Spring 2016 Seminar

Talks are 12:00 noon on Mondays in Olin Science 268, unless otherwise noted.

February 1, 2016

Deepak Iyer

Eigenstate Thermalization, or Why Statistical Mechanics Works

Deepak Iyer, Bucknell

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February 15, 2016

David Schoepf Sally Koutsoliotas Marty Ligare

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations

Marty Ligare, Sally Koutsoliotas, and David Schoepf, Bucknell

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February 29, 2016

Joanna Huxster

“Trash in the Ocean Causes Global Warming” and Other Strange Myths: Adventures in Studying Public Understanding of Science

Joanna Huxster, Bucknell

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March 7, 2016

Martin Lichtman

Quantum Computing and the Taming of Schrödinger's Cat

Martin Lichtman, University of Maryland

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March 28, 2016

Dustin Schroeder

Radio Glaciology: A Window into the Physical Processes of Ice Sheets

Dustin Schroeder '07, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

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April 11, 2016

Jeff Bowen

Gravity Waves: Found At Last!

Jeff Bowen, Bucknell

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April 18, 2016

Sarah Holler

Validating a Knowledge-Based Planning Model for Treatment of Stage III Lung Cancer

Sarah Holler '16

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Sean McMahon

Single Particle Jumps in Sheared Silica Glass

Sean McMahon '16

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FRIDAY, April 22, 2016

Ira Thorpe

Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Ira Thorpe '01, NASA Goddard

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TUEDAY, April 26, 2016

Cherenkov Radiation

Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials

Shazaam

PHYS 334 Class Presentations