Massive black holes weighing from a few tens of thousands to tens of billions of solar masses inhabit the centers of today’s galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Massive black holes also shone as quasars in the past, with the earliest detected a mere billion years after the Big Bang.
Events Archive
Donald R. Hamilton Colloquium
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Marta Volonteri, IAP, "Massive Black Hole Binaries in the Cosmos" Jadwin A10
Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Marta Volonteri
IAP
"Massive Black Hole Binaries in the Cosmos"
Hamilton Colloquium Series, Shinsei Ryu, University of Chicago, "Topology, Entanglement, and Time-Reversal Symmetry in Quantum Many-Body Physics"
Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
"Topology, Entanglement, and Time-Reversal Symmetry in Quantum Many-Body Physics"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois, "Why I don't believe that Quantum Mechanics is the Whole Truth", Jadwin A10
Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
"Why I don't believe that Quantum Mechanics is the Whole Truth"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Lenka Zdeborová, Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France, "Statistical Physics of Computational Problems" Jadwin A10
Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
"Statistical Physics of Computational Problems"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Bonnie Fleming, Yale University,“Nu Measurements, New Physics: Short and Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments at Fermilab”, Jadwin A10
Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
“Nu Measurements, New Physics: Short and Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments at Fermilab”
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Daniel Segre, Boston University, "Metabolic Networks from Genomes to Ecosystems" Jadwin A10
Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 4:30 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series:Xie Chen, Caltech, "Fracton Order: From Foliated Manifold to Quantum Hard Drive", Jadwin A10
Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Hamilton Colloquium Series:Nai Phuan Ong, Princeton University, "The Chiral Anomaly in Dirac Semimetals" Jadwin A10
Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science, "Wonders of Viscous Electronics" Jadwin A10
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
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Hamilton Colloquium Series: Hugo Duminil Copin, IHES, "Probabilistic Approach to Critical Phenomena in Statistical Physics" Jadwin A10
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
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Hamilton Colloquium Series: Timothy Koeth, University of Maryland "The Physicists in the Basement of the High Castle" Jadwin A10
Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series: David Poland, Yale University, "Critical Phenomena and the Conformal Bootstrap" Jadwin A10
Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University, "Dark Matter in Disequilibrium" Jadwin A10
Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Waseem Bakr, Princeton University, "Quantum Gas Microscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices" Jadwin A10
Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
"Quantum Gas Microscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC-Santa Barbara; "The Future of Particle Physics"
Thu, May 3, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
"The Future of Particle Physics"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: David Nygren, U. Texas, Arlington, “The matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay”
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
“The matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay”
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Kater Murch, Washington U., St. Louis; "Realizing a quantum Maxwell’s demon with superconducting circuits"
Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Realizing a quantum Maxwell’s demon with superconducting circuits
Donald R. Hamilton Lecture: Kip Thorne, Caltech, “Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Colliding Stars”
Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 8:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, "The Brascamp-Lieb inequalities: structure and algorithms"
Thu, Apr 5, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
Speaker(s):
Avi Wigderson
Institute for Advanced Study
"The Brascamp-Lieb inequalities: structure and algorithms"
Hamilton Colloquium Series: Ila Fiete, University of Texas at Austin, "Neural circuitry for navigation in metric spaces"
Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 4:00 pm
Audience:
A free lecture open to the public.
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