Colloquium Series
To help you grow as a physicist, astronomer, or engineer, we have colloquium series several times a semester.
The series gives you a chance to get away from the classroom setting, hear from people in the business, and see what’s been done elsewhere. We usually bring in about a dozen speakers a semester. Speakers include government scientists and professors at other universities.
The colloquium is required, and you do get credit for it. Grad students have to attend three series, undergraduates, one or two.
To make sure you've soaked it all in, we require that you give a presentation at the end of each semester about what you learned. In the fall, you will do an oral presentation, and in the spring, you will do a poster board presentation. These exercises will develop your presentation skills, which is essential in this discipline.
Spring 2013 Colloquium Series
Please join us for our physics and astronomy related seminars. All seminars take place in Cooper Physical Science Building (CP), room 144, and begin at 3:30 p.m. (unless noted otherwise). Refreshments are served at 3:15 p.m. in CP 108. Please call 765-285-8860 for further information.
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Date
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Speaker
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Topic
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| January 17 |
Robert Koester, CERES and Department of Architecture, Ball State University |
Institutionalizing sustainability: from the ground up |
| January 24 |
David Grosnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University |
The puzzle of nucleon spin |
| January 31 |
Mahamud Subir, Chemistry Department, Ball State University |
Let there be light, let there be surfaces, let the two interact--probing surface chemistry using nonlinear spectroscopy |
| February 7 |
Andrew Rader, Lilly Pharmaceutical |
Gaining insights into protein flexibility, dynamics and stability using network models |
| February 21 |
Stanislav Avdoshenko, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University |
Thermo-induced transformations in carbon based materials: MD viewpoints |
| February 28 |
Anna Lisa Varri, Department of Astronomy, Indiana University |
Rotation, tides, and pressure anisotropy: new dynamical models for globular clusters |
| March 21 |
Samir Salim, Department of Astronomy, Indiana University |
Discovery of ongoing star formation in red and presumably dead galaxies: Implications for galaxy evolution |
| March 28 |
Ming Yu, Department of Physics, University of Louisville |
Shedding light on the structural and electronic properties of SiC nanostructures |
| April 4 |
Michael Stroscio, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Applications of Physics in Nanoscience and Nanoelectronics |
| April 18 |
Andrew Richter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valparaiso University |
Using Neutrons and X-Rays to Study the Structure of Bio-Templated Polymer Nanomaterials |
| April 25 |
Graduate and Undergraduate Students, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University |
Student Research Presentations |