Department of Physics

Fall 2008 Colloquium Series

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September 4 - Dr. George Coyne, reknowned astronomer, Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory

3:30 PM, Music Concert Hall:  The Churchs' Most Recent Attempt to Dispel the Gallileo Myth

7:30 PM, Music Concert Hall:  Who needs God?  A Discussion of Biological Evolution and the Scientific            

Method in Regards to the Intelligent Design Movement

Sponsered by the astronomy club

September 17th - Dr. Vadim Levin, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Rutgers University

October 8th - Dr. Paul Evenson, Professor of Physics, Bartol Research Inst., University of Delaware

October 27th - Dr. Peter Collings, Morris Clothier Professor of Physics, Swarthmore College

                                                        "Chromonic Liquid Crystals: A New Form of Soft Matter"

November 5- Dr. Paul McCracken, Senior Research Physicist, Imaging Department, Merck Research Laboratories

                                                           MRI research on disease processes

November 19 - Dr. Geoff Abers, Columbia University, "Seismically imaging the effects of H2O on the deep Earth at subduction                                                             zones: Postcards from the wedge"