Colloquium
Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 pm 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.
| April 13, 2018 | Marja Seidel, Carnegie Observatories Extragalactic Archeology and Aspects of Dark Matter |
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| April 10, 2018 | Nick Hutzler, Caltech SEARCHING FOR NEW PARTICLES AND FORCES WITH POLYATOMIC MOLECULES |
The fact that the universe is made entirely out of matter, and contains no free anti-matter, has no |
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| April 3, 2018 | Christine Corbett Moran, Caltech Supermassive Black Hole Formation |
Supermassive black holes are in place by the first billion years of the universe's existence. Several promising channels have be proposed for their formation, but forming supermassive black holes in the requisite time-frame remains a theoretical puzzle. One promising channel is that of direct collapse, in which a cloud of gas collapses to a massive seed black hole that then ... |
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| March 27, 2018 | Marina Brozovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pinging space rocks – a radar story of asteroids and comets |
Short of sending a spacecraft, radar observations have proven to be the most effective technique to study Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and occasionally comets. The two most powerful radars in the world are the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Goldstone Solar System Radar in the Mojave Desert in California. To date, these radars have observed more than 700 NEAs ... |
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| March 20, 2018 | Jorge S. Moreno Soto, Pomona College Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: A Cosmic Rendezvous |
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In this talk I will describe recent results on the modelling of interacting galaxies using the novel Feedback In Realistic Environment (FIRE) model. FIRE is capable of resolving the multi-phase structure of the interstellar medium (ISM). In this model, feedback from stars and supernovae regulate star formation. Studying mergers is particularly interesting because these extreme environment lead to intense burst ... |
| Feb. 20, 2018 | Jo Piteski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Cassini's Grand Finale - Going Out in a Blaze of Glory! |
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| Dec. 5, 2017 | Claremont Locally Grown Power and City of Hope Raman Clinic teams, Harvey Mudd College Clinic talks |
Quentin Barth (CLPG) and Jenny Smith (City of Hope) will discuss their Clinic projects. |
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| Nov. 28, 2017 | Brian Cheng, Sarah Hale, and Cynthia Yan, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Nov. 14, 2017 | Sophie Graf, Mackenzie Vignoul, and Daipeng Yang, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Nov. 7, 2017 | Caitlin Cash, Kemper Ludlow, and Jacob Roth, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Oct. 31, 2017 | LLNL and Sandia Clinic Teams, Harvey Mudd College Clinic talks |
The physicists on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Clinic team (Emily Lane and Arch Robison) will describe their project, and the physicists on the Sandia National Laboratory Clinic team (Ále Baptista, Andrew Bishop, and Lupe MacIntosh) will describe theirs. |
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| Oct. 24, 2017 | Connor Colombe, Philip Digiacomo, and Hana Schiff, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Oct. 10, 2017 | Carla Becker, Evan Atchison, and CJ Xin, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Sept. 26, 2017 | Gabriel Phun, Kate Reed, and Adam Shaw, Harvey Mudd College Senior research talks |
Three senior physics majors describe their capstone projects. |
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| Sept. 19, 2017 | Wylie Rosenthal (’12), Chris Cotner (’13), and Chris Gage (’13), Harvey Mudd College Three Recent HMC Physics Alums Discuss Looking for Physics-Related Jobs |
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We are excited to welcome back to campus three recent HMC physics graduates to provide their insights into the job market for physics graduates and tips on landing your first job. Wylie Rosenthal (’12) took an optical engineering job with Zygo after graduating and worked there for three years before moving in 2015 to the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization. Chris ... |
