Physics ColloquiumPage 24

Off-Campus Research in the Summer of 2007 (September 11, 2007)

Speaker(s): Six HMC Students Sam Eisenberg, Max Gibiansky, David Coats, Stephen Rosenthal, Will Tipton, and Meredith Rawls will describe how […]

Characterizing Magnetic Materials on the Nano-Scale Using Synchrotron X-Rays (April 24, 2007)

Speaker(s): Eric E. Fullerton Magnetic materials and devices have played a major role in science and technology for the last […]

Robotic Planetary Science: the Mars Exploration Rovers and Beyond (April 17, 2007)

Speaker(s): Ashley Stroupe One of the primary tasks of the Jet Propulsion Lab is robotic planetary science. This talk will […]

Watching Atoms Move With Ultrafast X-Rays (April 3, 2007)

Speaker(s): Roger Falcone I will discuss experiments which study the dynamics of atoms in materials. This work utilizes fast x-ray […]

Physics of Sustainability (March 20, 2007)

Speaker(s): David Hafemeister Sustainability movement will be defined and described. The physics part of sustainability is driven by energy use […]

Imaging Human Brain Function, or, Can We “Read Your Thoughts?” (March 6, 2007)

Speaker(s): Robert H. Kraus, Jr. A variety of techniques have been developed to noninvasively image human brain function that are […]

Recent Developments in Physics (February 20, 2007)

Speaker(s): Several HMC Professors Four HMC physics faculty will present brief summaries of some of the year’s most interesting developments […]

Pushing the Limits of the Standard Model With Lattice QCD (February 6, 2007)

Speaker(s): Elizabeth D. Freeland The Standard Model of particle physics has been extraordinarily successful. Nevertheless, there are many observations which […]

String Theory and Holography: An Approach to the Quantum Theory of Gravity (January 23, 2007)

Speaker(s): Tom Banks String theory provides us with a number of examples of well defined quantum theories of gravitation in […]

Stress Evolution of theSan Andreas Fault System (December 5, 2006)

Speaker(s): Bridget Smith-Konter The absence of a major earthquake over the past 300 years along the southern San Andreas fault […]

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.