Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Spring 2019

Note: All colloquia will be held on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

Date	Title of Talk	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Host
Jan. 10	Terrestrial Gamma Flashes Observed by GBM	Michael Briggs	University of Alabama Huntsville	Michael Cherry
Jan. 17	A New Era of Precision in Doppler Exoplanet Science	Paul Robertson	U C Irvine	Manos Chatzopoulos
Jan. 23 (Hearne Eminent Lecture) Wednesday, 5:00 pm	The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	Jorge Pullin
Jan. 24	The Bouncing Universe	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	Jorge Pullin
Jan. 31	Galactic Dosimetry and Ground-based Health	Stephen Guetersloh	Practical Physics Solutions, LLC	Wayne Newhauser
Feb. 7	Anomalous Velocity and Geometry in Wave Mechanics	Eugene Mele	University of Pennsylvania	E. Ward Plummer
Feb. 11 (Monday - NICH room 435)	Nuclear Activation Analysis — A Versatile Nuclear Assay	Zaijing Sun	South Carolina State University	Wayne Newhauser
Feb. 14 (12 pm - NICH room 435)	From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanets: Characterizing Planets from Infancy to Maturity	Hannah Jang-Condell	University of Wyoming	Tabetha Boyajian
Feb. 21
Feb. 28	Operational Space Radiation Environment: Analogs, Pathogenesis, and Translation Into Clinical Outcomes in Humans	Jeffery Chancellor	Texas A&M University	Wayne Newhauser
March 7	Quasars in the Age of Big Data and Time-Domain Astronomy	Jessie Runnoe	University of Michigan	Geoffrey Clayton
March 14
March 21	From Tens to Tens of Thousands: Supernovae Science in the Big-Data Era	Gautham Narayan	Space Telescope Science Institute	Geoffrey Clayton
March 28	Planetary Evolution in Two Acts: Eclipsing Disks and Transiting Planets	Joseph Rodriguez, Jr.	Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Geoffrey Clayton
April 4	The Whole Iceberg: Completing the Census of Exoplanets with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey	Matthew Penny	Ohio State University	Geoffrey Clayton
April 11	Using Big Data to Understand Galaxy Formation in our Neighborhood	David Nidever	Montana State University	Geoffrey Clayton
April 18	Spring Break
April 24 (Hearne Eminent Lecture) Wednesday, 3:30 - 5 pm	Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier	John P. Preskill	California Institute of Technology	Jonathan P. Dowling
April 25	Quantum Machine Learning: A Framework for Near-Term Quantum Computing	Patrick Coles	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Mark Wilde
May 2	Black Hole Entropy and Gravitational Wave Observations	Eugenio Bianchi	Penn State University	Ivan Agullo
May 8	The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes	Amy Reines	Montana State University	Geoff Clayton

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