Seminars and Colloquia in the SDSU Physics Department

• Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia (JAPC). See below for schedule.
• Physics holds the Doc Morris Public Lecture Series, a FREE public lecture during May/April of each year.
• Physics Theses: Undergrad Reports and Graduate Student Defenses.
• SCAMP --- Informal seminar on computational astrophysics and many-body physics held weekly during semester. (Subscribe to the SCAMP email list). Spring 2007 is 1pm Wednesdays in P-146.
• Other Colloquia: Computational Sciences Research Center (subscribe). Maths/Stats. Bioinformatics. Chemistry: Seminars, GradStuds, Faculty.
• Astronomy also hold an annual Schopp Lecture

Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia

All colloquia, unless otherwise noted, are Fridays at 2pm in the Physics Building, room P-148(WHERE?). Sponsored by SDSU Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics. Refreshments (Coffee and Cookies) are served by the Society of Physics Students at 1:45pm in P-145A.

All and sundry are welcome to join the JAPC mailing list.

Current Schedule (Spring 2008): (or view the Archive)

• Fri Jan 25th: Dr. Jim Mitroy, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
  "Bound state approaches to matter-antimatter scattering".


• Fri Feb 1st: Dr. Richard J Drachman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "Antimatter in space".


• Fri Feb 8th: Dr. Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Lab
  "From nuclei to cold atoms and (eventually) back".


• Fri Mar 14th: Dr. William Welsh, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy
  "Using the Rossiter Effect to Detect Earth-size Planets".


• Fri Mar 28th: Dr. Jeffrey E. McClintock, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Measuring Black Hole Spin: Progress, Problems and Promise ".


• Fri Apr 4th: spring break


• Fri Apr 25th: Prof. Guillermo Miranda, Universidad Central de Venezuela "Light and Gravity: A theory of vector gravitational waves independent of Einstein's General Theory, developing earlier ideas of Lorentz, Compton and Wheeler, and introducing the new cosmogonic concept of trio-holes.".


• Fri May 2nd: Dr. Joseph Dolan, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy
  "Searching for Dying Pulse Trains in RXTE Observations of Cyg X-1".


• Fri May 9th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports by Jason (Hau-Jian) Liu, Kristen Mecadon, Mark Mitry, Melinda Toth, ...