Bryn Mawr Physics Department Events

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Colloquia and Journal Club
(Fall 2011–Spring 2012)

Colloquia take place in the Dorothy Vernon Room in Haffner Hall—dinner with the speaker at 5:30 pm, followed by the talk at 6:30 pm.
Journal Club takes place in Park 337—tea at 2:30 pm, presentation at 2:40 pm, unless otherwise noted.

September

02 (Friday 4:30–6pm, Park Science Courtyard)   Welcome Back Party!

07 (Wednesday 4:30pm, Park 338)   Physics Student Summer Research Talks!  (Pizza & soda will be served)

09 (Friday, Park 337)   Journal Club: Peter Beckmann

16 (Friday 11am-3pm, Campus Center)  Bryn Mawr Summer Research Poster Symposium

16 (Friday, Park 337)   Journal Club: Don Fahey

23 (Friday, Park 337)   Journal Club: Michael Schulz

26 (Monday, Haffner) Bryn Mawr Physics Colloquium:
"Cosmology as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model,"
Prof. Scott Watson, Syracuse University

October

24 (Monday, Haffner)   Bryn Mawr Physics Colloquium:
"New Exciting Approaches to Particle Scattering Amplitudes,"
Prof. Henriette Elvang, University of Michigan

26 (Wednesday 5-6:30pm, Park 339)   Physics Tea & Pumpkin Carving!

November

02 (Wed 6pm, Stokes Auditorium) Haverford Physics/Astro Colloquium:
"Two views of the Universe,"
Profs. Margaret Geller and Scott Kenyon,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

04 (Friday, Park 337)   Alex Chartrand

07 (Monday, Haffner) Bryn Mawr College Physics Colloquim:
"Black holes and the many faces of holography,"
Dr. Sera Cremonini, Cambridge U and Texas A&M

12 (Saturday, 7:30pm, meet in Park 339)   Physics Star Party!

18 (Friday, Park 337)   Journal Club: Kristen Recine

30 (Wednesday 4:30pm, Park 338)   Physics Student Research Talks

December

02 (Friday, Park 337)   Journal Club: Vince Gregoric

09 (Thursday 1-3pm, Thomas - Quita Woodward Room)   Saturnalia Party with Classics Department!

January

27 (Friday 2:15pm)   Journal Club: James Battat

February

1 (Wednesday 2:15pm)   Journal Club: Elliott Tammaro

8 (Wednesday 4-6pm, Park 339)   Physics Tea & Lab tours!

9 (Wednesday 4:30pm, KINSC Hilles 109)   Haverford Physics/Astro Colloquium:
"The Ant Raft and Water Repellency Among Insects,"
Prof. David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

22 (Wednesday 4:15pm)   Journal Club: May Cheng

27 (Monday 12:15pm)  : Journal Club: Dan Cross

March

12 (Monday, Haffner)   Bryn Mawr College Physics Colloquim:
"Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth,"
Prof. Kate Scholberg, Duke University

21 (Wednesday 4:15pm)   Journal Club: Mark Matlin

21 (Wednesday 5:15-7:15pm, Park Science Courtyard)   Physics Tea & Picnic!

26 (Monday, Haffner)   Bryn Mawr College Physics Colloquim:
"Gravitational Lensing: Tests of Dark Energy and Gravity,"
Prof. Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania

April

05 (Thu 4:30pm, Stokes Auditorium) Haverford Physics/Astro Colloquium:
"From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions,"
Prof. Charlie Kane, University of Pennsylvania

02 (Monday 7:30pm)   Physics Star Party!

18 (Wednesday 4:15pm)   Physics Student Research Talks

25 (Wednesday 4:15pm)   Journal Club: Mike Noel

May

01 (Tue, time TBA)   Dissertation Defense: Melanie Lott

01 (Tue, 4:30-6:30pm Park Science Courtyard)   Physics End of Semester Picnic!

 

Links to other Physics Colloquia in the area

Haverford College

Swarthmore College

University of Pennsylvania