| 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 |