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, 2008:

Thursday, September 11, 4:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Ca'trish Pagan, '09 and Alex Showalter-Bucher, '10 Investigating Background Sources in the DANNA Experiment using GEANT4 and MCNPX
Friday, September 12, 3:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Sylvester Kofi Gyan, '09 Vortex Switching between Defects in Nanomagnetic Structures
Friday, September 12, 3:30 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Bryce Carpenter, '10, and Matthew Margotta, '11 Creating Light Curves of Variable Stars Using Aperture Photometry
Friday, October 17, 3:15 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Nathan Stoddard BP Solar Solid State Physics and the Leading Edge of Solar Cell Technology
Friday, October 24, 3:15 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Chad Whelan, '94 CODAR Ocean Sensors The RADAR for Ocean Observing: Eddies, Upwelling, Tsunamis and More
Thursday, December 11, 4:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Paul Blank National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Calcium-triggered Exocytosis: A Kinetic Synthesis

Thursday, February 12, 4:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Alexander B. Steel, '09 Arnol'd Tongues in an Optically Driven van der Pol Relaxation Oscillator
Monday, February 16, 3:30 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Jonathan McCoy, Cornell University Soft Matter and the Physics of Everyday Wonders
Friday, February 20, 4:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Kurt Andresen, Colgate University DNA and the Nucleosome: The Physics of Strangely Attractive Biomolecules
Thursday, February 26, 4:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Stephen Tsui, California State University, San Marcos Challenging Flash: the Exploration of Oxide Nonvolatile Memory Effects
Wednesday, March 4, 3:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Anota Ijaduola, Monmouth College Superconductors: from Basic Science to Technological Applications
Tuesday, April 14, 8:30 a.m. Masters 117	Veronica Antocheviz Dexheimer The Physics of Neutron Stars
Monday, April 27, 3:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Shea Hess Webber, '09 Coronal Hole Boundary Detection: a Step Toward Predicting the Solr cycle
Monday, April 27, 3:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	Christene R. Lynch, '09 Optical Spectroscopy of the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi: Outburst and Quiescence
Friday, May 1, 3:00 p.m. Masters 110 (Mara Auditorium)	William T. Mozet, '09 Quantum Cascade Laser Material Growth and Characterization

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