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Physics and Astronomy Seminar Schedule

Talks are at 12:00 noon Mondays in Olin 264 unless otherwise indicated.

Spring 2008

January 18
Friday, 4:00pm
Olin 255
Weighing Neutron Stars
David Nice, Bryn Mawr
January 21Assembling RNA-Protein Complexes in a Microfluidic Reactor
Effrosyni Seitaridou, Caltech
January 28Testing the Limits of Relativity
Matthew Mewes, Marquette University
January 30
Wednesday, 12 noon
Ultra-Sensitive Atomic Magnetometry: From Fieldable Sensors to High-Resolution Magnetic Microscopy
James Higbie, UC Berkeley
February 1
Friday, 4 pm
Quantum Ballistic Motion: The strange and fascinating ways of electrons in electric and magnetic fields
Christian Bracher, Cal State Long Beach
February 18Cosmic Rays: Death from Above
Kevin Marshall, Bucknell
March 6
Thursday, 1:00 pm
Quantum Entanglement and Particle Scattering
Nathan Harshman, American University
March 24Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements
Chad Orzel, Union College
March 31A General Monte Carlo Approach to Uncertainty Analysis (Inspired by Junior Lab)
Marty Ligare, Bucknell
April 14The Riemann Zeta-Function and Random Matrix Theory
David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
April 22
Tuesday 3:00 pm
The Colloidal Glass Transition in Tight Spaces
Eric Weeks, Emory University
April 22
Tuesday 4:00 pm
Thesis Defense: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of a Hyperpolarized Gas
Austin Ziltz '08
April 28Teaching Thermodynamics in the First Year Physics Course
Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Bucknell

Fall 2007

September 6Meet the Physics Faculty

Experiments with Antimatter
David Schoepf, Bucknell
September 13Polymer Photonic Crystals Containing Azobenzene
Garret O'Malley, Bucknell '09

A Brief Introduction to Electronic Propulsion
Jason Maron, Bucknell '08
September 27Solar Array Plasma Interactions: Design Challenges for Earth Orbits
Justin Likar, Lockheed Martin, Bucknell '01
October 4Whither Particle Physics?
Thomas Ferbel, University of Rochester
October 11High Mobility 2D Electron Systems on Hydrogen-Passivated Silicon Surfaces
Tomek Kott, University of Maryland, Bucknell '06
Friday, October 19Modeling Epidemic Spread: Multistrain Interactions and Adaptive Social Networks
Leah Shaw, College of William & Mary
November 1Designing Software for Spectrometer Control
Joseph Blair, Bucknell '09

Myosin Dynamics in Dividing HeLa Cells
Caitlyn Yeager, Bucknell '09
November 8Careers in Medical Physics
Kate Spillane, University of Pennsylvania
November 15Chemical Patterns in a Two-Dimensional Vortex Array with Chaotic Mixing
Jeff Boehmer, Bucknell '09

Information Session About Summer Research Opportunities
Sally Koutsoliotas, Bucknell
November 29Crazy Ideas in Science
Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University

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