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Advancing Our Understanding of Earth’s Interior with AI for Geophysical Data (April 23, 2024)

Dr. Hongyu Sun, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics, Caltech Cutting-edge techniques improve our way of visualizing the subsurface with seismic data, […]

Fractons: A New Playground for Condensed Matter Physics (April 9, 2024)

Dr. Abhinav Prem, Institute for Advanced Study A central theme in modern condensed matter physics is the search for zero-temperature […]

Geometric optics in general relativity (March 26, 2024)

Dr. Rahulkumar Solanki Visiting Professor, Harvey Mudd College How gravity affects light propagation can be explained by the principle that […]

Electrically driven amplification of terahertz acoustic waves in graphene (February 27, 2024)

Dr. Aaron Barajas, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Irvine In graphene devices, the electronic drift velocity can easily exceed the speed ofsound […]

Seeing Small Things with a Few Pixels and a Small Brain (February 13, 2024)

Dr. Luat Vuong, Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside There are increasing demands for robust, rapid-response computer-vision systems; however, complex […]

Studying neutron stars with gravitational waves (January 30, 2024)

Dr. Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor, Caltech Detections of neutron stars in binaries through gravitational waves offer a novel way to […]

Characterizing Novel Semiconductors with Transmission Electron Microscopy (January 16, 2024)

Dr. Allison Mis ’15 Multinary nitrides, i.e. nitrides with two or more cation species, are a vastly under-explored materials space […]

Senior Talks #5 (December 5, 2023)

Freya Derdeyn, “Examining Randomness in Two-Qubit Mixed States” Ellen Ferranto, “Using first principles of x-ray diffraction to identify structure of […]

Senior Talks #4 (November 28, 2023)

Lucien Tsai, “Exploring the Impact of Short Range Order on the Ductility of Complex Alloys” Chris Ranlett, “Electrical resistivity measurements […]

Senior Talks #3 (November 7, 2023)

Svetlana Altshuler, “Cryogenic Characterizations of Graphene Thin-Film for the Testing of a New Instrument” Kaeshav Danesh, “An Exploration of the […]

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.