Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia take place most Fridays throughout the term from 3:15-4:15 pm in Wilder 111 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia will also be available on Zoom and streamed on our YouTube channel. Department tea is 3:00 to 3:15 near Wilder 103 and discussion will follow the seminar at 4:15. Please check back frequently for updates to the schedule. Upcoming colloquia are also listed in the events section of the News and Events page. Colloquia prior to June 2017 are on the Colloquium Archives page.

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/17/2021	Vinothan N. Manoharan	Harvard	The Physics of Virus Self-Assembly
9/24/2021	Phiala Shanahan	MIT	Proton and Nuclear Structure from the Standard Model
10/1/2021	Geoffroy Hautier	Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering	Using quantum mechanics based computations (DFT) to search for new materials
10/8/2021	Julián B. Muñoz	Harvard	Cosmic Dawn: The Next Frontier in Cosmology
10/15/2021	Ryan Sweeney	MIT	Progress Towards Net Fusion Energy in SPARC
10/22/2021	Jillian Bellovary	Research Asssociate / AMNH Assistant Professor / CUNY-QCC	Seeking Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
10/29/2021	Charles Brown	University of California, Berkeley	Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas

Spring 2021 Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
4/2/2021	Kristina Lynch	Dartmouth College	Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: A Heliophysics Mission Concept for Decoding the Aurora
4/9/2021	Cora Dvorkin	Harvard University	Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets
4/16/2021	Luca Amendola	University of Heidelberg (Germany)	Cosmology Without Assuming a Cosmology
4/23/2021	Alán Aspuru-Guzik	U of Toronto	What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer? Video
4/30/2021	Lisa Kaltenegger	Carl Sagen Institute at Cornell	How to Find Life on Exoplanets Video
5/7/2021	Norman Yao	UC Berkeley	Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble Video
5/14/2021	David Alexander	Durham University	Why is color special? Identifying fundamental differences between red and blue quasars

Winter 2021 Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/15/2021	Jenny Bergner	University of Chicago	The Volatile Reservoir of Planet-Forming Disks (Video)
1/22/2021	Mustafa Amin	Rice University	Smashing Solitons of Cosmology (Video)
1/29/21	Gourab Ghoshal	University of Rochester	A physics Approach to Study Urban Systems (Video)
2/5/2021	Sid Redner	Santa Fe Institute	Is Basketball Scoring Just a Random Walk? (Video)
2/19/2021	Caleb Scharf	Columbia University	As Worlds Turn (Video)
3/5/2021	Catherine Kealhofer	Williams College	Generating and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Pulses for Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction

Fall 2020 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

Spring 2020 Colloquia

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)

Winter 2020 Colloquia

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

Fall 2019 Colloquia

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)

Spring 2019 Colloquia

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)

Winter 2019 Colloquia

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)

Fall 2018 Colloquia

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)

Spring 2018 Colloquia

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)

Winter 2018 Colloquia

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)

Fall Term

Fall 2017 Colloquia

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

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