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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 a few Thursday/Friday Seminars scheduled this Spring.
They will begin at 11:30 (refreshments at 11:20), in 217 Lathrop.
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January 19: |
No Seminar |
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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 |
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February 2: |
Soren Konecky,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Beckman Laser Institute, University of California - Irvine
Seeing Under the Surface with Diffusing
Photons |
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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 |
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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 |
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February 23: |
No Seminar |
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March 2: |
Amy Lytle,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Hamilton College
Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Understanding and
Manipulating Harmonic Generation
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March 9: |
Jennifer Telling '08,
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Ash Aggregation in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions |
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March 16: |
Mid-Term Recess - No Seminar |
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March 23: |
No Seminar |
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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 |
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April 6: |
Thomas Sangrey,
Department of
Biology, Emory University
Constraint-Based
Approaches in Optimal Neural Transmission |
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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 |
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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 |
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April 27: |
Anthony Annunziata '05,
Graduate Student, Yale University Department of Applied Physics
Single-Photon Detectors Based on Superconducting Nanowires |
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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. |
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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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The Spitzer view of dust production in the Local Group and the
distant Universe. |
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