Physics and Astronomy Seminar Schedule
Spring 2012
Talks are at 12:00 noon Mondays in Olin 255 unless otherwise indicated.
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Friday, January 27, 12:00 noon |
From the Hot Big Bang to Dark Energy Mustafa Amin, MIT |
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Monday, January 30, 12:00 noon |
Shining Light on Star Formation Stella Offner, Harvard |
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Wednesday, February 1 12:00 noon |
On the Frontiers of Nuclear Structure Matt Amthor, Michigan State |
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Friday, February 3 12:00 noon |
Revealing Neural Connectivity with Photons and Viruses Anh-Tuan Nguyen, University of Pittsburgh |
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Monday, February 6 12:00 noon |
Microtubules from a Physicist's Perspective Taviare Hawkins, University of Massachusetts |
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Wednesday, February 8 12:00 noon |
String Theory and Holography: From Strings to Fields and Back Again Benjamin Burrington, University of Toronto |
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Thursday, February 9 12:00 noon |
Exploring the Interface Between Physics & Biology: From a Traffic Model to Protein Synthesis and Beyond Jia Jia Dong, Hamline University |
Fall 2011
| August 29 |
Why Aren't There More Stars? The Battle Against Gravity in our Galaxy's Nurseries Ned Ladd, Bucknell |
| September 5 |
"Chaotic Mixing and Reaction Fronts" Tom Solomon, Bucknell
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| September 12 |
"Search for Deuterium Pulsations in Brown Dwarfs" Monica Herzog, '13 |
| September 19 |
"Numerical Stability and Accuracy in Computer Simulations" Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Physics & Astronomy |
| September 26 |
"The Flying Bison: A Student UAV Project" Dan Farrell '12 and Nick Urban '12 Talk will be held in OLIN 268 |
| October 3 |
"Tracing Atomic and Molecular Components of the Interstellar Medium" Karl Cronburg '13 |
| October 17 |
"Controlling Chaos in Small Fluidic System" Rodolphe Chabreyrie, Carnegie Mellon University |
| October 24 |
"Exploring Inner Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei with Spectropolarimetry" Andrew Robinson, Director of Astrophysical & Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology |
| October 31 |
"The Search for the Randall-Sundrum Graviton" Meghan Frate '12, Bucknell physics major |
| November 7 |
"Unveiling the Elusive Supernova Ia Progenitors" Styliani Kafka, Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| November 14 |
"Fluctation Judo: Random Partitioning, Photobleaching, and Cellular Copy Number" Andrew Rutenberg, Dalhousie University |
| November 21 |
Summer Research Information |
| November 28 |
"Deformation of Solid Materials, Granular Materials, and Earthquakes: Using Simple Models to Understand Slip Avalanches, Crackling Noise, and Universal Noise Statistics" Karin Dahmen, Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign |
