University

Disks, Jets, and Other Black Hole-Powered Transients (Video)

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

9/14/18

Kevin Wright 

Dartmouth College

Shining a Light on the Mysterious World of Quantum Materials (Video)

9/21/18

Anne Gelb

Dartmouth College

High Order Imaging Techniques for Synethetic Aperture Radar (Video)

9/28/18

Jim Drake

University of Maryland

Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Space and Astrophysical Systems (Video)

10/5/18

Carlos Meriles

CUNY City College of New York

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Via Nitrogen-Vacancy in Diamond: Physics and Applications (Video)

10/12/18

Benjamin Chandran

University of New Hampshire

The Parker Solar Probe and Origin of the Solar Wind (Video)

10/26/18

Jim Binkoski

Dartmouth College

Is Spacetime a "Structural Quality of the Field"? (Video)

11/2/18

David Grinspoon

Dartmouth College

Venus Missions: Past, Present, Planned and Pretend (Video)

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

3/30/18

Michael Andrews 

WadeandWendy.ai

A Physics Education and Beyond (Video)

4/6/18

Raffi Budakian

University of Waterloo

Nanometer-Scale Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

4/13/18

Chih-Chun Chien

University of California, Merced

Quantum Transport in Ultracold Atoms (Video)

4/20/18

Sally Dawson

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Precision Measurements for the LHC (Video)

4/27/18

Jure Zupan

University of Cincinnati

News From Particle Physics Precision Frontier (Video)

5/4/18

Nuno Loureiro

MIT

New Insights Into Plasma Turbulence (Video)

5/11/18

Valerio Faraoni

Bishop's University

Modifying Gravity to Explain the Cosmic Acceleration (Video)

5/18/18

Anne White 

MIT

Understanding Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models (Video)

5/25/18

Masahiro Morii 

Harvard University

Experimental Searches for Dark Matter (Video)

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

1/5/18

Joshua Burger

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hunting for Dark Matter (Video)

1/12/18

Richard Kremer

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth and its Shattuck Observatory: Science and Identity at a 'Small College' From 1848 to 2018 (Video)

1/19/18

James Lowenthal

Smith College

How Astronomers Are Saving the World and the Sky (Video)

1/26/18

Alexander Smith

Dartmouth College

Quantizing Time (Video)

2/2/18

Elisabeth Newton

MIT

The Astrophysics of the Smallest Stars and Their Planets (Video)

2/5/18

Joseph Rodriguez

Harvard University

Transiting Planets and Eclipsing Disks as a Guide for Planet Formation (Video)

2/9/18

Kristin McQuinn

University of Texas at Austin

The Low-Mass Galaxy Frontier

2/12/18

Abigail Vieregg

University of Chicago

Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using Radio Detection Techniques

2/16/18

Jedidah Isler

Vanderbilt University

Blazar Astrophysics in the 2020s: Building the Case Now for the Observations of the Future

2/23/18

Jason Dexter

MPE Garching

Resolving Black Holes in Space and Time

3/9/18

Mark Hertzberg

Tufts University

The Accelerating Universe and Relativity (Video)

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

9/15/17

Ken Van Tilberg

IAS

Tabletop Searches for Ultralight Dark Matter (Video)

9/22/17

Roberto Onofrio

Dartmouth, University of Padua

Higgs, Weak Interactions and Gravitation (Video)

9/29/17

Douglas Finkbeiner

Harvard

The Search for WIMP Dark Matter: New Approaches to Stubborn Problems (Video)

10/6/17

Matthew Schwartz

Harvard

Machine Learning and the Large Hadron Collider (Video)

10/13/17

Robyn Millan

Dartmouth

Dynamics of Radiation Belt Electrons and the BARREL Experiment  (Video)

10/20/17

Subir Sachdev

Harvard

Quantum Matter Without Quasiparticles: Strange Metals and Black Holes  (Video)

10/27/17

Moira Gresham

Whitman College

Beyond the WIMP Dark Matter Paradigm: Asymmetric Dark Matter Nuclei  (Video)

11/3/17

Joseph Formaggio

MIT

Weighing Neutrinos (Video)

11/10/17

Nuno Loureiro

MIT/PSFC

New Insights Into Plasma Turbulence (Cancelled)

11/17/17

Jun Ye

Univ. of Colorado, JILA, NIST

Atomic Clock Based on Quantum Matter