Weekly Colloquium
Most weeks during the semester, we host a scholar for a one-day visit. The visit culminates with a public talk on a topic of contemporary physics or astronomy. Students are welcome to these talks, and seniors are required to attend at least nine over the course of a year. Near the end of each semester, honors thesis students give public lectures on their work.
Our Astronomy program is part of the Five College Astronomy Department, which hosts its own colloquium series Thursdays at 3:45 pm at UMass.
- Contact colloquium organizer Rachael Dunphy with any questions about colloquia, or being added to our mailing list.
Anne Jaskot, UMass: "How to Reionize the Universe: Clues from the Green Pea Galaxies"
Tue, Mar 5, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
In the first billion years after the Big Bang, the universe's hydrogen gas became ionized, an event known as reionization.
..."Biomechanics of Underwater Walking: Sea Stars, Crabs, Octopi": Talk by Olaf Ellers, Bowdoin College
Tue, Mar 19, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
The biomechanics of terrestrial legged locomotion has been extensively studied, but underwater legged locomotion is virtua
..."Engineering Applications of Light-Matter Interactions": Talk by Tina Shih
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Science Center, A011
Tina Shih, of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, will discuss "Engineering Applications of Light-Matter Interactions."
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