Gettysburg College
Physics Department

 2009-2010 COLLOQUIA*

These presentations are open to the general public, as well as to all students, faculty, administrators and staff of Gettysburg College, and we cordially invite you to join in for instructive,  thought-provoking lectures on current topics in astronomy and physics

Come find out what physics is all about!!  


 
*[latin colloquy fr. com + loqui to speak] conversation, dialogue; an academic meeting at
                            which specialist(s) speak on a given subject and then answer questions about it. 

Fall, 2009:
 

Thursday, September 24, 3:00 pm.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
 

Xiangyun Qui
Laboratory of Physical & Structural Biology, National Institutes of Health
Electrostatics-Driven Assembly of Liquid Crystalline DNA

Friday, October 2, 3:00 pm.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)

 

Christina L. McGahan, '11
Evaluation of a Non-Destructive Method for the Removal of Dust, Debris, and Co-deposited Tritium from First Wall Surfaces and Plasma Surface Interfaces in a Fusion Reactor 
Friday, October 2, 3:30 pm.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
Christine M. Kuhn, '10
Retroreflector Measurements and LED Traffic Signal Distributions
Thursday, October 8, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium) 
D. J. Pisano
Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: What are They and What will They Become?
Thursday, October 22, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium) 
Greg Adkins
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin and Marshall College
The New Quantum Universe
Thursday, October 29, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium) 
Kate Spillane
University of Pennsylvania, Medical Physics Program Director
Career Options in Medical Physics
   
   
  

Spring, 2010:
 

   
Thursday, March 4, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
Beth Willman
Haverford College
The (nearly) Invisible Galaxies
   
   
   
   

 


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