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Physics & Astronomy Department
Seminars and Colloquia

Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center (RLHSC), room 126

Open to anyone who would like to attend!


Fall 2009 meetings every Thursday, 12:15 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Topic

03 Sept. 2009

Mr. Tim Monahan

 

Mr. Will DuPre

 

Ms. Brittany Bayley

TBA

 

Modeling Black Hole Accretion Discs and Jets with Cosmos++

 

Direct observation of thermal fluctuations in two near critical fluid systems

Link to full description

10 Sept 2009

Mr. Steven Dix

 

Ms. Anna Gillespie

 

Mr. Nate Towles

 

Mr. Alex Verderber

Oscillator model of neural network timing

 

Computational model of a pyramidal cell

 

Fluorescence:Development of non-invasive method to quantify
photosensitizer in vivo

 

Determining Blood Oxygenation with Reflectance

Link to full description

17 Sept 2009

Mr. Philip Meyer Jr.

Mr. Philip Boehner

Mr. Jordan Adams

Doped Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Optical Properties

Nanoscale Bismuth: Quantum Confinement Effects

Gamma Ray Bursts Pulse Properties

Link to full description

24 Sept 2009

Dr. Nathan W. Schultheiss

Biology Department

Emory University

Dynamical Subsystems within the Neuronal Morphology as Revealed by Phase Response Curve Analysis

Link to full description

01 Oct 2009

Dr. Ignacio Taboada

Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics - Georgia Institute of Technology

Multi-messenger studies of gamma-ray bursts

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08 Oct 2009

Dr. Laura I Clarke

North Carolina State University

Experimental molecular dynamics within self-assembled monolayers

Link to full description

15 Oct 2009

 

 

22 Oct 2009

Dr. Murray Daw

R. A. Bowen Professor of Physics

Clemson University

Physics for Realists

Link to full description

29 Oct 2009

 

 

05 Nov 2009

Dr. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

School of Physics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Nematic liquid crystal shells

Link to full description

12 Nov 2009

 

 

19 Nov 2009

Dr. B. Lee Lindner

College of Charleston

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Two studies of Lowcountry meteorology: Determining severe weather precursors through synoptic climatology, and visualizing hurricane surge physics with a next generation model

Link to full description

26 Nov 2009

Thanksgiving

 

03 Dec 2009

Dr. Jian He

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Clemson University

Materials Research at Clemson for Eco-friendly Energy Generation, Storage and Delivery

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Spring semester 2010 meetings every Thursdays, 1:40 p.m.

 

 

 

14 Jan

2010

Dr. Yordanka Ilieva

University of South Carolina

TBA

link to full description

21 Jan

2010

Dr. Fred Hamann,

University of Florida

TBA

link to full description

28 Jan

2010

 

 

04 Feb

2010

 

 

11 Feb

2010

 

 

18 Feb

2010

 

 

25 Feb

2010

Reserved

Reserved

04 March

2010

Reserved

Reserved

11 March

2010

Spring break, no seminar

Spring break, no seminar

18 March

2010

Reserved

Reserved

25 March

2010

Reserved

Reserved

01 April

2010

Professor Art E. Champagne
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke Univ.

TBA

link to full description

08 April

2010

Dr. Emil Alexov

Clemson University

TBA

link to full description

15 April

2010

South Carolina Academy of Sceince Meeting, no seminar

South Carolina Academy of Sceince Meeting, no seminar

22 April

2010

Reserved for student awards

Reserved for student awards

Speakers interested in giving a talk in the College of Charleston Physics & Astronomy department are asked to contact Dr. Ana Oprisan (oprisana@cofc.edu).


updated: September 2009