Colloquia Archive

2010-2011

• Thursday, October 21 at 4 pm in CF 420
  Joseph Kennedy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  (WWU Physics BS, 2008)
  "Exploring the Relation Between Crystal Fabric and Climate History in an Ice-Core Record"
• Wednesday, December 1 at 4 pm in CF 420
  Ben Hillman, University of Washington
  (WWU Physics BS, 2008)
  "Evaluation of Clouds in Climate Models Using Instrument Simulators"
• Thursday, February 10 at 4 pm in CF 420
  Miguel Morales, University of Washington
  "21cm Cosmology"
• Thursday, April 14 at 4 pm in CF 316
  Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University
  "A Call To Action: Findings and Recommendations of the National Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics"
• Friday, April 29 at 11 am in CF 316
  Pauline Barmby, University of Western Ontario
  "The Story of a Space Telescope"

2009-2010

• Thursday, October 15 at 4 pm in CF 420
  Jim Vyvyan, WWU Chemistry
  "Strategies for Success in Undergraduate Research"
• Friday, November 6 at noon in CF 231
  George Skidmore, DRS Infrared Technologies
  (WWU Physics BA, 1993)
  "Microbolometers for Infrared Imaging"
• Friday, Deccember 4 at noon in CF 231
  Amy Robertson, University of Washington
  "Student and Teacher Understanding of the Particulate Nature of Matter"
• Thursday, April 22 at 4 pm in CF 125
  Ted Bunn, University of Richmond
  "Listening to the Big Bang"
• Thursday, March 11 at 4 pm
  Ruth Velasco-Schmitz, physicist in oncology at UW School of Medicine
  "Medical Physics - an Introduction with Focus on Radiotherapy"
• Thursday, May 7
  Markus Raschke, University of Washington
  "Optical Antennas for Spatio-temporal Imaging and Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale"
• Tuesday, May 26
  Jill Bellovary, University of Washington
  "The Role of Supermassive Black Hole Feedback in Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
• Monday, June 1
  Leah Courtland, University of South Florida
  (WWU Physics BS, 2005)
  "Into the Cone: A Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation of Near Vent Processes at Cerro Negro Volcano"