Spring 2024 Seminars
(All seminars take place in RNS 210 unless otherwise indicated)
February 14 – Physics Summer CURI and Research Opportunities Information Session. Watch Video
March 6 – From genes to geometry: how biology uses physics to sculpt a visceral organ, Noah Mitchell’12 University of California, Santa Barbara.
March 8 – Spiking at the Edge: Excitability at interfaces in reaction-diffusion systems, Colin Scheibner ’17 Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
March 13 – Physics Alum journey from Olaf to Grad School, Jessye Gassel ’21 PhD student at George Mason University. Watch Video
April 4 – How to fight Cancer with Physics: a Medical Physicist Assistant’s Perspective, Jack Thull ’20 Medical Physicist Assistant Mayo Clinic Rochester. Watch Video
April 23 – A history of the Universe: From the big bang to today, Dr. Keith Olive, University of MN
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Fall 2023 Seminars
September 13 – Physics Phaculty Demo – Your phavorite physics phaculty opher some of their best demonstrations and hear about the upcoming colloquium schedule phor the phall!
October 12 – High-energy physics: a very brief primer, Shoaib Munir, St. Olaf Physics Dept. Watch Video
November 8 – Nucleosynthesis Studies in Astrophysics, Christopher West, St. Olaf Physics Dept. Watch Video
STEM Job and Internship Panel for Summer 2024 – Watch Video
November 15 – Low-loss silicon nitride photonics for Earth Science & Astrophysics applications, Hani Nejadriahi, postdoctoral fellow at NASA JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory. Watch Video
December 8 – General Relativity, LIGO, and a One Hundred Quintillion Mile Race, Jay Tasson, Carleton College Physics Department. Watch Video