All talks begin promptly at 12:10 p.m. and are held in Hayes Hall 211/213, unless noted otherwise. Lunch will be served from 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| January 17 | Welcome Back | Join us for lunch as we come together to welcome in the new semester! |
| January 24 | "My Adventures With Oscillations and Waves" | Thomas Greenslade Professor Emeritus of Physics |
| January 31 | "Velocity-Sorting and Stochastic Resonances in Optical Lattices: A Path Toward Efficient Nano-Devices" | Samir Bali Professor of Physics Miami University |
| February 7 | "Sometimes I Write Down a Brand New Space Fact" | Jillian Scudder Assistant Professor of Physics Oberlin College |
| February 14 | "Minimizing Physical Disability With Robotic Arms, Legs and Exoskeletons" | Michael Goldfarb Professor of Mechanical Engineering School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University |
| February 21 | "Einstein's Universe: Cosmological Structure Formation in Numerical Relativity" | Hayley Macphearson Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge |
| February 28 | Spring Break begins | No Colloquium |
| March 6 | Spring Break | No Colloquium |
| March 13 | Spring Break | No Colloquium |
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| August 30 | Welcome Back! | Join us for lunch as we come together to welcome in the new semester! |
| September 6 | Senior Honors Talk “Quantifying the Impact of State Mixing on the Rydberg Excitation Blockade” |
Milo Eder `20 |
| September 13 | Senior Honors Talk "Calibration Uncertainty of Advanced LIGO and its Effect on Astrophysical Results" |
Maddie Stover `20 |
| September 20 | “Finding the Signal in the Noise: How a PHYSICS DEGREE Can Be Used to Inform Public Policy” |
Sydney Chamberlin Science Fellow California Council on Science and Technology |
| September 27 | Senior Honors Talk "Learning from Star Shadows: Looking for Sunspots on an Eclipsing Binary Star" |
Georgia Stolle-McAllister `20 |
| October 4 | “Debunking Fractals in the Drip Paintings of Jackson Pollock” |
Katherine (Kate) Brown Associate Professor of Physics Hamilton College |
| October 11 | No Colloquium | Reading Days |
| October 18 | "Listening For Dark Collisions" | Madeline Wade Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Professorship, Natural Sciences Assistant Professor of Physics |
| October 21 MONDAY |
"Science & Industry: A Physicist in Business" | John A. Woollam `61 H`08 George Holmes Distinguished University Professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
| October 25 | "Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves: Extreme Matter Meets Extreme Gravity" | Katerina Chatziioannou Flatiron Research Fellow Flatiron Institute |
| November 1 | Physics Lunch and Networking | |
| November 1 & 2 | Physics Alumni Conference | Keynote Speaker: Martha-Elizabeth (Marty) Baylor `98 Banquet Address: Paula Turner |
| November 8 | "What Can Minimal Models Teach Us About Molecular Motors?" | Riina Tehver Associate Professor, Chair of Physics & Astronomy Denison University |
| November 15 | "Re-Work, Re-Write, Resume Your Resumé!" | Career Development Office |
| November 22 & 29 | Thanksgiving Break | No colloquium |
| December 6 | "Oh Snap! Playing Games With Jammed Solids" | Amy Graves Walter Kemp Professor in the Natural Sciences Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Swarthmore College |
| December 13 | Poster Session | Physics Student Research |
