2008 - 2009 Seminars

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Friday         Sept. 5, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Kailash Sahu Space Telescope Science Institute " Worlds in Transit"
Friday         Sept. 19, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 James Overduin Johns Hopkins University

Towson University
Part-time Faculty
"Gravity Probe B"
Friday         Oct. 3,  2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Gary White American Institute of Physics "Secret Lives of Physicists"
Friday         Oct. 17, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Jeremy Robinson Towson Alumnus -

Naval Research Labs
"Graphene for Electronic and Nanomechanical Applications"
Friday         Oct. 24, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Phuoc Ha Towson University "Symmetry Breaking"
Friday         Nov. 7, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Martin Schmidt McDonogh School "A Sampling of Geoscience Education Methods"
Friday         Nov. 21, 2008 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Bonnie Souter Johns Hopkins University

Towson University
Part-time Faculty
"Extreme Geology: Exploring the Roots of an Ancient Volcano in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica"
Friday         April 3, 2009 12:00 Noon   SM 420 Dr. Steve Fifield

Dr. Pamela Lottero-Perdue
University of Delaware



Towson University
"Multiple Meanings and Practices of Faculty-to-Faculty Mentoring in the Sciences and Beyond"

Friday, April 17th
12:00 Noon
SM 420

Dr. David Vanko Towson University “Hydrothermal alteration following the Chesapeake Bay Meteorite Impact: Evidence for boiling hot springs on the ocean floor”
Friday, May 1st
12:00 Noon
SM 420
Dr. Henry Chen Towson University “Some lessons learned from colleagues and students in 44 years at Towson University”

Friday, September 11th
12:00 pm
SM 556

Bharat Rawal Towson University

“Lower Inertia Magnetometer”

Friday, September 25th
12:00  Noon
SM 556

Dr. Vera Smolyaninova Towson University Sabbatical Talk: Photonic Materials and Optical Cloaking

Friday, October 2nd
12:00 pm,
SM 556   

Dr. German Mora

Montgomery College

Application of the Scientific Method in Paleoclimate and Geoscience Education Research

Friday, November 6th  
Talk – 12:00 pm, SM 556
Light Refreshments - 11:30 am, SM 446

Dr. Phuoc Ha Towson University

“Do Right-Handed Neutrinos Exist?”

Friday, November 20th   Talk – 12:00 pm, SM 556
Light Refreshments - 11:30 am, SM 446

Dr. Paola Barbara

Georgetown University

Carbon Nanotube Detectors