Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Physics and Astronomy Colloquia take place most Fridays throughout the term from 3:00-4:00 pm in Wilder 104 unless otherwise noted (for the forseeable future colloquia will be conducted over Zoom, and also streamed on our YouTube channel), followed by refreshments in Wilder 103 at 4:00 pm. 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 2020 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/18/2020 |
Keith Baker |
Yale University
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Quantum Entanglement in High Energy Physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (Video) |
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10/23/2020 |
Jerry Goldstein |
SWRI |
Rediscovery of the Plasmasphere: History and Future of Plasmasphere Research |
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10/30/2020 |
Vivienne Baldassare |
Washington State University |
Spring 2020 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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4/3/2020 |
James D. Whitfield |
Dartmouth College |
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4/17/2020 |
Roger Melko |
Perimeter Institute |
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5/8/2020 |
Clara Sousa-Silva |
MIT EAPS |
Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry (Video) |
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5/15/2020 |
Ana Maria Rey |
JILA, University of Colorado Boulder |
Observation of Dynamical Phase Transitions in Cold Atomic Gases (Video) |
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5/22/2020 |
Daryl Haggard |
McGill University |
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5/29/2020 |
Marissa Giustina |
Google LLC |
Winter 2020 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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1/10/2020 |
Brian Swingle |
University of Maryland |
Entangled Butterflies: Chaos in Complex Quantum Systems (Video) |
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1/17/2020 |
Alexander Petroff |
Clark University |
Collective Dynamics of Fast Swimming Bacteria Near a Surface (Video) |
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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.) |
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1/31/2020 |
Claudio Chamon |
Boston University |
Path to Building Quantum Spin Liquids and Topological Qubits Within Existing Quantum Hardware (Video) |
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2/7/2020 |
James Buckley |
Washington University in St. Louis |
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2/21/2020 |
Rick Fienberg |
American Astronomical Society |
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2/28/2020 |
John (Brad) Marston |
Brown University |
El Niño as a Topological Insulator: A Surprising Connection Between Climate, and Quantum, Physics (Video) |
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3/6/2020 |
Sheperd Doeleman |
Center for Astrophysics |
Fall 2019 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/20/2019 |
Kenneth Brown |
Duke University |
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9/27/2019 |
Kimmy Wu |
University of Chicago |
Testing Inflation with the BICEP/Keck Array and South Pole Telescope (Video) |
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10/4/2019 |
Fiona Harrison |
Caltech |
Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus (Video) |
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10/11/2019 |
Martin Greenwald |
MIT |
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10/18/2019 |
Anson Hook |
University of Maryland |
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10/25/2019 |
Paola Cappellaro |
MIT |
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11/1/2019 |
Erich Osterberg |
Dartmouth College |
Hockey Sticks are Everywhere! The Recent Emergence of Climate Change in Greenland and New England (Video) |
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11/8/2019 |
William Coish |
McGill University |
Topological Bound States and Topological Quantum Dynamics (Video) |
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11/15/2019 |
Vladan Vuletic |
MIT |
Spring 2019 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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3/29/19 |
Chandrasekhar Ramanathan |
Dartmouth College |
Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Magnetic Resonance (Video) |
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4/5/19 |
David Hanneke |
Amherst College |
Driving Forbidden Vibrational Overtones in Molecular Ions (Video) |
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4/12/19 |
Anatoly Spitkovsky |
Princeton University |
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4/19/19 |
Bruce Allen |
AEI |
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4/26/19 |
Tami Pereg-Barnea |
McGill University |
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5/3/19 |
Marcel Agüeros |
Columbia University |
The Evolution of Cool Dwarf Spin Rate: Data, Models, and Tensions (Video) |
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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) |
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5/17/19 |
Raymond Brock |
Michigan State University |
That Spin 0 Boson Changes Everything: The Future of the Energy Frontier in Particle Physics (Video) |
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5/24/19 |
Marc Swisdak |
University of Maryland |
Magnetic Reconnection and the Explosive Release of Plasma Energy (Video) |
Winter 2019 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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1/4/19 |
Lauranne Lanz |
Dartmouth College |
Black Hole Feedback in Action? Investigating the Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution (Video) |
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1/18/19 |
Peter Johnson |
Zapata Computing |
Algorithmically Extending the Capabilities of Near-Term Quantum Computers (Video) |
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1/25/19 |
Wen Li |
Boston University |
Origin of Diffuse Aurora at Earth and Jupiter (Video not available) |
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2/1/19 |
Grant Tremblay |
Harvard & Smithsonian |
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2/8/19 |
Chen-Yu Liu |
Indiana University |
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2/15/19 |
Sasha Tchekhovskoy |
Northwestern University |
Disks, Jets, and Other Black Hole-Powered Transients (Video) |
Fall 2018 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/14/18 |
Kevin Wright |
Dartmouth College |
Shining a Light on the Mysterious World of Quantum Materials (Video) |
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9/21/18 |
Anne Gelb |
Dartmouth College |
High Order Imaging Techniques for Synethetic Aperture Radar (Video) |
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9/28/18 |
Jim Drake |
University of Maryland |
Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Space and Astrophysical Systems (Video) |
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10/5/18 |
Carlos Meriles |
CUNY City College of New York |
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Via Nitrogen-Vacancy in Diamond: Physics and Applications (Video) |
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10/12/18 |
Benjamin Chandran |
University of New Hampshire |
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10/26/18 |
Jim Binkoski |
Dartmouth College |
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11/2/18 |
David Grinspoon |
Dartmouth College |
Spring 2018 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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3/30/18 |
Michael Andrews |
WadeandWendy.ai |
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4/6/18 |
Raffi Budakian |
University of Waterloo |
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4/13/18 |
Chih-Chun Chien |
University of California, Merced |
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4/20/18 |
Sally Dawson |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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4/27/18 |
Jure Zupan |
University of Cincinnati |
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5/4/18 |
Nuno Loureiro |
MIT |
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5/11/18 |
Valerio Faraoni |
Bishop's University |
Modifying Gravity to Explain the Cosmic Acceleration (Video) |
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5/18/18 |
Anne White |
MIT |
Understanding Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models (Video)
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5/25/18 |
Masahiro Morii |
Harvard University |
Winter 2018 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
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1/5/18 |
Joshua Burger |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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1/12/18 |
Richard Kremer |
Dartmouth College |
Dartmouth and its Shattuck Observatory: Science and Identity at a 'Small College' From 1848 to 2018 (Video) |
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1/19/18 |
James Lowenthal |
Smith College |
How Astronomers Are Saving the World and the Sky (Video) |
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1/26/18 |
Alexander Smith |
Dartmouth College |
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2/2/18 |
Elisabeth Newton |
MIT |
The Astrophysics of the Smallest Stars and Their Planets (Video) |
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2/5/18 |
Joseph Rodriguez |
Harvard University |
Transiting Planets and Eclipsing Disks as a Guide for Planet Formation (Video) |
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2/9/18 |
Kristin McQuinn |
University of Texas at Austin |
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2/12/18 |
Abigail Vieregg |
University of Chicago |
Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using Radio Detection Techniques |
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2/16/18 |
Jedidah Isler |
Vanderbilt University |
Blazar Astrophysics in the 2020s: Building the Case Now for the Observations of the Future |
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2/23/18 |
Jason Dexter |
MPE Garching |
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3/9/18 |
Mark Hertzberg |
Tufts University |
Fall Term
Fall 2017 Colloquia
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
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9/15/17 |
Ken Van Tilberg |
IAS |
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9/22/17 |
Roberto Onofrio |
Dartmouth, University of Padua |
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9/29/17 |
Douglas Finkbeiner |
Harvard |
The Search for WIMP Dark Matter: New Approaches to Stubborn Problems (Video) |
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10/6/17 |
Matthew Schwartz |
Harvard |
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10/13/17 |
Robyn Millan |
Dartmouth |
Dynamics of Radiation Belt Electrons and the BARREL Experiment (Video) |
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10/20/17 |
Subir Sachdev |
Harvard |
Quantum Matter Without Quasiparticles: Strange Metals and Black Holes (Video) |
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10/27/17 |
Moira Gresham |
Whitman College |
Beyond the WIMP Dark Matter Paradigm: Asymmetric Dark Matter Nuclei (Video) |
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11/3/17 |
Joseph Formaggio |
MIT |
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11/10/17 |
Nuno Loureiro |
MIT/PSFC |
New Insights Into Plasma Turbulence (Cancelled) |
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11/17/17 |
Jun Ye |
Univ. of Colorado, JILA, NIST |