Radiations

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Carleton College

OCTOBER 23-29, 2005

October 24 (Monday) Ray Bunkofske from Intel will meet with interested students in Olin 202 to discuss careers in engineering.

October 25 (Tuesday) Andrew Noble Carleton Alum and graduate student at Cornell University will give a talk over lunch noon-1:00 pm in Olin 04.

The title of Andrew’s talk is Looking into Atoms

Abstract: We now have microscopes powerful enough to resolve individual atoms. But what lies further in? What are the fundamental building blocks of the universe? And whatever they are, how do they interact with each other? High-energy particle physics wrestles with these questions. We've discovered a remarkable amount, and we're about to find out more from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. I want to talk about the interplay of theory and experiment at colliders as well as the exciting new collaboration between particle physics and cosmology. In the course of hitting on a lot of big ideas, I'll talk about my own research that lies at the interface of theory and experiment. Students who have completed Atomic and Nuclear should be well equipped for a little dabbling in special relativity and quantum mechanics, but I hope to provide a discussion of fun facts and ideas accessible even to non-majors.

October 27 (Thursday) Physics Table, 12:00-1:00 pm, LDC 113

Plan to have lunch with physics students and staff at the LDC at noon. We can meet on 3^rd Olin at 11:55 for the short walk to the dining hall or you can meet us there. All are welcome.

FYI:

The physics department has been going through their books and found that they have many duplicate copies. To make better use of these valuable books we have decided to hold THE GREAT BOOK GIVEAWAY. We will be offering these books FREE to students on Tuesday November 1 during common time 12:00-1:00pm in the second Olin lounge.

November 2 Kassie Wells will give a student research presentation 3:10-3:40 pm in Olin 02.

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