Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2024

Dr. Brian Stewart

*Thursdays, 11.50 am - 1.10 pm in Exley 058

*colloquium occurs on Thursdays in Exley 058, except if noted

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept

05

Graduate Appreciation Lunch

A lunch for the physics department's MA and PhD students

Sept

12

Katherine Copenhagen

Princeton University

Topological defects in an active nematic bacterial colony

Sept

19

Catherine Kealhofer

Williams College

Designing ultrafast electron sources with nanometer and femtosecond resolution

Oct

03

Aaron Young

Harvard University

Programmable Control of Ultracold Atoms:  From Precision Measurement to Simulating Quantum Materials

Oct

10

Open House

An introduction of the physics major/minor to undergraduates

Oct

17

Sam Gralla

University of Arizona

Black Hole Bonanza

Oct

24

Carlos Trallero

University of Connecticut

Quantum Times

Oct

31

Michael Davino

Wesleyan University

Experimental Strong-field Physics at the Nanoscale

Nov

07

Michelle Chen

Wesleyan University

Electronic and Spin Mixing of the Multiexciton State in Singlet Fission

Nov

14

Simone Colombo

University of Connecticut

Observing our Universe using Quantum/Atomic Sensors

Nov

21

Alicia J. Kollar

University of Maryland

Synthetic Lattice Systems in Circuit QED

Nov

28

Thanksgiving Recess

Enjoy!