Physics ColloquiumPage 23

Ultra-Sensitive Atomic Magnetometry: From Fieldable Sensors to High-Resolution Magnetic Microscopy (February 12, 2008)

Speaker(s): James Higbie Precision measurement of magnetic fields on the centimeter to meter scale has a wide range of fundamental […]

Particle Physics — Physics at the Petabyte Scale (February 5, 2008)

Speaker(s): Adam Edwards Advances in experimental particle physics have often been achieved through colliding particles together at ever higher energies. […]

Using Mechanics to Describe Cell Membrane Structures (January 29, 2008)

Speaker(s): Huen Jin Lee The membranes of a cell are organized in a great variety of shapes and sizes, from […]

The Early Days of the Space Shuttle Program (December 4, 2007)

Speaker(s): Gordon G. Fullerton

How To Light Up a Black Hole: The Physics of Black Hole Accretion Flows (November 27, 2007)

Speaker(s): Omer Blaes Far from being dark, black holes are at the heart of the most energetic and luminous phenomena […]

Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy: Probing Dynamics at Fundamental Length and Time Scales (November 13, 2007)

Speaker(s): Ernie Glover The non-equilibrium world in which we live is characterized by chemical reactions, phase transitions, and other dynamical […]

Why Is the Past Different From the Future? (October 30, 2007)

Speaker(s): Sean Carroll Over a century ago, Boltzmann and others provided a microscopic understanding for the tendency of entropy to […]

Neutrino Masses and Oscillations: Triumphs and Challenges (October 16, 2007)

Speaker(s): Bob McKeown The recent progress in establishing the existence of finite neutrino masses and mixing between generations of neutrinos […]

Frontiers in Optical Biomolecular Imaging (October 2, 2007)

Speaker(s): Peter So (’86) In the post-genomic era, a central challenge of modern biology and medicine is the need to […]

Captivating and Chilling: An All-Optical Method for Making Bose-Einstein Condensates (September 18, 2007)

Speaker(s): Dwight L. Whitaker We have developed a system to create Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a time varying optical dipole […]

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.