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Spring 2009 Schedule
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Tuesdays 11:30 am (refreshments at 11:20 am)
Meyerhoff Auditorium ·
101 Ho Science Center
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There are two Thursday Seminars scheduled this Spring.
Both will begin at 12:20 (refreshments at 12:10), Meyerhoff
Auditorium.
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January 20: |
No Seminar - but please join
us in 101 Ho to view the Presidential Inauguration!
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January 22: |
Dwight Luhman,
Associate
Research Scholar, Princeton University
Superfluid Liquid Helium Films
and the Influence of Disorder
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January 27: |
Jonathan Levine,
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry
The physics of planets
and planetary materials |
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February 3: |
Virginia Lorenz,
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Memories Lost and Found:
Light and Matter Meet |
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February 5: |
Joseph Summers,
Post-doctoral Researcher, Mount Holyoke College
Directing traffic at the speed of light:
Integrated optics on chip |
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February 10: |
No Seminar
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February 17: |
Graduate School
Panel in Physics and Astronomy;
Professors
Jeff Bary, Kurt Andresen, and Pat Crotty
will talk candidly about what you should be looking for in a
graduate school program, how to manage the application process,
and what it's really like once you are in graduate school. |
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February 24: |
Visualization Lab
Show:
Stars of the
Pharaohs
Travel to ancient Egypt to
see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar, and
align huge buildings - seating is limited. |
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March 3: |
Physics 282
- Electronics Presentations, Room 311 - Ho Science Center
The Digital Slot Experience Featuring the Money Eater -
Karl Fries & Tim Yeskoo
The Worst Computer Ever - Kevin Kurkul, Steven Mohammed & Matt
Novenstern
Battleship - Margaret Swaney & Andrew Weiner |
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March 10: |
Jorge Moreno, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Haverford
College -
Do mergers of dark matter halos trigger quasars? |
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March 17: |
Mid-term Recess - No Seminar |
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March 24: |
No Seminar |
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March 31: |
Seminar will be in 217 Lathrop
Jesse McMullen, Graduate Student, Cornell
University -
Nonlinear Microscopy - Why two photons are better than one |
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April 7: |
Mehul Malik
'06,
Graduate Research Assistant, Boyd Research Group,
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester -
Single Photon Ghost
Imaging |
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April 14: |
Visualization Lab
Show |
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April 21: |
Geology Seminar:
Dan Fornari, Geology & Geophysics,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Volcanic and
hydrothermal processes at a fast spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge: The
East Pacific Rise at 9°50'N - A tale of two eruptions |
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April 28: |
Jeffrey Haeni '97,
Ph.D., Renewable Energy Specialist,
United States Agency for International Development -
Lighting the World – Renewable Energy Development in Emerging
Markets |
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Fall 2008 Schedule
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September 9: |
Welcome Back!
Mixer and Student Demonstrations
Come say hello and meet new friends
and faculty! Hosted by the Physics Club
Meet in the Ho Atrium at 11:30, Demos will take place outside
the main entrance at 11:45 |
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September 16: |
2nd Annual Ho Summer
Research Symposium - with
other NASC departments!
Daniel Kalb '08 & Nikolay
Zhelev '08 will be presenting. Come show your support! |
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September 23: |
Dr. Jose Moran-Mirabal, Department of
Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University -
High
Resolution Optical Methods and Micro/Nanofabrication for the Study
of Cellulase-Cellulose Interactions at the Nanoscale. |
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September 30: |
This week's
seminar has been rescheduled for next week; instead we will
be holding a Visualization Lab Show
- seating is limited.
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October 7: |
Ken Segall, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
along with Cameron Gilbert '10, Gordon Brummer '10, and
Kelly Henderson '09 -
Tales from the cold side: Measuring and Modeling Josephson
junctions |
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October 14: |
Kiko Galvez, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
Ashish Shah
'10, Claire Watts
'10, and Scott Douglas '09 -
Student Research
Presentations |
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October 21: |
Fall Recess - No Seminar |
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October 28: |
Tom Balonek, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
along with Erin
Scott '09, Michael Petersen '10, and Michael Lam '11 -
From Galaxies to Quasars: Exploring the Extragalactic Universe |
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November 4: |
Dan Schult, Department of
Mathematics, Colgate
University -
Dynamics on Networks |
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November 11: |
Roberto Salgado,
Physics Department, Mt. Holyoke College -
New Ideas for Teaching Relativity |
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November 18: |
Beth Parks, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
along with Matt
Novenstern '11, Doug Packard '10, and Brendan Loughran '09
From Heinrich Hertz to
Terahertz: Using Light to Learn about Matter |
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November 25: |
No Seminar
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December 2: |
Kurt Andresen, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
DNA and the Nucleosome: The Physics of Strangely Attractive Biomolecules |
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December 9: |
Seminar Cancelled
Julia Thom-Levy, Assistant
Professor of Physics at Cornell University -
Preparing
for Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
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Other Department Events: |
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Physics & Astronomy Department Picnic
Wednesday, May 6th,
11:00-1:00, by the Observatory
Physics
282 Electronics & Instrumentation Project Demonstration
Wednesday, May 6th,
1:30, 313 Ho Science Center
Physics & Astronomy Senior Research
Symposium
Tuesday, December 16th, 4:00, 217 Lathrop
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