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.
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 3/31/2023 |
Yi-Hsin Liu |
Dartmouth College | Magnetic Explosions in Space |
| 4/11/2023 |
Donna Strickland |
University of Waterlo | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses |
| 4/14/2023 | Peter Maurer | University of Chicago | Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 1/6/2023 |
David Kaiser |
MIT | Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates |
| 1/20/2023 |
Katelin Schutz |
McGill University |
Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues |
| 1/27/23 | Sasha Philippov | University of Maryland | Fireworks produced by extreme plasmas near neutron stars and black holes |
| 2/3/2023 |
Dr. Alex Lupsasca |
Vanderbilt University |
The Black Hole Photon Ring |
| 2/10/2023 |
Jonathan Friedman |
Amherst College | When a clock (transition) is good for more than telling time |
| 2/17/2023 |
Victor Galitski |
University of Maryland |
Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Emergence of Statistical Mechanics |
| 2/24/2023 |
Eric Cornell |
University of Colorado |
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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 |
| 10/7/2022 |
Maria Kamenetska |
Boston University |
Towards molecular electronics with single molecule-metal junctions |
| 11/4/2022 |
Scott C. Noble |
NASA GSFC | |
| 11/11/2022 |
Andrew Vanderburg |
MIT |
A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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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 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/17/2021 |
Vinothan N. Manoharan |
Harvard |
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9/24/2021 |
Phiala Shanahan |
MIT |
Proton and Nuclear Structure from the Standard Model (Video) |
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10/1/2021 |
Geoffroy Hautier |
Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering |
Using quantum mechanics based computations (DFT) to search for new materials (Video) |
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10/8/2021 |
Julián B. Muñoz |
Harvard |
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10/15/2021 |
Ryan Sweeney |
MIT |
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10/22/2021 |
Jillian Bellovary |
Research Asssociate / AMNH |
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10/29/2021 |
Charles Brown |
University of California, Berkeley |
Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas (Video) |
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11/12/2021 |
Nicole Yunger Halpern |
NIST |
Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information Meets Thermodynamics (Video) |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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4/2/2021 |
Kristina Lynch |
Dartmouth College |
Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm – ARCS: A Heliophysics Mission Concept for Decoding the Aurora |
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4/9/2021 |
Cora Dvorkin |
Harvard University |
Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets |
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4/16/2021 |
Luca Amendola |
University of Heidelberg (Germany) |
Cosmology Without Assuming a Cosmology |
| 4/23/2021 |
Alán Aspuru-Guzik |
U of Toronto | |
| 4/30/2021 |
Lisa Kaltenegger |
Carl Sagen Institute at Cornell | |
| 5/7/2021 |
Norman Yao |
UC Berkeley |
Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble |
| 5/14/2021 |
David Alexander |
Durham University |
Why is color special? Identifying fundamental differences between red and blue quasars |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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1/15/2021 |
Jenny Bergner |
University of Chicago |
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1/22/2021 |
Mustafa Amin |
Rice University |
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1/29/21 |
Gourab Ghoshal |
University of Rochester |
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2/5/2021 |
Sid Redner |
Santa Fe Institute |
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2/19/2021 |
Caleb Scharf |
Columbia University |
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3/5/2021 |
Catherine Kealhofer |
Williams College |
Generating and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Pulses for Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/18/2020 |
Keith Baker |
Yale University |
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 |
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11/6/2020 |
Geoff Crew |
MIT Haystack Observatory |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |