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Spring 2008 Physics Colloquia Schedule
Date/Day/Time |
Guest Speaker/Affiliation/Subject |
January 17, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Karen Masters Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts Mapping Mass in the Local Universe |
January 24, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Daniel Pisano National Radio Astronomy Observatory Green Bank, WV A Multiwavelength Study of Galaxy Evolution over 8 Billion Years
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January 31, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Yancy Shirley Steward Observatory University of Arizona Developing an evolutionary sequence for the earliest stages of star formation |
February 7, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Tony Remijan National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville, VA Investigating the longest unsolved mystery in modern astrophysics |
February 12, 2008 Tuesday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Paul Cassak Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware Catastrophic Explosions in Space: The Physics of Magnetic Reconnection in the Sun and Magnetosphere |
February 26, 2008 Tuesday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Dimitris Vassiliadis Department of Physics West Virginia University Electron Acceleration and Transport in the Dynamic Radiation Belts |
February 28, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. John Kline Los Alamos National Lab Using Fast Ignition to Achieve Nuclear Fusion and Potentially Inertial Fusion Energy |
March 4 , 2008 Tuesday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Jay Johnson |
March 6, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Dr. Chung-Sang Ng University of New Hampshire The million-degree solar corona: How can it get so hot? |
April 3 , 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
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April 10, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Barry Cooper Lecture |
Prof. David E. Newman Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Alaska Fairbanks,, AK Plasmas as a Prototypical Complex System: Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport |
April 17, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
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April 24, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
Prof. Martin V. Goldman Department of Physics and Center for Intregrated Plasma Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Not all holes in space are black |
May 1, 2008 Thursday 4:00 P.M. |
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All colloquia held in Room 260 Hodges Hall. Questions? Contact Mark Koepke at Mark.Koepke@mail.wvu.edu, 293-3422 ext. 1456 or Maura McLaughlin at Maura.McLaughlin@mail.wvu.edu, 293-3422 ext. 1475.