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 21	Assembling RNA-Protein Complexes in a Microfluidic Reactor Effrosyni Seitaridou, Caltech
January 28	Testing 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 18	Cosmic Rays: Death from Above Kevin Marshall, Bucknell
March 6 Thursday, 1:00 pm	Quantum Entanglement and Particle Scattering Nathan Harshman, American University
March 24	Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements Chad Orzel, Union College
March 31	A General Monte Carlo Approach to Uncertainty Analysis (Inspired by Junior Lab) Marty Ligare, Bucknell
April 14	The 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 28	Teaching Thermodynamics in the First Year Physics Course Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Bucknell

September 6	Meet the Physics Faculty Experiments with Antimatter David Schoepf, Bucknell
September 13	Polymer Photonic Crystals Containing Azobenzene Garret O'Malley, Bucknell '09 A Brief Introduction to Electronic Propulsion Jason Maron, Bucknell '08
September 27	Solar Array Plasma Interactions: Design Challenges for Earth Orbits Justin Likar, Lockheed Martin, Bucknell '01
October 4	Whither Particle Physics? Thomas Ferbel, University of Rochester
October 11	High Mobility 2D Electron Systems on Hydrogen-Passivated Silicon Surfaces Tomek Kott, University of Maryland, Bucknell '06
Friday, October 19	Modeling Epidemic Spread: Multistrain Interactions and Adaptive Social Networks Leah Shaw, College of William & Mary
November 1	Designing Software for Spectrometer Control Joseph Blair, Bucknell '09 Myosin Dynamics in Dividing HeLa Cells Caitlyn Yeager, Bucknell '09
November 8	Careers in Medical Physics Kate Spillane, University of Pennsylvania
November 15	Chemical Patterns in a Two-Dimensional Vortex Array with Chaotic Mixing Jeff Boehmer, Bucknell '09 Information Session About Summer Research Opportunities Sally Koutsoliotas, Bucknell
November 29	Crazy Ideas in Science Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University