Colloquium Schedule – Fall 2017 Date Fall 2017 – Colloquium Information Sept. 6, 2017 Title: The 2015-17 unprecedented disruption of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation Dr. Paul Newman, NASA Goddard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCiXPGqlVY&index=1&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt Sept. 13, 2017 Title: The Limits of Cosmology Dr. Joseph Silk, Johns Hopkins University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_i_Y0fjI8&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=2 Sept. 20, 2017 Title: Searching for Earth-Like Planets Beyond the Solar System Dr. Cullen Blake, University of Pennsylvania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulywfkHKp2g&index=3&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt Sept. 27, 2017 Title: Understanding the Physics of Hurricane Intensification: Measurement, Theory and Modeling Dr. Stephen R. Guimond, Goddard Space Flight Ctr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMVOR8rqpRE&index=4&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt Oct. 4, 2017 Title: One Law To Rule Them All: The Radial Acceleration Relation of Galaxies Dr. Stacy McGaugh, Case Western Reserve Univ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XOpRJSN_Q&index=5&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt Oct. 11, 2017 Title: Building a Quantum Computer Dr. Barry Sanders, University of Calgary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAzb1HkCPoo&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=6 Oct. 18, 2017 Title: Realizing Feynman’s dream of a quantum computer with trapped ions Dr. James Freericks, Georgetown University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtYRJRt-NJY&index=7&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt Oct. 25, 2017 Title: From a loophole-free Bell test to quantum randomness Dr. Krister Shalm, NIST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rPk8tu5V8&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=8 Nov. 1, 2017 Title: Soft, Biocompatible Optoelectronic Interfaces to the Brain Dr. John Rogers, Northwestern University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_PH3zV_hk&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=9 Nov. 8, 2017 Title: Exploring quantum thermodynamics with superconducting qubits Dr. Kater Murch, Washington Univ in St. Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFh2dNxvfbc&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=10 Nov. 15, 2017 Title: Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Stellar Populations in Late-Stage Galaxy Mergers Dr. Scott Barrows, University of Colorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMkRjB3Ts5Y Nov. 22, 2017 No Colloquium Nov. 29, 2017 Title: Unveiling the neutrino sky with the IceCube observatory Dr. Marcos Santander, University of Alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ajiBRlqqg&t=0s&list=PL4DxKqqz5OqTKoemPRipFF4IqBBc24WRt&index=13 Dec. 6, 2017 Title: The Amazon rainforest: why should we care? From politics to science in Brazil Dr. Henrique Barbosa, IFUSP