All talks are held noon - 12:50 p.m., Fridays
Location: Rickey 166 (unless noted)

Spring 2021

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, in place of on-campus presentations, for the Spring 2021 Physics Colloquium Series we will feature virtual question and answer sessions. Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to meet interesting people and learn about what can be done with a physics degree.

Feb. 5 — Vance Turnewitsch (MC ’14)
Senior Member of the Research Team
Barnstorm Research Corporation
https://www.barnstormresearch.com/

March 12 — Dr. Tess Oliver
R&D Chemist II
Quanex IG Systems

Each guest speaker will begin at 12:00 p.m. with an introduction/overview of their work, followed by a conversation with current students.

Join in at https://mariettacollege.zoom.us/j/520020785.

Additional dates to note:

April 9-10 —Physics Research and Applications in Space
Ohio-region Section American Physical Society
2021 Spring Meeting
John Carroll University (virtual)
https://engage.aps.org/osaps/meetings/annual

April 18-23 — All Scholars Week

Past Colloquia

Fall 2020

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, in place of on-campus presentations, for the Fall 2020 Physics Colloquium Series we will feature virtual question and answer sessions with program alumni. Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to meet and learn about what some former students are doing now.

Sept. 4 — Dr. William A. Coniglio (MC ’05)
Research Faculty II (Instrumentation Scientist)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Oct. 2 — Dr. Meredith Rogers Dubelman (MC ’07)
Staff Engineer
GE Additive

Nov. 6 — Dr. Chad Byers (MC ’10)
Senior Systems Engineer
Alcon Laboratories, Inc.

Each guest speaker will begin at 12:00 p.m. with a brief introduction/overview of their work, followed by a conversation with current students.

Join in at https://mariettacollege.zoom.us/j/520020785.

Spring 2020

Jan. 10 — David Kordahl
Arizona State University
"If the microscopes work, what's the use of theory?"

Jan. 15 — Dr. David Jacobs
Hamilton College
"Macro Dark Matter"

Jan. 27 — Dr. Suyog Shrestha
Ohio State University
“Higgs Boson as a Probe in the Search for New Laws of Nature”

Feb. 14 — Planetarium Show
*Anderson Hancock Planetarium*
“Hot and Energetic Universe”

Feb. 27 — Sigma Pi Sigma Public Science Lecture
7:30 p.m. Dean Regas
Cincinnati Observatory
Host of PBS’ “Star Gazers”
*Anderson Hancock Planetarium*
“I Want to Believe: Returning to an Age of Reason”

March 20 — Alexandra Jurgens (’15)
University of California, Davis
"Randomness, Structure and Prediction: Defining and Quantifying Complex Systems"

Note: We provide the speaker, the pizza and beverages. You provide the ears. If possible, please let Andrea Richardson, 376-4750, adr003@marietta.edu know that you’re coming.

Additional dates to note:

April 1 — Krause Lecture - Dr. Daniel Ciccaron

April 3-4 — Physics Dept. Road-trip
OSAPS 2020 Spring Meeting
John Carroll University

April 16 — All Scholars Day

Fall 2019

Sept. 6 — Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Dawn of the Space Age”

Sept. 20 — Dr. Andrew Beck
Marietta College Geology
“The Dawn Mission to Asteroid 4Vesta: Geologic History of a Planetary Embryo”

Oct. 18 — Dr. Tom Greenslade
Kenyon College
“The Shapes of Physics”

Nov. 1 — Dr. Yi Wang
University of Southern California
“Surface Plasmon Resonance on Nano-Gratings”

Nov. 15 — Matthew Chih (’20), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas Farish (’20), Marietta College
Benjamin Pratt (’20), Reuther Mold and Manufacturing
“Summer Internship Presentations”

Spring 2019

Jan. 18 — Dr. Martin Weinhous
Cleveland State University
“Medical Physics: A Brief Discussion of the History, Profession, Science & Practice”

Feb. 1 Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“The Voyager Encounters”

Feb. 15 — Dr. Harrison Potter (MC ’08)
Marietta College
"The Precession in the Perihelion of the Orbit of Mercury"

March 22 — Dr. Petru Fodor
Cleveland State University
"Mixing in Microfluidic Devices"

Fall 2018

Sept. 21 — Ann Bragg
Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
"Europe to the stars”

Oct. 19 — Dr. Dennis Kuhl
Marietta College
"Feynman’s Inverse Sprinkler​"

Nov. 2 — Dr. Gary Morris​
St. Edward’s University​
"TBA"

Nov. 16 — Dr. Cavendish McKay​
Marietta College
“Nonlinear Normal Modes in the Chaotic Double Pendulum​”

Nov. 30 — Ann Bragg
Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
"The Season of Light"

Spring 2018

Feb. 16 — Ann Bragg
Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Star Talk”

March 2 — Richard Talcott (MC ’76)
Senior Editor, Astronomy Magazine
"Pluto Revealed: NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Helped Lift the Veil on this Distant Planet"

March 30 — Kevin Wall (MC ’78)
Information Security Engineer, Wells Fargo
"Don't Become a Victim: A Security Professional's Practical Tips for Staying Safe on the Internet"

April 13 — Scott Bleile
Designer, HX5 Sierra, LLC - TFOME II
NASA GRC Plum Brook Station
“Space on Earth”

Fall 2017

Sept. 8 — Ms. Ashley Parker (MC Class of ’12)
University of Buffalo and CERN
“CMS at LHC: Experimenting with the World's Largest Machine”

Sept. 22 — Mr. Jacob Bills (MC class of ’08)
Miami University
“The Heart as a Dynamical System”

Oct. 6 — Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Galileo: The Power of the Telescope”

Oct. 13 — Sigma Pi Sigma Public Science Lecture
7:00 p.m. Dr. Steven Snyder 
CEO, Fleet Science Center, San Diego
McDonough Auditorium

Nov. 10 — Vance Turnewitsch (MC class of ’14)
Senior Member of Research Team
Barnstorm Research Corporation
“Coordination in Communication Denied Environments with TREVE”

Dec. 1 — Dr. Ann Bragg
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Creating Dome Demos to Illustrate the Observational Evidence for the Geo- and Heliocentric Models”

Spring 2017

Feb. 17 — Ms. Xiaoyue Ni (’12)
California Institute of Technology
"Probing Microplasticity: The Mechanical Noise in Metal’s Pre-yield Regime"

March 3 — Dr. Meredith Rogers Dubelman (’07)
Ceramic Development Engineer, General Electric Aviation
"Next Generation Technology in Aviation"

March 24 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Dark Matter Mystery”

April 7 — Eric Reed (’05)
Transportation Engineer, Ohio Department of Transportation
"3 + 2 = Asphalt, Concrete, and Driverless Cars?"

Fall 2016

Sept. 16 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Space Aliens: Looking for Life in the Universe”

Sept. 30 — Mr. Zachary Long (MC class of ’11)
University of Cincinnati
“Radiative Transfer Modeling of the Circumstellar Disks of Young Stars”

Oct. 28 — Mr. Benjamin Charley (MC class of ’13)
CEO, Rapid TPC, Inc.
“From Application to Abstraction and Back: Using Your Physics Toolbox in Entrepreneurship and Beyond”

Nov. 10, 7:00 p.m. — Dr. Beverly Taylor
Miami University
“The Physics of Toys”
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
Sigma Pi Sigma Public Lecture

Dec. 2 — Summer Research Internship Experiences 
Hear about exciting research our students did last summer!
“Exploring Photovoltaic Properties in MAPbCl Perovskite Structures”
- Michael Bowen (’17), at Temple University
"Looking for Epitaxy in Thin Copper Films"
- Brittany Hassman (’17), at Marietta College
"Research and Development at EGC Enterprises"
- Jonathan Kadowaki (’17), at EGC Enterprises

Spring 2016

Jan. 29 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Sunstruck”

Feb. 12 — Dr. Crystal Bailey
Education and Careers Program Manager, American Physical Society
"Physics and Entrepreneurship"

Feb.  19 — William Vance (’12)
Portfolio Analyst, AES Corporation
"A Computational Study of a Photovoltaic Compound Parabolic Concentrator"

March 25 — Dr. Herbert Jaeger
Miami University
“Studies of Zircon Minerals Using Time-Differential Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy”

April 22 — Dr. William McNeely
Marietta College
"LIGO and the Chirp Heard Across the Universe"

Fall 2015

Sept. 11 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Cosmic Castaways”

Sept. 25 — Dr. Chad Byers (MC class of ’10)
Rice University
“Electrochemical Sensing and Control of Plasmonic Nanoantennas”

Oct. 16 — Dr. Christopher Cheng (MC class of ’06)
2:00 p.m Alexion Pharmaceuticals
“Development Scientist II, Nucleic Acid Drug Formulations”

Oct. 30 — Ms. Abigail Bogdan (MC class of ’11)
Ohio State University
“How Expectations Guide Interpretation: The Effect of Prior Beliefs on Student Inferences from Experimental Data”

Nov. 13 — Dr. Craig Howald
Marietta College
“Quantum Optics”

Dec. 4 — Summer Research Internship Experiences
Hear about exciting research our students did last summer!
"Building a UHV Chamber"
- Michael Bowen (’17)
“Building a Quantum Optics Lab”
- Xuan Zhao (’17)

Spring 2015

Jan. 30 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Chasing the Ghost Particle”

Feb. 13 — Dr. Craig Howald
Marietta College
"Watching Atoms: How It Is Possible and Why It Is Difficult"

Feb. 27 — Mr. Derek Bas
West Virginia University
"Applications of Ultrafast Optics and Terahertz Spectroscopy"

March 20 — Dr. Adam Kobelski
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
“TBA”

April 3 — Dr. Patrick Durrell
Youngstown State University
"Searching for Stars and Star Clusters Between the Galaxies"

April 17 — Mr. Shawn Taylor (MC ’03)
NASA Glenn Research Center and University of Toledo
"Seals and Thermal Barriers for Space Vehicles"

Fall 2014

Sept. 19 — Dr. Douglas Clowe
Director, Astrophysical Institute, Ohio University
“Through a Lens, Darkly”

Oct. 17 — Dr. Timothy Vierheller (MC ’81)
University of Akron - Wayne College
“The Science Behind Constructing a Tire”

Oct. 31 — Summer Research Internship Experiences at ENS Cachan, France & The American Museum of Natural History, New York
Hear about exciting off-campus research our students did last summer!
"Modeling and Fabrication of Photonic Crystals with Two-beam Interference"
- Alexandra Jurgens (’15)
“Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Halo Mass to Galaxy Mass Ratio”
- Nicholas Miller (’15)

Nov.  14 — Mr. Carl Nelson
Chief Scientist and Exhibits Director
Imagination Station (formerly COSI Toledo)
“Don't Try This at Home: Fun with Informal Science Education”

Dec. 5 — Ms. Elisabeth Kager (MC ’08)
Education Department, Ohio University 
“Effects of Participation in the Women in the Sciences (WITS) camp on STEM Attitudes and Anticipated Career Decisions of Middle School Girls: A Mixed Methods Study”

Spring 2014

Jan. 24 — Laura Carpenter  (’14), Shaojie Zang (’16), and Vance Turnewitsch (’14)
Marietta College
“Summer Research Internship Experiences at Case Western Reserve University, Marietta College, and Florida International University”
Hear about exciting research internships our students did last summer!

Feb. 7 — Mr. Harrison Potter (MC class of ’08)
Duke University
"Here are some cool things you can do, even starting right now, using mathematical physics!"

Feb. 21 — Dr. Dennis Kuhl
Marietta College
"On the Design of Experiments to Study Conduction Electron Scattering by Adsorbates"

March 7 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“The Voyager Encounters”

March 21 — Dr. William Owen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
"Astronomical Potpourri"

April 18 — Ms. Leslie Cook (MC class of ’02)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Public Sector Program Manager, ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings
"Policies Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment"
Co-sponsors: Environmental Science and Energy Systems Programs

Fall 2013

Sept. 20 — Dr. William McNeely
Marietta College
“Recent Developments in Cosmology”

Oct. 25 — Dr. Kathleen Harper
Engineering Education Innovation Center
The Ohio State University
“STEM Education Research for the Consumer: Results of Use to University Instructors”

Nov. 6, 7:00 p.m. — Sigma Pi Sigma Lecture, McDonough Auditorium
Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, author of The Physics of NASCAR
West Virginia University
“The Science of Speed”

Nov. 22 — Summer Research Internship Experiences at FSU, SLAC, & Argonne
Hear about exciting off-campus research our students did last summer!
“Characterizing Materials to Enhance Pressure Cells”
- Joe Andler (’15)
"Timing Instrument Development at the LCLS"
- Alexandra Jurgens (’15)
“Suppression of OH Emission for Infrared Astronomy and Dark Energy Science”
-  Nicholas Miller (’15)

Dec. 6 — Mr. Carl Starkey (MC class of ’08)
University of Toledo
“Dusty Galaxies: Investigating Extragalactic PAHs”

Spring 2013

Jan. 25 — Laura Carpenter  (’14), and Vance Turnewitsch (’14)
Marietta College
“Summer Research Internship Experiences at WVU and Google”
Hear about exciting off-campus research our students did last year!

Feb. 8 — Ms. Stephanie Horne
Strecker Cancer Center, Marietta Memorial Hospital
"Medical Physics: A Wonderful Career Opportunity You Probably Have Never Heard of"

Feb. 22 — Nadine Hunter Els (MC class of ’07)
Columbia University, Dept. of Environmental Engineering
"Measuring Change in a Changing World: Geochemical Cycling of Carbon & Water Throughout Built, Aquatic & Terrestrial Environments"

March 8 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun”

March 22 — Dr. Sergio DeSouza Machado
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Using Remote Sensing to Study the Atmosphere for Weather and Climate"

April 5 — Dr. Gordon J. Aubrecht, II
The Ohio State University
"The Need for Sense in Dealing with ‘Controversial’ Scientific Issues"

Fall 2012

Sept. 7 — Dr. William McNeely
Marietta College
“Overview of Cosmology”

Sept. 21 — Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Cosmic Colors”

Oct. 5 — Dr. David Horne
Washington State Community College
“Dust Storms over the Poles of Mars”

Oct. 26 — Ms. Meredith Rogers (MC class of ’07)
Materials Science Dept., Purdue University
“Sub-Micron Scale Characterization of Lead- Free Ferroelectrics”

Nov. 9 — Dr. Gregory Good
Director, Center for the History of Physics
American Institute of Physics
“Measuring and Messing with the Magnetosphere: NASA, the AEC, and the early days of Space Science.”

Nov. 16 — Mr. Alex Viana
Space Telescope Science Institute
“TBA”

Spring 2012

Jan. 27 — Dr. Greg Smith (MC class of ’78)
Neutron Scattering Group, Oakridge National Laboratory
“On the Lighter Side of Condensed Matter: Exploration and Design of Soft Functional Materials”

Feb. 3 — Physics Student Research Internship Presentations
Hear about exciting off-campus research our students did last year!

Feb. 10 — Mr. Seth Avery (MC class of ’05)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Measurement of Wirebond Strain in Power Semiconductors"

Feb. 24 — Dr. David Egolf
Georgetown University
"Hints of a Statistical Mechanics of Spatiotemporal Chaos"

March 23 — Dr. Shila Garg
College of Wooster
"Phase Transitions in Binary Mixtures of Liquid Crystals"

April 20 — New Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium

Fall 2011

Sept. 16 — Dr. Cavendish McKay
Marietta College
“Do physicists dream of polyphasic sleep? A numerical investigation of sleep models”

Sept. 30 — Dr. William McNeely
Marietta College
“Powering the Planet: Conversations about Alternative Fuels”

Oct. 14 — Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Black Holes: The Edge of Infinity”

Nov. 4 — Mr. Kevin Timko (MC class of ’78)
ABB, Inc.
“New Applications for High Voltage Direct Current Transmission - How Environmental Concerns are Giving New Life to an Old Technology”

Nov. 18 — Dr. Marshall Bartlett
Hollins College
“Global climate change from the ground up (and down)”

Spring 2011

Jan. 28 — Ms. Elisabeth Kager (MC class of ’08)
Marietta College and West Virginia University-Parkersburg
“The Process of Finding and Evaluating Long Period Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC6553”

Feb. 11 — Planetarium Show
"Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity"

Feb. 25 — Dr. Mike Rozler
Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology, Rush University Medical Center 
“Overview of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: SPECT/PET”

March 18 — Mr. Christopher Cheng (MC class of ’06)
Dept. of Molecular Biophysics, Yale University
"Virus-inspired Polymer Nanospheres for Tumor-targeted Gene Therapy"

April 8 — Dr. Patrick Durrell
Youngstown State University
"Searching for Stars Between the Galaxies"

April 22 — Dr. Paul T. Daniell
Marietta College
"Nebulae Explained"

Fall 2010

Sept. 17 — Dr. William McNeely
Boeing Corporation, retired
“How a Particle Physicist Applied his Training at The Boeing Company"

Oct. 8-9 — Joint Fall Meeting of the Ohio-region Section of the American
Friday-Saturday Physical Society and the Appalachian and Southern Ohio Sections of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Marietta College

Nov. — 5 Mr. Andrew Grimm
Marietta College
“Recent Advances in Renewable Energy”

Nov. 15 — Public lecture: McDonough Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Anousheh Ansari
Prodea Systems, Ansari X Prize, 
First female Private Space Explorer
“Reaching for the Stars and Getting There” 

Dec. — 3 Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“Season of Light” 

Spring 2010

Feb. 12 — Planetarium Show
Anderson Hancock Planetarium
“IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System”

March 5 — Dr. Sergio Ulloa
Ohio University
“Probing Magnetic Phenomena on Surfaces One Molecule at a Time”

March 26 — Dr. Jeff Dyck 
John Carroll University
"Thermoelectric Materials: From Solid State Cooling to Harvesting Waste Heat"

April 20 — Dr. R. Lester Anderson (MC class of ’55)
Marietta College, Emeritus
"History of Physics at Marietta College"

Fall 2009

Oct. 1, 5:00 p.m. — Dr. Jim Andrews
Thursday Youngstown State University
“Multilayer Polymers as 1d Photonic Crystals”

Oct. 16 — Dr. Eric Mandell
Bowling Green State University
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Our Solar System: Graphene Cores in Graphitic Stardust"

Oct. 30 — Dr. Steve Martin
Iowa State University, Materials Science and Engineering
“Lithium Batteries: Old Problems and New Opportunities for a Greener Future"

Nov. 13 — W. Andrew Coniglio (class of ’05)
Clark University
“Tall tales in high field: Superconductivity near the Pauli Limit in ”

Nov. 20 — Dr. Craig Howald
Marietta College
“Electrons and Atoms at Their Own Scale”

Spring 2009

Feb. 13 — Mr. Chris Jacobs (MC class of ’92)
"Locomotive Adhesion and Wheel-Slip Systems"

Feb. 27 — Dr. John Laird
Bowling Green State University

April 3 — Dr. Ann Bragg
Marietta College
Planetarium Presentation

April 10 — Andrew Foster and Kelsie McCartney
Marietta College
Physics Department Senior Capstone Research Presentations

Fall 2008

Oct. 3 — Dr. Dennis Kuhl
Marietta College
“What’s the big deal?  Didn’t Newton figure this out 300 years ago?”

Oct. 17 — Dr. Thad G. Walker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Quantum Manipulation of Atoms--Without Forces”

Oct. 24 — Dr. Stanley Radford
State University of New York Brockport
“The Standard Model and the LHC: What, Why, Where, When."

Nov. 7 — Dr. Mangala Sharma
Ohio University
“Diffuse Starlight in Galaxy Groups”

Nov. 21 — Dr. Tim Vierheller (MC class of ’81)
Wayne College, Akron University
“Probing Thin Films Using X-rays and Neutrons”

Spring 2008

Jan. 28 — Dr. Ann Bragg
Bowling Green State University
"The Structure, Evolution, and Star Formation History of Open Clusters"

Feb. 1 — Mr. Will Fischer
University of Mass. Amherst
"Zooming in on T Tauri Stars: A New Spectroscopic Probe of Accretion in Young Suns"

Feb. 5 — Dr. Nick Abel
University of Cincinnati
"Finding Black Holes in Skinny Galaxies"

April 7 — Dr. Story Musgrave (MC class of ’60)
Retired NASA Astronaut

April 18 — Dr. Jason Deibel
Wright State University
“Terahertz Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Plasmonics”

April 24, 7:00-9:00 p.m. — E. Kager, H. Potter, D. Stanley, C. Starkey
Physics Department Senior Capstone Research Presentations

April 25 — Dr. Ken Hicks
Ohio University
“Quarks and Particles”

Fall 2007

Sept. 28 — Mr. William Shepard (MC class of 1978)
Manager, Velcro Corporation
“Hooks and Loops”

Oct. 12 — Dr. Dean Richardson
Denison University
“Light Curves of Supernovae Found in Gamma Ray Bursts”

Oct. 26 — Ms. Linda Farrenkopf (MC class of 1980)
Director of ESDm Advisory Services, Nationwide Insurance
“Exciting Careers for Physics Majors”

Nov. 9 — Dr. John Lindner
The College of Wooster
“Can Noise Improve Hearing? Stochastic Resonance in Hair Cells”

Nov. 30 — Dr. David Cress
Marietta College, Emeritus
“TRIZ: A Model for Problem Solving”

Spring 2007

Jan. 26 — Dr. Susan Thompson
Colorado College
“Deciphering White Dwarf Stars: a Variable Diamond in the Rough”

Jan. 29 — Dr. Joe Christensen
McMurry University
“Stretching the Nucleons: the Quarks Weigh in”

Feb. 8 — Dr. Nickolas Solomey
Illinois Institute of Technology
“The Neutrino and the Need for Future Particle Interaction Measurements”

March 30 — Mr. Kevin Wall (MC ’78)
Quest Information Technology, Inc.
“Quantum Key Distribution”
Part of the MC Alumni Speaker Series

April 20 — Dr. Sergei Urazhdin
West Virginia University
“Spintronics”

April 27 — Dr. Richard Mancuso
SUNY Brockport
“The Physics in Toys”

Fall 2006

Sept. 15 — Professor Donald Carpenetti
Chemistry Department, Marietta College
“Reflections on Color”

Sept. 29 — Professor Susan Lehman
Physics Department, College of Wooster
“Nanotechnology and Quantum Dots”

Oct. 13 — Mr. William Schrensky (MC class of ’84)
Cooper Tire, Inc.
“Opportunities for Applied Physics in U.S. Manufacturing”

Oct. 27 — Dr. Cavendish McKay
Physics Department, Marietta College
“A Ridiculously Brief Introduction to Dynamics of Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation”

Nov. 10 — Dr. Steven Snyder
Vice President for Exhibit and Program Development
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
"A Career in Hands-on Science Outreach”

Spring 2006

Feb. 3 — Deepshikha Choudhury
Department of Physics, Ohio University
“Of neutron polarizabilities and Compton scattering on the Deuteron”

Feb. 17 — Dr. Uwe Trittmann
Department of Physics, Otterbein College
"Solving Supersymmetric Theories on the Computer"

March 3 — Dr. Jeff Williams
Department of Physics, Bridgewater State College
“Picturing Physics”

April 14 — Dr. David Ellis
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center
“New Horizons”

April 24 — Dr. Kingshuk Majumdar
Berea College
“Bose-Einstein Condensation”

May 1 — Dr. Douglas O’Neal
NASA Allegheny College
“TBA”

Fall 2005

Sept. 2 — Shawn C. Taylor
NASA Glenn Research Center
“High Temperature Seal Development for Advanced Air and Spacecraft Applications”

Sept. 16 — Professor Wayne Repko
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
“Neutrinos, neutrinos, neutrinos”

Oct. 14 — Professor (Emeritus) Tom Greenslade
Physics Department, Kenyon College
“The Daguerreotype, the Tintype and the Stereoscopic View”

Nov. 11 — Gregory Smith
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"The Right Tool for the Right Job: Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Physics"

Spring 2005

Jan. 28 — Dr. Saw-Wai Hla
Department of Physics, Ohio University
“Atomistic Construction of Nanostructures and Nanodevices”

Feb. 25 — Dr. Larry Halliburton
Department of Physics, West Virginia University
“Nonlinear optical materials: research and applications”

April 1 — Dr. Timothy Vierheller
Department of Physics, University of Akron
“Interface structure of photonic multilayers determined by x-ray and neutron reflectivity”

April 15 — Dr. Donald Carpenetti
Department of Chemistry, Marietta College
“Mixed metal oxide oxygen storage materials: application to automobile exhaust emission remediation.”

April 20 — Dr. Harry Augensen
Widener University
Harlow Shapely Lecture, AAS

Fall 2004

Aug. 30, 4:00 p.m. — Special Colloquium
Dr. Kathy Sullivan
President, COSI
“Reaching for the Stars”

Oct. 8 — Dr. Craig Howald
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Peculiar Electron Behavior at the Atomic Scale: Tunneling and Superconductivity”

October 22 — Dr. Sergio DeSouza Machado
University of Maryland Baltimore County
"Looking at Dust and Clouds"

Nov. 5 — Dr. Wayne Repko
Department of Physics and Astronomy. Michigan State University
“More rumblings from the vacuum or Why we still think that the  universe is accelerating”

Nov. 19 — David Rickey
AMCC
“Evolution of the Hi-Tech Electronics Industry and Implications for the Technical Workforce”

Spring 2004

Jan. 30 — Dr. John Feldmeier
Case Western Reserve University
"Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae: One of the Universe's Swiss Army Knives"

Feb. 13 — Dr. Daniel S. Carman
Department of Physics, Ohio University
“Pentaquark Physics”

Feb. 27 — Dr. David Ellis
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo
"Atomic Spectroscopy"

March 19 — Thomas W. Kerslake
NASA Glenn Research Center
“Mars Exploration: What Do We Hope To Learn?"

April 2 — Marietta College Alumni Speaker Series
Richard Talcott, Senior Editor, Astronomy 
“TBA”

Fall 2003

Sept. 12 — Dr. Stanley F. Radford
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“What is a quarkonium? Why YOU should care”

Sept. 26 — Dr. Wayne W. Repko
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
“New results in quarkonium physics”

Oct. 10 — Seth Avery, Cheryl Pasquale
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Reports on summer research projects”

Oct. 24 Marietta College Alumni Speaker Series
William Shepard, Velcro Group Corporation
“Hooks and Loops”

Nov. 7 — Dr. Donald T. Jacobs
Department of Physics, College of Wooster
“A Day at the Beach:  Mixed Drinks and Sandpiles”

Nov. 21 — Dr. Sergio DeSouza Machado
Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County
“Atmospheric Radiative Transfer: Observations using AIRS (Atmospheric Infra Red Sounder)”

Spring 2003

Feb. 14 — Dr. Stanley F. Radford
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Fields, forces, and all that: a modest introduction to elementary particle physics”

March 21 — Ann M. Delleur
Power & Propulsion Office, NASA Glenn Research Center
“Space Station”

April 4 — Dr. Terry Lahm
Department of Environmental Science & Geology, Capital University
"Physics through a Hydrogeologist’s Eyes - Lessons from the Environmental Sciences"

April 25 — Mr. Kevin Wall
Qwest Information Technology, Inc. 
“... Quantum Computing ...”

Fall 2002

Sept. 13 — Dr. Dennis Kuhl
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Electron dynamics at surfaces”

Sept. 27 — Dr. Steve Bever
Former Chair, Physics Department, Wabash College
“Description and demonstration of the scattering of laser light from microlenses”

Oct. 11 — Dr. Wayne W. Repko
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
“Rumblings from the vacuum or Why we think that the  universe is accelerating”

Oct. 25 — Dr. Todd DeLong
Center for Safety-Critical Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia
“Algorithm-Based Safety-Critical System Design”

Nov. 8 — Dr. Kevin Pate
Department of Chemistry, Marietta College
“Investigating Molecular Motion in Crystals”

Nov. 22 — Dr. Alice Churukian
Department of Physics, College of Wooster
“Interactive Engagement in an Introductory University Physics Course: Learning Gains and Perceptions”

Spring 2002

Jan. 31, 2002, 500 Mills Hall — Dr. Terrence Sheridan
Department of Physics, Allegheny College
“Dusty Plasma Crystals”

Feb. 15 — Dr. Thomas LaFramboise
Department of Mathematics, Marietta College
"A Brief Introduction to Chaos Theory: From Discrete to Continuous, from a Calculator to Mathematica"

March 1 — Dr. Stanley Radford
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Adventures in Remote Sensing”

March 22 — Dr. Bill Prosser
NASA Langley Research Center
“Sensor Technology for Integrated Vehicle Health Management”

April 5 — Dr. David Cress
Marietta College, Department of Petroleum Engineering,
“Estimation Guesstimation, A Basic Problem-Solving Skill.”

April 19 — Terrence Morris
T. Morris & Co.
“How to Succeed in Business with a Little Knowledge of Physics”

Fall 2001

Sept. 21 — Dr. Mike Seale
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Building the Next Concorde: Ultrasonic Assessment of Durability in Composites”

Oct. 26 — Dr. Wayne Repko
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
“Zeno’s paradox and Exponential Decay in Quantum Mechanics”

Nov. 2 — Dr. Whit Hancock
Department of Physics, Marietta College
“Least Squares Fitting: Theory and Practice”

Nov. 16 — Dr. John Michel
Department of Mathematics, Marietta College
"Bringing Mars Samples Back to Earth"

Nov. 30 — Dr. Tim Vierheller
Department of Physics, The University of Akron – Wayne College
“Structure and Dynamics of Polymer Thin Films”

Note: We provide the speaker, you provide the ears. We provide the pizza and beverages. 
If possible, please let Andrea Richardson know that you are coming by calling (740.376.4820) or emailing (adr003@marietta.edu).