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HMC Physics Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 pm in Galileo-Edwards. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.

Next colloquium: at 4:30 in Galileo-Edwards

 

22 April 2008 Recent Developments in Physics Several HMC Professors Harvey Mudd College
25 March 2008 Extra Dimensions in String Theory Steuard Jensen '98 Joint Sciences Program
19 February 2008 Quantum Metrology with Precision Light and Ultracold Atoms Jun Ye JILA
12 February 2008 Ultra-Sensitive Atomic Magnetometry: From Fieldable Sensors to High-Resolution Magnetic Microscopy James Higbie UC Berkeley
5 February 2008 Particle Physics -- Physics at the Petabyte Scale Adam Edwards Pomona College
29 January 2008 Using Mechanics to Describe Cell Membrane Structures Huen Jin Lee Caltech
4 December 2007 The Early Days of the Space Shuttle Program Gordon G. Fullerton NASA
27 November 2007 How To Light Up a Black Hole: The Physics of Black Hole Accretion Flows Omer Blaes UC Santa Barbara
13 November 2007 Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy: Probing Dynamics at Fundamental Length and Time Scales Ernie Glover Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
30 October 2007 Why Is the Past Different From the Future? Sean Carroll Caltech
16 October 2007 Neutrino Masses and Oscillations: Triumphs and Challenges Bob McKeown Caltech
2 October 2007 Frontiers in Optical Biomolecular Imaging Peter So '86 MIT
18 September 2007 Captivating and Chilling: An All-Optical Method for Making Bose-Einstein Condensates Dwight L. Whitaker Pomona College
11 September 2007 Off-Campus Research in the Summer of 2007 Six HMC Students Harvey Mudd College
24 April 2007 Characterizing Magnetic Materials on the Nano-Scale Using Synchrotron X-Rays Eric E. Fullerton UC San Diego
17 April 2007 Robotic Planetary Science: the Mars Exploration Rovers and Beyond Ashley Stroupe JPL
3 April 2007 Watching Atoms Move With Ultrafast X-Rays Roger Falcone UC Berkeley
20 March 2007 Physics of Sustainability David Hafemeister Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
6 March 2007 Imaging Human Brain Function, or, Can We "Read Your Thoughts?" Robert H. Kraus, Jr. Los Alamos National Laboratory
20 February 2007 Recent Developments in Physics Several HMC Professors Harvey Mudd College
6 February 2007 Pushing the Limits of the Standard Model With Lattice QCD Elizabeth D. Freeland Chicago Art Institute
23 January 2007 String Theory and Holography: An Approach to the Quantum Theory of Gravity Tom Banks UC Santa Cruz
5 December 2006 Stress Evolution of the San Andreas Fault System Bridget Smith-Konter UCSD
21 November 2006 Artificial Atoms on a Chip: The Road to Quantum Computation? Ken Cooper JPL
7 November 2006 The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX): Discovering The Interaction Between Our Solar System and the Galaxy David McComas SwRI and UTSA
24 October 2006 Diagnosing Climate Feedbacks in Atmospheric General Circulation Models Karen Shell Oregon State University
3 October 2006 Applied Antineutrino Physics: Reactor Monitoring with Cubic Meter Scale Antineutrino Detectors Adam Bernstein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
19 September 2006 Imaging the Primordial Plasma: Recent Observations of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Bill Jones Caltech
12 September 2006 Student Presentations of Off-Campus Research during the Summer of 2006 Various students Harvey Mudd College
5 September 2006 Laser- and Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators Chandrashekhar Joshi UCLA
18 April 2006 Dark Matter Arvind Rajaraman U.C. Irvine
4 April 2006 Recent Physics News, as Reported by Faculty Members of the Department of Physics Physics Faculty Harvey Mudd College
21 March 2006 The Formation of the Solar System Re'em Sari Caltech
7 March 2006 The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Cosmology to Medicine John Clarke U. C. Berkeley
21 February 2006 The Accelerating Universe and You: The Past, Present, and Future of Exploring the Universe With Supernovae Michael Wood-Vasey '98 Harvard University
31 January 2006 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Mystery of Nature's Most Powerful Particle Accelerators Theresa Lynn Caltech
24 January 2006 Experimental Quantum Mechanics: Exploring the Quantum World One Atom at a Time Martin Madsen University of Michigan
17 January 2006 Optical Properties of Disordered Systems: Terahertz Spectroscopy of Doped Silicon Erik Helgren U. C. Berkeley
28 November 2005 The Discovery of Superfluid He3 as Seen Through the Eyes of a Graduate Student Douglas Osheroff Stanford
15 November 2005 Spintronics, Semiconductors, Molecules, and Quantum Information Processing David Awschalom UC Santa Barbara
8 November 2005 Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology Nathan Lewis Caltech
25 October 2005 Interference, Complementarity, Entanglement and All That Jazz Mark Beck Whitman College
11 October 2005 Galaxy Collisions and the Birth of Quasars Gabriela Canalizo U. C. Riverside
27 September 2005 Production and Application of an Aerosol of Micron-Scale Particles Thomas D. Donnelly Harvey Mudd College
13 September 2005 Q > Million Optical Microresonators on Silicon Chips Kerry Vahala Caltech
6 September 2005 What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Off-Campus Summer Research Experiences HMC juniors and seniors Harvey Mudd College
26 April 2005 Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind - A Scientist Looks at UFO's Mark Vagins U.C. Irvine
19 April 2005 Chaotic Dynamics of Mixing in Fluids Jerry Gollub Haverford College and U. Pennsylvania
12 April 2005 Visualization of Quantum Phenomena Wilson Ho U.C. Irvine
29 March 2005 New Methods for Imaging Brain Activity in Space and Time Stanley Klein U. C. Berkeley
8 March 2005 Dances With Atoms and Photons: Steps Toward Quantum Information Technology Theresa Lynn Caltech
22 February 2005 National Academy Study on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty David Hafemeister Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
8 February 2005 Was Leonardo Right? New Insights into the Mechanics of Cardiovascular Development Scott Fraser '76 Caltech
25 January 2005 The Largest Quake in 40 Years Kate Hutton Seismological Laboratory, Caltech
7 December 2004 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions Jonathan L. Feng UC Irvine
23 November 2004 Heating up the Vacuum: a New Spin on QCD at RHIC Kenneth N. Barish UC Riverside
2 November 2004 Bits of the Future: Magnetic Recording Beyond the Superparamagnetic Limit Eric Fullerton '84 San Jose Research Center
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
12 October 2004 Quantum Computation: Why, What, and How Carlton M. Caves University of New Mexico
21 September 2004 Earthquake Prediction: Physics or Phantasy? Gregory Lyzenga Harvey Mudd College
7 September 2004 What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Off-campus summer research experiences 12 Senior and Junior Physics Majors Harvey Mudd College
20 April 2004 Cosmology on the String Theory Landscape Shamit Kachru Stanford University
23 March 2004 Physics at the B Factories: Progress and Prospects Patricia Burchat Stanford University
2 March 2004 How an Experimental Physicist Can Observe Individual Biological Molecules Everett Lipman UC Santa Barbara
17 February 2004 Observing Galaxy Evolution at the Keck Telescope James Larkin UCLA
3 February 2004 Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals and the Next Generation of Liquid Crystal Displays Peter Collings Swarthmore College
20 January 2004 Searching for Gravitational Waves: Fulfilling Einstein's Vision Peter Saulson Syracuse University
2 December 2003 Vortex Lattice Melting in the High Temperature Superconductors Clare Yu UC Irvine
11 November 2003 The Search for Astrophysical Neutrinos at the Energy Frontier Steve Barwick UC Irvine
28 October 2003 Magnetism at the Nanoscale E. Dan Dahlberg University of Minnesota
7 October 2003 Castling Light on the Dark Side of the Universe Mark Trodden Syracuse University
23 September 2003 Biological Large Scale Integration Stephen Quake Caltech
9 September 2003 Schrödinger's Rainbow: The Renaissance in Quantum Opitcal Interferometry Jonathan Dowling NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
22 April 2003 How Physicists Have Learned from Computer Scientists to be Cheap and Lazy Alan Middleton Syracuse University
1 April 2003 The Zen and the Art of Solar Neutrinos M. Vagins UC Irvine
11 March 2003 Electron Spin Resonance Transistors, for Quantum Communication and Computing Eli Yablonovitch UCLA
4 March 2003 Recent Physics News Several HMC professors Harvey Mudd College
28 January 2003 The Very Early Universe Gary Felder Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics
21 January 2003 String Theory in a Nutshell Vatche Sahakian Cornell University
3 December 2002 Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders G. Hanson UC Riverside
12 November 2002 An Experimental Exploration of the Quantum Vacuum Through the Casimir Force U. Mohideen UC Riverside
29 October 2002 Schrödinger Cats and Other Quantum Mechanical Crimes: Coherence and the Appearance of Classicality D. Santiago Stanford University
8 October 2002 Dark Matter and Elementary Particles Marc Kamionkowski Caltech
24 September 2002 A Brief Look at French Magnetism Peter Saeta Harvey Mudd College
10 September 2002 A Surprisingly Strong X-Ray Signal: Eight Years later Tom Donnelly Harvey Mudd College
16 April 2002 Military Secrets of the Oceans, Atmosphere and UFOs Richard Muller UC Berkeley
2 April 2002 Colliders 101 Peter Tenenbaum SLAC
12 March 2002 Electrons in Flatland: The Whole is Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts Jim Eisenstein Caltech
5 March 2002 Neurodynamics Mikhail Rabinovich UC San Diego
5 February 2002 Radio Milky Way: Broadcasting 24 Hours a Day To a Receiver Near You Christopher L. Martin Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
29 January 2002 Chasing After Gamma-Ray Bursts Ann Esin Harvey Mudd College
27 November 2001 Sonoluminescence: The Star in the Jar Seth Putterman UCLA
20 November 2001 Computer Modeling of a Fusion Plasma Bruce I. Cohen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
6 November 2001 Understanding Earth's Climate Alex Hall UCLA
9 October 2001 Global Hawk: A Transformation in Airborne Reconnaissance Norman S. Sakamoto Northrop Gruman Corp.
25 September 2001 Physics Converging: Biological, Materials and Optical Physics at The Nanometer Scale Richard Haglund Vanderbilt University
11 September 2001 The Physics of Ultrafast, Ultratense Light Interactions With Matter Todd Ditmire Univ. of Texas at Austin
10 April 2001 Magnetic MEMS Jack W. Judy UCLA
27 March 2001 Understanding the Physics of Earthquakes with HPC Numerical Simulations: Implications for Earthquake John B. Rundle Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
6 March 2001 Climate Modeling: Can the Forecasts be Verified? Stephen H. Schneider Stanford
20 February 2001 Topological Defects, Interactions, and Chaining in Nematic Emulsions T. C. Lubensky University of Pennsylvania
23 January 2001 In Search of Black Holes in Our Galaxy Ann Esin Caltech
12 December 2000 Measuring the Accelerating Universe with Supernovae Robert Knop '90
5 December 2000 Exploring the Universe with Galaxy Redshift Surveys Huan Lin Steward Observatory
28 November 2000 Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxies Daniel A. Dale Caltech
14 November 2000 Pulsars: Interstellar Laboratories for Uncontrollable Physics Andrea Lommen UC Berkeley
31 October 2000 Quantum Entanglement in Ion Traps Charles A. Sackett '91 NIST
10 October 2000 New tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle and Newton's Inverse-Square Law Eric G. Adelberger University of Washington
26 September 2000 Gamma-Ray Bursts: Black Hole Birth Announcements Brenda Dingus '82 University of Wisconsin
12 September 2000 Information and the Quantum: Classical Interface Hideo Mabuchi Caltech
18 April 2000 Development of a Real-Time, Third Harmonic Microscope with Touch Interaction Jeff Squier UC San Diego
4 April 2000 NIST F-2: The Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock Frank A. Moscatelli Swarthmore
29 February 2000 The Detection of Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech
15 February 2000 The Brilliant Gamma-ray Bursts: Dying Cries for the Deep Universe S. R. Kulkarni Caltech
1 February 2000 Liquid Helium Nano-droplets, a Superfluid Solvent? Ken Janda UC Irvine
18 January 2000 Confining a Fusion Fire: A Grand Challenge for Science and Technology Dale M. Meade Princeton
30 November 1999 What's in Your Hard Drive: Thin Films for Magnetic Recording Matt Carey '85 IBM Almaden Research Center
16 November 1999 Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable Human Exploration of the Solar System John C. Mankins '78 NASA
9 November 1999 Optical Materials for Waveguide and Fiber Devices Denise M. Krol UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
26 October 1999 The Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, or, Why I Should Have Paid Attention in Theo-Mech Roger Carlson '89 TRW
5 October 1999 The Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems in Our Era Mary Barsony
21 September 1999 Use of Naturally Occurring Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves for Determination of Feologic Structure Stephen K. Park UC Riverside
4 May 1999 Something Quantum This Way Comes Paul Kwiat
20 April 1999 What Can Happen in a Few Femtoseconds? Harry Tom UC Riverside
6 April 1999 Ultrashort Light Pulses Henry C. Kapteyn '83 University of Michigan
23 March 1999 Controlling Chaos: Towards Quieting the Beating Heart Michael Cross Caltech
2 March 1999 Boojums and Hyperbolic Hedgehogs: Strange Beauty of Nematic Liquid Cystals Emulsions Robert P. Wolf Harvey Mudd College
9 February 1999 The Formation of the Earth and the Role of Impacts on the Origin of Life David J. Stevenson Caltech
2 February 1999 Deactivation Kinetics of Sodium Channels in Skeltal Muscle: Independent or Cooperative Gating? James R. Groome Harvey Mudd College
24 November 1998 Measuring the Expansion of the Universe with Supernovae Robert Knop '90 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
19 November 1998 Life at the end of the Chromosome: Where Chemistry and Biology Meet Bioinformatics Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado at Boulder
27 October 1998 Instabilities and Chaos in Lasers and Other Physics Systems Lee Casperson Portland State University
13 October 1998 Disorder and Synchronization in Josephson Junction Arrays Adam S. Landsberg WM Keck Science Center
29 September 1998 Persistent Photoconductivity in Si delta-doped GaAs Chih-Yung Chen Harvey Mudd College
15 September 1998 Ancient Days With Elementary Particles Joseph Platt Harvey Mudd College
21 April 1998 Silk Stalkings: The Mechanics of Spider Silk During Prey Capture Scot Gould JSD
24 March 1998 More Than Meets The Eye: Scientific Examination of Works of Art Marco Leona LA County Museum of Art
3 March 1998 Superconductor Electronics: Pendulums, SQUIDS, and Single-Flux Quanta Mark Johnson '89 TRW
17 February 1998 Ultrafast Time-Scale Interactions of Intense Laser Light With Matter Roger Falcone UC Berkeley
3 February 1998 Space Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Ronald Hellings Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2 December 1997 Measuring the Lifetime of Beauty Sarah D. Johnson University of La Verne
11 November 1997 The Second Superstring Revolution John Schwarz Caltech
28 October 1997 Magnetized Acretion Disks Around Stars and Black Holes: Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Outer Space David Meier Jet Propulsion Laboratory
14 October 1997 Macroscopic Quantum Physics of a Superfluid Helium-3 Weak Link, or, Whistle While You Work James C. (Seamus) Davis UC Berkeley
30 September 1997 True Polar Wander and the Geodynamics of Supercontinents David Evans Caltech
16 September 1997 The Neutron Star--White Dwarf Binary Population in the Galactic Disk Donald C. Backer UC Berkeley
15 April 1997 Earthquake Mechanics in Southern California Greg Lyzenga Harvey Mudd College
11 March 1997 Where is All The Antimatter? Sunil Somalwar Rutgers University
18 February 1997 Creating Data-Driven Systems for Laboratory Automation John McNeil SAIC