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.
| Nov. 2, 2004 | Eric Fullerton (’84), San Jose Research Center of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Bits of the Future: Magnetic Recording Beyond the Superparamagnetic Limit |
Storage densities of magnetic recording systems are currently doubling every year in both laboratory demonstrations and hard disk drive products. Increasing the storage density has mainly been achieved by scaling the head and media parameters to smaller dimensions. However, as many of the critical dimensions approach the nanometer scale, a variety of physical phenomena are predicted to limit the capacity … | |
| Oct. 12, 2004 | Carlton M. Caves, University of New Mexico Quantum Computation: Why, What, and How |
The traditional view of quantum mechanics as restricting what can be done classically has been turned upside down by quantum information science, which explores how coherent quantum-mechanical information processing can be used to accomplish tasks that would be impossible in a classical world. Implementing quantum information processing protocols promises to be one of the enduring scientific and technological challenges of … | |
| Sept. 21, 2004 | Gregory Lyzenga, Harvey Mudd College Earthquake Prediction: Physics or Phantasy? |
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| Sept. 7, 2004 | 12 Senior and Junior Physics Majors, Harvey Mudd College What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Off-campus summer research experiences |
Reports from Los Alamos, UCLA, SLAC, Caltech, Chicago, Oregon, Syracuse, Maine and Harvard Smithsonian CFA | |
| April 20, 2004 | Shamit Kachru, Stanford University Cosmology on the String Theory Landscape |
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| March 23, 2004 | Patricia Burchat, Stanford University Physics at the B Factories: Progress and Prospects |
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| March 2, 2004 | Everett Lipman, University of California at Santa Barbara How an Experimental Physicist Can Observe Individual Biological Molecules |
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| Feb. 17, 2004 | James Larkin, University of California at Los Angeles Observing Galaxy Evolution at the Keck Telescope |
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| Feb. 3, 2004 | Peter Collings, Swarthmore College Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals and the Next Generation of Liquid Crystal Displays |
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| Jan. 20, 2004 | Peter Saulson, Syracuse University Searching for Gravitational Waves: Fulfilling Einstein’s Vision |
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| Dec. 2, 2003 | Clare Yu, University of California at Irvine Vortex Lattice Melting in the High Temperature Superconductors |
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| Nov. 11, 2003 | Steve Barwick, University of California at Irvine The Search for Astrophysical Neutrinos at the Energy Frontier |
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| Oct. 28, 2003 | E. Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota Magnetism at the Nanoscale |
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| Oct. 7, 2003 | Mark Trodden, Syracuse University Castling Light on the Dark Side of the Universe |
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| Sept. 23, 2003 | Stephen Quake, Caltech Biological Large Scale Integration |
