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, 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.

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)

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
Last updated: October 7, 2019

share