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Physics Seminar Schedule (Spring 2007)

Date Speaker Institution Title
Friday, March 16 Dr. John Whelan Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics
(Albert-Einstein-Institute)
Searching for White Dwarf Binaries in the Mock LISA Data Challenge

Spring 2006 Schedule

Date Speaker Institution Title
Thursday, April 20 Dr. Roy Dokka Center for Geoinformatics - Louisiana State University Modern and future subsidence of south Louisiana: Implications for
rebuilding a safer and sustainable New Orleans

Spring 2005 Schedule

All seminars are scheduled for 12:30-13:30 in Monroe 251, unless otherwise noted

Date Speaker Institution Title
Thursday, February 24 Prof. Ulrike Diebold Tulane University Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Metal Oxide Surfaces
Thursday, March 17 Dr. Katherine Rawlins MIT The funniest-looking telescopes in the world, and how they're exploring the high-energy universe
Thursday, March 31 Prof. Thomas Spence Loyola Chemistry Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy: Development and Application of an Ultra-Sensitive Direct Absorption Spectroscopy
Thursday, April 7 Dr. Rene Smith Reading Medical Center Medical Physics as a Career
Thursday, April 14 Prof. Michael Brown Swarthmore Self-Organization in Magnetized Plasmas
Thursday, April 28 Prof. Licia Verde Penn Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background and galaxy surveys

Fall 2004 Schedule

All seminars are scheduled for 12:30-13:30 in Monroe 251, unless otherwise noted

Date Speaker Institution Title
Thursday, September 30 Prof. Carl H. Brans Loyola Space, time, spacetime and gravity waves
Thursday, October 7 Dr. Stephen Fairhurst UW-Milwaukee Searching For Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
NOTE: Dr. Fairhurst's seminar will be held in Monroe Library Multimedia Room 2
Thursday, October 14 Prof. Rob Salgado Dillard New Ideas for Teaching Relativity: Space-Time Visualizations of Proper Time
Thursday, October 28 Thomasz Kreft Tulane University Neutrons' Lifetime
Thursday, November 11 Dr. Mark Pease CAMD, LSU Biosensors
Thursday, December 2 Prof. Leszek Malkinski UNO Exchange Bias

Spring 2004 Schedule

Date Speaker Institution Title
Thursday, March 11 Prof. Martin P. McHugh Loyola The search for gravitational waves
Thursday, April 1 Prof. John T. Whelan Loyola The scientific exploration of Mars
Thursday, April 15 Dr. Konrad Kabza SE Louisiana U Microwave Induced Chemistry
Thursday, April 29 Prof. Armin Kargol Loyola Biophysics of ion channels part I

Updated September 11, 2008