Recent Physics News, as Reported by Faculty Members of the Department of Physics

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Speaker(s): Physics Faculty

  • The Arrival of the Cassini Spacecraft at Saturn and the Successful Landing of the Huygens Probe on the Moon Titan” — Greg Lyzenga
  • “The Demonstration of Pyrofusion” — Tom Donnelly
  • “Superfluidity in an Ultracold Gas of Fermions” –Vatche Sahakian
  • “The Brightest Burst of Light Ever Recorded From Outside the Solar System” — Ann Esin

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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.