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The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Cosmology to Medicine (March 7, 2006)

Speaker(s): John Clarke Many materials become superconducting at sufficiently low temperatures. In the superconducting state, electrons of opposite momentum and […]

The Accelerating Universe and You: The Past, Present, and Future of Exploring the Universe With Supernovae (February 21, 2006)

Speaker(s): Michael Wood-Vasey (’98) The field of cosmology has been revolutionized in the last decade by the discovery that the […]

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Mystery of Nature’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerators (January 31, 2006)

Speaker(s): Theresa Lynn Stargazing is perhaps one of humanity’s oldest pastimes. As modern astronomers have learned to image the universe […]

Experimental Quantum Mechanics: Exploring the Quantum World One Atom at a Time (January 24, 2006)

Speaker(s): Martin Madsen Atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale, for they satisfy the laws […]

Optical Properties of Disordered Systems: Terahertz Spectroscopy of Doped Silicon (January 17, 2006)

Speaker(s): Erik Helgren The terahertz (THz) spectral range has been under-utilized in the past both in fundamental research as well […]

The Discovery of Superfluid \(\mathrm{He}^3\) as Seen Through the Eyes of a Graduate Student (November 28, 2005)

Speaker(s): Douglas Osheroff It was at the beginning of his fifth year of graduate study that Douglas Osheroff discovered evidence […]

Spintronics, Semiconductors, Molecules, and Quantum Information Processing (November 15, 2005)

Speaker(s): David Awschalom There is a growing interest in exploiting electronic and nuclear spins in semiconductor nanostructures for the manipulation […]

Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology (November 8, 2005)

Speaker(s): Nathan Lewis This presentation will describe and evaluate the challenges, both technical, political, and economic, involved with widespread adoption […]

Interference, Complementarity, Entanglement and All That Jazz (October 25, 2005)

Speaker(s): Mark Beck Technology has advanced to the point where it is possible for undergraduates to perform experiments exploring fundamental […]

Galaxy Collisions and the Birth of Quasars (October 11, 2005)

Speaker(s): Gabriela Canalizo Quasars are some of the most powerful objects in the Universe, and their study allows us to […]

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.