Seminars in Chemistry and Physics

Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule

Departmental seminars are free of charge and open to the public. All seminars will be held in Glaske C101 (Berry Auditorium) from 11:00 to 11:50 a.m. unless otherwise stated.

Lunch with the speaker usually follows the seminar.  Those interested in joining the lunch discussion should contact Gary DeBoer .

August 

25  Multiscale coupling and hybrid algorithm at nanometer scale
Song Yu, Department of Physics, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

September 

1 Project ICARUS: A 21st Century Interstellar Starship Study
Richard K. Obousy, Project ICARUS Study Group, Longview, TX

8  CANCELLED.
David Jayaker MD, Director of Cardiac Surgery - Diagnostic Clinic of Longview, TX 

20  Mathematica 8 Up Close and Personal at LeTourneau University. (Room C103)
Sean McDaniel, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign, IL

22  Forbidden chemistry of sulfur in the gas phase.
Paul Marshall, Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

29  A Summer at RMBL: .Studying Rodents in the Rockies
Bethany Baas, Department of Biology, LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

October 

6 WHEELS

13 Radiation and cancer treatment - the latest and greatest
Levin, UTHC, Tyler, TX

20  The Dirty Truth: Soil, Water and my Graduate Experience in Texas
Cara Harclerode, LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

November 

3 Investigating the Microbial Community Resident in Yellowstone National Park Hot Spring
Laurey Steinke, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

10  Meningococcal Disease Outbreak in an Elementary School, Oklahoma, 2010
Jeannie Williams, MPH, CPH, Oklahoma State Department of Health

17  What Did We Learn from the Large Hadron Collider?
Kenichi Hatakeyama, Department of Physics, Baylor University, Waco, TX

 December 

1  Gene to Jet 
Andree Elliott, Department of Biology, LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

Any questions or comments regarding the seminar schedule can be directed to Gary DeBoer 

Opinions expressed by the speakers at seminar are their own and should not be taken as official positions of LeTourneau University