Fall 2021 Colloquium Schedule
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Paul Green, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
How to Survive a Smothering and Emerge as an Unusual Type of Star
Monday, September 20, 2021
Sarah Millholland, Princeton
Tidal Sculpting of Short-Period Exoplanets
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Nir Davidson, Weizmann Institute of Science
Solving computational problems with coupled lasers
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Barbara Drossel, TU Darmstadt, Germany
On the relation between the second law of thermodynamics, classical
mechanics, and quantum mechanics
Monday, October 4, 2021
Peter Driscoll, Carnegie Institution for Science
Magnetic Field Generation in Earth, Mars, and Rocky Exoplanets
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Vincent Rodgers, University of Iowa
Projective Gauged Gravityagnetic Field Generation in Earth, Mars, and Rocky Exoplanets
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Ofer Firstenberg, Weizmann Institute of Science
Photon-photon interactions in atomic ensembles
Monday, October 18, 2021
Hilke Schlichting, UCLA
The Atmosphere-interior Connection of Super-earths and Sub-Neptunes:
From Formation and Evolution to Observations
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Tammy Walton, Fermilab
First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Claudio Conti, University Sapienza Rome, Italy
From complex replica symmetry breaking to simple optical machine learning
Monday, November 1, 2021
Pat Hartigan, Rice University
New Observations and Analysis of Massive Star Formation in Carina
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Demetrios Christodoulides, University of Central Florida
Optical thermodynamics of nonlinear highly multimode system
Monday, November 15, 2021
Bruce Balick, University of Washington
Understanding the Physics of Post-AGB Outflows: Three Possible
Gamechangers
Monday, November 29, 2021
Heather Knutson, California Institute of Technology
Exploring the Mysterious Origins of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
Friday, December 10, 2021
Nicholas Kamp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MicroBooNE’s First Results on the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess