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

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

4/25/2025

Tai Phan

University of California - Berkeley

Parker Solar Probe Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliospheric Current Sheet Near the Sun

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

5/9/2025

Andrey Chubukov

University of Minnesota

Twists and turns of superconductivity from a repulsive interaction

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   [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]