Physics ColloquiumPage 21

Does the Universe Know About Black Hole Spin? (November 10, 2009)

Speaker(s): David Garofalo The cosmic evolution of active galaxies is influenced by their tiny central regions where the most energetic […]

Tracking the Motion of a Biomolecular Machine with a Nanoscale Optical Encoder (October 27, 2009)

Speaker(s): Everett Lipman Molecular motors are essential components of the machinery of life, enabling processes such as DNA replication, transcription, […]

Go With the Flow: Numerical Simulations of Turbulence in Fluids (October 6, 2009)

Speaker(s): Janet Scheel Turbulent systems are all around us, from waves crashing on our beaches, to smoke rising from the […]

The Early Lives of Sun-Like Stars (September 22, 2009)

Speaker(s): Ann Esin The study of star formation is currently one of the mostactive areas of astrophysics, partly due to […]

Summer 2009 Off-Campus Research (September 8, 2009)

Speaker(s): Several HMC Physics Majors We will hear from Nicole Crisosto, Greg Harding, Hong Sio, David Miller, Cecily Keppel, Trystan […]

A Sustainable Nuclear Energy Future (April 14, 2009)

Speaker(s): Mike Campbell The development of a sustainable, abundant, environmentally and socially acceptable global energy supply is the most pressing […]

LHC — Journey to the Heart of Matter (March 31, 2009)

Speaker(s): Anyes Taffard The start-up of the newest and most powerful particle accelerator has started.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is […]

Singularities in Fluid Flows from Superfluids to Bubbles to Chicken Soup (March 10, 2009)

Speaker(s): Peter Taborek (’74) Fluids can form droplets that pinch off from each other in many situations ranging from ink […]

Nano-opto Mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces Within Guided-Wave Nanostructures (February 24, 2009)

Speaker(s): Oskar Painter The fact that light carries momentum and can exert a mechanical force was first proposed by Kepler […]

The Anatomy of a Spintronic Device (February 10, 2009)

Speaker(s): Roland Kawakami Since its inception, solid-state electronics has relied on the charge degree-of-freedom to store and process information. With […]

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.