Hamilton College Physics Colloquia

2017-2022

• Shane Larson
  Gravity and Light: Using Multi-Messenger Astronomy to See the Cosmos
  Presented on Monday, October 24, 2022
• Dr. J. López
  On-Chip Planar Lens Architectures for Optical Beam Steering
  Presented on Monday, October 17, 2022
• Wolfram Technology Seminars
  Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha in Education and Research
  Presented on September 21, 2022
• Eilat Glikman
  How to See a Black Hole
  Presented on Thursday, April 21, 2022
• Sara Seager, Morris Fellow Speaker
  Exoplanets and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
  Presented on April 14, 2022
• Shima Parsa
  Polymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Tale of Microscale Dynamics and Bulk Transport
  Presented on March 3, 2022
• Cacey Bester
  Impact Into Granular Media: A Collisional Process
  Presented on February 17, 2022
• Tzula Propp, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Light and Information in Open Quantum Systems
  Presented on November 29, 2021
• Annemarie Exarhos, Asst. Prof. of Physics, Lafayette College
  Artificial Atoms in Two-Dimensional Materials for Quantum Technologies
  Presented on November 15, 2021
• Dr. Hai Bui
  Scattering Phenomenon on Curved Surface and Effects of Defects
  Presented on July 15, 2021
• Eduardo Galiano-Riveros, Prof. of Physics, Emeritus, Laurentian Univ.
  Assessment of the Likelihood of a Radiation-Induced Loss of Pregnancy in the Unintentional Irradiation of a Live Human Fetus
  Presented on July 1, 2021
• Zachary Smith of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Quantum Information Science Branch
  Trapping Barium Ions at the Air Force Research Lab
  Presented on April 22, 2021
• Priyangika Wickramarachchi, Adjunct Professor, SUNY Oswego
  Higgs Production via Gluon Fusion at LHC
  Presented on March 25, 2021
• Amin Bayat Barooni of the Physics Education Research Group, Georgia State University
  Three Research-Based Approaches to the Design of Physics Activities
  Presented on March 18, 2021
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Asst. Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Core Faculty of Women's Studies at the Univ. of New Hampshire
  Large Scale Structure From Microphysics
  Presented on February 4, 2021
• Physics Grad School Q&A Panel w/ Alexei Smith '19, Elise LePage '18, and Kenny Ratliff '16. Catherine Ryzcek '21 moderates, Prof. Viva Horowitz hosts
  Wednesday, January 13, 2021
• McKinley Brumback '14, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Assoc., Caltech
  Exploring the Physics of Accretion onto Luminous, Magnetized Neutron Stars
  Presented on November 9, 2020
• Physics Summer Research Highlights:
  • Sid Molnar '22 - Computer Modeling of Neutron Spin Transport, Presented on Monday, September 21, 2020
  • Will Crane-Morris '22 - Analysis of a Black Hole Accretion Disk, Presented on Monday, September 21, 2020
  • Matt Jankowski - Nonrelativistic Effective Quantum Mechanics of the Coulomb Potential, Presented on November 2, 2020
  • Alex Golub - Using Machine Learning for New Materials, Presented on November 2, 2020
• Igor Aharonovich
  Quantum Technologies in Flatland - The Quest for White Graphene (aka Hexagonal Boron Nitride)
  Presented on October 19, 2020
• Dr. Robert Dimeo, Director of the NIST Center for Neutron Research
  True Stories Told with Neutrons
  Presented on October 7, 2019
• Megan Marshall Smith, UMD
  The Effect of the Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Thin Black Hole Accretion Disks
  Presented on May 9, 2019
• David M. Jacobs
  Macro Dark Matter
  Presented on April 26, 2019
• Jeffrey M. Hyde
  Gravitational Waves, Neutrinos, and the Production of Matter in the Universe
  Presented on April 22, 2019
• Michael Brown
  Laboratory Astrophysics: The SSX Plasma Wind Tunnel at Swarthmore
  Presented on April 18, 2019
• Dr. Christopher J. Collison
  Mechanisms, Photophysics, and Materials Design for Optimized Organic Photovoltaics
  Presented on April 11, 2019
• Dr. Gregory D. Fuchs
  The Electronic and Vibronic Properties of Single Photon Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
  Presented on April 9, 2019
• "A New and Efficient Way to Detect Light: A Graphene Nanomechanical Bolometer" by Benjamin Aleman
  Presented on November 5, 2018
• David R. Sokoloff of the University of Oregon
  Engaging Students with Research-Validated Uses of Technology, Computer Data Acquisition, Video Analysis, Personal Response Systems, and Distance Learning
  Presented on October 29, 2018
• David Weiss
  Quantum Computing with Maxwell's Demon
  Presented on October 15, 2018
• "Journey Through a Quantum Wormhole" by Daniel L. Jafferis
  Presented on October 8, 2018
• K. Aurelia Ball
  Using Computational Biophysics to Reveal Hidden Structure: Understanding How HIV Hijacks Cellular Functions
  Presented on April 5, 2018
• Johannes Blaschke
  Hydrodynamics of Microswimmers: Phase-Separation and the Influence of Gravity
  Presented on November 6, 2017
• Peter E. Nugent
  Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe
  Presented on October 16, 2017
• Hal M. Haggard of Bard College
  Black Hole Fireworks: Quantum Gravity Effects Outside the Horizon as a Spark for Black to White Hole Tunneling
  Presented on September 18, 2017
• Kate Brown
  Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics and Hofstadter's Cocoon
  Presented on May 4, 2017
• Walter F. Smith
  Self-Assembling Circuits: Photoconductivity and Solar Cell Activity of Organic Nanowires and DNA-Porphyrin Complexes
  Presented on April 17, 2017
• Charles Collett
  Exploring Clock Transitions in Molecular Nanomagnets
  Presented on March 2, 2017
• Jack Steiner, Einstein Postdoc Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
  Measuring the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes
  Presented on October 24, 2016
• David Hanneke
  Quantum Control of Molecular Ions
  Presented on October 7, 2016

Talks will normally be at 4:10 PM in G041.  They will be preceded by refreshments at about 4.