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Summer 2010 Off-Campus Research (September 21, 2010)

Speaker(s): Nine HMC Physics Majors Kali Allison, John Bremseth, Theo DuBose, John Grasel, Robert Hoyt, Cecily Keppel, Kyle Luh, Shaun […]

Physics and Engineering in the Village (September 7, 2010)

Speaker(s): Peter Saeta Are you tired of having your work appreciated? Does it embarrass you when people celebrate your achievements […]

Doppler Tracking, Pulsar Timing and the Sensitivity of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Searches (April 20, 2010)

Speaker(s): John Armstrong (’69) Gravitational waves (GWs) are predicted across a spectrum ranging from ~kilohertz to femtohertz. Gravity wave detections […]

Recent Developments in Physics (April 6, 2010)

Speaker(s): Several HMC Professors The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe — Ann Esin Direct Evidence for Dark Matter — Ann Esin […]

Dark Energy and Einstein’s Biggest Blunder (March 23, 2010)

Speaker(s): Thomas Helliwell According to quantum field theory, vacuum is not nothing, but probably contains an enormous amount of energy. […]

Optical Spintronics for Quantum Information Processing and Magnetic Sensing (March 2, 2010)

Speaker(s): Kai-Mei Fu The optical detection and control of solid-state spins has exciting applications in the fields of quantum information […]

Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots (February 16, 2010)

Speaker(s): Matthew Rakher The quantum mechanical nature of single atoms or molecules can be very difficult to measure in the […]

Isotope Studies in Natural Systems and Their Applications (February 9, 2010)

Speaker(s): Gerardo Dominguez The abundance of isotopes of an element can vary as a function of time and space. A […]

Why Does the Universe Have More Matter than Anti-matter? A Search for Violation of Parity and Time-reversal Symmetries (February 2, 2010)

Speaker(s): Alexander Sushkov Last year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Nambu, Kobayashi, and Maskawa for their study of […]

Cavity-Aided Quantum Measurement and Dynamics with Cold Atoms (January 26, 2010)

Speaker(s): Igor Teper The exquisite control of internal and external degrees of freedom possible for laser-cooled atoms makes them ideal […]

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.