PH451  Senior Colloquium  Fall 1998

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

Text: A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists & Engineers , Peter Kenny

 
 

Scheduled Meetings

Monday & Wednesday
3pm
132 Fisher
Thursday
4pm
139 Fisher

Actual class meetings depend on speaker schedules.  The first meeting was Wednesday, Sept 9, 1998.

Speaker Schedule

Thursday, Sept 17 Michael Renn, Michigan Tech "Laser-Direct Writing of Materials"
Thursday, Sept 24 D. G. Kanhere, U of Pune, India "Numerical Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems"
Monday, Sept 28 Ryan Ringle
Charles Rohde
Astrophysics: Black Hole
Chemical Physics: Seeing Single Molecules
Wednesday, Sept 30 Jeremy Rogers
George Zimmer
Astrophysics: "Shoemaker-Levy 9"
Plasma Physics: Solar Plasma Physics
Thursday, Oct 8 J. Onuchic, UC San Diego "Exploring the Protein Folding Funnel Landscape"
Monday, Oct 12 Jeremy Rogers
George Zimmer
Condensed Matter: The Quantum-Cascade Laser
Condensed Matter: Composite Fermions (Hall Effect)
Wednesday, Oct 14 Ryan Ringle
Charles Rohde
Nuclear: Laser Trapping of Radioactive Atoms
Atomic & Molecular: Building Nanostructures
Wednesday, Oct 21 Jeremy Rogers
George Zimmer
Vacuum Physics: Nanolithography
Particle Physics: Penguin Decays of the Bottom Quark
Thursday, Oct 22 Thomas L. Cline, NASA-Goddard "The Astronomy of Gamma Ray Transients"
Wednesday, Oct 28
Ryan Ringle
Charles Rohde
Particle Physics: First Evidence for Top Quark
Astrophysics: Milky Way's Nearest Satellite Galaxy
Thursday, Oct 29 Ulrich Hansmann, MTU "Computer Simulation of Biological Macromolecules in Generalized Ensembles"
Monday, Nov 2 Jeremy Rogers
George Zimmer
Optics: Trapping Laser-Cooled Atoms
Biolgical Physics: Cells and Electrical Fields
Wednesday, Nov 4 Ryan Ringle
Charles Rohde
Plasma Physics: Fusion Experiments
Fluid Dynamics: Patterns on Flowing Films