Week |
Date |
Name of Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title/Topic |
Comments/Host |
1 |
3-Sep-2008 |
STUDENTS RETURNING |
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2 |
10-Sep-2008 |
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3
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17-Sep-2008 |
Dr. Glen Wurden |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Free-floating Atmospheric Ball Plasmas |
Stewart Zweben |
4 |
24-Sep-2008 |
Professor Jerry Woodall |
Purdue University |
Solid Aluminum Alloys: A High Energy Density Material for Safe Energy Storage, Transport and Splitting Water to Make Hydrogen on Demand |
Larry Dudek |
5 |
1-Oct-2008 |
Professor Adam Maloof |
Princeton University |
Rock Magnetic Evidence for Rapid Motion of the Solid Earth With Respect to its Spin Axis |
Stewart Zweben |
6 |
6-Oct-2008 |
Professor Thomas Klinger |
IPP Greifswald, Germany |
Steady-State Operation of Fusion Plasmas-The Stellarator Project Wendelstein 7-X |
Stewart Zweben |
7 |
15-Oct-2008 |
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8 |
22-Oct-2008 |
Professor Robert Park (10/21/08) |
University of Maryland |
Superstition in the Age of Science |
Stewart Zweben |
9 |
29-Oct-2008 |
John Grant |
Smithsonian Institution |
Mars Exploration Rovers: Still Driving on Mars |
Neil Pomphrey |
10 |
5-Nov-2008 |
Professor Hassan Aref |
Virginia Tech |
TBA |
Neil Pomphrey |
11 |
12-Nov-2008 |
APS-DPP Meeting, November 17-21, 2008, Dallas, TX | |||
12 |
19-Nov-2008 |
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13 |
26-Nov-2008 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
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14 |
3-Dec-2008 |
Professor Bonnie Bassler |
Princeton University |
Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria |
Neil Pomphrey |
15
|
10-Dec-2008 |
Dr. David Campbell |
ITER |
ITER: Design Evolution towards Burning Plasma Experiments |
Stewart Zweben |
16 |
17-Dec-2008 |
Professor Allen Boozer | Princeton University | TBA | Neil Pomphrey |
17 |
24-Dec-2008 |
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY HOLIDAYS | |||
18 |
31-Dec-2008 |
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19 |
7-Jan-2009 |
Professor Steve Cowley |
UKAEA Culham |
The Fusion Program at Culham |
Stewart Zweben |
20 |
14-Jan-2009 |
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21 |
21-Jan-2009 |
Professor Alain Goriely |
University of Arizona |
TBA |
Neil Pomphrey |
22 |
28-Jan-2009 |
Professor Earl Scime | West Virginia University | Magnetospheric Imaging in Neutral Atoms | Stewart Zweben |
23 |
4-Feb-2009 |
Professor Charles Seife |
New York University |
Fusion, the Public, and the Press |
Stewart Zweben |
24 |
11-Feb-2009 |
Professor Freeman Dyson |
Institute for Advanced Study |
Can a Single Graviton be Observed? |
Stewart Zweben |
25 |
18-Feb-2009 |
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26
|
25-Feb-2009 |
Professor Jacopo Buongiorno |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Nuclear Renaissance in the U.S. |
Neil Pomphrey |
27 |
4-Mar-2009 |
John Perkins |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
ICF, NIF and the Path to Inertial Fusion Energy |
Neil Pomphrey |
28 |
11-Mar-2009 |
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29 |
18-Mar-2009 |
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30 |
25-Mar-2009 |
Professor Eric Blackman |
University of Rochester |
TBA |
Stewart Zweben |
31 |
1-Apr-2009 |
Dr. Dale Meade |
PPPL |
Highlights of 50 Years of Fusion Research |
Stewart Zweben |
32
|
8-Apr-2009 |
Adam Grosser |
Foundation Capital, Inc. |
The Role of Venture Capital in Commercializing Energy-Related Technologies |
Stewart Zweben |
33 |
15-Apr-2009 |
Professor Sabine Kastner |
Princeton University |
TBA |
Neil Pomphrey |
34 |
22-Apr-2009 |
Professor Robert Kaufmann |
Boston University |
Oil and the American Way of Life: Exploring Political Myths |
Larry Dudek |
35 |
29-Apr-2009 |
Sherwood Conference, Dallas, TX, May 2-5, 2009 | |||
36 |
6-May-2009 |
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37 |
13-May-2009 |
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38 |
20-May-2009 |
Professor Adam Burrows |
Princeton University |
The Multi-Dimensional Mechanisms of Supernova Explosions |
Neil Pomphrey |
39 |
27-May-2009 |
Professor Michael Tuts |
Columbia University |
The ATLAS Experiment at LHC: First Data |
Stewart Zweben |
40 |
3-Jun-2009 |
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41 |
10-Jun-2009 |
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