Physics and Astronomy

Physics Colloquium - Fall 2007

DATE	Speaker
September 14	Introductory Welcome and Department Research Colloquium, hosted by Dr. David Batuski (Chairperson of Dept. of Physics & Astronomy) Speakers: Dean Astumian David Batuski Susan McKay James McClymer William Unertl
September 21	Physics Department Research2 Colloquium, hosted by Dr. David Batuski (Chairperson of Dept. of Physics & Astronomy) Speakers: Neil Comins Peter Kleban Donald Mountcastle Charles Smith John Thompson Robert Rice - School of Forest Resources
September 28	UMaine Research Colloquium Speakers: Sam Hess, Physics Francois Amar, Chemistry Howard Patterson, Chemistry Jay Rasaiah, Chemistry Nuri Emanetoglu, ECE
October 5	Dr. Anthony Auerbach, Department of Physics, SUNY Buffalo - Protein Dynamics An Ion Channel Nanomachine
October 12	Dr. Wokyung Sung, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Fluctuations and  Self-organization in Bological Systems in Meso-scale
Tuesday, October 16 at 3:40 p.m. in Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium	Dr. Marlan Scully, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University Quantum Erasure and the Foundations and Applications of Quantum Mechanics
October 19	Joint Colloqium, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy and the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics Dr. Alain Arneodo, Laboratoire Joliot Curie and Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, FRANCE Low frequency rhythms in human DNA sequences: from genome-wide sequence analysis to the modeling of replication in higher eukaryotes
October 26	Dr. Dean Astumian, Professor of Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine Symmetry relations for trajectories of a Brownian Motor
November 9	Dr. Thomas Witten, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago Stress and material focusing in fluid and solid sheets
November 15 & 16	Dr. Christine Jones Forman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Shapley Lecture: "Black Hole Explosions are HOW Big? Reflections from Outbursts of Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies." Thursday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m. in 101 Neville Hall There will be a *FREE* showing of the new Jordan Planetarium feature program, "Black Holes", 20 minutes after the conclusion of Dr. Jones Forman's talk. Seating is limited to the first 30 arrivals at the Planetarium in Wingate Hall. (Sorry for any disappointments.) Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Hot Gas in Galaxies and Clusters (the usual time) For more information about black hole outbursts, press here.
December 7	George Hart, PhD '73, Chief Technical Officer, Ocean Energy Institute, Rockland Maine Ocean Energy - The "Invisible" Renewable
December 14	Department Holiday Party

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