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.

Current Term

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)
Last updated: June 1, 2018

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