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.
| Oct. 30, 2018 | Wylie Ahmed, California State University, Fullerton Active mechanics and the forces that keep our cells alive |
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Living cells actively generate forces at the molecular scale that change their overall structure and mechanical properties. This nonequilibrium activity is essential for cellular function, and drives processes such as division, migration, and organization. In the first part of this talk, I will introduce how cells throughout the body (e.g. muscle, heart, tissue, and brain) must act as active mechanical systems to … |
| Oct. 16, 2018 | Nina Brown, Eli Weissler, Haoxing Du, Harvey Mudd College Senior Research Projects - Session 2 |
Seniors discuss their theses/research. Shanahan B460 Tuesday 4:15 10/16/18 Hope to see you there! |
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| Oct. 9, 2018 | Nora Hu, Colin Adams, Guy Geva, Tommy Schneider, Harvey Mudd College Senior Research Projects |
Join us as four incredible physics seniors discuss their capstone projects. Shanahan B460 @4:15 Tuesday, October 9, 2018 |
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| Sept. 25, 2018 | Duane Loh '04, National University of Singapore Computational lenses with x-rays and electrons |
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Computational lenses replace the role of physical lenses in an imaging instrument with their computational equivalent. An example of this is three-dimensional single particle imaging. Here, the computational lenses classify an unsorted ensemble of measurements to form the most compatible three-dimensional structure from lower-dimensional projections. Specifically, many random and noisy two-dimensional diffraction patterns of individual biomolecules are recorded at high speed. Thereafter, a Bayesian classification algorithm infers the most … |
| Sept. 18, 2018 | Kathleen Kohl '17, Marisol Beck '17, Casey (Bryce) Cannon '16, Harvey Mudd College Alumni Career Session |
Alumni Kathleen Kohl, Marisol Beck, and Casey (Bryce) Cannon will be coming to campus and discussing their career paths after Mudd Physics. Shanahan B460 at 4:30 pm. with refreshments at 4:15. |
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| Sept. 10, 2018 | Brian Shuve, Harvey Mudd College Prepare and Deliver Effective Talks |
Like a well-written paper, an effective talk should begin with a shared context, state the problem to be addressed and the main points to be made, and use visuals for clarity and redundancy. Unlike a paper a talk proceeds synchronously and demands that the speaker provide more explicit reminders of the underlying structure of the presentation to keep the audience. … |
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| Sept. 4, 2018 | Various HMC Physics Faculty, Harvey Mudd College Graduate Programs 101 |
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Various HMC physics faculty will talk about graduate programs and options. The application process is also discussed. |
| 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 physical explanation. While we cannot currently say what process created the matter in the universe, we know that it must violate a number of fundamental symmetries, including those that forbid the existence of certain electromagnetic moments of fundamental particles. We can search … |
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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! |
AT POMONA COLLEGE'S MILLKAN 1051
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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. |
