Fall 2002 Colloquium Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, refreshments are served 15 minutes before each colloquium.

Monday, Sept. 16, 4:30pm
Dr. Subhash Antani - Edgewood College
"Exploring the Ionosphere with Radio Waves"

Monday, Sept. 23, 4:30pm
PhACS with David Jackson - Dickinson College
"The Beauty of Patterns"

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 4:30pm
Dr. Owen Gingrich - Harvard University
"The Copernican Revolution Reconsidered"

Priestly Award Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 3, 8:15pm - Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) auditorium
Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell - University of Bath
"In Pursuit of Pulsars"

Monday, Oct. 7, 4:30pm
PhACS with Hans Pfister - Dickinson College
"Flux Tubes, Helicity Conservation, and Christmas Ribbons"

Monday, Oct. 28, 4:30pm
Dr. John Luetzelschwab - Dickinson College
"The Science of Dirty Bombs"

Monday, Nov. 11, 4:30pm
Dr. Karen Lewis Hirsch '92 - Defense Threat Reduction Agency
"Radiation Detection Systems"

Monday, Nov. 18, 4:30pm
Dr. Fiona Hoyle - Drexel University
"Mapping the Universe: A New Era in Redshift Surveys"

Monday, Dec. 9, 4:30pm
Student Research Talks!
Peter Driscoll and Alyse vanEpps
"The Formation of Habitable Planets"

Tim Madden and Amy Street
"Rub a Dub Dub - Radon in the Tub"

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 12:05pm
Student Research Talks!
Elyse Casper and Chris Graham
"Light Transmission Through a Forest Canopy"

Elizabeth Bouzarth
"A Link Between Physics and Mathematics: Helicity Conservation and Reidemaster Moves"

Colleen Bannon, JoEllen McBride, and Erin Bauer
"The Study of a Delta Scuti"

Molly McCormack
"Angular Momentum Changes in Consecutive Pirouettes"

Thursday, Dec. 12, 4:45pm
Student Research Talks!
Jon Blessington
"Plasma Dynamics of the Hall Thruster"

Micah McCutchan
"The Role of Extrasolar Planets in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"

Elyse Casper
"A Continuing Study of the Structure of Blazars Using the VLBA"