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Physics & Astronomy Department
Seminars and Colloquia
Thursdays, 1:40 pm, room 126 of the Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center (SciC), unless otherwise noted

Open to anyone who would like to attend!


Date

Speaker

Topic

17 Jan 2008

Prof. Mac Hull (retired)

Dept. of Physics, U. of New Mexico

Building the Implosion Nuclear Bomb, 1944-45

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24 Jan 2008

No colloquium

 

31 Jan 2008

Prof. Meredith Newby
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson

Structural Capabilities of Non-Coding RNA

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7 Feb 2008

Dr. Mikhail Agrest

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CofC

Nonconforming Scientists Met Behind Iron Curtain

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12 Feb 2008

Dr. Richard Townsend

Bartol Research Institute, U. of Deleware

Magnetospheres of Massive, Luminous Stars

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21 Feb 2008

Dr. Matthew Walker

Institute of Astronomy, U. of Cambridge

Tiny Galaxies and the Dark Matter Problem

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26 Feb 2008

Dr. Seth Redfield

Dept. of Astronomy, U. of Texas

Comparative Exoplanetology

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6 Mar 2008

SPRING BREAK

 

13 Mar 2008

No colloquium

 

20 Mar 2008

SCAS meeting at Clemson

 

25 Mar 2008

Dr. Robert Fisher

Dept. of Astronomy, U. of Chicago

Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae

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27 Mar 2008

Dr. Adrienne Juett

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

The Wonderful Universe of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries

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3 Apr 2008

Dr. Keith Weninger

Dept. of Physics, NCSU

Dynamics of Protein Complexes

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10 Apr 2008

Prof. Scott Shaw

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UGA

Mining Photometric Databases for Variable Stars

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17 Apr 2008

Prof. Horst Meyer

Dept. of Physics, Duke

Properties of Supercritical Fluids

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24 Apr 2008

Mr. Chris Lindner

Ms. Natasha New

Mr. Daryl Reynolds

 

Jets from Tilted Black-Hole Accretion Disks

Computational Model of the CA1 Pyramidal Neuron

Understanding & Treating Barrett’s Esophagus

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Speakers interested in giving a talk in the College of Charleston Physics & Astronomy department are asked to contact Dr. Chris Fragile (fragilep@cofc.edu).

 


updated: 17 April 2008