JMU Physics Department Seminar Schedule, Spring 2007
Seminars this semester will be in Room 2212 of the Physics/Chemistry Building


Past Seminars            

 

JMU Physics Dept. Seminars this semester will meet either Thursday from 4:00-5:25 OR Friday from 3:35 pm to 4:45.  Guests from the outside community are welcome to attend.  They should procure a parking tag at 540-568-3300, or park in metered spaces in the university lots. If you would like to be added to or removed from the email list, notify Scott Paulson by sending an email to paulsosa@jmu.edu.

Spring 2005 Seminars

 

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title Abstract/Bio/Website
Thursday 1/11   NO SEMINAR  
Friday 1/19 Fred Lo (NRAO) Megamasers, Hubble Constant and Dark Energy Abstract/Bio
Tuesday 1/23 Klebert Feitosa (UPenn)

Steady State Foams: The Bubbly side of Soft Matter

Abstract
Thursday 1/25 Robert Deegan (Bristol) Fingers and Holes in Shear Thickening Fluids Abstract
Wednesday 1/31 Harold Butner (JMU) Looking Behind the Curtain Abstract
Thursday 2/1 Renee Fatemi (MIT)

Extracting the Gluon Piece of the Proton Spin Puzzle: New Results from the STAR Collaboration

Abstract
Friday 2/2 David Van Winkle (FSU) "Soft Condensed Matter and Other Physics at Florida State University" Abstract
Wednesday 2/7 Fred Gray (Pomona) "Precision tests of fundamental physics using muons and
neutrinos"
Abstract
Thursday 2/8 Jennifer Hoffman (Berkeley) "Polarization of Circumstellar Material Across the H-R Diagram" Abstract
Monday 2/12 Markos Georganopoulos (UMBC) "Breaking the Enigma of the X-ray Emission From Powerful Quasar Jets" Abstract
Wednesday 2/14 Christine Russell (Cameron College) X-Ray Metrology for Materials Characterization Abstract
Thursday 2/15 Cristian Staii (Princeton) "Using the Atomic Force Microscope to Design Protein Biosensors" Abstract
Thrusday 2/22 No Seminar    
Thursday 3/1 No Seminar    
Thursday 3/8 Spring Break

NO SEMINAR

 
Thursday 3/15 No Seminar    
Thursday 3/22 Bill Ingham Introduction to Library Project  
Thursday 3/29 D. Brian Walton (JMU) "Noise---Work With It, Not Against It" Abstract
Thursday 4/5 NCUR practice talks JMU students  
Friday 4/6 John Hemminger "Composition and Chemistry of the Liquid/Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions:  Implications for the Chemistry of Aerosols in the Troposphere"
Thursday 4/12      
Thurs/Fri 4/18-19 392 class Library project presentations  

 

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