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 19 | Happy New Year and Welcome Back! | Join us for pizza as we come together to welcome in the new semester! |
| January 26 | "MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Haystack Radar Upgrade" | Zachary Weber, Lincoln Laboratory - Michigan Institute of Technology |
| February 2 | "The Social Network (With Actual People)" | Presented by the Career Development Office and the Department of Physics |
| February 9 | "COMPS: The Final Frontier - Global Positioning System" "Is Nature Nonlocal?" |
Senior Exercise Talks Caroline Popiel Bryan Wedig |
| February 16 | "The Physics of Solar Cells" "Physics in Football: Tricky Trajectories" |
Senior Exercise Talks Campbell Fee Ellen Holmgren |
| February 23 | "The Physics of Proton Beam Therapy" | Senior Exercise Talk Houlder Hudgins |
| March 2 | No colloquium | Start of Spring break |
| March 9 & 16 | No colloquium | Spring Break |
| March 23 | "The Physics of Sailing" | Bryon Anderson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, Kent State University |
| March 30 | "Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream, Games and More" | Hosted by the Society of Physics Students |
| April 6 | "Inflation and the Hot Big Bang: The Quantum Origin of Structure in the Universe" | Peter Adshead, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois |
| April 13 | "Computationally Probing Large Scale Structure in Our Universe" | Camille Avestruz, KICP Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago |
| April 20 | "Cracking the Cosmological Code: The Newest Observations of the Oldest Light" | Tristan Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College |
| April 27 | "The Hunt for Gamma-Ray Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources" | Tyson Littenberg, Astrophysicist, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center |
| May 4 | No colloquium | Last Day of Classes! |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| August 25 | NA | Physics Department Welcome |
| September 1 | Meet, Eat and Play | Society of Physics Students Extravaganza |
| September 8 | Tom Giblin, Kenyon College | "The Secrets of the Universe: maybe, maybe not" |
| September 15 | Melanie Lott, Assistant Professor Denison University |
“Uncovering Joint Angle Coordination Strategies for Rotating Balance with a Principal Components Analysis” |
| September 22 | Matthew Goupell, Associate Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Services, University of Maryland | “Creating the Perception of Sound with Electrical Stimulation from a Bionic Auditory Prosthesis” |
| September 29 | Senior Honors Talk Matthew Carney |
“Recovering the Neutron Star Equation of State from a Binary Neutron Star Gravitational Wave Detection with LIGO" |
| October 6 | Reading Days | No Colloquium |
| October 13 | Aaron Reinhard, Kenyon College | "The Coldest Place in Gambier (And Why I'm Highly Excited" to Tell You About It)" |
| October 20 | Senior Exercise Talks Ian George '18 Doni Moffa '18 |
"Pancharatnam Phase of Uniform and Non-Separable Modes" by Ian George "Using Artificial Neural Networks for Gravitational-Wave Glitch Identification in Advanced LIGO" by Doni Moffa |
| October 27 | Peter Hoekje, Associate Professor of Physics, Baldwin Wallace University | "The Physics of Musical Wind Instruments" |
| November 3 | Petra Schmalbrock, Emeritus Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University | "MRI: Physics, Clinical and Research Applications" |
| November 10 | John Eric Goff, Professor of Physics / Department Chair Lynchburg College | "From the World Cup to the Tour de France to Tennis Hard Courts" |
| November 17 | No colloquium | |
| November 24 | Break | |
| December 1 | Senior Exercise Talks Ryan Muzzio '18 Christian Solorio '18 |
"Investigating the Optical Properties of a Particular Double Perovskite Thin Film" and "Oscillons After a First Order Phase Transition" |
| December 7 | Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony | In recognition of high scholarship in Physics |
| December 8 | Last Day of Classes | No Colloquium |
