Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Spring 2017 Fall 2017
NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:30 PM in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Jan. 19 |
Memories, Symmetries, and Soft Theorems | Sabrina Pasterski | Harvard University | Jorge Pullin |
| Jan. 26 | Betelgeuse | Craig Wheeler | U. Texas at Austin | Manos Chatzopoulos |
| Feb. 2 | Functional Materials by Design | Saurabh Ghosh | Vanderbilt University | Ward Plummer |
| Feb. 9 |
From Basic Science to Innovation – An example from the new science of attosecond light |
François Légaré | INRS-ÉMT, Canada |
Ken Schafer |
| Feb. 16 | ΛCDM Cosmology: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Progress | Joel Primack | U. California Santa Cruz | Juhan Frank |
| Feb. 23 | A new window into supernovae and their progenitors with Las Cumbres Observatory | Andrew Howell | Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and UCSB | Manos Chatzopoulos |
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March 2
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A View with AGN Population Studies of the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes |
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University of Richmond | Ravi Rau |
| March 9 | Wei Ku | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | Rongying Jin | |
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March 16
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NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY | |||
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Special colloquium March 21 Tuesday |
Virgo - the third eye | Andrzej Królak | Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences | Param Singh |
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Hearne Eminent Lecture March 22 Wednesday 5PM Room 130 Nicholson |
Quantum Shannon Theory - On the ultimate physical limits of communication | Andreas Winter | Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona | Mark Wilde and Jon Dowling |
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March 23 |
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics | Andreas Winter | Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Physics | Mark Wilde and Jon Dowling |
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March 27 Monday Room 130 Nicholson |
Breakthrough Listen: Expanding the Search for Life Beyond Earth | Steve Croft | University of California, Berkeley | Tabetha Boyajian |
| March 30 | NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY | |||
| April 6 | Initial Conditions for Inflation | Sonia Paban | University of Texas at Austin | Ivan Agullo |
| Spring Break | ||||
| April 20 | Testing Superstring Theory with Cosmological Observations? | Robert Brandenberger | McGill University | Ivan Agullo |
| April 27 | Ion Traps for Astrophysics: Where no Trap has Gone Before | Jason Clark | Argonne National Laboratory | Scott Marley |
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May 3 Wednesday Room 435 Nicholson |
Neutrinos: the lightest matter can have the heaviest consequences! | David Wark | Oxford University and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Thomas Kutter |
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May 4 Room 435 Nicholson 11:30am Thursday |
How do biology processes differ from those of physics? What different mathematical descriptions are needed in these two case? | George Ellis | University of Cape Town, South Africa | Jorge Pullin |