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September 1: |
Welcome Back Mixer!
Come say hello and meet new friends
and faculty! Pizza and soda will be provided! |
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September 8: |
Beth Parks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University
and Claire Watts '10 -
Terahertz spectroscopy of single-molecule magnets: Unexpected
results |
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September 15: |
3rd Annual Ho Summer
Research Symposium - with
other NASC departments!
Representing the Physics & Astronomy department will be Sarah
Sciarrino '10 and Douglas Schaub '12. Sarah will present
Modeling Neuron Synchronization Using Josephson Junctions,
and Doug will present Pitch Perception of Short Duration Tones.
Come show your support! |
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September 22: |
Astronomy Students
Summer Research
Michael Lam '11 will present Reduction of ISM Scattering
Effects in Millisecond Pulsar Timing
Phillip Patrick '11 will present
Analysis of Optical and Radio Outbursts of Blazar PKS
1749+096
Steven Mohammed '11 will
present Searching
for Planets and Disks around 32 Brown Dwarfs in Taurus
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September 29: |
Physics Students
Summer Research
Robert Bikwemu '10 will
present Analyzing polypeptides
translocating through alpha-hemolysin constructs
Matthew Novenstern '11 will
present Characterizing the Knight
Move Phase transition
Douglas Packard '10 will
present F-Ring of Saturn |
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October 6: |
Jeff Bary, Professor of Physics
& Astronomy, Colgate University
will give an introduction to the formation of stars like the
Sun.
Michael Petersen '10 will
present From Clouds to Solar Systems:
Star Formation and The Curious Case of DQ Tau
and Margaret Swaney '11
will
present X-Ray
Microcalorimetry |
Monday
October 12: |
Dr.
Jeffrey Newmark, Solar Discipline Scientist, NASA HQ,
Heliophysics Division -
Rockets, Spacecraft, Sun and Fun! ·
4:15 pm in 328 Ho Science Center |
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October 13: |
Sabina Hurley
'98,
Flight
Operations, Chandra X-Ray Observatory,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics -
Operating NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
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October 20: |
Fall Recess - No Seminar |
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October 27: |
Ken Segall, Professor of
Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University
along with David Eng ’10,
Gordon Brummer ’10, and
Ashish Shah ’10 -
Tales from the Cold Side: Measuring and Modeling Josephson
junctions |
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November 3: |
David Latimer,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Kentucky -
The lighter side of dark matter |
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November 10: |
Etienne Gagnon,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University -
Study of Molecular Dynamics on Femtosecond Timescales |
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November 17: |
Kiko
Galvez, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate
University
Uncovering the mysteries of quantum mechanics with correlated
photons
Seminar will be in 217 Lathrop |
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November 24: |
No Seminar
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December 1: |
Gregory Sloan, Research
Astronomer, Infrared Spectrograph Science Center, Cornell University
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Title to be announced |
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December 8: |
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