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.


HMC Physics Colloquium shot
Oct. 13, 1998 Adam S. Landsberg, WM Keck Science Center
Disorder and Synchronization in Josephson Junction Arrays
Sept. 29, 1998 Chih-Yung Chen, Harvey Mudd College
Persistent Photoconductivity in Si :mil:`\delta`-doped GaAs
Sept. 15, 1998 Joseph B. Platt, Harvey Mudd College
Ancient Days With Elementary Particles
April 21, 1998 Scot Gould, WM Keck Science Center
Silk Stalkings: The Mechanics of Spider Silk During Prey Capture
March 24, 1998 Marco Leona, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More Than Meets The Eye: Scientific Examination of Works of Art
March 3, 1998 Mark Johnson (’89), TRW
Superconductor Electronics: Pendulums, SQUIDS, and Single-Flux Quanta
Feb. 17, 1998 Roger Falcone, University of California at Berkeley
Ultrafast Time-Scale Interactions of Intense Laser Light With Matter
Feb. 3, 1998 Ronald Hellings, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Dec. 2, 1997 Sarah D. Johnson, University of La Verne
Measuring the Lifetime of Beauty
Nov. 11, 1997 John Schwarz, Caltech
The Second Superstring Revolution
Oct. 28, 1997 David Meier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Magnetized Acretion Disks Around Stars and Black Holes: Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Outer Space
Oct. 14, 1997 James C. (Seamus) Davis, University of California at Berkeley
Macroscopic Quantum Physics of a Superfluid Helium-3 Weak Link, or, Whistle While You Work
Sept. 30, 1997 David Evans, Caltech
True Polar Wander and the Geodynamics of Supercontinents
Sept. 16, 1997 Donald C. Backer, University of California at Berkeley
The Neutron Star—White Dwarf Binary Population in the Galactic Disk
April 15, 1997 Greg Lyzenga, Harvey Mudd College
Earthquake Mechanics in Southern California