Physics and Astronomy Seminar
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS FOR SPEAKERS

Spring 2010 Schedule


Tuesdays 11:30 am (refreshments at 11:20 am)
Meyerhoff Auditorium · 101 Ho Science Center

* There are a few Thursday/Friday Seminars scheduled this Spring.
They will begin at 11:30 (refreshments at 11:20), in 217 Lathrop.

January 19: No Seminar
January 26: No Seminar
Friday,
January 29th:

Rebecca Metzler, Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The Organic-mineral Interface
Seminar will be in 217 Lathrop

February 2:

Soren Konecky, Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Beckman Laser Institute, University of California - Irvine
Seeing Under the Surface with Diffusing Photons

February 9:

Stephen Levy, Cornell University Research Associate,
Harold Craighead Group, Nanotechnology
DNA Analysis with Nanostructures

Thursday,
February 11th:

Sara Walker, Ph.D. candidate, Dartmouth College, Physics & Astronomy
Chirality and the Origin of Life: From Fundamental Physics to the Search for Life in the Universe
Seminar will be in 217 Lathrop

February 16: Geology & Chemistry Lecture:
Mark Kurz, senior scientist, marine chemistry and geochemistry department
of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -

Adventures with 'Primordial' Noble Gases

101 Ho Science Center
February 23: No Seminar
March 2:
Amy Lytle, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Hamilton College
Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Understanding and Manipulating Harmonic Generation
March 9: Jennifer Telling '08, Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ash Aggregation in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
March 16: Mid-Term Recess - No Seminar
March 23: No Seminar
March 30: Robinson Pino, Senior Electronics Engineer, Principal Investigator, Neuromorphic Computing,
Air Force Research Laboratory/RITC
Overview, Modeling, and Simulation of Memristor Devices
Seminar will be in 217 Lathrop
April 6: Thomas Sangrey, Department of Biology, Emory University
Constraint-Based Approaches in Optimal Neural Transmission
April 13: Jennifer Heldmann '98, Research Scientist, Space Sciences and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center
Lunar Impact! An overview and first science results from NASA's lunar crater observation and sensing satellite (LCROSS) mission
April 20: Krystle McLaughlin '06, M.S., PhD Candidate, University of Rochester Medical Center
Structural and Biophysical Basis for Protein-Nucleic Acid Recognition during Gene Regulation
April 27: Anthony Annunziata '05, Graduate Student, Yale University Department of Applied Physics
Single-Photon Detectors Based on Superconducting Nanowires
May 5th: Physics & Astronomy Department Picnic! 11 AM - 1 PM, at the observatory!
Please sign up outside the department office (218 Ho) by Friday April 30th.

Fall 2009 Schedule

September 1: Welcome Back Mixer!
Come say hello and meet new friends and faculty! Pizza and soda will be provided!
September 8: Beth Parks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University
 and Claire Watts '10 -
Terahertz spectroscopy of single-molecule magnets: Unexpected results
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!
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
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
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
October 13: Sabina Hurley '98, Flight Operations, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Operating NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
October 20: Fall Recess - No Seminar
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
November 3: David Latimer, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Kentucky -
The lighter side of dark matter
November 10: Etienne Gagnon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Colgate University -
Study of Molecular Dynamics on Femtosecond Timescales
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
November 24: No Seminar 
December 1: Gregory Sloan, Research Astronomer, Infrared Spectrograph Science Center, Cornell University -
The Spitzer view of dust production in the Local Group and the distant Universe.