Physics ColloquiumPage 14

Black Holes and Holographic Heat Engines (November 18, 2014)

Speaker(s): Clifford Johnson New work has shown how to complete the correspondence between the physics of black holes and the […]

Playing with Sand: Complex Behaviors from a Simple Material (November 4, 2014)

Speaker(s): Karen E. Daniels Granular materials are integral to many parts of our daily lives, from the coffee beans that […]

Listening for the Echoes of Inflation with BICEP2 and Beyond (October 7, 2014)

Speaker(s): Jeffrey Filippini Our modern account of cosmic history begins with a period of extraordinarily rapid expansion known as inflation. […]

Whither Gravitational Waves (September 30, 2014)

Speaker(s): Vatche Sahakian

Off-campus summer research in physics (September 16, 2014)

Speaker(s): HMC students Kaew Tinyanont, Jim Wu, Miranda Thompson, Alex Kendrick, Allison Mis, Luke St Marie, and Celeste Melamed speak […]

Deep Down Beauty: Particle Physics, Mathematics, and the World Around Us (April 29, 2014)

Speaker(s): Bruce Schumm Almost everyone has heard of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and, while stifling a yawn, can […]

Dwarf to Super Novae: How Dead Stars Occasionally Light Up and Tell Us About the Universe (April 22, 2014)

Speaker(s): Omer Blaes Billions of years in the future, our Sun will eventually run out of all of its fuel […]

Peeking Under the Cosmic Veil (April 8, 2014)

Speaker(s): Alan Guth and John Kovac, via edited video of a colloquium at Harvard from 25 March 2014 “For decades […]

Observing Entanglement in a Quantum Annealing Processor (March 25, 2014)

Speaker(s): Mark Johnson (’89) Quantum Annealing (QA) is an algorithm proposed as one of a potentially powerful set of methods […]

Unlocking Unconventional Resources (March 4, 2014)

Speaker(s): Scott Nguyen With the increasing world demand of energy and in particulartransportation fuel, new and alternative sources of energy […]

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.