Unless otherwise noted, all physics seminars and colloquia are held on Tuesdays from 4:45 to 6:00, in lecture room 3 of Merrill Science Center. Tea and snacks will be served before seminars at 4:15 in 204 Merrill. If you would like to be mailed seminar announcements, please send an email to Ellen Feld.
Contact colloquium organizer Jonathan Friedman with any questions about colloquia.
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Fall 2014
Sept. 9 - Prof. Gabriel Finkelstein '85 - Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
The Limits of Physics: A View from the Greatest Forgotten Intellectual of the Nineteenth Century
The late nineteenth-century controversy over the limits of knowledge has generally been described as a crisis from which science has never escaped. My research supports the opposite interpretation. The initiator of the controversy, Emil du Bois-Reymond, was a physiologist who worked his whole life against the forces of obscurantism, whether they came from the Catholic and Conservative Right or from the scientistic and millenarian Left. Du Bois-Reymond’s agnosticism toward the ultimate nature of mind and matter must therefore be seen as an endorsement, and not a rejection, of his faith in reason.
Sept. 11 (Thurs.) - Welcome Back Pizza Party. Student lounge - Merrill 114-116, 4:30PM
Sept. 16 - Prof. Will Williams - Smith College
TBA
Sept. 23 - Prof. David Schuster - University of Chicago
TBA
Sept. 30 - Prof. Hal Haggard - Bard College
TBA
Oct. 7 - Dr. Michael Baker - City College of New York and New York University
TBA
Oct. 14 - Fall Break
Oct. 21 - Dr. Michael Foss-Feig '07 - Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/UMD)
TBA
Oct. 28 - Dr. Eliot Young '84, P'17 - Southwest Reserach Institute
TBA
Nov. 4 - Prof. Marla Geha - Yale University
TBA
Nov. 11 - Dr. Joey Neilsen - Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University
TBA
Nov. 18 - Dr. Zachory Berta-Thompson - MIT Kavli Institute
TBA
Nov. 25 - Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2 - student thesis talks
Dec. 4 (Thurs.) - student thesis talks
Dec. 9 - student thesis talks
Spring 2015
Jan. 27 - Prof. Chris Landee, Clark University
TBA
Feb. 3 - Prof. Stephon Alexander, Dartmouth College
TBA
Feb. 10 - Prof. Nadya Mason - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TBA
Feb. 17 - Prof. Dipankar Maitra - Wheaton College
TBA
Feb. 24 - Prof. Catherine C. Espaillat, Boston University
TBA
March 3 -
March 10 - Dr. Aiko Voigt - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
TBA
March 17 - Spring Break
March 24 - Prof. Kevin Wright, Dartmouth College
TBA
March 31 - Prof. Paul Oxley, College of the Holy Cross
April 7 - Melissa Moulton '09
TBA
April 14 - Adam Kaufman '09
TBA
April 21 - student thesis talks
April 23 (Thurs.) - student thesis talks
April 28 - student thesis talks
May 5 - no seminar
May 6 - Last Day of Classes