Fall 2020 Physics Seminars
Supported by the Eddy and April Lucas Fund. Talks are open to all for free.
Wednesdays 2:00 to 3:00 PM
Seminars this Fall semester will be online through Zoom.
The meeting id is with passcode 128.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept. | Prof. Roland Winston, UC Merced, CA | Searching for a Better Way to Concentrate Light | --- | |
| 9 Sept. | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16 Sept. | Prof. Phillip Lubin, UC Santa Barbara | Directed Energy Propulsion to the Nearest Stars, the Starshot Project | --- | --- |
| 23 Sept. | Dr. Thayne Currie, NASA Ames, Subaru Telescope Project, Sunnyvail, CA | Directly Imaging Extrasolar Planets with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Project | --- | |
| 30 Sept. | Lynn Buchele, 性色视频 | Summer Fellowship Talk, Title TBD | --- | |
| 7 Oct. | Dr. Gerarld Jackson, CSO H-bar Technologies LLC and NASA Fellow | Antimatter-Based Propulsion Enabling Orbital Insertion Around Proxima Centauri | --- | |
| 14 Oct. | Dr. Mario Perez, NASA HQ, Washington, DC | NASA Observational Astrophysics Program | --- | |
| 21 Oct. | Dr. Slava Turyshev, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA | High Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets with the Sun's Gravitational Focus | --- | |
| 28 Oct. | --- | canceled | --- | --- |
| 4 Nov. | Francesco Brizioli, University of Perugia and INFN, Italy | Measurement of the Positive Kaon Branching Fraction into Pion, Neutrino, and Anti-neutrino with the NA62 Experiment at CERN SPS | ||
| 11 Nov. | Prof. Don Lamb, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany | Using Fluorescence to Unravel the Secrets of Life | --- | not available |
| 18 Nov. | Prof. Greg Pawloski, University of Minnesota | Physics with the DUNE Experiment at Fermilab and South Dakota | --- | |
| 2 Dec. | Dr. Abigail Rymer, Research Scientist APL, John Hopkins University, MD | The Neptune Odyssey Future Spacecraft Program | --- |