Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series - Fall 2024

All times at 4 p.m. in Newton 204, unless otherwise noted.

Week Date Event
1 Aug 29 Dr. Savi Iyer: Department Roundup
2 Sep 5 Off-Campus Summer Research: 3 programs and 4 student experiences
3 Sep 12 First-Year Pizza Mixer
4 Sep 19 Dr. Osburn: Grad School "Night"
5 Sep 26 Dr. Michael Ruggiero: Designing Next-Generation Organic Semiconductors Through Phonon Engineering
6 Oct 3 Anil Ananthaswamy: Why Machines Learn
7 Oct 10 No Colloquium -  APS Conference
8 Oct 17 Justin D'Souza: Quantum Accurate Machine Learning Interatomic Potential for Large-scale Simulations of Deuterium Under Shock
9 Oct 24 Alenna Street: Advancing High-Power Laser Technologies with Plasma Electrode
Pockels Cells: Bridging Industry and Research
10 Oct 31 Dr. Mark Yuly: Nuclear Physics using Lasers” or “Why spend a year on your experiment when it can be done in a nanosecond?”
11 Nov 7 Dr. Manoel Couder: Studying Nuclear Reactions Fueling Stars in the Laboratory
12 Nov 14 Sam Olin: Twist and Shout: the Magic of Moiré Twists in 2D Crystals
13 Nov 21 PAC Event: Collisions "Night" at the Corner Pocket
14 Nov 28 No Colloquium - Thanksgiving
15 Dec 5 Dr. Brian Moeckly: High-Temperature Superconductors for Fusion Energy