Weekly Colloquium
Most weeks during the semester, we host a scholar for a one-day visit. The visit culminates with a public talk on a topic of contemporary physics or astronomy. Students are welcome to these talks, and seniors are required to attend at least nine over the course of a year. Near the end of each semester, honors thesis students give public lectures on their work.
Our Astronomy program is part of the Five College Astronomy Department, which hosts its own colloquium series Thursdays at 3:45 pm at UMass.
- Contact colloquium organizer Rachael Dunphy with any questions about colloquia, or being added to our mailing list.
January 31: John Lacy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Williams College, "Making Use of Imperfect Perfect Connectors."
Tue, Jan 31, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Superconductivity – the phenomenon of electrical conduction with precisely zero resistance –
seems like the stuf...
February 7: Trevor Wright 18,' University of Colorado Boulder ," A New Bound on the Electron's Electric Dipole Moment."
Tue, Feb 7, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
The Standard Model cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our universe, which
indicates the exis...
February 14: Neil Zimmerman, NIST, "Science, Excitement and Challenges of Distributing Entanglement over a Quantum Network"
Tue, Feb 14, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
2D materials are exciting in part because they have novel properties which are often the result of the energy level spectr...
February 21: Kelly Patton, Assistant Professor of Physics, Trinity College
Tue, Feb 21, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
February 23: Professor Eric Cornell, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2001, University of Colorado Boulder "Lazy vs. Sloppy: The Epic Story of Energy, Entropy, Temperature, the Ultimate Fate of the Universe and the Role of Divine Intervention"
Thu, Feb 23, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
February 28: Peter Fisher, Director of MIT Office of Research Computing and Data, Professor of Physics, MIT
Tue, Feb 28, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
March 7: Ken Halvorsen, Research Scientist, the RNA Institute, SUNY Albany
Tue, Mar 7, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011
3/14 Spring Break
Tue, Mar 14, 2023
All day
March 21: David Weiss, Associate Head for Research, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Penn State University
Tue, Mar 21, 2023
2:00 pm
Science Center, A011
March 28: Chen Wang, Assistant Professor, U Mass Amherst
Tue, Mar 28, 2023
4:00 pm
Science Center, A011