Spring 2024
February 9, 2024
Jim McClymer
University of Maine
Power Transmission in a wire: How energy really gets from source to sink
March 1, 2024
Malena Rice
Yale University
Insights from the Orbital Architectures of Planetary Systems
March 22, 2024
Shawn Laatsch
University of Maine Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium
Total Eclipse in Maine – what to know, what to notice
March 29, 2024
Brian DiGiorgio Zanger
Colby College
Modeling Rotation of Galaxies
April 5, 2024
Greg Penoncello (BS ’10)
University of Colorado Cancer Center – Anschutz Medical Campus
May 30, 2024
Graham Van Goffrier
University of Southampton (U. Maine Valedictorian 2018)
Simulating Nuclear Forces on Quantum Computers
in person and remote zoom colloquium
Zoom link:
https://maine.zoom.us/j/81183300881?pwd=bEZ0a2owWnNua3RaaHh3VVhUQUtUQT09
Fall 2023
September 8, 2023
Dr. Christian Boutan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
The Hunt for Dark Matter Axions
September 29, 2023
Dr. R. Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Kinetic Asymmetry Versus Power Strokes in the Design of Molecular Machines
October 13, 2023
Dr. Manh-Huong Phan, University of South Florida
Opportunities in Nanobiomagnetism and Healthcare Monitoring
November 17, 2023
Frank Dudish, University of Maine
Anterior Total Hip Arthroplasty (or: “What I did Last Christmas”)
December 1, 2023
Dr. Eric Burkholder, Auburn University
Using real-world problem-solving to target structural inequities in introductory physics
Fall 2022
November 4:
Meteorites – touching our solar system from Earth!
Dr. Henning Haack – Maine Mineral & Gem Museum “Scalable and flexible measures of student learning across time and context”
Spring 2020
February 14: Bethany Wilcox, U. Colorado Boulder, “Scalable and flexible measures of student learning across time and context”
February 21: Glen Van Brummelen, Quest U., “The Forgotten Man: Astronomy in the Transformative 15th Century”
NOTE LOCATION: Hill Auditorium, ESRB
Joint with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
May 1: Senior capstone presentations
Fall 2019
September 6: No colloquium; Department Picnic
September 13: Kevin Plaxco, U. California Santa Barbara, “Counting Molecules, Dodging Blood Cells: continuous, real-time molecular measurements directly in the living body”
September 20, 3:00 start: Alexander Turbiner, ICN-UNAM & Stony Brook U., “Choreography in Physics, in (non)-Newtonian gravity (living in motion)”
October 4: Christopher Spalding, Yale: “Primordial Sculpting of Planetary System Architectures”
October 11: Scott Randall, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, “X-Ray Studies of Clusters of Galaxies”
October 25: Feng Yan, U. Alabama: “Photovoltaics for Renewable Energy: Cubic and Non-Cubic Chalcogenides Thin Film Solar Cell”
November 15: Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins U., “Gravitational waves from compact binaries: implications for fundamental physics and astrophysics”
December 6: Karissa Tilbury, U. Maine Biomedical Engineering