Seminar in Physics Spring 2013

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The Seminar in Physics is an opportunity for graduate students in Physics and

Astronomy to learn about the research opportunities in this program as well

as enhance their professional development.  Attendance is required for all

first-year graduate students. 

 

The seminar is held on Tuesdays starting at 500 pm in Room 385 of the Serin

Physics Building.

 

 

 

Speaker

Title

January

 

 

22

 

 

Jolie Cizewski

 

 

Introduction to new graduate program director and the qualifying examinations

 

 

29

 

Teresa Delcorso

 

Opportunities for graduate student external funding

 

February

 

5

 

Chuck Keeton

 

Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Telescopes

 

 

12

 

Andrew Baker

 

Gas and Galaxy Evolution

 

 

19

 

 

Sang-Wook Cheong

 

 

Multiferroic vortices: materials science, particle physics and cosmology

 

 

26

 

 

Gerald Goldin

 

 

Some nonlinear variations of Maxwell and Schrodinger equations and related symmetries

 

March

 

 

5

 

 

Weida Wu

 

 

Visualizing mergent phenomena at nanometer scale with scanning probe microscopy

 

 

12

 

Troy Shinbrot

 

Wild and crazy soft matter physics

 

 

19

 

None

 

Spring Break

 

 

26

 

Jerry Sellwood

 

Galaxies

 

April

 

2

 

Emanuel Diaconescu

 

Strings, Branes and Particles

 

 

9

 

David Shih

 

Supersymmetry and the LHC

 

 

16

 

 

 

Alumni Career panel

 

 

 

Suzanne Averitte - ITT

Josh Holden – ITT

Antonina Toropova – Citigroup

Xinjie Wang – JP Morgan

 

 

23

 

Jolie Cizewski

 

Exotic Atomic Nuclei and Explosions in the Cosmos

 

 

29

None

Best of success with exams