Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Spring 2019
Note: All colloquia will be held on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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| Jan. 10 | Terrestrial Gamma Flashes Observed by GBM | ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Alabama Huntsville | Michael Cherry | |
| Jan. 17 | A New Era of Precision in Doppler Exoplanet Science | U C Irvine | Manos Chatzopoulos | |
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Jan. 23 (Hearne Eminent Lecture) |
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter |
Princeton ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Jorge Pullin | |
| Jan. 24 | The Bouncing Universe | Princeton ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Jorge Pullin | |
| Jan. 31 | Galactic Dosimetry and Ground-based Health | Practical Physics Solutions, LLC | Wayne Newhauser | |
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Feb. 7 |
Anomalous Velocity and Geometry in Wave Mechanics | ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Pennsylvania | E. Ward Plummer | |
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Feb. 11 (Monday - NICH room 435) |
Nuclear Activation Analysis — A Versatile Nuclear Assay | South Carolina State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Wayne Newhauser | |
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Feb. 14 (12 pm - NICH room 435) |
From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanets: Characterizing Planets from Infancy to Maturity | ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Wyoming | Tabetha Boyajian | |
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| Feb. 28 | Operational Space Radiation Environment: Analogs, Pathogenesis, and Translation Into Clinical Outcomes in Humans | Texas A&M ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Wayne Newhauser | |
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March 7 |
Quasars in the Age of Big Data and Time-Domain Astronomy | ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Michigan | Geoffrey Clayton | |
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March 21 |
From Tens to Tens of Thousands: Supernovae Science in the Big-Data Era | Space Telescope Science Institute | Geoffrey Clayton | |
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March 28 |
Planetary Evolution in Two Acts: Eclipsing Disks and Transiting Planets | Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Geoffrey Clayton | |
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April 4 |
The Whole Iceberg: Completing the Census of Exoplanets with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey | Ohio State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Geoffrey Clayton | |
| April 11 | Using Big Data to Understand Galaxy Formation in our Neighborhood | Montana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Geoffrey Clayton | |
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April 18 |
Spring Break | |||
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April 24 (Hearne Eminent Lecture) |
Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier | California Institute of Technology | Jonathan P. Dowling | |
| April 25 | Quantum Machine Learning: A Framework for Near-Term Quantum Computing | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Mark Wilde | |
| May 2 | Black Hole Entropy and Gravitational Wave Observations | Penn State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Ivan Agullo | |
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May 8 |
The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes | Montana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø | Geoff Clayton | |