Department of Physics. Astronomy and
Geology
Fall
2005 Seminar Series
August 30 No seminar
September 6 Lev Yampolsky, Department of Biological Sciences, ETSU
“The Game of Protection and Parasitism”
September 13 Amanda
Moffett, PA&G, ETSU
“A Preliminary Study of Northern
Stars with Annual Proper Motions Greater than 0.05”’
David Simpson, PA&G, ETSU
“ Development of
Gain-Matching Algorithms for a Double-Sided Silicon Strip Detector”
September
20 Curtis Struck,
“Satellite
Orbits in Galaxies”
September 27 Mark Hankock, PA&G, ETSU
“ A Spectroscopic Study of the Star-Forming
Properties of the
October 3 Mingtang
Lei, Institute of Karst
“Experimental
Study of Sinkhole Collapses in
October 4 Xiaozhen
Jiang, Institute of Karst
“National-Scale
Risk Assessment of Sinkhole Hazard in
October 11 Martin Hendry, Basler Chair
“Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Stellar Astrophysics”
October 18 No seminar (fall break)
October 25 Lensyl
Urbano,
“Groundwater-surfacewater
interactions at the transition of an aquifer from
unconfined to confined (example from
October 26 Lensyl Urbano,
"Potential Impact of Climatic Change and
Sea-Level Rise on Saltwater Intrusion (
November 1
“Advanced Physics Lab for Physics Majors:
What’s New?”
November 8 Luis Teodoro,
TBA
November 15 Harry
Rowe,
"Quarternary Paleohydrology and Climate Change in
November 22 Sam Perkins, Computer Science, ETSU
“Using
the PIKAIA Genetic Algorithm in Cluster Computing:
An
Application to Galaxy Interaction Modeling”
November
29 Speaker from
December 6 Sean Mathews, PA&G, ETSU
TBA
