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Physics & Astronomy Seminar Schedule

Trinity University
 
Spring 2006

                                  

 All seminars are on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM, 

in Marrs McLean Science Center (MMS), Room 170,

*** unless otherwise noted! ***

(MMS is located at the eastern terminus of Oakmont Ct.)

 

Date SpeakerInstitution Title/Topic
Jan. 24 Peter McIntyre Texas A&MFruits of New Accelerator Physics and Technology: Tripling the Energy of the Large Hadron Collider, Shielding Astronauts on their Trip to Mars, Making Energy from Thorium, Mapping Function in Proteins

 

 

 

 

Jan. 31 Jason Deibel RiceGenerating, Guiding, and Detecting Terhertz Radiation

 

 

 

 

Feb. 14 Guido Mueller U. FloridaThe Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Detector

 

 

 

 

Feb. 21Carlos Handy Texas SouthernApplication of Positivity Theorems in Quantizing Physical Systems

 

 

 

 

Feb. 28Don Winget UT-AustinExtreme Physics and Extrasolar Planets

 

 

 

 

Mar. 7Lorin Matthews BaylorCosmic Dust Bunnies and Laboratory Dust Crystals: An Introduction to Complex Plasma Research

 

 

 

 

Mar. 21Jennifer KreftUT-AustinPhase Coexistence in Shaken Granular Media

 

 

 

 

 

Mar. 28 Michele L. OstraatDuPont, Wilmington, DE

Aerosol Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Methods, and Applications

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 4  in ***Ruth Taylor Recital Hall***Brian HolmesSan Jose StateThe Physics of Brass Musical Instruments
 

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 11Xinchou LouUT-DallasDiscovering New Mesons in Electron-Positron Annihilation
 

 

 

 

 

 

Apr. 18Alexis ThompsonU. Illinois-UrbanaEnergy and Charge Transfer in Conjugated Molecules
 

 

Apr. 25Erin BeitelTUPassivative Microcontact Printing Fabrication Technique
Apr. 25 Eric DanielsonTUHigh-resolution Imaging of Parsec-scale Quasar Jets
Apr. 25Bobby McKinneyTUMeasuring Surface Charge with a Kelvin Probe
Apr. 25Kevin DoyleTUCorrecting Unwanted Amplitude Modulation in Electro-optic Modulators