Physics ColloquiumPage 1

Enhancing Light Absorption in Solar Cells (November 22, 2011)

Speaker(s): Peter N. Saeta Photovoltaics are the fastest-growing renewable energy source over the last three years and have the potential […]

Mergers and Liquidations Among White Dwarf and Neutron Star Binaries (November 8, 2011)

Speaker(s): E. Sterl Phinney This year’s Nobel prize in physics was given for using Type Ia supernovae as standard candles […]

Deep Green: Long-Term Zero-Carbon Power for the 21st Century (October 25, 2011)

Speaker(s): A. J. Shaka (’80) It is becoming more and more obvious that continued burning of fossil fuels, with the […]

Life in Interesting Times (October 4, 2011)

Speaker(s): Bruce McCandless II Captain McCandless, the first person to perform an untethered spacewalk, will review the current status of […]

Exploiting the Spin Angular Momentum to Control Magnetism at the Nanoscale (September 20, 2011)

Speaker(s): Eric Fullerton (’84) In most magnetic applications the orientations of the magnetic elements are controlled by external magnetic fields. […]

Summer 2011 Off-Campus Research (September 6, 2011)

Speaker(s): Eleven HMC Physics Majors Lucas Brady, Cameron Conti, Jake Fish, Chris Gage, Robert Hoyt, Erik Littleton, Laura Maguire, Shaun […]

The Turn On of LCLS: The X-Ray Free-Electron Laser at SLAC (April 19, 2011)

Speaker(s): Persis S. Drell On April 10, 2009, the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser was brought to lasing. Producing […]

The Contribution of Galaxies to the Reionization of the Universe (March 29, 2011)

Speaker(s): Alice Shapley There are critical outstanding questions about the formation of galaxies, and their impact on the intergalactic medium […]

Condensed Matter Physics and Bacteria (March 8, 2011)

Speaker(s): Gerard C. L. Wong One of the unsolved problems in human health and disease is the control of pathogens, […]

A Tale of Two Qubits (March 1, 2011)

Speaker(s): Joseph Altepeter The nascent field of quantum information science is built on an irresistibly intriguing principle: knowledge is physical. […]

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. 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.