April 20-26, 2003
Weekly Calendar
April 25, Physics Table, Friday, 12:00-1:00 p.m., LDC 113 (Fireplace Room) Join the Department staff for lunch. We can meet on 3rd Olin at 11:55 for the short walk to the dinning hall or you can join us there. This will be an opportunity to meet John Goree, P123 Speaker.
April 25, P123 - What Physicists Do, Friday, 1:10-3:10 p.m., Olin 141, "Making a plasma act like a crystal", John Goree, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa.
A dusty plasma is an ionized gas containing small particles of solid matter. These particles of dust pick up charge from the surrounding electrons and ions in the plasma. As their motion is cooled, they arrange themselves into crystalline patterns, show melting and freezing transitions, and exhibit other analogies to normal crystals. These dusty plasmas thus reveal many of the same phenomena commonly found in crystalline solids. An important difference is that here the "atoms" are micron-size particles, big enough to image with a video camera.
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2003 REU AND INTERNSHIP INFORMATION
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