2008-2009 Joint Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series 

Unless otherwise noted, all talks take place at 2:30 p.m. in Thompson Physical Laboratory 205.

19 Sept.	Physics and Astronomy faculty - Williams College Title: "All about graduate school" Where: Student Common Room, TPL 104
26 Sept.	Prof. Scott Hill '97- University of Dallas Title: "An Introduction to Small-world Networks"
3 Oct.	Prof. Elizabeth Rhoades - Yale University Title: "Adventures on the energy landscape: watching single proteins fold"
10 Oct.	MOUNTAIN DAY
17 Oct.	Prof. Marek Demianski - Warsaw University and Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Williams College Title: "Planck Mission: A new window at the very early universe"
24 Oct.	Prof. Anthony Dinsmore - University of Massachusetts Title: "How Crystals Form: Colloids as a Tool to Study Phase Transitions" [abstract]
31 Oct.	Prof. Christina (Reynolds) Dunn '97 - Bennington College Title: "Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope" [abstract]
7 Nov.	Dr. Andrew Speck '00 - Harvard University Title: "Manipulating Atoms and Other Physical Systems with Half-Cycle Electromagnetic Pulses"
14 Nov.	Pof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik - Harvard University Title: "Quantum computation for quantum chemistry"
21 Nov.	Prof. Emily Maher - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Title: "Final Tau-Neutrino Results from the DONuT Experiment"
5 Dec.	Prof. David Griffiths - Reed College Title: "Hidden Momentum"
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6 Feb.	"Summer Research Extravaganza" - TPL 104 Student Common Room - 2:30-3:30 pm
13 Feb.	Prof. Jonathan Friedman - Amherst College Title: "Relaxation and Tunneling in Single-Molecule Magnets" [abstract]
27 Feb.	Prof. Laura Cadonati - U Mass Amherst Title: "LIGO and its progress towards gravitational wave astronomy" [abstract]
6 Mar.	Prof. Alain Laederach, Department of Biomedical Sciences & School of Public Health - SUNY Albany Title: "Identifying RNA folding through kinetic model enumeration" [abstract]
13 Mar.	Prof. Jorge Moreno - Haverford College Title: "Do mergers of dark matter halos trigger quasars?" [abstract]
10 April	Toby Schneider '07 - MIT/Woods Hole and Joseph Shoer '06 - Cornell University Title: "Engineering after Williams" (Autonomous Marine Vehicles, Flux Pinned Spacecraft and a tour of engineering reseach
16,17 April	Sigma Xi Lectures - Jim Carlton
24 April	Steve Maxwell - NIST - Gaithersburg, MD Title: "Dynamics of a sodium spinor condensate" [abstract]
1 May	Prof. Jack Harris - Yale University Title: ""How an atomic orbital can flow through a resistive wire " [abstract]
8 May	Seth Shostak - SETI Institute Title: "Efficiency in SETI Searches" [abstract]
18 May	Honors Thesis Presentations - 1-5 pm
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