Spring 2011 Seminars
| Date | Title (Topic) | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, February 1 | Snacks at 3:30 in SB157 Seminar class at 3:45 pm | |
| Friday, February 4, 3:30pm in the Christian Perspectives in Science lecture series |
What Scientists Say and Why They Say It: The Linguistic Pragmatism of Quantum Physics | Prof. Matt Walhout |
| Tuesday, February 8 | Fun with Asteroid Dynamics: Binaries, Collisions, and Weathering | Prof. Larry Molnar and Student Katie McKay |
| Tuesday, February 15 | The Largest Galaxies in the Universe | Students Luke Leisman and David Sebald and Prof. Deb Haarsma |
| Tuesday, February 22, 4:00pm | The Gulf between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity | Prof. Brett Bolen, Grand Valley State University |
| Tuesday, March 1, 3:30-5:00pm, DeVries atrium |
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| Thursday, March 3, 3:30pm, Meeter Center (4th floor of Hekman Library). Sponsored by the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies. | Teaching Physics: 16th Century Meditations on the Nature of Evidence | Anja-Silvia Goeing , University of Zurich |
| Tuesday, March 8 | No seminar class, but still snacks at 3:30 in SB157 | |
Friday, March 11, 2:30pm, North Hall 078 |
Measuring the Magnet in the Electron | Gerald Gabrielse'73, Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University |
| Tuesday, March 15 | Seminar class | |
Tuesday, March 22 |
No seminar or snacks | |
| Tuesday, March 29 Jointly sponsored by Geology |
Impacts in the Earth-Moon System |
Prof. Nicolle Zellner, Albion College |
Tuesday, April 5 |
Sweetness and Light: Laser-Light Scattering of Lipid-Sugar-Water Mixtures | Prof. Paul Harper, Students Rachel Boerner and Tom Wilhelm |
| Thursday, April 7, in SB101, 10:30 a.m. | A Novel Two-Dimensional Phase Transition: the Disordering of the Knight-Move Phase | Lyle Roelofs '75, Provost of Colgate University |
| Tuesday, April 12 | Seminar class | |
| Tuesday, April 19 | Fixing School: How Technology is Fueling a Revolution in Education |
Prof Andrew Vanden Heuvel , Michigan Online Teacher of the Year |
Tuesday, April 26 |
No seminar | |
| Thursday, April 28, in SB101 | A new apparatus for a precise comparison of the electron and positron magnetic dipole moments | Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide '05, Harvard University Ph.D. student |
| Tuesday, May 3 | Seminar class | |
Tuesday, May 10 |
Adventures in Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy | Student Tom Wilhelm and Prof David Van Baak |
