EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

AUTUMN 2008 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Seminars are regularly scheduled from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm unless a special time is indicated. A special speaker may require a day other than the regularly scheduled Monday for seminars.

Monday, September 8, 2008
Speaker: Sabrina Hurlock
Title:  "A Real-Time Space Weather Tool to Specify the 3D Speed and Direction of a  Coronal Mass Ejection."

Monday, September 15, 2008	
Speaker:  Dr. Gary Henson
Title:  "The Nature of Polarized Light and Applications to Astronomy"

Monday, September 22, 2008      (A dual undergraduate talk)
Speakers: Wes Erbsen  and  Chris Carver
Titles: "Adaptive Camouflage"   and  "Quantifying Typical Cortical Thickness Development in Children"


Monday, September 29, 2008	
Speakers:  Dr. Robert Davidson & Dr. Robert Gardner
Title:  "Using the Three Stooges as a Data-Source for Motivation of Statistics Students"


Monday, October 6, 2008	
Speaker:  Brian Espino
Title:  Phase Separation of a Binary Mixture "


Monday, October 20, 2008	
TBD

*SPECIAL DATE* Friday, October 24, 2008	
Speaker:  Dr. Martin Hendry, Univ. of Glasgow
Title:  "Galaxy peculiar velocity surveys: the next generation"

Monday, October 27, 2008	
TBD
Monday, November 3, 2008	
TBD
Monday, November 10, 2008	
TBD
Monday, November 17, 2008	
TBD

*A Friday afternoon seminar in November or the first week of December is anticipated but not yet determined.

For information about the Fall 2008 seminar or to be put on the email list, contact Dr. Gary Henson at hensong@etsu.edu.