Department of Physics

Colloquium Series

Talks will be posted as speakers are confirmed.  Please check here and on the calendar outside P-123 for updated announcements.

Spring, 2013

April 4th – Dr. Carl Salter, Moravian College

Topic:  “Survey of Raman Spectroscopy for physics and chemistry students”

Time:  4:00 PM

Location:  SCP 317

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March 28th – Dr. Douglas Larkin, Montclair State University

Topic:  Science Education

Time:  11:30 AM

Location:  SCP 317

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March 21st – Erica Smith, 2009 (PhD student, Drexel University) and  Dan Silano, 2012 (Towers Watson HR Professional Consulting)

Topic:  Life After TCNJ

Time:  11:30 AM

Location:  SCP 317

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March 7th – Dr. Kevin Marshall, Widener University

Topic:  Exploring active galactic nuclei through high energy variability

Time:  11:30 AM

Location:  SCP-317

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February 14th – Dr. Gary Pajer , Princeton Satellite Systems

Topic:  A colorful career in Physics

Time: 11:30 AM

Location: SCP – 317

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Fall, 2012

November 29 – Inge Beckers, Bleuth Institute, Germany
3D Optical Microscopy
Time:  11:30 AM
Location:  SCP117

October 18 – Will Levandowski, Geophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder
The mechanics andmath of mountain building
Time:  11:30 AM
Location:  SCP117

Spring 2012

April 18 – Dr. Alix Davatzes, Temple University
“Planetary Physics / Mars”
Time and Location:  TBA

March 28 – Dr. Ken Budka, Alcatel-Lucent (Bell Labs)
“Theoretical Communications”
Time and Location:  TBA

January 30 – Dr. Mazin Magzoub, Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University
“Concentration dependent transitions govern the subcellular localization of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide”
3:30 PM – Science Complex P317

January 24 – Dr. Tuan Nguyen, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
“Revealing neural connectivity with photons and viruses”
2:00 PM – Science Complex 101

Fall 2011

November 1 — Dr. M. Virginia McSwain, Dept. of Physics, Lehigh University
“To Be or Not To Be:  The Origin of Be Star Disks”
11:30 AM – Science Complex SCP-117

September 30 — Dr. Paul Wiita, Professor of Physics and Chair, TCNJ.
“Radio Galaxies and Blazars: Unifying a Family”
11:30 AM – Science Complex P101

October 3 — Dr. Paul Pigram, Dept. of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
“Surface Science, Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology”
11:30 AM – Science Complex SCP117

“LaTrobe Universtiy and TCNJ Exchange Program“
2:00 PM – Science Complex SCP117

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Spring 2011

January 19 — Dr. David J. McGee, Professor of Physics and Chair, Drew University.
“Photonics at the nanoscale:  controlling optical functionality in block copolymer domains”
2:00 PM – Science Complex 101

January 21 — Dr. Michael Pierce, Staff physicist, Argonne National Laboratories
“How Atoms Dance:  Surface dynamics, x-ray speckles, catalysis and what it all means to you”
2:00 PM – Science Complex 101

January 25 — Dr. Roberto Ramos, Assistant Professor of Physics, Drexel University.
2:00 PM – Science Complex 101

Spring 2010

April 22 — Dr. Robert Vanderbei, applied mathematician and distinguished astrophotographer, and Professor and Chair, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University.
“The Search for Earth-like Planets”

April 15 — Professor David Spergal. Chair, Astrophysical Science, Princeton University
“Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Inflation”

March 19 — Dr. Nate Magee.  Interim chair, TCNJ Physics.  School of Science Colloquium. “The snowpocalyptic winter of 2010, climate change science, and the tuning of LUTES:  perspectives from the surface of a snowflake.”

March 3–  Mike Carr, Rutgers University, Volcanologist and former Dean of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers.

Fall 2009

September 16  — Dr. Mike Kavic, TCNJ new faculty in physics
“Transient Pulses from Exploding Primordial Black Holes as a Signature of an Extra Dimension”

September 23 — Dr. Frederik Simons, Princeton University
“Robust tools to study noisy and incomplete geophysical and cosmological observables:  Theory, applications and future directions.”

October 7 –  Community Learning Day

Wed, Oct. 21: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, SUNY, Stony Brook
“The Hydrogen bond: source of water exotic properties and key to future’s green energy source”

Wed, Oct. 28: John Simonetti, Virginia Tech
“A Black-Hole-Neutron-Star Binary System: Searching for Extra Spatial Dimensions”

Friday Nov 20: Dr. Philip Rubin, George Mason Univ.
“Complicated Searches for Simplicity: An Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics”

Wed, Dec. 2, Dr. Amer Lahamer, Berea College
Mossbauer and Laser Ablation Studies

Fri., Dec. 4: Dr. Paul Wiita, Georgia State University
“Quasars, Radio Galaxies and Blazars: Fast Fluctuations and Furious Flows”

Fall 2008

September 4 – Dr. George Coyne, reknowned astronomer, Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory

September 17th – Dr. Vadim Levin, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Rutgers University

October 8th – Dr. Paul Evenson, Professor of Physics, Bartol Research Inst., University of Delaware

October 27th – Dr. Peter Collings, Morris Clothier Professor of Physics, Swarthmore College
“Chromonic Liquid Crystals: A New Form of Soft Matter”

November 5- Dr. Paul McCracken, Senior Research Physicist, Imaging Department, Merck Research Laboratories
“MRI research on disease processes “

November 12 – U.J. Sofia

November 19 – Dr. Geoff Abers, Columbia University
“Seismically imaging the effects of H2O on the deep Earth at subductionzones: Postcards from the wedge”

November 20 – Dr. Robert Nemiroff, Mich. Tech University
“Adventures in Gravitational and Observational Astrophysics”