Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2021

Dr. Greg Voth

Thursdays, 11.50 am - 1.10 pm  (*except where noted)

Colloquia Series will be via zoom for the spring semester

Date

Speaker

Title

Feb

25

Theresa Oehmke

University of California, Berkeley
Shape and Size Effects of Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flow

Mar

04

Samuel Kachuck

University of Michigan
The Ice and Earth Physics of Sea Level Change

Mar

11

Evelyn Tang

Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization
Topology Protects Chiral Edge Currents in Stochastic Systems

Mar

18

Stephen Leone

University of California, Berkeley
Attosecond Electron Dynamics:  From Atoms to Semiconductor Solids

Mar

25

Brian Utter

University of California, Merced
Jamming, Clogging, and Flow:  Rheology and Confinement in Dense Granular Matter

 April

01

Bernhard Mehlig

University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Machine Learning with Neural Networks

An introduction for scientists and engineers

April

08

Welcome New Majors

Introduction of the Physics Department's Newest Members

April

15

Tobias Schneider

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
A Network of Invariant Solutions Underlying Spatio-temporal Patterns in Inclined Layer Convection

April

22

Brian Stewart

Wesleyan University
Fourteenth Annual Earth Week Rant

April

29

Paul Terman

Wesleyan University
The Lux Detector and the Search for Dark Matter

May 06

Bertman Awards Speaker: 

Fredrik Lundell

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Future Materials from Trees, Milk, and Spiders:  Hydrodynamic Assembly of Nanofibrils as an Enabling Technology

*Time is 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.