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JMU Physics
Dept. Seminars this semester will meet either Thursday from 4:00-5:25
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Spring 2007 Seminars |
| Date | Speaker (Affiliation) | Title | Host | Abstract |
| Thursday 8/30 | Brian Utter, Ioana Niculescu | Group Advising For Physics Majors | ||
| Thursday 9/6 | Student Talks | Summer Research | Paulson | |
| Thursday 9/13 | Dr. Koji Mukai (NASA) | X-ray Observations of
Accreting White Dwarfs - or An Observer's View of Potential Type Ia Supernova Progenitor |
Scully | Abstract |
| Thursday 9/20 | Sean Scully (JMU) | Early Universe Research at JMU | Paulson | |
| Thursday 9/27 | Duncan Lorimer (WVU) | "Pulsars as Astrophysical Tools" | Alexander | Abstract |
| Thursday 10/4 | John Link (VT) | "The Light Sterile Neutrino: Mythical Creature or Physical Recluse?" | I. Niculescu | Abstract |
| Thursday 10/11 | Chris Hughes (JMU) | "Giant Magnetoresistance: This Year's Nobel Prize in Physics" | Hughes | Abstract |
| Thursday 10/18 | Fall Break | No Seminar | ||
| Friday 10/26 | Homecoming: Timothy Persons | “Disruptive Technologies: Premonitions of Innovation for 21st Century Intelligence” | Giovanetti | Abstract |
| Friday 11/2 | John Baez (UC Riverside) | "Fundamental Physics: Where We Stand Today" | Scully | Abstract |
| Thurssday 11/8 | Dr. Simon Capstick (FSU) | "The Nature of Strongly Interacting Particles" | Morel | |
| Thursday 11/15 | ||||
| Thrusday 11/22 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar | ||
| Thursday 11/29 | Kevin Lynch (Boston U.) | TBA | Giovanetti | Abstract |
| Thursday 12/6 | End of Classes | No Seminar |
Other JMU Science and Technology Seminars: