Gettysbug Physics

*[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, 2007:

Friday, September 7, 2007 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:00 p.m.	Patricia J. Lee National Institute of Standards and Technology Quantum Information Processing using Atoms and Ions
Friday, September 28, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 3:00 p.m.	Neil Zimmerman National Institute of Standards and Technology What is the Charge Quantum That Moves in a SET Pump (e or not e)?
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Science Center 200, 7:00 p.m.	Maria Cristina Pineda de Carias Director, Observatory of Astronomy of Honduras Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras 18 Rabbit's Plan for "Plaza del Sol" in Copan Honduras
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.	Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Physics, Kenyon College Sparks and Wiggles
Friday, October 28, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.	Greg Mizell, '79 VLOC/II-VI An Overview of the Growth and Manufacture of Crystals for Laser and Optoelectronic Applications
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.	Raymond Simmonds National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO) Quantum Legos: Custom Designed Superconducting Atoms and Cavities
Friday, November 30, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 3:15 p.m.	Christine Kuhn and Samantha Fay Gettysburg College Report on Summer Research
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 3:00 p.m.	Laurence A. Marschall W.K.T. Sahm Professor of Physics, Gettysburg College Deconstructing Pluto
Friday, December 7, 2007 Mara Auditorium, 3:15 p.m.	Daiji Kawamura, Melissa Schmidt and David Yager-Elorriaga Gettysburg College Report on Summer Research

Spring, 2008:

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Michael Faux SUNY College at Oneonta Are All Particles Created Equal?
Monday, February 18, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Michael Strickland Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany *Quantum Chromodynamics at Extreme Conditions*
Thursday, February 21, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:15 p.m.	David Mattingly University of California, Davis *Hunting for Quantum Gravity*
Monday, February 25, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Matthew Mewes Marquette University Testing the Limits of Relativity
Friday, March 14, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:30 p.m.	Christine Rene Lynch Gettysburg College Class of 2009 What the Formation of the First Starts Let in its Wake
Friday, March 14, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:30 p.m.	J. David Newcomer Gettysburg College Class of 2009 The Effects of Lasing on the Population Distribution of a Helium Neon Plasma
Monday, April 14, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:00 p.m.	Charles A. Lee University of Texas, Austin Experimental Study of Helicon Plasmas with Application to Space Propulsion
Friday, April 18, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Erin Elisabeth Smith Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Optimization of a Carbon Diagnostic for Use in the Analysis of an Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosion
Friday, April 18, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Brock Richard Russell Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Energy Gaps of Doped and Co-Doped Silicon Nanowires
Friday, April 25, 2008 Masters 208 3:30 p.m.	Anne Elyse Emerson Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Lego Girls: *Program Approaches and Strategies that Foster Elementary School Girls’ Interest, Persistence, and Confidence in STEM*
Friday, April 25, 2008 Masters 208 4:00 p.m.	Matthew Edward Galante Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Investigation of the Hyperfine Splitting of the Niobium Atom using Laser Optogalvanic Spectroscopy
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 3:30 p.m.	Anne Marie Forney Gettysburg College Class of 2008 Sing-chronizing Qubits in Two-Part Harmony
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	William Clark Brehm, IV Gettysburg College Class of 2008 A Photometric Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6811
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Joseph T. Trout Drexel University TBA
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Curt W. Foltz Clarion University TBA
Monday, June 9, 2008 Mara Auditorium (Masters 110) 4:00 p.m.	Jeffrey R. Groff The College of William & Mary Markov Chain Models of Calcium Puffs and Sparks

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