You will research selected topics in Physics using the library and internet resources in order to prepare oral presentations to the class. The style of the talks is intended to simulate presentation of papers at Physics professional society meetings. A short written summary (abstract) of each talk is required. The abstract should include a bibliography.
Each of you will prepare and give several short (8 to 10 minute) talks and one intermediate length (17 to 20 minute) talk. The initial selection of topic for the short talks must originate from the list of topics furnished to the class. Each talk must concern itself with a different area of Physics and must not duplicate the topic chosen by another student.
You are expected to practice critical listening skills by being attentive audience members for both fellow student presentations and departmental invited speakers at the Thursday Colloquium. Evaluation forms will be completed for each speech.
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| Monday & Wednesday |
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| Thursday |
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Actual class meetings depend on speaker schedules. The first meeting was Monday, August 28, 2000.
Speaker Schedule |
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| Thursday, Sept 14 |
Joe Roti Roti, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Washington U | "Assessment of Carcinogenic Potential and Related Effects of Radiofrequency Irradiation from Mobile Phones" |
| Monday, Sept 18 | David Wiggins | High-Pressure Sulfur is a Superconductor |
| Thursday, Sept 21 | Zbigniew Szadkowski, Research Scientist, Physics Dept, MTU | "Programmable Logic Devices as Triggers in Auger Experiment" |
| Monday, Sept 25 | Siegfried Ip | The Extrasolar Planet Parade |
| Wednesday, Sept 27 | Michael Larsen Andrew Leanna Sean Hagood |
The Arrow of Time Acoustic Surgery A Pulsar with a Magnetic Field of 8 x 1014 gauss |
| Monday, Oct 2 | Dan VanWasshenova | No End in Sight for Cosmic Ray Energies |
| Wednesday, Oct 4 | Brian Weeden David Wiggins Erhan Sekercioglu |
Confining Plasma for the Long Term Nulled Starlight New Implications of Extra Dimensions |
| Thursday, Oct 5 | Kent S Wood, Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory | "The USA Experiment on ARGOS: An X-ray Timing Instrument for Black Holes That Also Develops Space Infrastructure" |
| Monday, Oct 9 | Dan Lanterman Ryan Grimes James Vopal |
Noble Prize: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in 3-d Black Holes Cannot Serve as Portals Millikelvin Molecules |
| Wednesday, Oct 11 | Michael Larsen Andrew Leanna Siegfried Ip |
Earth Vibrates Continuously Microfluidics: Mixing Nanoliters Magnetic Rotation of Nuclei |
| Thursday, Oct 12 | Dolores Perez-Ramirez, Physics Dept, MTU | "Circumnuclear Regions of Active & Non-active Barred Galaxies" |
| Monday, Oct 16 | Sean Hagood Dan VanWasshenova David Wiggins |
An Improved Value of Planck's Constant Neutrino Oscillation Has Been Demonstrated The "Sweet Spot" of a Baseball Bat |
| Wednesday, Oct 18 | Brian Weeden | Modeling the Immune System of a Mouse |
| Thursday, Oct 19 | Miguel Levy, Physics Dept, MTU | "Magnetic Photonic Crystals" |
| Monday, Oct 23 | Dan Lanterman Ryan Grimes |
Tumbling and Fluttering Physics of Posture Control |
| Wednesday, Oct 25 | Michael Larsen Andrew Leanna |
Turbulence in Soap Films New Methods of Studying Turbulence |
| Thursday, Oct 26 | Ravi Pandey, Physics Dept, MTU | "Modeling of Materials based on First Principles Methods" |
| Monday, Oct 30 | Siegfried Ip Dan VanWasshenova |
Immiscible Quantum Liquids Solar Neutrinos & Sunspots |
| Wednesday, Nov 1 | James Vopal Erhan Sekercioglu |
Proton Radioactivity in Highly Deformed Nuclei Quantum Error Correction |
| Thursday, Nov 2 | Chris Bizon, Colorado Research Associates | "Shock Waves in Supersonic Sand Flows" |
| Monday, Nov 6 | Sean Hagood Dan Lanterman James Vopal |
Photonic-Crystal Filters Electronic Noise, Biological Effects The Duration of Sonoluminescent Pulses |
| Wednesday, Nov 8 | Erhan Sekercioglu Ryan Grimes Brian Weeden |
Chaos-Based Computing Surefire Quantum Entanglement Quantum Teleportation |
| Thursday, Nov 9 | Anand P. Pathak, School of Physics, Univ of Hyderabad, India | "Ion Beam Studies of Semiconductor Multilayers Using RBS/Channeling" |
| Monday, Nov 13 | Dan Lanterman | "Rayleigh-Bérnard Convection" |
| Wednesday, Nov 15 | Michael Larsen Siegfried Ip |
"Gödel and Quantum Mechanics" "Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer" |
| Thursday, Nov 16 | Edward Fenelon, National Weather Service, Marquette, MI | "Forecasting Lake Effect Snow" |
| Monday, Nov 27 | Dan VanWasshenova James Vopal |
"Dark Matter" "Bose-Einstein Condensates" |
| Wednesday, Nov 29 | Andrew Leanna | "Light Scattering from Various Particle Distributions" |
| Thursday, Nov 30 | Richard Honrath, Civil & Environ. Engr., MTU | "The Surface Snowpack as an Active Photochemical Reactor: Recent Evidence of Impacts on Atmospheric Composition" |
| Monday, Dec 4 | Sean Hagood Erhan Sekercioglu |
"The Workings of the Electric Guitar" "Projectile Motion" |
| Wednesday, Dec 6 | Ryan Grimes | "Electric Fields and Their Effects on the Human Body" |
| Thursday, Dec 7 | Bill Kennedy, Center for Teaching, etc, MTU | "Collaborative Learning Overview" |
| Monday, Dec 11 | David Wiggins Brian Weeden |
"Blunders in Physics" "Focusing of Acoustic Waves" |
| Thursday. Dec 14 | Steve Barry, Dept of Chemistry, U of Chicago | "The Mysterious Phase Behavior of Small Systems" |