Physics and Astronomy Seminar

Physics and Astronomy Seminar

Fall 2003 Schedule

Tuesdays 11:30 am (refreshments at 11:15 am)
217 Lathrop Hall

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS FOR SPEAKERS

September 02: Department Mixer: Say hello and meet new friends and faculty
September 09: Informal Department Overview: Review of department programs and research opportunities by department faculty
September 16: Student Research Talks: Justin Spencer '05 "Schroedinger's Cat Does Some New Tricks"; Joe Martin '04 "Near-Infrared Properties of KISS Emission Line Galaxies"; Trevor King '04 "Numerical Simulation of the Navier-Stokes Equations"; Anthony Annunziata '05 "Electric Discharge Pulses on Spacecraft Dielectric Materials"
September 23: Dr. Barry Knox, SUNY Upstate Medical University, "The Chemistry, Biology and Physics of Ultraviolet Vision" (joint seminar with Chemistry) - to be held in 111 Wynn Hall
September 30: Dr. Charles Freeman, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, SUNY Geneseo, "The Physics of Baseball"
October 7: Dr. F. Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Using Lasers to Explore and Control Chemical Reactions" (joint seminar with Chemistry) - to be held in 217 Lathrop Hall
October 14: No seminar: mid-term recess
October 21: Student Research Talks: Matthew Pysher '04, "Nonlinear Effects in Glass due to Femtosecond Doughnut Beams" ; Mehul Malik '06, "0735+01: It's Not A Number, It's A Weird Quasar"; Trisha Hutchins '05, "Melting the Ice: Antarctic Diatoms and Global Warming"
October 28: Dr. Sara Brazill, Chemistry Department, Colgate University, "The Challenges and Rewards of Integrating Microfluidic Separations with Electrochemical Detection" (joint seminar with Chemistry)
November 4: Dr. Timothy Korter, Syracuse University, "Terahertz Spectroscopy of Solid-State Biomolecules" (joint seminar with Chemistry)
November 11: Student Research Talks: Michael Ritter '05 "Facilitating Studies of Biomembrane Phase Behavior"; Chrissie Bessanceney '04 "Creation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles"; Tom Lappas '04 "TBA"; Alison Koleszar '04 "Melting the Earth: The Physics and Chemistry of a Lava Flow, Floreana Island, Galapagos Archipelago"
November 18: Dr. Gwo-Ching Wang, Professor of Physics and Department Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Terascale and Terahertz Research at Rensselaer"
November 25: No seminar: Thanksgiving break
December 2: Michelle Wang, Cornell University, "Probing Gene Expression and Regulation at the Single Molecule Level"

Other Events in Fall 2003

September 29: Karen Christino (CU '81), Astrologer, "Astrology and Prediction" (217 Lathrop Hall at 2:45pm) - sponsored by CORE Scientific Perspectives.
October 10: Randy Adam (CU '73), Private Investor, "Off Wall Street: A Nontraditional Finance Career" (talk on mathematical modeling applied to futures trading). This is part of the Career Services Food for Thought Lunch Series - to be held in West Hall Classroom at 12:30pm.
October 10: Public Lecture: Dr. E.C. Krupp, Griffith Observatory, "Anthony Aveni and the Colgate Long Count" followed by Dr. David Carrasco, Harvard University, "Night Lights with Anthony Aveni: Reflections on a Friendship with a Master Teacher" , 217 Lathrop at 3:30pm. Reception to follow at Merrill House.
October 11 and 12: "Cultural Astronomy in New World Cosmologies: Papers in Honor of Anthony F. Aveni", 217 Lathrop Hall (Saturday 9-5; Sunday 9-12).
November 19: Joe Nickell, Center for Inquiry, "Undercover Among the Spirits" - sponsored by CORE Scientific Perspectives - to be held at 2:45pm in 217 Lathrop.
December 4: Paul Abell (CU'90), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Near-IR Reflectance Spectroscopy of Near-Earth Objects: A Study of their Compositions, Meteorite Affinities, and Source Regions" to be held at 3:15pm in 217 Lathrop.

Spring 2004 Schedule

January 27: Philip Knauf, University of Rochester, Department of Biophysics, "Shedding Light on Functionally Important Conformational Changes of Membrane Proteins by Fluorescence Energy Transfer" (joint seminar with Chemistry)
February 3: Benjamin Miller, University of Rochester Medical Center, "From Bench to Bedside: Molecular Recognition in Biosensing, Genomics, Proteomics, and Medical Diagnosis" (joint seminar with Chemistry)
February 10: Donald Duggan-Haas, Assistant Professor of Science and Mathematics Education, Colgate University "Applying Understandings about How People Learn to the Analysis of How People Teach"
February 17: David Jung, Colgate University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, "Conventional Technologies on Miniaturized Platforms: Chips in Cell and Protein Science"
February 24: Thomas Krugh, University of Rochester, "Structures of Modified DNA's and RNA Hairpins by NMR" (joint seminar with Chemistry)
March 2: Kevin Schultz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, "When One Photon Isn't Enough: Aspects of Multi-Photon Ionization in the Microwave and Optical Regimes"
March 9: Stephen Slivan, MIT, "The Revenge of the Small Telescopes" (joint seminar with Geology)
March 16: No seminar: mid-term recess
March 23: George Hess, Professor of Biochemistry,Cornell University, "Rapid Chemical Reaction Techniques Developed for Use in Investigations of Membrane-Bound Proteins (Neurotransmitter Receptors)"
March 30: Tom Heaton (CU' 60), Retired Chief of Radiation Metrology Branch at the FDA, "Medical Physics: Clinical and Regulatory"
April 6: Noel Perkins, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, "MEMS Sensors for Rigid Body Dynamics of Sports Equipment"
April 13: Sergio Valenzuela, Harvard University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, "Dynamics of A Driven Vortex Lattice in A Disordered Superconductor"
April 20: Jennifer Heldmann (CU'98), NASA - Ames Research Center, "Gullies on Mars: Theories, Observations, and Numerical Modeling Results" (joint seminar with Geology) - to be held in 209 Lathrop

Other Events in Spring 2004

April 20: Jennifer Heldmann (CU'98), NASA - Ames Research Center, "Mars on Earth: Simulated Human Missions to the Red Planet", Public Lecture to be held in Love Auditorium, 7pm (co-sponsored by CORE Scientific Perspectives, Physics & Astronomy Department, and Geology Department)