Physics and Astronomy

Physics Colloquium - Fall 2006

Date	Speaker
September 8	Introductory Welcome Colloquium, presented by Dr. David Batuski (Chairperson of Dept. of Physics & Astronomy), Dr. James McClymer (Graduate Coordinator), and Dr. Susan McKay (Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research)
September 15	Dr. Royce K.P. Zia, Professor of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics; a growing frontier of "pure and applied" theoretical physics
September 22	Dr. Stephen Kanim, Associate Professor of Physics, New Mexico State University PER as a basis for curriculum development: A look at some underlying assumptions
September 29	Professor John R. Lombardi, City College, CUNY, New York, NY Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Study Adsorption of Molecules on Semi-Conductor Quantum Dots
October 6	George Drew, Physics Poet Selections from "The Horse's Name Was Physics"
October 20	Dr. Mark Silverman, Professor of Physics, Trinity College The Climes, Are They A-Changin'?
November 3	Dr. Michael Loverude, Associate Professor of Physics, California State University - Fullerton Research on student understanding of matter and energy in college physical science courses
November 9	Dr. Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College What is a Planet - Why not Pluto?
November 10	Dr. Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Signs of Water on Distant Earth-like Planets
November 17	Glen Landry, EPS '95, Research Analyst, The CNA Corporation What else can you do with a Ph.D. in the sciences?
December 1	Kerry Capelle Zekser, PHY '97, Space Systems Analyst, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Space Systems Analysis at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
December 8	John E. Donovan, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, UMaine The Implications of an "Aha!" moment: Some examples from reasoning about first-order differential equations

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