Reed College
Reed College

Physics Department

Seminars in Fall 2010

All seminars are held at 4:10 PM in Physics 123, unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM.

Sept 1

Thesis Start-Up Meeting

Sept 8

Summer Internship Talks

Sept 15

Summer Internship Talks

Sept 22

Dr. Ronny Thomale, Princeton
Pnictides - Modern Developments in Superconductivity

Sept 29

Professor Harvey Leff, Visiting Scholar, Reed College
The Weirdness, Mystery, and Beauty of Thermodynamic Entropy

Oct 6

Summer Internship Talks

Oct 13

Professor Anna Hasenfratz, CU Boulder
Is there Gold at the End of the Rainbow? Looking Beyond the Standard Model with Technicolor

Oct 20

FALL BREAK

Oct 27

Professor David Hall, Amherst
Visualizing Quantized Vortex Dynamics in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Nov 3

Dr. David Rudman, NIST
Superconductivity: Real Quantum Electronics

Nov 10

Professor Todd Leen, OHSU
Stochastic Dynamics of Synaptic Plasticity: Learning in Machines and Brains

Nov 17

Professor James Evans, University of Puget Sound
The Antikythera Mechanism: An Astronomical Calculating Machine from Ancient Greece

Nov 24

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Dec 1

Professor Gregory Bothun, University of Oregon
Alternate Energy at the Terawatt Scale