The department sponsors a lively and highly interactive series of lunch-time talks on various topics of current interest in astronomy, physics, and other areas of science. Students have a wonderful opportunity to see why the current "hot topics" are of such great interest to physicists. We also organize special events where internationally recognized speakers are invited to visit us.
2008 Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title and Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| January 25th |
Prof. Peter K.S. Dunsby
Dept. of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics
University of Cape Town, South Africa |
IN SEARCH OF THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND OTHER COSMIC PUZZLES |
| January 30th |
Shaun Lovejoy
Department of Physics
McGill University |
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| February 15th |
Valerio Faraoni
Physics Department
Bishop's University |
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| February 18th |
Prof. Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
Brownian Motion, Active Fluctuations, and Anomalous diffusion |
| April 4th |
Robert Lacroix
Bishop’s University
|
On the Theory of Polytropes: A First View of the Interior a Star |
| April 11th |
Shahn Nadeau
Bishop’s University
|
Neutron Stars: An Introduction to Super-Dense Compact Stellar Objects |
| April 18th |
Ernie Dubeau
Bishop’s University
|
Evidence of Radio Ejection during the Formation of Binary Millisecond Pulsars |
| April 25th |
Jonas Goliasch
Bishop’s University
|
An Application of Population Synthesis Methods to Astrophysics: Cataclysmic Variables |
| April 29th |
Ilana MacDonald, Jean Bergeron, Jeff Lapierre
Bishop's University
|
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| May 2nd |
Nicolas Tremblay
Bishop’s University
|
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| October 24th |
Dr. Noah Graham
Middlebury College
|
Something Will Come of Nothing: The Vacuum in Quantum Field Theory |
