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Department of Physics
Colloquium Series
Talks will be posted as speakers are confirmed. Please check here and on the calendar outside P-123 for updated announcements.
Spring 2012
April 18 - Dr. Alix Davatzes, Temple University
"Planetary Physics / Mars"
11:30 AM - Science Complex P117
March 28 - Dr. Ken Budka, Alcatel-Lucent (Bell Labs)
"Theoretical Communications"
2:00 PM - Science Complex P101
January 30 - Dr. Mazin Magzoub, Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University
"Concentration dependent transitions govern the subcellular localization of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide"
3:30 PM - Science Complex P317
January 24 - Dr. Tuan Nguyen, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
"Revealing neural connectivity with photons and viruses"
2:00 PM - Science Complex 101
Fall 2011
November 1 -- Dr. M. Virginia McSwain, Dept. of Physics, Lehigh University
"To Be or Not To Be: The Origin of Be Star Disks"
11:30 AM - Science Complex SCP-117
September 30 -- Dr. Paul Wiita, Professor of Physics and Chair, TCNJ.
"Radio Galaxies and Blazars: Unifying a Family"
11:30 AM - Science Complex P101
October 3 -- Dr. Paul Pigram, Dept. of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
"Surface Science, Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology"
11:30 AM - Science Complex SCP117
"LaTrobe Universtiy and TCNJ Exchange Program"
2:00 PM - Science Complex SCP117
Spring 2011
January 19 -- Dr. David J. McGee, Professor of Physics and Chair, Drew University.
"Photonics at the nanoscale: controlling optical functionality in block copolymer domains"
2:00 PM - Science Complex 101
January 21 -- Dr. Michael Pierce, Staff physicist, Argonne National Laboratories
"How Atoms Dance: Surface dynamics, x-ray speckles, catalysis and what it all means to you"
2:00 PM - Science Complex 101
January 25 -- Dr. Roberto Ramos, Assistant Professor of Physics, Drexel University.
2:00 PM - Science Complex 101
Spring 2010
April 22 -- Dr. Robert Vanderbei, applied mathematician and distinguished astrophotographer, and Professor and Chair, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University.
" The Search for Earth-like Planets"
April 15 -- Professor David Spergal. Chair, Astrophysical Science, Princeton University
"Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Inflation"
March 19 -- Dr. Nate Magee. Interim chair, TCNJ Physics. School of Science Colloquium. "The snowpocalyptic winter of 2010, climate change science, and the tuning of LUTES: perspectives from the surface of a snowflake."
March 3-- Mike Carr, Rutgers University, Volcanologist and former Dean of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers.
Fall 2009
September 16 -- Dr. Mike Kavic, TCNJ new faculty in physics
"Transient Pulses from Exploding Primordial Black Holes as a Signature of an Extra Dimension"
September 23 -- Dr. Frederik Simons, Princeton University
"Robust tools to study noisy and incomplete geophysical and cosmological observables: Theory, applications and future directions."
October 7 -- Community Learning Day
Wed, Oct. 21: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, SUNY, Stony Brook, "The Hydrogen bond: source of water exotic properties and key to future's green energy source"
Wed, Oct. 28: John Simonetti, Virginia Tech, “A Black-Hole-Neutron-Star Binary System: Searching for Extra Spatial Dimensions”
Friday Nov 20: Dr. Philip Rubin, George Mason Univ., “Complicated Searches for Simplicity: An Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics”
Wed, Dec. 2, Dr. Amer Lahamer, Berea College, Mossbauer and Laser Ablation Studies
Fri., Dec. 4: Dr. Paul Wiita, Georgia State University, “Quasars, Radio Galaxies and Blazars: Fast Fluctuations and Furious Flows”
Fall 2008
September 4 - Dr. George Coyne, reknowned astronomer, Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory
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 12 - U.J. Sofia
November 19 - Dr. Geoff Abers, Columbia University, "Seismically imaging the effects of H2O on the deep Earth at subductionzones: Postcards from the wedge"
November 20 - Dr. Robert Nemiroff, Mich. Tech University, "Adventures in Gravitational and Observational Astrophysics"
