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| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic | |
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| Oct 2 | 2:00 | Catalina Ocampo | Multiple dimensions | |
| Oct 23 | 2:00 | |||
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| Oct 30 | 2:00 | |||
| 2:25 | Heather Thompson | Creation (as it pertains to religions) | ||
| 3:00 | ||||
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| Nov 6 | 2:00 | |||
| 2:25 | ||||
| 3:00 | ||||
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| Nov 13 | 2:00 | Brennan Gilmore | Big Bang fallacies and alternatives | |
| --- | and Joe Hammond | |||
| 3:00 | ||||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Nov 20 | 2:00 | |||
| 2:25 | ||||
| 3:00 | David Morse | Antimatter | ||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Dec 4 | 2:00 | |||
| 2:25 | Suzanne Lion | The year 2000 | ||
| 3:00 | Jon Chananie | Dark Matter | ||
| 3:25 | Adam Lackey | Singularities | ||
| Dec 11 | 2:00 | Brevy Cannon | Strings | |
| 2:25 | Roland Lusk | Powers of ten | ||
| 3:00 | Sarah Lebeck | Ultimate fate of the universe | ||
| 3:25 | ||||
Class presentations can be given individually or jointly as a team. An
individual presentation should last 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions.
It should be accompanied by a written outline that fits on one or two printed
pages, plus references on a separate page. A team presentation by two students
should last 40 minutes, and so on.
(A term paper can replace a class presentation.)
| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24 | 2:00 | Erin McCool | Neutrinos as "missing" mass | |
| 2:25 | ||||
| 3:00 | ||||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Oct 31 | 2:00 | Charleen Buttner | Cosmic rays (part 1) | |
| Nafis Zebarjadi | Cosmic rays (part 2) | |||
| 3:00 | ||||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Nov 7 | 2:00 | Matthew Knight | Hubble's life | |
| 2:25 | Andrew Simon | Chinese cosmology | ||
| 3:00 | Amanda Douberley | Mayan cosmology | ||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Nov 14 | 2:00 | |||
| 2:25 | Eric Wasserman | Mars: life(?), terrain, history, myths | ||
| 3:00 | Alison McCombe | Origin of life | ||
| 3:25 | Adam Possner | Human side of Einstein | ||
| Nov 21 | 2:00 | Martha Yencha | Black holes (part 1) | |
| Heather Leitzke | Black holes (part 2) | |||
| 3:00 | Jason Lepp | Dark Matter | ||
| 3:25 | ||||
| Dec 5 | 2:00 | Ana Azizkhani | Indian cosmology | |
| 2:25 | Derek Johnson | |||
| 3:00 | Clark Baumbusch | Deep space travel | ||
| 3:25 | Weis Sherdel | COBE | ||
Time and place: Thursday, 2:00 -- 3:50, Room 203 Physics Bldg.
Instructor: V. Celli, Room 311D
Physics Bldg, Tel. 924-6573, vc@virginia.edu
Your comments, questions, suggestions, and inquiries about this course
are welcome.