Physics Talks and Seminars

Fall Semester 2007

September 14: Professor J. Vesenka,  University of New England "The Strange Case of Four-Stranded DNA". October 12: Professor Kate Kirby, Center for Astrophysics/Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory "Laboratory Astrophysics for Forefront Astronomy". November 9: Professor Christine Jones, Center for Astrophysics/Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory "Reflections from Outbursts of Super Massive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies". November 30: Professor D. Gauthier, Duke University "Slow Light, Fast Light, Stopped Light: What Does It All Mean?"

Winter Semester 2008

January 24: Dr. Amy Lytle, University of Colorado and JILA
"Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Understanding and Manipulating High-order Harmonic Generation"

January 29: Professor Lillian Childress, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Bates College
"Single Electronic Spins in Diamond: Quantum Information, Metrology and the Pursuit of Coherence"

February 8: Patty Goodale Judy (Bates, '99), Department of Radiology, University of Virginia
"The Physics of Radiology"

February 26: Dr. Lori Goldner, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Single Molecule Biophysics in Femtoliter Containers"

March 7: Professor (Emeritus) Steve Childress, Courant Institute of Mathematics,
"Swimming and Flying in Antarctica: Flapping Flight and Ciliated Motion in Creatures that Live under the Ice"

March 21: Thomas Bohan, Ph. D and J.D., President - American Academy of Forensic Scientists
"The Adventures of a Physicist in Forensic Science"

March 24: Dr. John T. Giblin Jr., Department of Physics, Yale University,
"Gravitational Waves: A New View of the Universe"

April 10: Professor Thomas Burbine, Department of Physics, Mt. Holyoke College
"Asteroids as Geologic Bodies "