• Junior Meeting

    April 28 (Wednesday) 3:10-4:20pm, Olin 02

    The department would like to meet with all juniors to discus”next year and beyond”.  Items on the agenda are comps and beginning to think about careers, grad school, etc.  Refreshments will be served.

  • Women in Math and Science Panel Discussion

    April 29 (Thursday) 7pm, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

    Geri Redmond, Professor of Chemistry at  the University of Oregon, along with Professors Mary Savina and Amy Csizmar Dalal will lead discussion on issues facing women today in math and science careers.  Everyone is invited to attend and refreshments will be provided.

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    Physics & Astronomy Spring Picnic

    Mark your calendars.  The date of the spring picnic has been set for Friday, May 21 at the Hill of Oaks.  Juniors willing to help with the picnic are needed.  Please email Mary (mdrew) if you are willing to help.  RSVP for the picnic at https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/physics/events/picnic_rsvp/ by May 14.

  • Physics Table with Deborah Salon

    April 30 (Friday) noon-1-pm, LDC/’51 Dining Room
    Join PHYS 123 speaker Deborah Salon, physics students, faculty and staff for lunch at the LDC.  You can meet us on third Olin for the short walk over or you can meet us there.

  • PHYS 123 Speaker Deborah Salon

    April 30 (Friday) 1:10-2:10pm, LDC104

    Deborah Salon from the Carleton Class of 1994 will talk about “Cities, Cars, and Climate Change”. The focus of climate policy – especially as portrayed in the media – has been on the big international treaty negotiations, the most recent of which took place in Copenhagen last December. But much of the real action to reduce the human carbon “footprint” happens at the individual level when people make decisions about their energy use such as how much living space they need, where to live, and both how and how much to travel. In this talk, Deborah will highlight what is known (and NOT known!) about the climate impacts of our individual decisions, and discuss how policymakers at many levels of government are struggling to craft policy to encourage us all to reduce our personal carbon footprints. Along the way, she’ll also talk about her personal journey from studying physics at Carleton (and doing her comps project on the physics of the car!) to becoming an urban and environmental economist.

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