Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, refreshments are served 15 minutes
before each colloquium. Colloquium schedules from other semesters can
be found here.
Monday, Feb. 18, 4:30pm
Dr. Michael Morgan - University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The Use of Numerical Weather Prediction Model Output in the
Enterprise of Forecasting"
Monday, March 3, 4:30pm
Dr. Catrina Hamilton-Drager - Dickinson College
"Reflected Light from Sand Grains in the Terrestrial Zone of a Protoplanetary
Disk"
Monday, March 24, 4:30pm
Derek Moulton - Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware
"The Mathematics of Soap Films"
Wednesday, April 9, 4:30pm
Dickinson Science Student Research Symposium
HUB Social Hall
Dr. Lars English - Dickinson College
"Keep it Together - The Science of Self-Confined Waves"
Monday, April 14, 4:30pm
Senior Research Talks!
Lindsey Ljungquist - "Photometric Observations of the Nova V723 Cas
Ritoban Basu Thakur - "Experimental Studies of Intrinsic Localized Modes
in Coupled Anharmonic Oscillators"
Sean Brannon - "Computational Model of Electron Drift in the Radial
B-Field of a Closed Drift Hall Thruster"
James Martin - "An Exercise in Photometry: Observations and Date
Reduction of NGC-2362"
Tuesday, April 15, 12:05pm
Senior Research Talks!
Jacob Heberling, Tom Schenck, Sara Sleyman - "Modeling Bubble Deflation
for Steady Laminar Flow"
Skylar Buckingham - "Spectroscopy of Active Galactic Nuclei"
Kristy Gaff - "Exploration of the Coupling Oscillation in a Plasma
Hall Thruster"
Thursday, April 17, 12:05pm
Senior Research Talks!
Michael Murphy - "Multiphoton Microscopy"
Sean Diamond, Nicko Evagelou, Giles Howlett - "Ferrofluid Surface Tension:
Measurement Techniques"
Colin Dew-Becker, Kaloyan Todorov, Karen Younkins - "Fractal Dimension
Analysis of Ferrofluid Shapes in a Hele-Shaw Cell"
Monday, April 21, 4:30pm
Charlie Conover - Colby College/National Science Foundation
Title TBA
Thursday, May 1, 12:05pm
New Major Induction Ceremony
Come and meet the newest members of the Department!