Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia
The Applied Physics/Physics Colloquia are held Tuesdays at 4:30 P.M. in Room 201 of the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center. Light refreshments are served in the Varian Building lobby at 4:15 P.M.
Past Events
The origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) at extragalactic distances remain shrouded in mystery.
Quantum mechanics has not one but two mysteries: the double-slit experiment and quantum correlations (entanglement) between two or more particles.
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope (LAT), initially conceived of in the 1990’s here at Stanford and SLAC, was designed, built…
It is well known that gapless states have emergent symmetry.
For 50 years, the only astronomical source with measured soft X-ray polarization
was the Crab nebula, initially detected with sounding rockets. Now
Understanding solar activity --- and in particular, how magnetic flux and energy emerges from the Sun's turbulent interior (where it is generated) into the…