Physics and Astronomy Colloquia take place most Fridays throughout the term from 2:15 - 3:15 pm in Wilder 104 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia are currently also available on Zoom. A discussion over tea and coffee will follow from 3:15 to 3:45 pm in Wilder 103. 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 |
Affilliation |
Title / Topic |
| 4/3/2026 |
Dragan Huterer |
University of Michigan | Cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [Video] |
| 4/10/2026 |
Bitan Roy |
Lehigh University |
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| 4/24/2026 |
Andre-Marie Trembley |
Université de Sherbrooke |
1) What is a superconductor, and why is there (again) this year a Nobel prize related to superconductivity? 2) The theoretical challenges of high-temperature superconductivity. [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affilliation |
Title / Topic |
| 1/16/2026 | Charlie Conroy | Harvard University | The Via Project [Video] |
| 1/23/2026 |
Brendan Sheehan Jaclyn Jensen Laura Hunter Emily Boudreaux |
Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College |
Polarizing and Hyperpolarizing Nuclear Spins in Diamond [Video] The Chemo-dynamics and Origin of Extended Stellar Structures in MW Dwarf Galaxy Satellites [Video] ID-MAGE: Understanding Satellites of Low-Mass Galaxies [Video] |
| 1/30/2026 | Mike Shay | University of Delaware | Turbulent Heating of the Low Collisionality Plasma in our Solar System: Are Magnetic Explosions Important? [Video] |
| 2/6/2026 | Adrian Feiguin | Northeastern University | The Quantum Many-Body Problem in the Age of Machine Learning [Video] |
| 2/13/2026 |
Jason Necaise Aaron Kleger Guinevere Herron Sasha Campana |
Dartmouth College |
Towards Distributed Fermionic Simulation [Video] Universal Theory of Incoherent Metals [Video] Exploring the Dark Side: Uncovering Low Surface-Brightness Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey [Video] Mapping the Outskirts of Horologium I [Video] |
| 2/20/2026 | Malena Rice | Yale University | Dynamical Demographics of Planetary Systems [Video] |
| 2/27/2026 | Yen-Jie Lee | MIT | Probing the Trillion Degree Quark Soup [Video] |
| 3/6/2026 | Lorenza Viola | Dartmouth College |
Adventures in Non-Hermitian Quantum Matter (with a Touch of Quantum Information Theory) [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affilliation |
Title / Topic |
| 9/19/25 |
Alexandre Blais |
U Sherbrooke |
Towards Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits [Video] |
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9/26/25 |
Kris Klein |
U Arizona |
Dissipation and Excitation: Kinetic-Scale Waves and Instabilities in the Heliosphere [Video] |
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10/3/25 |
Srimoyee Sen |
Iowa State |
Regulated chiral gauge theory and the strong CP problem [Video] |
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10/10/25 |
Matt Caplan |
Illinois State University |
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10/17/25 |
Matt Kunz |
Princeton University |
Turbulence in the intracluster medium: magneto-immutability, thermal bi-stability, and cosmic-ray diffusion [Video] |
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10/24/25 |
Gabriel Landi |
U Rochester |
Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines [Video] |
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10/31/25 |
Elena Pinetti |
Flatiron |
Hunting dark matter with the James Webb Space Telescope [Video] |
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11/14/25 |
Nathalie de Leon |
Princeton |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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9/20/2024 |
Yuval Grossman |
Cornell University |
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9/27/2024 |
Martin Zwierlein |
MIT |
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10/4/2024 |
Tracy Slatyer |
MIT |
Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars [Video] |
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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 [Video] |
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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 [Video] |
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10/18/2024 |
Mia de Los Reyes |
Amherst College |
Near, far, wherever you are: Dwarf galaxies across a range of distances and resolutions [Video] |
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10/25/2024 |
Kristin McQuinn |
Rutgers University |
Resolved Stellar Populations Studies with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes |
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11/1/2024 |
Dimitrios Giannakis |
Dartmouth College |
Koopman and transfer operator methods from the perspective of quantum mechanics [Video] |
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11/8/2024 |
Jack Hare |
MIT |
Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments [Video] |
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11/15/2024 |
Pavel Volkov |
University of Connecticut |
Superconductivity with a Twist: Realizing exotic superconductivity in 2D materials and interfaces [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 3/29/2024 | Kevin Wright | Dartmouth College | Symmetry Breaking and Persistent Flow in Superfluid Circuits [Video] |
| 4/3/2024 |
Glenn Starkman |
CASE University | The Universe is not Isotropic [Video] |
| 4/12/2024 | Allison Youngblood | NASA GSFC | The Ultraviolet View of Stellar Activity [Video] |
| 4/19/2024 | PandA Postdocs' Day | Dartmouth College | A variety of Postdocs' research projects from Astronomy, Physics and Quantum |
| 4/26/2024 | Paul Sutter | Stony Brook University | Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt [Video] |
| 5/24/2024 | Rocky Kolb | University of Chicago | Schrödinger's Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 1/5/2024 |
Claire Gasque |
UC Berkeley | It's Not Easy Being Green: Unveiling an Imposter Aurora with Quantitative Modeling of Emissions Driven by Local Parallel Electric Fields [Video] |
| 1/26/2024 | Marcelo Gleiser | Dartmouth College | The Dawn of a Mindful Universe [Video] |
| 2/2/2024 |
Jens Mahlmann |
Columbia University | How magnetar magnetospheres erupt in electromagnetic fireworks [Video] |
| 2/9/2024 |
Chen Shi |
UCLA | Unveiling the key physical processes shaping the solar wind [Video] |
| 2/16/2024 |
Colby Haggerty |
University of Hawaii | The Importance of Energetic, Self-generated Particles on Collisionless Shock Waves in the Magnetosphere, the Solar Wind and Beyond [Video] |
| 2/20/2024 |
Muni Zhou |
IAS | Magnetogenesis in collisionless plasma --- how does the Universe magnetize? [Video] |
| 2/23/2024 |
Xin An |
UCLA | Electron precipitation into the Earth's atmosphere — from practical applications to basic physics [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 9/22/2023 |
Salvatore Vitale |
MIT | Gravitational-wave astrophysics, today and tomorrow [Video] |
| 9/29/2023 | Erin Kara | MIT | What happens when you throw something into a black hole? Probing the causal connection between inflow and outflow in accreting black holes. [Video] |
| 10/6/2023 | Paul Nation | IBM Quantum | Mitigating Measurement Errors on Quantum Computers [Video] |
| 10/20/2023 | Elisabeth Newton | Dartmouth College | Observing the Evolution of Stars and Planets [Video] |
| 10/27/2023 | Victor Acosta | University of New Mexico | Precision measurement and spectroscopy with Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond [Video] |
| 11/3/2023 | Annika Peter | Ohio State University | Dark Matter Physics with Tiny Galaxies [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 3/31/2023 |
Yi-Hsin Liu |
Dartmouth College | Magnetic Explosions in Space [Video] |
| 4/14/2023 | Peter Maurer | University of Chicago | Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors |
| 4/21/2023 | Gregory Fiete | Northeastern University | New Perspectives from Out-of-equilibrium Quantum Materials [Video] |
| 5/5/2023 | Shany Danieli | Princeton University | Low mass galaxies and their dark matter halos: lessons learned from satellite galaxies and the dynamics of globular clusters [Video] |
| 5/12/2023 | Joseph Maciejko | University of Alberta | Hyperbolic quantum matter [Video] |
| 5/19/2023 | Graduate Student Forum | Dartmouth College | Various Topics |
| 5/26/2023 | Ryan Hickox | Dartmouth College | The extremes of galaxy and black hole formation [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 1/6/2023 |
David Kaiser |
MIT | Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates [Video] |
| 1/20/2023 |
Katelin Schutz |
McGill University |
Revealing hidden particles and forces with gravitational clues [Video] |
| 1/27/23 | Sasha Philippov | University of Maryland | Fireworks produced by extreme plasmas near neutron stars and black holes [Video] |
| 2/3/2023 |
Dr. Alex Lupsasca |
Vanderbilt University |
The Black Hole Photon Ring [Video] |
| 2/10/2023 |
Jonathan Friedman |
Amherst College | When a clock (transition) is good for more than telling time [Video] |
| 2/17/2023 |
Victor Galitski |
University of Maryland |
Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Emergence of Statistical Mechanics [Video] |
| 2/24/2023 |
Eric Cornell |
University of Colorado |
Microhertz spectroscopy, teraelectronvolt physics, and the origin of matter: A measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment. [Video] |
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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 [Video] |
| 10/7/2022 |
Maria Kamenetska |
Boston University |
Towards molecular electronics with single molecule-metal junctions [Video] |
| 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 [Video] |
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 4/15/2022 | Rodolfo Montez | Chandra X-Ray Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | X-ray Emission from the recurrent nova RS Oph (Video) |
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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) |
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| 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 [Video] |
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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 |
Smashing Solitons of Cosmology (Video) |
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1/29/21 |
Gourab Ghoshal |
University of Rochester |
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2/5/2021 |
Sid Redner |
Santa Fe Institute |
Is Basketball Scoring Just a Random Walk? (Video) |
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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 (Video) |
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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 |
Searching for Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies (Video) |
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11/6/2020 |
Geoff Crew |
MIT Haystack Observatory |
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| 11/13/2020 | Ketevi Adikle Assamagan | Brookhaven National Lab | Using the Higgs Boson to Search for Dark Sector Particles (Video) |
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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 so the slides are not visible) |
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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 |