Fall 2009 Colloquium Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, lunch is served 15 minutes before each colloquium. Colloquium schedules from other semesters can be found at the Colloquium Archive.

Tuesday, Sept. 8, 12:05 pm
Welcome back message from the Chair, Prof. Hans Pfister
Kristen Recine & Anubhav Mohan - "Summer Research Studying NGC 2362"

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 12:05 pm
Dr. Jerry Gollub - Haverford College
"Swimming Synamics of Algae Cells and the Fluid Motion they Produce"

Tuesdsay, Oct. 15, 7:30pm in ATS
Joseph Priestley Lecture
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus - University of California, Irvine
"What's the matter with memory?"

Tuesday, October 27, 12:05 pm
Dr. Pratibha Jolly - University of Helhi (India)
"Transforming Classrooms, Teaching & Student Learning at the Tertiary Level"

Tuesday, November 10, 12:05 pm
Dr. Arlan Mantz - Connecticut College
"The Study of Molecular Line Parameters at Very Low Temperature Using Tunable Diode Lasers"

Monday, November 16, 4:30pm
Sigma-Pi-Sigma Induction Ceremony (Dinner to follow in the HUB Social Hall West)
Dr. Jeremiah Williams '98 - Wittenburg University
"Measurement of the Thermal Properties of a Complex (dusty) Plasma"

Monday, Dec. 7, 4:30pm, Tome 115
Senior Research Talks!
Zachary Carson - "Quantum Optics: Violating Local Realism"
Kelly Maurer - "A Search for Extrasolar Planetary Transits"

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 12:05pm, Tome 115
Senior Research Talks!
Eric Dornbush - "An Investigation of Classical Nova V723 Gas and Introduction to Photometric Processes"
Sam Wheeler - "An Experimental Search for Backwards-Wave Solitons"

Thursday, Dec. 10, 12:05pm, Tome 115
Senior Research Talks!
Daniel Barnak - "Diagnostics of a Closed Drift Hall Thruster"
Mara Anderson - "Rainbows in Space: Preparing the SBIG ST8 Spectrograph"