Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2026

Dr. Renee Sher

*Thursdays, 11.50 am - 1.10 pm in Exley 058

*colloquium occurs on Thursdays in Exley 058, except if noted

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan

29

Nick Ouellette

Stanford University

Animal Groups as Active Materials

Feb

05

Reinhold Blümel

Wesleyan University

Planck, Einstein, Bohr, deBroglie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger: The Early History of Quantum Mechanics

Feb

12

David Tannor

Weizmann Institute of Science

Two Hundred Years after Hamilton:  Exploring New Formlations of Classical and Quantum Mechanics

Feb

19

Jing Zhao

University of Connecticut

Photoluminescence Intermittency of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Feb

26

Elizabeth Chang-Davidson

Wesleyan University

Mar

05

Gregory Kestin

Harvard University

Mar

12

Spring Break

Enjoy!

Mar

19

Spring Break

Enjoy!

Mar

26

April

02

Welcome New Majors

Presentation and lunch for our newly declared physics majors/minors

April

09

Aditya Sood

Princeton University

Visualizing Atomic-scale Motions on Ultrafast Timescales

April  16

Juanita Hidalgo

New York University

April

23

Brian Stewart

Wesleyan University

Earth Week Rant

April

30

Bertman Awards Ceremony

Andrea Alu

City University of New York

Bertman Seminar and Undergraduate Awards Celebration, 4:30 p.m.