2019-2020 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:30 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
| 6 Sept. | Field Day |
| 13 Sept. | Don Fahey, Joint Quantum Institute Title: “Squeezing the Spin in a Bose-Einstein Condensate“ |
| 20 Sept. | David Poland, Yale Title: “Critical Phenomena and the Conformal Bootstrap” |
| 27 Sept. | “Physics after Williams: grad school, jobs” |
| 4 Oct. | N.R. Sheeley, Jr., Astrophysicist Title: “Understanding the Sun’s magnetic fields” |
| 11 Oct. | |
| 18 Oct. | Alphonse Sterling, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Title: “Heliophysics” |
| 25 Oct. | Manuel Morales, Williams College Sigma Xi Lecture Title: “Ecological Mutualism” 4:15PM, Wege Auditorium, Chemistry Blog. |
| 1 Nov. | Antoniya Aleksandrova ’11, National Institutes of Health Title: “Analyzing Structure and Symmetry of Membrane Proteins” |
| 8 Nov. | Amy Steele Title: “Circumstellar Debris Disks” |
| 15 Nov. | John Scofield, Oberlin College Title: “Actual Energy Efficiency of LEED Buildings” |
| 22 Nov. | Helen Caines, Yale Title: “Quark-Gluon Plasmas” |
| 6 Dec. | Steven Johnson, MIT Title: “Photonic Crystals” |
| 9 Dec. | Thesis Progress talks |
| 7 Feb. | Geneva Laurita-Plankis, Bates College Title: ” Structural complexities in solids: directing functionality through lone pair distortions” |
| 14 Feb. | “Winter Carnival” |
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| 28 Feb. | |
| 6 March | Terry-Ann Suer, Harvard Title: “High-Pressure Diamond-Anvil Measurements” |
| 13 March | Tracy Slatyer, MIT Title: “Indirect Detection of Dark Matter” |
| 10 April | Kerrin Hensley, Boston University Title: TBA |
| 17 April | Ju Li, MIT Title: Computational Materials Science: Boosting Energy Capacity in Lithium Batteries” |
| 24 April | Carlos Trallero, University of Connecticut Title: “Strong Field Physics” |
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| 18 May | “Thesis Presentations” |