Passion for Physics

Lecturer Schedule Fall 2009

All lectures are held on Thursday afternoons from 4pm until 4:50pm in Low 4050.

Sept 3	Peter Persans	Planetary Science Using an Optical Illusion
Sept 10	John White	Baseball Mechanics
Sept 17	Mimi Katz	Rapid global warming 55 million years ago: The Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum
Sept 24	Wayne Roberge	Shock Waves: Things that Go Bang in Space
Oct 1	Jim Napolitano	Neutrinos, Symmetry, and the Origin of the Universe
Oct 8	Saroj Nayak	Quantum Transport at the Nanoscale
Oct 15	Sang-Kee Eah	Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticles
Oct 22	Joel Giedt	Strings and Lattices
Oct 29	Theeradetch Detchprom	Green Lasers and Energy Efficiency
Nov 5	Richard Bopp	What Every Physics Student Should Know about the Earth
Nov 12	Gyorgy Korniss	Dynamics in Networks
Nov 19	Ken Connor	Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion
Dec 3	Heidi Newberg	Your Textbook is Wrong about the Milky Way.