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: Colloquium Home Fall 2008 Schedule Welcome (8/29)All Neils Picnic (9/5)Spectroscopy of Dying Stars (9/12)Adelberger Public Lecture Short-Distance Gravity and Hidden Dimensions (9/19)Student Summer Research I (9/26)Imaging the Surface of Stars (10/3)Preparation of Future Physics Teachers (10/10)Student Summer Research II (10/31)Partial-Wave Analysis of Antikaon-Nucleon Scattering (11/7)The Solar Thermal Electrolysis Project (11/14)Senior Projects I (12/5)Senior Projects II (12/12)

Fall 2008 Colloquium Schedule

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION AND TOPIC
8/29/08	Dr. Stan Zygmunt	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy "Welcome!”
9/05/08	---------------	Neils Science Center Fall Picnic Picnic information
9/12/08	Dr.Bruce Hrivnak	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Spectroscopy of Dying Stars"
9/18/08 (Thursday)	Dr. Eric Adelberger Kress Lecture, 6:30 pm Neils 234	University of Washington, Department of Physics “Testing Einstein’s Happiest Idea By Watching Things Fall Sideways”
9/19/08	Dr. Eric Adelberger	University of Washington, Department of Physics “Extra Dimensions and Short-Distance Gravity”
9/26/08	Dan Brandt, Ansel Hillmer	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy "Summer Undergraduate Research”
10/03/08	Dr. John Monnier	University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy “Imaging the Surface of Stars Beyond the Sun”
10/10/08	Dr. David Grosnick '77 Homecoming Colloquium	Ball State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy "What is PhysTEC? The Preparation of Future Physics Teachers"
10/17/08	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --President Heckler’s Inauguration (2:15 pm)
10/24/08	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Fall Recess from Classes
10/31/08	Megan Kania, Tim Olson, Nate Kellams	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy "Summer Undergraduate Research”
11/07/08	Dr. Mark Manley	Kent State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy "Multichannel Partial-Wave Analysis of Antikaon-Nucleon Scattering"
11/14/08	Dr. Robert Palumbo	Valparaiso University, Department of Mechanical Engineering “The Solar Thermal Electrolysis Project (STEP): An Introduction and Status Report”
11/21/08	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Thanksgiving Recess from Classes
11/28/08	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Thanksgiving Recess from Classes
12/05/08	Ansel Hillmer, Dan Trubey, Ryan McGuire, Chris Wagner	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Senior Research Projects”
12/12/08	Callista Steele, Erin Lueck, Andy Piccirilli	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Senior Research Projects”