Date

Speaker

Title

30 Aug

Jim Napolitano

Course introduction (No writeup required)

6 Sep

Peter Persans

Applied Physics of Solar Energy Conversion

13 Sep

John Cummings

Experiments in Particle Physics

20 Sep

Joel Giedt

Strings and Lattices

27 Sep

Wayne Roberge

Shock Waves in Interstellar Space

4 Oct

Heidi Newberg

Your Textbook is Wrong about the Milky Way

11 Oct

Angel Garcia

Calculating What Makes Things Alive

18 Oct

Saroj Nayak

Theoretical Nano-Physics

25 Oct

Shawn Lin

Light from Semiconductors

1 Nov

Mike Fortun

Paths of Discovery in Physics

8 Nov

Richard Bopp

Global Warming or Why Self-Respecting Physics Students Should Learn about The Earth

15 Nov

Gyorgy Korniss

Dynamics in Networks

29 Nov

Leo Schowalter

Ultraviolet LED's or My Excellent Adventure Starting a New Business

6 Dec

Kim Lewis

Nanostructures for Applications