"Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you." -C.V. Raman

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,
 but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Research opportunities, a hallmark of the Gettysburg College Physics Department, include summer research on and off campus, independent and collaborative research with faculty, and special projects that may incorporate work in the Observatory and Hatter Planetarium.  Colloquia enhance these opportunities.

COLLOQUIA

Colloquia presentations take place throughout the academic year. These instructive, thought-provoking lectures and discussions on current topics in astronomy and physics are open to the public, as well as to all students, faculty, administrators and staff of Gettysburg College.

Given by scientists from colleges and universities, government and industry, as well as by Gettysburg faculty and senior physics majors, past topics have included the physics of boomerangs, chaos, general relativity, plasma, astrometric inquiry from other observatories, the physics and chemistry of mesoscopic matter, high resolution imaging, holography, the top quark, solar sea power, superconductivity, the super collider, magnetic monopoles, medieval astronomy and much, much more.

For science majors, these colloquia offer a valuable opportunity to explore fields of interest and potential job opportunities.

Dr. Erin Bonning, Teaching Fellow for Astronomy, Quest University Canada

Supermassive black holes: jets, disks, and kicks.

Thursday, February 14, 4:00 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Dr. Julia Kamenetzky, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado

Molecular Gas in the Local Universe

Thursday, February 7, 11:30 a.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Troy Carter, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Taming turbulence in plasmas: From magnetic fusion energy to black hole accretion disks

Friday, February 1, 3:45 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Dr. Eilat Glikman, Department of Physics, Yale University

Dust Reddened Quasars: A Missing Link in the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Quasars

Thursday, January 31, 4:00 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Dr. Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Maryland

The 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Friday, November 30, 3:10 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Matthew Galante, Department of Physics, West Virginia University

Neutral density measurements in a fusion plasma

Friday, November 16, 4:00 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Elizabeth F. McCormack, Professor of Physics, Chair, Bryn Mawr College
        Probing Long-Range Configurations of Molecular Hydrogen
        Friday, November 2, 4:00 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Stephen Padalino, Distinguished Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Geneseo

Making very small stars on Earth:  The quest to achieve thermo-nuclear burn at the National Ignition Facility

Friday, October 12, 3:30 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Ron J. Smith, '72, Board of Trustees, Gettysburg College, IDT, Arcsoft, RagingWire, SIA 
        A Physicist's Career in the Semiconductor Industry
        Friday, September 21, 4:30 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Arthur C. Aikin, '54, Institute for Astrophysics & Computational Physics, Catholic University
        Man and the Atmosphere
        Friday, September 28, 3:30 p.m., Mara Auditorium (Masters 110)

Keep posted: more to follow - come find out what physics and astronomy are all about!!

 

 

**[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.