This web page contains the Department of Physics and Astronomy Seminar Schedule and contains useful information for the students at ETSU taking the PHYS-4850 Physics Seminar course. During the Spring 2015 semester, Dr. Donald Luttermoser will serve as the Seminar Coordinator and Instructor for PHYS-4850. Links have been set up presenting the abstract for each talk and various documents to help students create scientific-style presentations. All of the files listed on this site are in PDF (Portable Document Format). Should your web browser not be able to display PDF files, one can download Acrobat Reader to view these files.
Physics Seminar as a course is designed to introduce Physics majors to professional-style scientific talks and to teach students how to prepare and present such a talk (see the document associated with the "Presentations Overview" link below). Students taking this course are required to attend every lecture presented at the seminar. In addition, each student will be required to make a presentation of their own, either on independent research they have carried out or on some scientific topic of interest in physics or astronomy. Course grades will be based upon attendance and the quality of the student's presentation.
The Spring 2015 Physics and Astronomy Seminars will be held on Mondays at 4 p.m. in Brown Hall 265 with refreshments at 3:50 p.m.
Jan 26 | Course Instructor | Introductory Remarks |
Feb 2 | Ms. Jennifer McCown (Cengage Learning) | Enhanced WebAssign |
Feb 9 | At Home Assignment | Presentations Overview |
Feb 16 | Snow Day | Cancelled |
Feb 23 | Dr. Beverly Smith (ETSU) | The PhysTec Program |
Mar 2 | Open Date | No Seminar |
Mar 9 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
Mar 16 | Manisha Shrestha (Univ. of Denver) | Polarization Signatures of Stellar Bow Shocks |
Mar 23 | Free Day | No Seminar |
Mar 30 | Dr. Don Luttermoser (ETSU) | Sample Presentation |
Apr 6 | Dr. Mark Giroux (ETSU) | Constraining the
Metagalactic Ionizing Background |
Apr 13 | Joseph T. McNeil (ETSU) | TBA |
Apr 20 | Open Date | No Seminar |
Apr 27 | Last Week of Classes | No Seminar |
For additional information about the Spring 2015 Seminar schedule, contact the seminar coordinator Dr. Don Luttermoser at lutter@etsu.edu or (423)-439-7064. .