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Gettysburg
College
Physics Department
2010-2011 COLLOQUIA*
These
presentations are open to the general public, as well as to all students,
faculty, administrators and staff of Gettysburg College, and we cordially
invite you to join in for instructive, thought-provoking lectures on
current topics in astronomy and physics
View the Many Facets of Physics!! 
*[Latin colloquy fr.
com + loqui to speak] conversation, dialogue; an
academic meeting at
which specialist(s) speak on a given subject and then answer
questions about it.
Spring 2011:
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Friday, January 28, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Christopher Monroe
Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute
Bice Zorn Professor, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland
Quantum Information
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Thursday, February 10, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Anne
Marie Forney, '08
National
Institute of Standards & Technology
A Young Physicist’s Journey to Creating Standards for the
Nation
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Friday, February 25, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Jeffrey A. Moses
Optics and
Quantum Electronics Group, MIT
Making Ever Shorter Laser Pulses
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Friday, March 25, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Jeffrey Colvin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
From Fusion Ignition to Fusion Energy: Target Physics Issues
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Friday, April 8, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Henri Lezec
Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology,
NIST
Plasmonic Devices and Left-Handed Metamaterials
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Thursday, April 14, 4:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 208
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Carl E. Mungan
United States Naval Academy
Understanding Physics: The Fourth Leg of the Stool
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Fall, 2010:
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Thursday, September 9, 4:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Alexander Peters, '12
What does
the MoNA LISA have to do with Exotic Nuclei?
and Andrew Broeker, '13
Accelerator
Principles and Experiments
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Thursday, September 30, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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David P. Jackson
Dickinson
College, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Exploring
the Nature of Light: the Strange Reality of the Quantum World
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Friday, October 15, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Sanjay Varma
University
of Maryland, Intense
Laser Matter Interactions
Using
Lasers to Make Mini-Lightning Bolts Across the Atmosphere
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Friday, October 29, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Robert Loughman
Hampton
University Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
LIDAR and
Much, Much More!
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Wednesday, December 8, 3:00 p.m.
Masters Hall Room 110 (Mara Auditorium)
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Andrew Maturo, '11
From
Cremona to Gettysburg: The Journey of the Violin
and Matthew Murray, '11
Pounding Protons against Thin Targets: Rutherford
Scattering Experiments with the Gettysburg College Proton Accelerator
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Need additional information or have suggestions for future colloquia?
Call 717-337-6020, e-mail us.
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for travel directions.
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