| Class Date |
Topic |
Pre-Class Reading |
Speakers |
| January 9, 2020 |
Organizational Meeting |
The Causes of Color |
Sajeev John |
| January 16, 2020 |
Alternatives to Ordered Phases at Zero Temperature |
The World of Quantum Matter
Spin Liquids
|
Stephen Julian
Meigan Aronson
|
| January 23, 2020 |
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: A New Frontier |
Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Frontier of Astronomy
Dark Matter
New direct-detection constraints on Sub-GeV dark matter
The hunt for light dark matter
Lighting the way for dark matter
|
David Curtin
Rouven Essig
|
| January 30, 2020 |
Utilizing Physics-Based Models to Manage the Risk of Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with
Unconventional Oil and Gas Production |
Physics-based forecasting of man-made
earthquake hazards in Oklahoma and Kansas
Hydraulic Fracturing: The State of the Science |
Qinya Liu
Mark Zoback
|
| February 6, 2020 |
How nuclear physics can treat cancer - radiotherapy at TRIUMF
|
The Rarest Drug on Earth
Colloquium Preview
|
Pekka Sinervo
Cornelia Hoehr
|
| February 13, 2020 |
CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment |
Fast Radio Bursts
What are Fast Radio Bursts?
Flashes in the Night
|
Chris Thompson
Kendrick Smith
|
| February 27, 2020 |
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The surprising case of CFC-11: Have we fallen off the path to ozone layer recovery? |
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018
Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer: 2018 Update
An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11
|
Paul Kushner
Stephen Montzka
|
| March 5, 2020 |
Measurements: For all time, for all people (The dawning of a new age) |
Spooky Action at a Distance
One Photon In, TWO Photons Out
|
Sajeev John
Alan Migdall
|
| March 12, 2020 |
CANCELLED
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| March 19, 2020 |
Preparation for Final Presentation |
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| March 26, 2020 |
Final Presentations |
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| April 2, 2020 |
Final Presentations |
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