Physics Colloquia Titles and Speakers
Friday, 8 December 2017
Rethinking the Fundamentals of Classical Nova Explosions
Dr. Laura Chomiuk, Michigan State University
Friday, 1 December 2017
Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies at z>2
Dr. Ryan Trainor, Franklin & Marshall College
Friday, 17 November 2017
Velocity Gradients as a New Way of Studying Galactic Magnetic Fields
Dr. Alex Lazarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, 10 November 2017
The Cosmological Context of Star Formation
Dr. Tom Quinn, University of Washington
Friday, 3 November 2017
Detectable Changes in Astronomy
Dr. Federica Bianco, Center for Cosmology & Particle Physics, Center for Urban Science & Progress, NYU
Friday, 27 October 2017
Topologically Protected Fermi Surfaces
Dr. Daniel Agterberg, UW-Milawukee Department of Physics
Friday, 20 October 2017
Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics
Dr. Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland – College Park
Friday, 13 October 2017
Cosmology, Cell Phones & Video Games: Mapping Dark Energy with CHIME
Dr. Keith Vanderlinde, University of Toronto
Friday, 6 October 2017
Atomic Scale Imaging of Molecular Dynamics
Dr. Martin Centurion, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics
Friday, 29 September 2017
The Local Black Hole Occupation Fraction
Dr. Elena Gallo, University of Michigan Department of Astronomy
Friday, 22 September 2017
All That Glitters is Not Necessarily Gold: the accurate identification of metals in metalloproteins and post X-ray diffraction structural remediation
Dr. Edward Snell, President & CEO, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Friday, 15 September 2017
Homotransfer FRET Sensors for Biological Exploration
Dr. Mark A. Rizzo, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Friday, 8 September 2017
2D Class Averaging of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Images
Dr. Zhizhen ‘Jane’ Zhao, University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign
Friday, 5 May 2017
Quasar Absorption Lines: From Reionization to Dark Matter
Dr. George Becker, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UC-Riverside
Friday, 21 April 2017
New Approaches to Structure Determination from Uncrystallized Biomolecules
Dr. Jeffrey Donatelli, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Friday, 7 April 2017
Cosmology, Cell Phones & Video Games: Mapping Dark Energy with CHIME
Dr. Keith Vanderlinde, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Friday, 10 March 2017
How Black Holes Dine Above the Eddington “Limit” Without Overheating or Excessive Belching
Dr. Shane Davis, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Friday, 3 March 2017
Hypervelocity Stars
Dr. Warren Brown, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Friday, 24 February 2017
Starbursts & Supernovae: Nature’s High Energy Particle Accelerator?
Dr. Jay Gallagher, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Miniaturized Microwave & Millimeter Wave Biodetection for Molecular and Cellular Characterization
Dr. Katia Grenier, LAAS – CNRS (Toulouse, France)