Physics ColloquiumPage 1

Using High-Power, Pulsed Lasers to Generate Hot, Dense Environments: A Fusion Testbed (December 4, 2012)

Speaker(s): Tom Donnelly When they where first invented in 1960, someone quipped that “Lasers are a solution waiting for a […]

Good Vibrations for Habitable Environments on Ancient Mars from Orbital Spectroscopy (November 13, 2012)

Speaker(s): Briony Horgan Infrared spectroscopy from NASA satellites around Mars has revolutionized our understanding of what the surface of the […]

Thermoelastic Phononic Metamaterials (October 30, 2012)

Speaker(s): Slobodan Mitrovic An independent control over electrical and thermal properties is one of the central goals in the search […]

Quantum Mechanics with Mechanical Structures (October 16, 2012)

Speaker(s): Keith Schwab There appears to be no fundamental reason why macroscopic mechanical objects cannot demonstrate quantum phenomena such as […]

Why the Higgs Boson is Called “The God Particle” (October 2, 2012)

Speaker(s): John S. Townsend I will discuss how spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories via the Higgs mechanism generates the […]

Small Stars with Small Planets and Big Consequences (September 25, 2012)

Speaker(s): Philip Muirhead With the success of NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft, extrasolar planet science has entered a new era. Prior to […]

What I did for summer research (September 11, 2012)

Speaker(s): Nate Bean, Chris Cotner, Jake Fish, Robert Kealhofer, Erik Littleton, Laura Maguire, Luke Mastalli-Kelly, Bradley Perfect, Carola Purser, and […]

Physics in Everyday Life (April 17, 2012)

Speaker(s): Peter Goldreich Examples will be drawn from human metabolism, sports, flight, and weather.

Results from the Highest Energy Proton Collisions at the LHC (April 3, 2012)

Speaker(s): Maria Spiropulu The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest and most complex scientific undertaking ever attempted. Its results […]

One, Two, Three — Quantum Transport Suspended Graphene Devices (March 27, 2012)

Speaker(s): Jeanie Lau Graphene, a two-dimensional single atomic layer of carbon, has recently emerged as a promising candidate for electronic […]

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. 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.