Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Fall 2016
NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:30 PM in Rm. 109 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Sept. 2 Friday 10am 435 Nicholson |
Major Results from the Exploration of the Pluto System Abstract | Alan Stern | Southwest Research Institute | Geoff Clayton |
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Sept.2 Friday 2pm Hill Memorial Library |
Max Goodrich Distinguished Lecture Series: The Exploration of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons |
Alan Stern |
NASA’s New Horizons Mission / Southwest Research Institute |
Geoff Clayton |
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Sept. 8 |
Stability at saddles of potentials |
A. R. P. Rau |
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University |
Juhan Frank |
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Sept. 15 |
Changing his Mind at the Speed of Thought: Einstein's Failed Attempts to Undiscover Gravitational Waves |
Daniel Kennefick | University of Arkansas | Jorge Pullin |
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Sept. 22 |
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| Sept. 29 |
Complexity of Entanglement in Quantum Computation and Macroscopic Quantum Orders |
Akimasa Miyake | University of New Mexico | Mark Wilde |
| Oct. 6 | Fall Holiday | |||
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Twisting the Quantum |
Charles W. Clark | NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) | Jonathan Dowling |
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Oct. 20 |
Rogue Waves on Pulsating White Dwarf Stars Abstract | JJ Hermes | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Manos Chatzopoulos |
| Oct. 27 | Quantum Trajectories, Decoherence, and What One MIGHT Read from the Environment. Abstract | Howard Carmichael | University of Auckland, New Zealand | Jonathan Dowling |
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Nov. 3 Digital |
Hundred Years of General Relativity: A Global Perspective Abstract | Abhay Ashtekar | Pennsylvania State University | Ivan Agullo |
| Nov. 10 |
Gravitational Wave Memory |
David Garfinkle | Oakland University | Param Singh |
| Nov. 17 | JWST: An Observatory Beyond the Moon | Scott Acton | James Webb Space Telescope World Bicycle Tour |
Juhan Frank |
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
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Room 130 Nicholson Hall 5-6:30 PM Nov. 30 Wednesday |
Hearne Eminent Lecture Series Deciphering the beginnings of the Universe: latest results and open questions |
Matias Zaldarriaga | Institute for Advanced Study | Jorge Pullin |
| Dec. 1 |
Cosmology after Planck |
Matias Zaldarriaga | Institute for Advanced Study | Jorge Pullin |
