Physics and Astronomy Seminar Schedule
Fall 2009
Talks are at 12:00 noon Mondays in Olin 264 unless otherwise indicated.
| August 31 | Motion in Molecular Clouds: Gauging Dynamical Support Against Gravitational Collapse Ned Ladd, Bucknell |
| September 7 | Warp Drive, Time Machines, and the Einstein Tensor Conrad Moore, Bucknell '10 Laboratory Studies of Molecular Cooling Processes in Earth's Atmosphere Jake Schaeffer, Bucknell '10 |
| September 14 | Dynamics of a Sodium Spin Condensate Steve Maxwell, NIST |
| September 21 | Aging of a Glass: A Computer Simulation Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, Bucknell |
| September 28 | Making Schrödinger's Cat with Bose-Einstein Condensates Khan Mahmud, University of California Davis |
| October 5 | Thermodynamics in Atom Traps Marty Ligare, Bucknell |
| October 19 | How to see Length Contraction Jeff Bowen, Bucknell |
| October 26 | Over the Rainbow: Extreme adventures in the Ultra Charles Clark, NIST |
| November 2 |
Earth Analog for High-Latitude Landforms on Mars: Icy Debris Fans and Avalanches Along a Degrading Icecap in Alaska Craig Kochel, Dept. of Geology, Bucknell |
| November 9 | Chaotic Mixing and Reaction Fronts in Two-Dimensional Fluid Flows Mark Kingsbury '11 and Tom Solomon, Bucknell |
| November 16 | Ordering dynamics in the Ising ferromagnet Kipton Barros, Northwestern |
| November 23 | Applying for Summer Research Programs Sally Koutsoliotas, Bucknell |
| November 30 | Particle dynamics in dense short-ranged attractive colloidal suspensions Piotr Habdas, St. Joseph's University |
| December 7 | TBA |
