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Friday, March 28
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COLLOQUIUM
Brian Chaboyer, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "A Hubble Space Telescope Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters"
Abstract
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2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, April 1
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Kara Perry, AFRL
Topic: "Validation of Methods for Calculating the Second and Third Adiabatic Invariant"
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Friday, April 4
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COLLOQUIUM
Tom Levi, New York University
Topic: "When Worlds Collide: Bubble Universes in the Landscape of String Theory and Cosmology"
Abstract
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Presentation
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, April 8
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Charles Smith, University of New Hampshire
Topic: "The Evolving Interplanetary Spectrum"
Abstract
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Friday, April 11
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COLLOQUIUM
Cynthia Cattell, University of Minnesota
Topic: "STEREO Observations of Large Amplitude Whistler-Mode Waves in Earth's Radiation Belts: Implications for Relativistic Electron Acceleration and Loss"
Abstract
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Presentation
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, April 15
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Brian LaBombard, MIT
Topic: "Plasma Physics at the Edge of a Tokamak Fusion Reactor"
Abstract
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Friday, April 18
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SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM, A PLAY
Latif Nasser, co-advised by MArcelo GLeiser and Peter Hackett (Drama), MIT
Topic: "PHILISTINES! or The Electrodynamics of a Moving Body"
Abstract
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2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Monday, April 21
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ASTRONOMY TALK
Beth Willman, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Topic: "The Least Luminous Galaxies: Learning to Love the CMD and Stop Worrying About CDM"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Tuesday, April 22
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Igino Coco, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome, Italy
Topic: "Ionospheric Effects of Abrupt Variations of Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure"
Abstract
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Wednesday, April 23
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES LECTURE
Louis Bloomfield, University of Virginia
Topic: "Magnetism in Clusters of Atoms"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Thursday, April 24
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QUANTUM/NANOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Paola Cappellaro, Harvard University
Topic: "Coherent Control of Quantum Information"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Friday, April 25
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COLLOQUIUM
Don Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA
Topic: "The Quest for Spin Cascade Logic Circuits"
Abstract
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Presentation
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Monday, April 28
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ASTRONOMY TALK
Anil Seth, Harvard Smithsonian CFA
Topic: "Nuclear Star Clusters: Formation and Relation to Black Holes"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Tuesday, April 29
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PLASMA SEMINAR
John Rice, MIT
Topic: "Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas"
Abstract
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Friday, May 2
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COLLOQUIUM
Nathan Schwadron, Boston University
Topic: "The Roles of Shocks and Magnetic Reconnection for Particle Acceleration in the Heliosphere"
Abstract
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Presentation
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, May 6
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GRADUATE THESIS DEFENSE
Christopher S. Peters, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Kinematics and Space Densities for Local Cataclysmic Variable Population"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 202
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Tuesday, May 6
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Robyn Millan, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Radiation Belt Electron Losses and BARRELL"
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Tuesday, May 6
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Quantum/Nanophysics Seminar
Ekaterina Babourina-Brooks,University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
Topic: "Quantum Noise in a Nano Mechanical Duffing Oscillator"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Friday, May 9
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COLLOQUIUM
Richard Easther, Yale University
Topic: "The Observational Fingerprints of Inflation"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, May 13
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Ben Chandran, University of New Hampshire
Topic: "Turbulence in the Solar Wind"
Abstract
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Thursday, May 15
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Jordan Zastrow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "An Optical Study of the Circumstellar Medium in Cassiopeia A"
Abstract
1:30 PM, Wilder 202
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Thursday, May 15
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QUANTUM/NANOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Denzil Rodrigues,Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, U. K.
Topic: "A Mechanical Laser: Self-Induced Oscillations in a Nanomechanical System"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Thursday, May 15
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GRADUATE THESIS DEFENSE
Joel Thorarinson, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth
Topic: "Emergent Coherent Structures in Non-Equilibrium Field Theory"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 111
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Friday, May 16
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COLLOQUIUM
Claudio Rebbi, Boston University
Topic: "Lattice QCA"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Monday, May 19
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
David Strauss, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "VLF Propogation Study at 24kHz"
Abstract
5:00 PM, Wilder 202
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Tuesday, May 20
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Parker Fagrelius, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Understanding Quantum Mechanics: Entangling our Reality"
5:00 PM, Wilder 202
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Tuesday, May 20
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PLASMA SEMINAR
Jeremy Ouellette, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause in Global MHD Simulations"
3:30 PM, Wilder 111
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Wednesday, May 21
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ASTRONOMY TALK
Silas Laycock, Harvard College Observatory and Gemini Observatory
Topic: "A Telescope to the Past"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 111
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Thursday, May 22
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Alexander Crew, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Data Analysis of Magnetic Fields from ROPA Sounding Rocket"
Abstract
12:00 PM, Wilder 202
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Friday, May 23
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COLLOQUIUM
David Montgomery, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Boundary Conditions for Turbulent Fluids and Magnetofluids"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 104
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Tuesday, May 27
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Karl Yando, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "A Monte Carlo Simulation of the MEPED Particle Detector Module"
10:00 AM, Wilder 111
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Tuesday, May 27
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Brendan Huang, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Investigation of Microscopic Photon and Phonon Quantum Non-Demolition Schemes"
Abstract
12:30 PM, Wilder 202
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Wednesday, May 28
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Phillip J. Bracikowski, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Study of Mesopheric Dust"
Abstract
3:00 AM, Wilder 111
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Thursday, May 29
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Leon Maurer, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Topic: "Low Temperature Coulomb Blockade Thermometer"
Abstract
2:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Thursday, May 29
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Quantum/Nanophysics Seminar
Ferdinand Helmer, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Topic: "Quantum Zeno Effect in the Quantum Non-Demolition Detection of Itinerant Photons"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 102
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Tueday, June 10
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Quantum/Nanophysics Seminar
Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
Topic: "TBA"
Abstract
4:00 PM, Wilder 102
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