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.