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Graduate Programs in Physics and Astronomy (August 29, 2017)

Speaker(s): HMC Physics Faculty HMC Physics faculty will discuss graduate programs in physics and astronomy in the United States and […]

The Challenges of Space Weather and Radiation Environments in Aerospace (April 25, 2017)

Speaker(s): Rita Kalra Space radiation from high-energy particles is a field that is of increasing importance in this dawning space […]

Ultrafast and Very Small: Discover Nanoscale Magnetism With Picosecond Time Resolution Using X-Rays (April 18, 2017)

Speaker(s): Hendrik Oldag Today’s magnetic device technology is based on complex magnetic alloys or multilayers that are patterned at the […]

Breaking Heisenberg: Controlling the Quantum World (April 4, 2017)

Speaker(s): Ivan Deutsch The quantum information revolution has taught us that quantum mechanics is not a paler version of its […]

Topology and the Phases of Condensed Matter (March 21, 2017)

Speaker(s): Siddarth Parameswaran The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz for […]

Earth-size Exoplanets (March 7, 2017)

Speaker(s): Andrew Howard Earth-size exoplanets and their slightly larger ‘super-Earth’ cousins are the most abundant planets orbiting close to Sun-like […]

Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars (February 21, 2017)

Speaker(s): Jason Gallicchio Bell’s theorem states that some predictions of quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced by a local-realist theory. That […]

Life After Physics, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Systems Engineering (October 25, 2016)

Speaker(s): Paul SanGiorgio ’01 Traditional job opportunities for physicists in research and academia are becoming harder and harder to find […]

Gravitational Wave Detection With Advanced LIGO (April 26, 2016)

Speaker(s): Matt Evans (’96) The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently made the first direct detection of gravitational waves; minute […]

Saturn Ring Seismology (April 5, 2016)

Speaker(s): Jim Fuller The rich dynamics of Saturn’s rings offer a unique opportunity to study the internal structure 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.