Colloquia Archive: 2018

Physics Colloquia Titles and Speakers


Friday, 30 November 2018

Zero-Point Energy: Still Interesting (and Mysterious) After All These Years

Peter W. Milonni, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Rochester



Friday, 2 November 2018

Watching Individual Proteins Unfold and Refold Using 1-µs Resolution Force Spectroscopy

Thomas T. Perkins, JILA



Friday, 19 October 2018

Combining in vitro and in silico Single-molecule Force Spectroscopy to Characterize Protein Mechanics

Rafael C. Bernardi, Visiting Research Scientist, The Beckman Institute; the Univ. of IL – Urbana/Champaign



Friday, 12 October 2018

Physics after the lab & the desk: Your work in PRL

Samindranath (Sami) Mitra, PhD, Editor, Physical Review Letters (APS)



Friday, 14 September 2018

Physics as Applied to Transitional MRI Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Kevin M. Koch, Medical College of Wisconsin and MCW/MU



Friday, 4 May 2018

Studies in Gravitational-wave Astronomy & Tests of General Relativity

Hong Qi, UWM Department of Physics


Friday, 20 April 2018

Getting Published in High-Impact Journals: A Perspective from a Nature Methods Editor

Dr. Allison Doerr, Senior Editor for Nature Methods


Friday, 13 April 2018

Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves!

Debnandini Mukherjee, UWM Department of Physics


Friday, 6 April 2018

Listening to Binary Stars Through Cosmic History

Dr. Astrid Lamberts, Caltech


Friday, 16 March 2018

Galilean Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics

Dr. Michael Geracie, Postdoc in the Center for Quantum Mathematics & Physics (QMAP) UC-Davis


Friday, 9 March 2018

New Opportunities in Single-particle Cryo-EM: Mapping States in an Ensemble, Trapping Short-lived States

Professor Joachim Frank, Columbia University


Friday, 2 March 2018

Accreting Neutron Stars and the Physics of Dense Matter

Professor Ed Brown, Michigan State University


Friday, 23 February 2018

Studying Chromatin Dynamics by Advanced Live Cell Imaging Methods

Professor Yuval Garini, Bar Ilan University, Israel


Friday, 2 February 2018

Of Course, an STC is Only a Means to An End, Which Is (Hopefully) Science

Professor Ed Lattman, University of Buffalo (SUNY)


Friday, 26 January 2018

The Shocking Ways Stars Die

Dr. Tony Piro, The Carnegie Observatories