PH4011  Senior Colloquium  Spring 2002

Instructor: Gary P. Agin
Office: 103 Fisher
Phone: 487-2907
Email: gagin@mtu.edu
See catalog description

You are expected to research selected topics in Physics using the library and internet resources in order to prepare oral presentations for the class. The style of the talks is intended to simulate presentations at Physics professional society meetings and research seminars. A short written summary of the content of each talk is required. The summary should include a bibliography.

Each of you will prepare and give two intermediate length (15 to 20 minute) talks and one full class period (40 to 50 minute) talk. The initial selection of topic and initial research for the 20 minute talks must originate in one of the approved review journals. The long talk may originate from any recognized professional source. 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 in class and departmental invited speakers at the Thursday afternoon Colloquium. Evaluation forms will be completed for each speech.

 
 

Scheduled Meetings

Tuesday & Thursday
11 am
101 Fisher
Thursday
4 pm
139 Fisher

Actual class meetings depend on speaker schedules.  The first meeting was Tuesday, January 15, 2002.

Speaker Schedule

Jan. 24
4 pm
Dr. Yang Zhang, Laboratory of Computational Genomics, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO "Elasticity of Individual Poly-nucleotide Molecule"
Feb. 14
4 pm
Weidong Yang, MTU Physics "A Non-Fourier-Transform Approach to the Solution of Small Phase Retrieval Problem"
Feb. 21
4 pm
Wellesley Pereira, MTU Physics "Creation of CONtinuous CAMeras for Monitoring the Entire Night Sky: Instrumentation, Data Handling and Creation of a Performance Model"
Feb. 26 Nathan Jones
Peter Kiefer
Galactic Core Black Hole
Sonoluminescence
Feb. 28
11 am
Dan Boline Neutrinos
Mar. 14
4 pm
Paul Sommers, Dept. of Physics, Univ of Utah "Sneak Preview of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
Mar. 19 Peter Kiefer
Dan Boline
Human Powered Flight
CP violation
Mar. 21
11 am
Nathan Jones Granular Flows
Mar. 21
4 pm
Da Gao, MTU Physics
Anil Kandalam, MTU Physics
"Monte-Carlo Simulations of Surfaces in a Periodic Layered Structure"
"A DFT Study of Group III Nitride Clusters"
Mar. 28
4 pm
Changong Zhou, MTU Physics
Aaron Wilson, MTU Physics
"Laser Beam Diffraction by Small Circular Aperture"
"Spectral Observation Using a Hyperspectral Imager"
Apr. 4
4 pm
Alexei Dorofeev, MTU Physics "Horizontal Air Showers in the Auger Experiment"
Apr. 9
4 pm
MTU Physics Graduate Students Poster Session
Apr. 11
4 pm
John Freeman, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University "Storms In Space"
Apr. 18
11 am
Nathan Jones Night Sky Photometry With CONCAM
Apr. 18
4 pm
Peter Hoffmann, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University "Touching Atoms and Squeezing Molecules: Nanomechanics and Atomic Force Microscopy"
Apr. 23 Peter Kiefer Single particle Levitation - The Rayleigh Charge Limit
Apr. 25
11 am
Dan Boline NMR: Theory and Applications
Apr. 25
4 pm
Heather Lewandowski, JILA, University of Colorado "Spin Waves In An Ultra-cold Bose Gas"
Apr. 30
4 pm
MTU Senior Physics Dept Majors Undergraduate Symposium
May 2
4 pm
John Spijkerman, President, Ranger Scientific, Inc. "Past, Present and What Future?"


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