Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia take place most Fridays throughout the term from 3:30-4:30 pm in Wilder 104 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia are currently also available on Zoom. Department tea/coffee is 3:00 to 3:30 in Wilder 103 and discussion will follow the seminar at 4:45. 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.

Spring 2025

Date

Speaker

Affilliation

Title

4/4/2025

Victor Albert

UMD/ NIST

 

4/11/2025

Michael McDonald

MIT

 

4/18/2025

Nitya Kallivayalil

University of Virginia

 

4/25/2025

Tai Phan

University of California - Berkeley

 

5/2/2025

Kater Murch

Washington University - St. Louis

 

5/9/2025

Andrey Chubukov

University of Minnesota

 

5/16/2025

Milad Marvian

University of New Mexico

 

5/23/2025

Nathalie de Leon

Princeton University

 

5/30/2025

Elizabeth Paul

Columbia University

 

Winter 2025

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

1/10/2025

Cara Battersby

University of Connecticut

The Milky Way Laboratory

1/17/2025

Graduate talks:

Clair Hinrichs

AJ Cressman

Jackson Yant

Sarah Peery

Dartmouth College

Physics Beyond the Lab: Spectral Analyses for Healthcare Applications

Modeling the World with Analog Circuits

A Field-Theoretic Model of Gravitationally Induced Entanglement

Effects of shear flows on relativistic magnetic reconnection

1/24/2025

Jeyhan Kartaltepe

Rochester Institute of Technology

Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST

1/31/2025

Postdoc talks:

Laura Hunter

Jonathan Cohn

Dartmouth College

ID-MAGE: Identifying Dwarves of Magellanic Analog GalaxiEs

Evidence of over-massive black holes in massive relic galaxies

2/7/2025

Krishna Rajagopal

MIT

Novel Probes of the Primordial Hot Quark Soup

2/14/2025

Karl Krushelnick

University of Michigan

 

2/21/2025

Gabriel Landi

University of Rochester

 

2/28/2025

Nico Yunes

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

3/7/2025

Grad student recruiting event

Dartmouth College

 

Fall 2024

Date 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

9/20/2024

Yuval Grossman

Cornell University

Neutrinos as the key to the universe as we know it

9/27/2024

Martin Zwierlein

MIT

Quantum Many-Body Physics under the Microscope

10/4/2024

Tracy Slatyer

MIT

Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars

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

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

10/18/2024

Mia de Los Reyes

Amherst College

Near, far, wherever you are: Dwarf galaxies across a range of distances and resolutions

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

11/8/2024

Jack Hare

MIT

Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments

11/15/2024

Pavel Volkov

University of Connecticut

Superconductivity with a Twist: Realizing exotic superconductivity in 2D materials and interfaces