Unless otherwise noted, talks take place on Tuesdays at Noon in Science-1023. All members of the Grinnell College campus community are invited to the seminars. Presentations subject to change.
| Date | Seminar Title & Speaker |
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| Monday Apr. 29, 2013 7:30pm |
"The sound of friction: Investigations into the fundamental mechanisms of mechanical energy dissipation at the nanoscale/microscale"
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| Apr. 23, 2013 |
"The Elusive Higgs Bosen – Finally!"
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| Apr. 16, 2013 |
"Student reasoning, epistemological framing, and introductory physics"
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| Wednesday Apr. 10, 2013 |
"Highlights from the FERMI Gamma-Ray Space Telescope"
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| Friday Apr. 5, 2013 |
"How to become invisible without a cloak"
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| Apr. 2, 2013 |
"Studies of the Extragalactic Background Light"
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| Friday Mar. 15, 2013 |
"MinutePhysics: From Grinnell to Youtube"
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| Feb. 26, 2013 |
"Baseball Physics"
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| Feb. 19, 2013 |
"Density of Quantus States around a Black Hole, Part II"
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| Feb. 12, 2013 |
"Density of Quantus States around a Black Hole"
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| Feb. 5, 2013 |
"Summer Research MAP Applications"
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| Nov. 27, 2012 |
"Fabrication of a Solar Cell and Theory of Lattice Diffusion"
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| Nov. 6, 2012 |
"Analysis of the unidentified galactic y-ray source MGRO J1908+06 with XMM-Newton"
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| Oct. 30, 2012 |
"Inter-Galactic Medium"
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| Oct. 19, 2012 |
"Graduate School: Applying, Living, Researching"
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| Oct. 9, 2012 |
Panel Discussion – "Graduate School, Summer Research, and other topics"
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| Oct. 2, 2012 |
"X-ray Diffraction and Magnetization of Rare Earth Crystals"
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| Sept. 25, 2012 |
"Black Holes, Conformal Fields and Quantum Gravity." Part 2
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| Sept. 11, 2012 |
"Black Holes, Conformal Fields and Quantum Gravity." Part 1
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| Apr. 17, 2012 |
"Super, Cool Liquids and the Liquid-Glass Transition"
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| Apr. 10, 2012 |
"The Journey of Ammonia into the Cell"
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| Feb. 28, 2012 | "Ballistic electron transport in low dimensional materials"
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| Feb. 7, 2012 |
Part two: "String Theory and the Known Universe"
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| Jan 31, 2012 |
Part one: "An Introduction to String Theory and its Symmetries"
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| Jan 24, 2012 |
"Summer research opportunities at Grinnell College."
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| Friday Nov. 4, 2011 |
Transparent Conducting Oxides Research: The Tools of the Trade
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| Thursday Nov. 3, 2011 |
Niobium Doped Titanium Dioxide as an Indium-Free Transparent Conducting Oxide.
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| Oct. 25, 2011 |
Neutrino Oscillations - A Door to New Physics
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| Oct. 11, 2011 |
Malignant or Benign? Using Ultrasound to Characterize Tissue
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| Sept. 27, 2011 |
The Wild Hunt: Searching for Exoplanets and the Remnants of Planet Formation
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| Sept. 20, 2011 |
Panel discussion about graduate schools
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| Friday Sept. 2, 2011 |
The “Green” Universe: How the Cosmos Curbed its Gas Addiction
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| Aug. 30, 2011 |
Predicting the maelstrom: The physics of the ocean
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