Physics and Astronomy Seminar
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS FOR SPEAKERS

                                                  Fall 2007 Schedule                                                 

• August 28:          Department Mixer: Say hello and meet new friends and faculty.

• September 4:      Summer Student Research Talks:
                              Dobromir Kamburov '08 - High Frequency Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes;
                              Sean Baumann '08 - Composite Optical Vortex Structures;
                              Santiago Reyes Contreras '08 - Stern-Volmer Modeling of 2D Förster Energy Transfer;
                              Scott Douglas '09 - Micromanipulation of Objects with a Holographic Optical Tweezer

• September 11:    Reserved for interdisciplinary event.

• September 18:    David Berger '97, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Astronomy, University of Michigan -
                              The Highest Resolution Measurements of Cool Stars

• September 25:    Summer Student Research Talks:
                              Laura Coyle '09 - Investigating the Stopping Force in Granular Matter;
                              Jenn Telling '08 - The View From Above; A Study of Aeolian Features on Mars;
                              Konstantinos Vilaetis '08 - The Dependence of Galaxy Colors on Magnitude and Environment;
                              Erin Scott '09 - Blazar Optical Variability

• October 2:           Mitch Ruda '71, President and CEO, Ruda & Associates Optical Engineering Associates -
                              My Career at the Bottom of a Drinking Glass

• October 9:           Greg Voth, Assistant Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University -
                              Imaging Particle Trajectories in Turbulent Fluid Flow

• October 16:        No seminar: mid-term recess

• October 23:        Summer Student Research Talks:
                              Brendan Loughran '09 - The Design and Control of Terahertz Spectroscopy Experiments
                              Nikolay Zhelev '09 - Breather and Vortex Interactions in Josephson Ladder
                              Erik Johnson '08 - Single Photon Interference of Laguerre-Gauss Modes

  October 30:        Summer Student Research Talks:
                              Nikhil Fernandes '08 - Measuring Inductance Using a SQUID
                              Susan Anderson '09 - Resolution Mapping of Phase Behavior in a Ternary Lipid Mixture   
                              Ushnish Ray '08 - Modeling Stochastic Dynamics in Josephson Junctions using Adaptive
                             Predictor Corrector Methods

• November 6:      No seminar

• November 13:    Steven Wrenn, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological
                              Engineering, Drexel University - Why A Different Tune is Sung After the Bubble Pops

• November 20:    No seminar:  Thanksgiving recess

• November 27:    Krystle Williams '06, Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
                              University of Rochester - Biophysical Characterization of Protein-RNA Interactions in
                              Alternative Splicing: Using Fluorescence, ITC and X-ray Crystallography