Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
102 Natural Science Bldg.
University of Louisville
Louisville KY 40292
(502) 852-6790

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Department of Physics & Astronomy Talks

The Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Louisville hosts research colloquia every Friday at 3pm in the Natural Sciences Building (room 128) during the academic year, as well as the public Bullitt and Chamblin lecture series, and occasional special seminars and public talks. The title of a talk links to a copy of the abstract (if available).

 

Departmental Colloquia Fall 2009

28 August 2009 - Departmental Kickoff Meeting and Introduction to SPS

04 September 2009 - Departmental Jamboree
Speakers: David N. Brown, James T. Lauroesch, Benjamin T. MacCall, Gamini Sumanesekera and Ming Yu (U. of Louisville)

11 September 2009 - No Colloquium
Dean's State of the College Address

18 September 2009 - Jennifer Davison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Where's water? Enhanced moisture retrievals using S-band radar

25 September 2009 - Paul R. Van Tassel, Yale University (host Mendes)
Polyelectrolyte adsorption kinetics under an applied electric potential

02 October 2009 - P. J. Ouseph, University of Louisville
20 years of Graphite and Graphene Studies

09 October 2009 - Scheduled (TBA)

16 October 2009 - Andrei Kogan, University of Cincinnati (host Brown)
The Kondo Effect and Single-electron Transistors

23 October 2009 - Hong Ye, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Louisville (host Liu)

30 October 2009 - Heidi Schellman, Northwestern University and Fermilab (host Lauroesch)
Squeezing the Higgs

06 November 2009 - Sharon Zhong, Michigan State University (host MacCall)

13 November 2009 - Scott Horner, Sofia Program (host Lauroesch)
Stratospheric Observatory for Far Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) - Science Vision and Current Status

20 November 2009 - J. Todd Hastings, University of Kentucky (host Mendes)

27 November 2009 - No Colloquium
Thanksgiving Holiday

04 December 2009 - Patricia Rankin, University of Colorado, Boulder (host Brown)
Towards a Science of Broadening Participation: Myths and Realities

Abstracts of the talks from the current and previous semesters can also be viewed.

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Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy

Scan of a diagram from Galileo's Dialogo
Diagram from the Bullitt collection's copy of Galileo's "Dialogo..."

The Physics & Astronomy Department's Bullitt Lecture is a free lecture aimed at the general public, and since 2001 has presented a distinguished astrophysicist to a Louisville audience in the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. The Lecture is endowed through a grant from the family of William Marshall Bullitt, the Solicitor General of the United States under President William Howard Taft. The University of Louisville library also houses the William Marshall Bullitt collection of rare Mathematics and Astronomy books which includes works by Copernicus, Descartes, Einstein, Galileo, Gauss, Kepler and Newton.

The public and members of the University community are warmly invited!

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, we feature a lunar theme for the 2009 Bullett Lecture in Astronomy. To do this we will have a (so far) unique double speaker format, to highlight lunar exploration past and future - and beyond. The featured speakers will be:
Ferenc Pavlics (Apollo Lunar Rover Team) - "Lunar Roving Vehicle - Spacecraft on Wheels"
and
Philip Abel (NASA Glenn Research Center) - "Current and Future Exploration of the Lunar Surface"

More information is available including an archive of past Bullitt Lectures in Astronomy, including video recordings of the lectures since 2006.

There are also Bullitt lectures in Mathematics and the Fine Arts at the University of Louisville.

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Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture

The Physics & Astronomy Department's Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of Dr. H. Andrew Chamblin, who was Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Louisville until his untimely passing in 2006.

The First Annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture was held at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 16, 2009, with a talk by Dr. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate and the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT. The Department is currently seeking to make this an annual event, and more details will be posted here as they become available.

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