Physics 492/592: Colloquium in Physics
Instructor: Prof. David Jeffery, Garrison House Rm 611,
Tel: 208-282-3049, Email: jeffery@physics.isu.edu,
Office Hours: MTWRF 2:00--4:00 pm (Make an appointment
if you need to see the instructor for sure.)
Class: M 4:00--4:50 pm, Garrison House 616
Description A weekly colloquium by visitors and students
on current topics in physics.
Newton as Professor at the time of the Principia
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Tentative Schedule of Colloquia: 2001 Spring
All talks at 4:00 pm, unless otherwise specified.
Note: The schedule is tentative. We welcome volunteers.
People who would like particular dates
to talk should let the intructor know. Local speakers may be
bumped if there are visitors.
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Monday Colloquium
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January 15 Martin Luther King Day Holiday: no classes
January 22 Speaker: David Jeffery, Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background---CMB---
at High Redshift, Part I
Abstract
January 29 Speaker: David Jeffery again, but he can be bumped
Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background---CMB---
at High Redshift, Part II
Abstract
February 5 Speaker: David Jeffery again, but he can be bumped
Title: The Scientific Revolution
Abstract
Paragraph on colloquium topic due from students
February 12 Speaker: Doug Wells, Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: The Quantum Zeno Paradox
Sponsor: The ISU Society of Physics Students
Refreshments: 3:30 pm in Garrison House Conference Room 625
February 19 Presidents' Day Holiday: no classes
February 26 Speaker: Jonathan Case, student speaker
Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: Near Earth Objects: NEOs
Abstract
March 5 Speaker: Ernest McCormick, student speaker
Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: "Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide
Emissions in the Next Decade"
from Arthur H. Rosenfeld,
Tina M. Kaarsberg, and Joseph Romm,
Physics today, 2000 November,
Volume 53, Number 11
Abstract
March 9 Speaker: Khalid Chouffani, Idaho Accelerator Center
Title: Parmetric X Radiation and Diffracted
Transition Radiation at REFER Electron Ring
Abstract
March 12 Speaker: Michelle Espy, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Title: SQUIDS: Weapons, Neutrons, and Brains
Abstract
March 13 Speaker: Frank Merrill, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Title: A Search for the H Dibaryon
Abstract
March 16 Speaker: Liping Gan, Jefferson Laboratory
Title: Precision Measurement of the Electromagnetic
Properties of Pseudoscalar Mesons at
CEBAF via the Primakoff Effect
Abstract
March 19 Spring Break---but their is a talk
Speaker: C. Rangacharyulu, University of Saskatchewan
Title: Symmetries in Physics
Abstract
March 26 Speaker: Lynn Anspaugh, Radiobiology Division
University of Utah
Title: Radiation Dose Reconstruction for Risk Derivation:
General Methods and Application to
the Techa River Cohort in Russia
Abstract
April 2 Speaker: Martin Hackworth, Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: The Physics of Concert Sound Reinforcement
Abstract
April 9 Speaker: Neal D. Shinn, Acting Manager, Surface & Interface Science Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Surface Nanostructure Formation: How and Why?
Abstract
April 16 Speaker: Rebecca Backstrom, student speaker, Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title:
Abstract
April 23 Speaker: Farida Selim, Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: Fast Positrons
Abstract
April 30 Speaker: Catalin Frujinoiu, student speaker
Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: Modeling Micro-Biological Dosimeters
Abstract
May 3 Speaker: Bruce A. Remington,
Hydrodynamics Group Leader,
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Title: Scaling Astrophysics into the
Laboratory
Abstract
Note: Thursday not Monday
Time: To be Announced
May 7 Speaker: Carrie Taylor
and Andrew Kok Kuan Wong
student speakers,
Dept. of Physics, ISU
Title: Scanning Electron Microscopes (Carrie)
Abstract
May 14 Final colloquium paper due date: May 16
Wednesday