Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia take place most Fridays throughout the term from 2:15 - 3:15 pm in Wilder 104 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia are currently also available on Zoom. A discussion over tea and coffee will follow from 3:15 to 3:45 pm in Wilder 103. 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 2025

Date	Speaker	Affilliation	Title / Topic
9/19/25	Alexandre Blais	U Sherbrooke	Towards Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits
9/26/25	Kris Klein	U Arizona	Dissipation and Excitation: Kinetic-Scale Waves and Instabilities in the Heliosphere
10/3/25	Srimoyee Sen	Iowa State	TBD / Lattice QCD
10/10/25	Matt Caplan	Illinois State University	TBD / Astro and nuclear physics
10/17/25	Matt Kunz	Princeton University	TBD / Plasma Astro
10/24/25	Gabriel Landi	U Rochester	TBD / Quantum thermodynamics
10/31/25	Elena Pinetti	Flatiron	TBD / Dark Matter/JWST
11/7/25	Charlie Conroy	Harvard	TBD / Galaxy formation
11/14/25	Nathalie de Leon	Princeton	TBD / CM expt/color centers

Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Affilliation	Title
4/4/2025	Victor Albert	UMD/ NIST	Quantum theory of molecular orientations [Video]
4/11/2025	Michael McDonald	MIT	Probing the Limits and Evolution of Black Hole Feedback in the Most Massive Galaxies [Video]
4/18/2025	Nitya Kallivayalil	University of Virginia	Local Group Cosmology: lessons from mapping the stellar populations of the nearby universe [Video]
4/25/2025	Tai Phan	University of California - Berkeley	Parker Solar Probe Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliospheric Current Sheet Near the Sun [Video]
5/2/2025	Kater Murch	Washington University - St. Louis	Time travel, time reversal, and the arrow of time: quantum sensing and quantum thermodynamics with superconducting qubits [Video]
5/9/2025	Andrey Chubukov	University of Minnesota	Twists and turns of superconductivity from a repulsive interaction [Video]
5/16/2025	Milad Marvian	University of New Mexico	Combating Quantum Noise: Strategies for Noise Suppression and Correction Across the Quantum Stack [Video]
5/30/2025	Elizabeth Paul	Columbia University	Advances in Optimization for Stellarator Design [Video]

Winter 2025

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/10/2025	Cara Battersby	University of Connecticut	The Milky Way Laboratory [Video]
1/17/2025	Graduate talks: Clair Hinrichs AJ Cressman Jackson Yant Sarah Peery	Dartmouth College	Physics Beyond the Lab: Spectral Analyses for Healthcare Applications [Video] Modeling the World with Analog Circuits [Video] A Field-Theoretic Model of Gravitationally Induced Entanglement [Video] Effects of shear flows on relativistic magnetic reconnection [Video]
1/24/2025	Jeyhan Kartaltepe	Rochester Institute of Technology	Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST [Video]
1/31/2025	Postdoc talks: Laura Hunter Jonathan Cohn	Dartmouth College	ID-MAGE: Identifying Dwarves of Magellanic Analog GalaxiEs [Video] Evidence of Over-Massive Black Holes in Massive Relic Galaxies [Video]
2/7/2025	Krishna Rajagopal	MIT	Novel Probes of the Primordial Hot Quark Soup [Video]
2/14/2025	Karl Krushelnick	University of Michigan	The ZEUS Petawatt laser facility and high field science research at the University of Michigan [Video]
2/21/2025	Akira Sone	University Massachusetts Boston	Variational Quantum Algorithms and the Path to Quantum Sensing in NISQ Era [Video]
2/28/2025	Nicolás Yunes	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	For Whom the Bell Tolls [Video]
3/7/2025	Robyn Millan	Dartmouth College	Remote Sensing of Earth's Magnetosphere with Energetic Charged Particles [Video]

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/20/2024	Yuval Grossman	Cornell University	Neutrinos as the key to the universe as we know it [Video]
9/27/2024	Martin Zwierlein	MIT	Quantum Many-Body Physics under the Microscope [Video]
10/4/2024	Tracy Slatyer	MIT	Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars [Video]
10/11/2024	Nikolay Gnezdilov	Dartmouth College	Yukawa-SYK model as a paradigmatic model for a strange metal-superconductor transition (?): the role of superconducting fluctuations [Video]
10/11/2024	Michiel Burgelman	Dartmouth College	Non-Markovian non-classical noise: Why a constant gate error cannot necessarily be defined in realistic controlled quantum hardware [Video]
10/18/2024	Mia de Los Reyes	Amherst College	Near, far, wherever you are: Dwarf galaxies across a range of distances and resolutions [Video]
10/25/2024	Kristin McQuinn	Rutgers University	Resolved Stellar Populations Studies with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
11/1/2024	Dimitrios Giannakis	Dartmouth College	Koopman and transfer operator methods from the perspective of quantum mechanics [Video]
11/8/2024	Jack Hare	MIT	Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments [Video]
11/15/2024	Pavel Volkov	University of Connecticut	Superconductivity with a Twist: Realizing exotic superconductivity in 2D materials and interfaces [Video]

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
3/29/2024	Kevin Wright	Dartmouth College	Symmetry Breaking and Persistent Flow in Superfluid Circuits [Video]
4/3/2024	Glenn Starkman	CASE University	The Universe is not Isotropic [Video]
4/12/2024	Allison Youngblood	NASA GSFC	The Ultraviolet View of Stellar Activity [Video]
4/19/2024	PandA Postdocs' Day	Dartmouth College	A variety of Postdocs' research projects from Astronomy, Physics and Quantum
4/26/2024	Paul Sutter	Stony Brook University	Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt [Video]
5/24/2024	Rocky Kolb	University of Chicago	Schrödinger's Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe [Video]

Winter 2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/5/2024	Claire Gasque	UC Berkeley	It's Not Easy Being Green: Unveiling an Imposter Aurora with Quantitative Modeling of Emissions Driven by Local Parallel Electric Fields [Video]
1/26/2024	Marcelo Gleiser	Dartmouth College	The Dawn of a Mindful Universe [Video]
2/2/2024	Jens Mahlmann	Columbia University	How magnetar magnetospheres erupt in electromagnetic fireworks [Video]
2/9/2024	Chen Shi	UCLA	Unveiling the key physical processes shaping the solar wind [Video]
2/16/2024	Colby Haggerty	University of Hawaii	The Importance of Energetic, Self-generated Particles on Collisionless Shock Waves in the Magnetosphere, the Solar Wind and Beyond [Video]
2/20/2024	Muni Zhou	IAS	Magnetogenesis in collisionless plasma --- how does the Universe magnetize? [Video]
2/23/2024	Xin An	UCLA	Electron precipitation into the Earth's atmosphere — from practical applications to basic physics [Video]

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/22/2023	Salvatore Vitale	MIT	Gravitational-wave astrophysics, today and tomorrow [Video]
9/29/2023	Erin Kara	MIT	What happens when you throw something into a black hole? Probing the causal connection between inflow and outflow in accreting black holes. [Video]
10/6/2023	Paul Nation	IBM Quantum	Mitigating Measurement Errors on Quantum Computers [Video]
10/20/2023	Elisabeth Newton	Dartmouth College	Observing the Evolution of Stars and Planets [Video]
10/27/2023	Victor Acosta	University of New Mexico	Precision measurement and spectroscopy with Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond [Video]
11/3/2023	Annika Peter	Ohio State University	Dark Matter Physics with Tiny Galaxies [Video]

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
3/31/2023	Yi-Hsin Liu	Dartmouth College	Magnetic Explosions in Space [Video]
4/14/2023	Peter Maurer	University of Chicago	Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors
4/21/2023	Gregory Fiete	Northeastern University	New Perspectives from Out-of-equilibrium Quantum Materials [Video]
5/5/2023	Shany Danieli	Princeton University	Low mass galaxies and their dark matter halos: lessons learned from satellite galaxies and the dynamics of globular clusters [Video]
5/12/2023	Joseph Maciejko	University of Alberta	Hyperbolic quantum matter [Video]
5/19/2023	Graduate Student Forum	Dartmouth College	Various Topics
5/26/2023	Ryan Hickox	Dartmouth College	The extremes of galaxy and black hole formation [Video]

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/6/2023	David Kaiser	MIT	Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates [Video]
1/20/2023	Katelin Schutz	McGill University	Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues [Video]
1/27/23	Sasha Philippov	University of Maryland	Fireworks produced by extreme plasmas near neutron stars and black holes [Video]
2/3/2023	Dr. Alex Lupsasca	Vanderbilt University	The Black Hole Photon Ring [Video]
2/10/2023	Jonathan Friedman	Amherst College	When a clock (transition) is good for more than telling time [Video]
2/17/2023	Victor Galitski	University of Maryland	Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Emergence of Statistical Mechanics [Video]
2/24/2023	Eric Cornell	University of Colorado	Microhertz spectroscopy, teraelectronvolt physics, and the origin of matter: A measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment. [Video]

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/16/2022	Gerald A. Goldin	Rutgers University	Quantum Kinematics, the Prediction of Anyons, and Some Wider Implications [Video]
9/23/2022	Mattias Fitzpatrick	Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College	Quantum Engineering with Superconducting Circuits [Video]
9/30/2022	Lina Necib	MIT	Tracing Dark Matter with Stars around the Milky Way [Video]
10/7/2022	Maria Kamenetska	Boston University	Towards molecular electronics with single molecule-metal junctions [Video]
11/4/2022	Scott C. Noble	NASA GSFC	Lighting Up Inspiraling Binary Black Hole Systems [Video]
11/11/2022	Andrew Vanderburg	MIT	A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death [Video]

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
4/15/2022	Rodolfo Montez	Chandra X-Ray Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	X-ray Emission from the recurrent nova RS Oph (Video)
4/21/2022	Fulvio Zonca	Center for Nonlinear Plasma Science and C.R. ENEA Frascati	Alfvénic Fluctuations and Alpha Particle Transport in Burning Plasmas (Video)
4/29/2022	Brooke Russell	Berkeley Lab	Examining Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with DUNE (Video)
5/6/2022	Daniel Harlow	MIT	Symmetry in Quantum Gravity (Video)
5/13/2022	Olga Goulko	UMass Boston	The Grasshopper Problem (Video)
5/20/2022	Susanne Yelin	UConn	Dense Arrays: A Novel Quantum Tool (Video)
5/27/2022	Matthew Zettergren	ERAU & Dartmouth College	Local-Scale Modeling of Terrestrial Ionosphere Coupling to the Atmosphere and Magnetosphere

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/17/2021	Vinothan N. Manoharan	Harvard	The Physics of Virus Self-Assembly (Video)
9/24/2021	Phiala Shanahan	MIT	Proton and Nuclear Structure from the Standard Model (Video)
10/1/2021	Geoffroy Hautier	Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering	Using quantum mechanics based computations (DFT) to search for new materials (Video)
10/8/2021	Julián B. Muñoz	Harvard	Cosmic Dawn: The Next Frontier in Cosmology (Video)
10/15/2021	Ryan Sweeney	MIT	Progress Towards Net Fusion Energy in SPARC (Video)
10/22/2021	Jillian Bellovary	Research Asssociate / AMNH Assistant Professor / CUNY-QCC	Seeking Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies (Video)
10/29/2021	Charles Brown	University of California, Berkeley	Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas (Video)
11/12/2021	Nicole Yunger Halpern	NIST QuICS University of Maryland	Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information Meets Thermodynamics (Video)

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 [Video]

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 (Video)

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 (Video)
11/6/2020	Geoff Crew	MIT Haystack Observatory	About that First Look at a Black Hole (Video)
11/13/2020	Ketevi Adikle Assamagan	Brookhaven National Lab	Using the Higgs Boson to Search for Dark Sector Particles (Video)

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 so the slides are not visible)
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 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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