Seminars
Physics Department seminars are held on Fridays from 2:15 - 3:20 pm in Norris 102 on the Albion College campus. The public is invited to attend.
Spring 2018 Physics Seminar Series
| January 19 |
Introduction to the class (P. Voss) |
| January 29 |
Troy Case (Career & Internship Center) |
| February 2 |
Brent Heerspink (MSU) |
| February 9 |
Dr. Marco Foranari (CMU): Materials Genome Initiative |
| February 16 |
Dr. Vashti Sawtelle (MSU): Physics Education Research |
| February 23 |
Dr. MacKenzie Warren (MSU): Navigating STEM as a Transgender Queer Student and Science
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| March 2 |
No Seminar |
| March 9 |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
| March 16 |
Advising/Scheduling Talk |
| March 23 |
Chuck Pinter '96 (Senior Environmental Engineer, Ford)
Site Assessment and Remediation (w/ Geology)
Advising Week & Pre-Registration (3/19 – 3/28) |
| March 30 |
No Seminar (Good Friday) |
| April 6 |
Dr. Marco Foranari (CMU): Materials Genome Initiative |
| April 13 |
Patrick Wagner (Class of 2015/6), DENSO |
| April 20 |
Phys 291 Presentations |
| April 27 |
Reading Day |
Spring 2017 Physics Seminar Series
| January 20 |
Introduction |
| January 27 |
Nicolle Zellner; Solar Eclipse |
| February 3 |
Dave Seely: Analemma Dilemma |
| February 10 |
Matt Redshaw (Central Michigan University): Neutrino Physics |
| February 17 |
Emily Raucher (University of Michigan): Exoplanets |
| February 24 |
Heather Bloomhard, AAS Policy Fellow: Science Funding |
| March 3 |
No Seminar |
| March 10 |
No Seminar |
| March 17 |
No Seminar |
| March 24 |
Phil Voss |
| March 31 |
Vanessa McCaffery: The Nobel Prize in Physics |
| April 7 |
Ted Henderson, '71 |
| April 14 |
No Seminar |
| April 21 |
Phys 291 Presentations: Ben Powell, James Stanulis |
| April 28 |
No Seminar |
Fall 2016 Physics Seminar Series
| September 9 |
Meet your Faculty: David Seely & Phil Voss |
| September 16 |
Student Summer Research: J. Butler, L. Chernysheva |
| September 23 |
Student Summer Research: J. Lhamon, B. Good |
| September 30 |
Troy Kase: Career & Internship |
| October 7 |
Advising: Plan your courses |
| October 14 |
Robert "Bob" Armitage, '70 |
| October 28 |
Tim Rambo (Class of 2009) |
| November 4 |
TBA |
| November 11 |
Paul Dixon: Inernships at LANL |
| November 18 |
Andrew Sharp (Class of 2010) |
| December 2 |
Physics 291 Students |
Fall 2015 Physics Seminar Series
| September 25 |
TBA |
| October 2 |
Stephanie Norwood, '17 |
| October 9 |
TBA |
| October 16 |
Josh Cassada, '95, The Road to the Space Station and Beyond! |
| October 23 |
Elmer Lee, Caster Concepts. Entrepreneurial Engineering - Engineering Lessons from a Startup!
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| October 30 |
Field Trip to Caster Concepts |
| November 6 |
TBA |
| November 13 |
Lesley Simanton, '09, The Star Clusters of Spiral Galaxy M101
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| November 20 |
TBA |
| December 4 |
TBA |
Fall 2014 Physics Seminar Series
| October 10 |
Samantha Strasser, '11: Two Test of Cold Temps. |
| October 17 |
Nicolle Zellner |
| October 24 |
Aaron Miller, '95: Quantum Opus - A Case Study of Albion Entrepreneurship
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| October 31 |
Jack Minor |
| November 14 |
Lindsay Ciastko and Jim Davidson - Astronomy Research |
| November 21 |
Internship Opportunities at Phymouth Technologies |
| December 5 |
291 Presentations - Matt Prosniewski & Mario Hermina |
Spring 2014 Physics Seminar Series
| January 20 |
Dr. Aaron Miller, How Quantum Mechanics Can Answer Questions that are never asked.
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| February 7 |
Dr. Zach Constan, "95, A Supernova in the Lab: Nuclear Research at NSCL
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| February 14 |
TBA |
| February 21 |
Justin Foley, Next Generation Solar Cells and Infrared Imaging
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| February 28 |
Dr. Nicolle Zellner, Look out…above? |
| March 28 |
Dr. Nicolle Zellner, Alvan Clark: the Man, the Telescope, the Myth!
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| April 11 |
Dr. David Seely, Laboratory measurements of change exhange in collisions of highly charged ions with H and other gases.
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| April 24 |
25 Elkin R Isaac Student Research Symposium |
Fall 2013 Physics Seminar Series
| August 30 |
Introduction to Physics Faculty |
| September 9 |
Dr. Aaron Miller, Quantum Cryptography |
| September 20 |
Dr. Khaled Myanmneh, Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, U of M |
| September 27 |
David Anderson, WWII Technology for Artillery |
| October 4 |
Dr. Nicolle Zellner, To the Moon! What we know and why we should go back.
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| October 11 |
Homecoming: Norma J. Taber, Liberal Arts and Engineering, what you know that ain't so.
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| October 18 |
Fall Break |
| October 25 |
Dr. Dr. Nicolle Zellner, Pre-Advising |
| November 1 |
Mallory Traxler, Research Talk |
| November 8 |
Brandan Walters,'10, U of M PhD student. Augmentation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Organization and Phenotype Using Fibroblast Co-Culture and Mechanical Stimulation.
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| November 15 |
David Anderson, A Nobel Prize has been Awarded because the LHC Discovered the Higgs? A Translation of Modern Hight Energy Physics.
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| November 22 |
Open |
| December 6 |
Student Presentations |
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Winter Break! |
Spring 2013 Physics Seminar Series
| February 1 |
Dr. Dave Seely, "Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power" |
| February 8 |
Dr. Darren Mason, "Unusual Behavior in a Rubber Cube" |
| February 15 |
Dr. Rachel Maitra, "Physics Is Warped: Why Geometry Is Behind All Fundamental Forces of Nature"
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| February 22 |
Dr. Zach Constan, '95, "A Supernova in the Lab: Nuclear Science at NSCL"
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Fall 2012 Physics Seminar Series
| August 31 |
Dr. Dave Seely, Introduction |
| September 7 |
Dr. Nicolle Zellner, "Astronomical Walkabout: Research (and other stuff) in Australia"
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| September 14 |
Kelsi Blauvelt '13, "LabVIEW Programming & Instrument Interfacing at NASA JPL "
Olivia Eggenberger '13, "The Efficiency of Microfluidic Devices Over Time"
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| September 21 |
Kenneth Sowerwine, "Transition into Engineering and Engineering Internships"
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| September 28 |
Dr. Dave Seely, "Studies of Charge Transfer in Low Energy Ion-Atom Collisions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
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| October 5 |
Joy Achuonjei, Columbia University, "Combined Plan Engineering Program at Columbia University"
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| October 12 |
Josh Cassada, '95 (2012 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree), "The Higgs Boson: The Last Piece of the Standard Model"
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| October 19 |
Kelsey Morgan, University of Wisconsin, "X-ray Astronomy with Low Temperature Detectors and Sounding Rockets"
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| October 26 |
Dr. Charles Moreau, Advising |
| November 2 |
Dave Seely, Summer Research Opportunities |
| November 9 |
Jenny Tobin, '03 - "My Work as a Nuclear Regulator (and How I got Here!)"
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| November 16 |
Larry Molnar, Calvin College, "Collisional History of the Asteroid Belt for Fun and Profit"
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| November 23 |
Thanksgiving, no seminar |
| November 30 |
Lesley Simanton, '09 |
| December 7 |
Last day of classes, student reports |
