Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:30 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.
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Sept. Ward
Lopes - Mt. Holyoke College 14
Sept. Alan
Palevsky '73 - Raytheon Company 21
Sept. Sarah
Nichols '03 - Stony Brook University 12
Oct. Department
faculty 19
Oct. Daniel
Seaton '01 - University of New Hampshire 2
Nov. David
Park - Webster Atwell-Class of 1921 Professor of Physics,
Emeritus 9
Nov. Prof.
Jennifer Ross - University of Massachusetts 16
Nov. Prof.
Daniel McKinsey - Yale University 30
Nov. Prof.
Richard Easther - Yale University 7
Jan. Dr.
Nina Rohringer - Lawrence Liveremore National Laboratory 8
Jan. Professor
Lisa Randall - Harvard University 9
Jan. Professor
Fred Strauch - Gettysburg College and NIST 10
Jan. Dr.
Brian Granger - Tech-X 14
Jan. Dr.
James Higbie - University of California at Berkeley 16
Jan. Thesis
Students - Progress Reports 23
Jan. Bethany
Cobb '02 - Yale University 13
Feb. Dr.
Guy Consolmagno SJ - Vatican Observatory 22
Feb. Dr.
William Fairbrother - Brown University 29
Feb. S.
Charles Doret '02 - Harvard University 7
March Prof.
Froney Crawford '94 - Franklin and Marshall College 15
- 30 March Spring
Recess 11
April Dr.
Brant Nelson '87 - IPAC/Caltech/Holderness 18
April Gabe
Perez-Giz - Columbia University 24
& 25 April Sigma
Xi Research Talk - Prof. David Tucker-Smith - 4:15 pm - TCL
123 - Wege Auditorium 25
April Prof.
John Hunt - Columbia University 13
May Student
Thesis Presentations
Title: "Applications for Holographic Control of Light"
Title: "Computational Electromagnetics: The Radar
Cross-Section of a Sphere"
Title: "Chemistry with Lasers: Quantum Control in Molecular
Systems"[abstract]
Title: "All about Graduate School: A Discussion"
Time: 2:30 pm, Place: TPL 104 (student common room)
Title: "Modeling Current Sheets During Solar Flares?"
Title: "Longitudes, Alexander the Great, and the Lost Tribes
of Israel"
Title: "Single Molecule Biophysics: Cellular Highways and
Big Rigs"
Title: "Billiards with an invisible cue ball: hunting for
dark matter particles"
Title: "What Do We Learn about Physics by Looking at the
Sky"
Title: "Ultra-Short High-Intensity X-Ray Physics with
Free-Electron Lasers" - 4:00 p.m.
Title: "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the
Universe's Hidden Dimensions"
7:30 PM - Brooks Rogers Recital Hall
The Annual Richmond Lecture
Title: "Perfect Quantum State Transfer with Superconducting
Phase Qubits" [abstract]
- 4:00 p.m.
Title: "One-Dimensional Ultracold Quantum Gases" - 4:00 p.m.
Title: "Ultra-Sensitive Atomic Magnetometry: From Fieldable
Sensors to High-Resolution Magnetic Microscopy" - 4:00
p.m.
1:00 pm Shelby B. Kimmel; 1:20 pm Paul W. Hess; 1:40 pm
Kristen E. Lemons; 2:00 pm Zachary T. Thomas; 2:20 pm Break;
2:30 pm Thomas J. Derbish; 2:50 pm William A. Jacobson; 3:10
pm Anne E. Jaskot; 3:30 pm Adam J. McKay
Title: "Outshining the Universe: the Mystery of Gamma-ray
Bursts" - 4:00 p.m. [abstract]
Title: "Meteorite Porosity and Asteroid Structure: Are
Asteroids Fluffy" - Time: 4:00 pm
Title: "Mapping Cis-Elements in the Genome: Development of
high throughput binding assays to query nucleic acid/protein
interactions" [abstract]
Title: "Look Ma - no lasers! Towards Bose-Einstein
condensation of metastable helium via buffer gas cooling"
[abstract]
Title: "An Observational Test of a Pulsar Spin-down Model
Using Radio Polarimetry" [abstract]
Title: "Light Echoes from AGN: Evidence For Dust Near the
Central Engine"
Title: "A periodic table of black hole orbits "
Thursday - Part I: "News from the High-Energy Frontier"
Friday - Part II "Searching for New Physics with the Large
Hadron Collider"
Title: "Tales of two molecular machines"
[abstract]
2:00 pm William A. Jacobson; 2:20 pm Anne E. Jaskot; 2:40 pm
Adam J. McKay; 3:00 pm Shelby B. Kimmel; 3:30 pm Break; 3:40
pm Paul W. Hess; 4:00 pm Kristen E. Lemons; 4:20 pm Zachary
T. Thomas; 4:40 pm Thomas J. Derbish
Past
Years Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series
2008-2009
Academic Calendar
from the Registrar's web site.