WFU Physics Colloquium Schedule
-- Fall 2009
All seminars will be held at 4 PM in Room 101 of Olin Physical
Laboratory (unless noted otherwise); there will be refreshments at
3:30 PM in the lobby prior to each seminar.
Thurs. Aug. 27, 2009
Welcoming "Tea" and student presentations (Starting at 3:45 with refreshments at 3:15 PM.)
Thurs. Sept. 3, 2009
Physics Research Opportunities I
Wed. Sept. 9, 2009, Winston Hall, Room 126, 4pm. Refreshments available at 3:30pm in the lobby of Winston Hall.
Dr. Steve Creager -- Clemson University (Joint Seminar with Chemistry and Biology) --
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion (Note the unusual day of the week and location)
Thurs. Sept. 17, 2009 (WFU Opening Convocation)
Thurs. Sept. 24, 2009
Physics Research Opportunities II
Thurs. Oct. 1, 2009 Undergraduate Research II
Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009 Dr. Andrew Frey, McGill University
and WFU Alum - String Theory in the Universe
Fri. Oct. 9, 2009 Dr. Andrew Frey and Rebecca Danos, McGill University
(Annual Homecoming Speaker organized by Alumnus Chandran Sabanayagam) - Could Dark Matter Come from Extra Dimensions?
Thurs. Oct. 15, 2009 (fall break)
Thurs. Oct. 22, 2009 Professor Jafar Gharavi-Naeini -- WSSU --
Comparison of Tumor and Healthy Tissues using Raman Spectroscopy
(host: D. Kim-Shapiro)
Thurs. Oct. 29, 2009 Professor Michael Diehl, Rice U. --
Synthetic and biophysical strategies to investigate cooperativity among multiple, interacting, kinesin-1 motors
(host: J. Macosko)
Wed. Nov. 4, 2009, Winston Hall, Room 126, 4pm. Refreshments available before the talk in the lobby of Winston Hall Professor James G. McNally, National Cancer
Institute --
The live cell kinetics of transcription (joint colloquium with Biology Dept.; host: A. McCauley)
(Note the unusual day of the week and location)
Thurs. Nov. 5, 2009 Professor M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland - Neutron
Stars, High Densities, and Nuclear Physics (host: G. Cook)
Thurs. Nov. 12, 2009 Joel L. Berry, Ph.D., Wake Forest University -
Cardiovascular Disease and Biomechanics
Thurs. Nov. 19, 2009 -- Professor Christopher W. Walter, Duke University --
Experimental Neutrino Physics (host: P. Anderson)
Thurs. Nov. 26, 2009 Thanksgiving Holiday
Thurs. Dec. 3, 2009 -- Reserved for Computational Biophysics Interviews
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
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