Upcoming Colloquia

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Listed below are upcoming colloquia in Physics and Related Fields. All events take place on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium,  Rockefeller Hall. Refreshments are served 3:30 – 3:50 p.m.

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Spring 2019:

January 28:  Lisa Kaltenegger, Astronomy, Cornell
Title:  A Critical View on how to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life
Host: Eanna Flanagan

February 4:  Jeffrey McMahon, University of Michigan
Title:  Mapping New Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Host:  Mike Niemack

February 11:  Lisa Manning, Syracuse University
Title:  What do Guitar Strings and Balloons have in common with Biological Tissues?
Host:  Jim Sethna

February 18:  Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech and the University of Tokyo
Title: Constraints on Quantum Gravity
Host:  Liam McAllister

March 4 CANCELLED (APS Meeting week in Boston):  

March 11:  Benjamin Nachman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title:  Student Becomes Teacher:  How Machine Learning can Teach us Fundamental Physics
Host:  Jim Alexander

March 18:  Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Santa Cruz - Salpeter Lecture
Title:  Origins of Structure in Planetary Systems
Host:  Dong Lai

March 25:  Paula Heron, University of Washington
Title:  Improving Student Learning in Physics:  The Dual Roles of Conceptual Understanding and Reasoning Ability
Host:  Natasha Holmes

April 8:  John Preskill, Caltech - The Bethe Lectures
Title:  Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond
Host: Paul Ginsparg

April 15:  Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA and SLAC
Title:  Exploring matter at the Angstrom-femtosecond scales with X-ray free-electron lasers
Host:  Jared Maxson

April 22:  Bruce Draine PhD '78, Princeton University - Gold Lecture
Title:  Anomalous Microwave Emission from the Interstellar Medium
Host:  Dong Lai

*April 25:  Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Title:  Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Total Positivity and Motives
Host:  Yuval Grossman, Csaba Csaki and Ravi Ramakrishna
*Special Joint Physics/Math Colloquium in Baker 200, Thursday, April 25 at 4:00 pm

April 29:  David Grier, NYU
Title:  Tractor Beams and Related Topological Waves
Host: Itai Cohen

May 6:  David Griffiths, Reed College
Title:  Hidden Momentum
Host:  Csaba Csaki and Naomi Gendler

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Fall 2019:

September 9:  Mary James, Reed College
Title:
Host:  Ritchie Patterson

September 16: Tom Hartman, Cornell University
Title:
Host:  Liam McAllister

September 23:  Natalie Paquette, Caltech
Title:
Host:  Tom Hartman

September 30:  Paul Chaikin, NYU - The Bethe Lectures
Title:
Host: Itai Cohen

October 7: Marcel Demarteau, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: 
Host:  Jim Alexander

October 21:  Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Title:
Host:  Katja Nowack

October 28:  Adam Becker, Science Writer
Title:
Host:  Jim Sethna

November 4:  Brian Metzger, Columbia - Salpeter Lecture
Title: 
Host:

November 11:  Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook
Title: 
Host: Georg Hoffstaetter

November 18: 
Title: 
Host:

*November 25:  Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford
Title: 
Host: Erich Mueller
*Thanksgiving week

*December 2: Renee Hlozek, University of Toronto
Title:
Host: Mike Niemack
*week after Thanksgiving

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