Fall 2007 Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, refreshments are served 15 minutes
before each colloquium. Colloquium schedules from other semesters can
be found here.
Monday, Sept. 3, 4:30pm
Dr. Carolyn Sealfron - West Chester University
"Gravity on Cosmological Scales"
Monday, Sept. 17, 4:30pm
Welcome Back Majors - Colloquium and BBQ!
Karen Younkins - "No Moon, Just Sun"
Giles Howlett - "Investigating the Force Applied by Miniature
Magnetic Tweezers Through Optical Trapping"
Monday, Oct. 1, 4:30pm
Student Summer Research Projects
Kristin Jekielek - "High Frequency Dynamics in Magnetic Nanopillars"
Sean Brannon - "Non-thermal Plasma Effects on Hydrogasification of Coal"
Monday, Oct. 29, 4:30pm
Dr. Michael Eracleous - Pennsylvania State University
"Observing Dynamical Phenomona in Accretion Disks Around Supermassive
Black Holes"
Monday, November 19, 4:30pm
Sigma-Pi-Sigma Induction Ceremony
Elizabeth Bouzarth '03 - Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina
"An Introduction to Modeling Biologically Motivated Fluid Motion"
Monday, Dec. 3, 4:30pm
Senior Research Talks!
Lindsay Ljundquist - "V723 Cas: The Once and Future Nova"
Ritoban Basu Thakur - "Driven Intrinsic Localized Modes in a Coupled
Pendulum Array"
Michael Murphy - "Building the Femtosecond Laser Lab"
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 12:05pm
Senior Research Talks!
Nickolas Evagelou, Giles Howlett, and Sean Diamond - "Measuring Ferrofluid
Surface Tension: Method in Crisis?"
Karen Younkins, Colin Dew-Becker, Kaloyan Todorov - "Classification of
Ferrofluid Shapes in a Hele-Shaw Cell"
James Martin - "Determining Transformation Coefficients from McDonald
Observatory"
Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:05pm
Senior Research Talks!
Sarah Sleyman, Tom Schenck, and Jacob Heberling - "Modeling Bubble Deflation"
Sklyar Buckingham - "Optical Spectroscopy of AGN's"
Sean Brannon - "Computational Model of Electron Trajectories in the Radial
B-Field of a Closed Door Drift Hall Thruster"
Kristina Gaff - "Investigating the Effect of the Discharge Current on the
Radial Magnetic Field of a Hall Thruster"