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Physics

 

2007-2008 Physics Seminars

Fall 2007

28 September -  Michael Studinger

Subglacial Lakes in Antarctica: Linking Ice Sheet Dynamics, Tectonics, and Biology with Aerogeophysical Methods


19 October -  Janine Shertzer

Atomic diffraction

Spring 2008

1 February - James McDonald

How does the sun shine ?

 

4 April - Robin Cote

The formation and use of ultra-cold molecules

 

25 April - Abner Shimony

Time dependence of the onset of the Pauli Principle in a fresh ensemble of electrons


Past Physics Seminars

Fall 2006


29 September -  David Branning
Of Gods, Dice, and Spooky Actions At a Distance: Introduction to Bell's Inequality

20 October -  John Tarduno
The Beginning and Future of Earth's Magnetic Field

10 November - Leslie Brown
Stalking Celestial Monsters: Monitoring Active Galactic Nuclei and the Black Holes They Contain

8 December -  Jeff Dorale
North American Pleistocene Extinctions: Lessons from our Living Megafauna
presented in collaboration with the Environmental Sciences Program

Spring 2007


2 February - John Wettlaufer
Phase Transitions, Ocean Freezing and Climate Catastrophes

6 April - Susanne Yelin
Manipulation of matter with coherent light: From molecular quantum computing to negative refraction

20 April - Arshad Kudrolli
Particle Shape and Dynamics of Granular Matter: Swarming to Swirling

 

Fall 2005


9 September - Scott Calvin
How Small is Small

30 September - Christoph Geiss
How to Make Mountains

21 October - David Branning
Caught in the act: can Inhibited Spontaneous Emission be seen?

4 November - Mark Silverman
The Climes, Are They A-Changin'?

18 November - Kyungseon Joo
Do we Know Protons Well ?

 

Spring 2006


3 February -  Larry Gould
Albert Einstein - Myth and Magic
 

17 February - Brad Moser
The Exploding Diatomic Molecule

10 March - Michael Brown
Self-organization in Magnetized Plasmas

7 April - Mark Silverman
Are Crowds Wise?  An Experimental Test

21 April - Alexei Smirnov
The magnetic field of the Early Earth

Fall 2004


17 September - Robert Hilborn
No Noise is Bad Noise

1 October - Michael Brezel
The Phenomenon of NMR and Clinical Uses of MRI


12 November - John Wang
Towards Inflation in String Theory: Extra Dimensions and Spacelike Branes

3 December - Eric Myers
Searching for Ripples in Spacetime

 

Spring 2005


 18 February - Ravi Sachidanandam
Love at First Sight: Sequence Recognition in Biology

3 March - David Branning
Quantum Thought-Experiments with Light

4 March - Laurie Morgus
Excited Electronic States of NaK

11 March - Windell Oskay
The Mercury-ion Optical Clock

16 March - Bob Weinberger
Photocatalytic Thin Films for the Improvement of Indoor Air Quality

   
 
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