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 |