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.
Protik K. Majumder, Williams College: "Heavy Metals, Cheap Lasers and Precision Measurements of Atomic Structure"
Tue, Feb 4, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
With important contributions from many Williams undergraduates over recent years, we have completed a series of high-preci...
David Hall ’91, Amherst College: “Tying Knots in a Quantum Fluid”
Tue, Feb 11, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics and science. They have rece...
Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Amherst College: “Literature and the Eye in the Age of Kepler”
Tue, Feb 18, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
“I shall describe the means of vision, which no one at all to my knowledge has yet examined and understood in such detai...
Chris Faesi, UMass: “The Forest AND the Trees: Bridging the Multi-Scale Physics of Star Formation”
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Science Center, A011
The conversion of interstellar gas into stars provides the energy, momentum and chemical enrichment that help drive the ev...