Physics & Astronomy

Discussions from Winter 2002 to Fall '05 (in reverse chronological order)

    Fall 2005

• Dec.6: with Arden POPE (BYU, Economics)
• Nov.29: Exploring Complexity: chapter four, visualizing special relativity
• Nov 15: Visualizing Special relativity with Lucretia Thayne
• Nov.8: Exploring Complexity chapter three
• Nov.1: Exploring Complexity: chapter three
• Oct 25: Exploring Complexity: chapter two
• Oct 18: Theory web pages suggestions
• Oct.11: Student Four Corners and Homecoming presentations
• Oct 4: Exploring Complexity: chapter one
• Sept.28: Bohr molecules (VAN HUELE)
• Sept.21: Does Gravity define Reality? (MILLWARD)
• Sept.14: "First" fall Meeting
• Sept.7: Flavons and Lepton Masses (with Jason EVANS, U of Michigan)

    Winter 2005

• May 31: The Relativistic Coulomb Problem for arbitrary half integer spin particles with A. Nikitin (NatAcadSc, Ukraine)
• Apr.13  Neutral particles in Saturn's magnetosphere with Phil Mattheson (UVSC).
• Apr.5    Book Discussion: "How the Universe got its spots" by Jana LEVIN.
• Mar.29:  Our New Planetarium show with JWard MOODY (Astronomy, BYU)
• Mar.22   Casimir forces and a would be sextant with John ELLSWORTH (Physics, BYU)
• Mar 17:  Numerical Stability for finite difference approximations to Einstein's equations with Gioel CALABRESE (U of Southampton)
• Mar.15   Spring Research Conference student presentations
• Mar.8     Two-timing Relativity (MILLWARD).
• Mar.1     How to survive the End of the Universe (M. Kaku in Discover).
• Feb.15    Differential Forms and Linearizing Differential equations (HARRISON)
• Feb.8      Waves, instabilities and fluid flow with Ross SPENCER (Physics, BYU)
• Feb. 1     Clifford Algebras, part II (BERRONDO)
• Jan. 25    Clifford Algebras, part I (BERRONDO)
• Jan.18     Wormholes: past, present, and past again? (MILLWARD).
• Jan.11     First meeting for Winter '05

  Fall 2004

• Dec.7: with Arden POPE (BYU, Economics)
• Nov.30: Book Discussion: "Sync" by Steven STROGATZ
• Nov 16: Analytic Studies of critical Gravitational Collapse (HARRISON)
• Nov.9: Pulsars, Ethics, Einstein, WYP2005 in the Four Corners (VAN HUELE)
• Nov.2: A Black Hole ate my homework (NEILSEN)
• Oct.26: Fish that can sync or swim with Al TRIPP
• Oct.21: Quantum interference with entangled photons with David NIEMI and Michael WARE (Physics, BYU)
• Oct.5: A historical background of the cosmological anthropic principle (MILLWARD)
• Sept.28: The EPR papers (part two)
• Sept.21: Black Hole Excision with Gioel CALABRESE (Southampton)
• Sept.14: The EPR paper (part one)
• Sept.7: First Fall Meeting

    Winter 2004

• Apr.13  The Huyghens Principle (BERRONDO).
• Apr.6    Book Discussion: "Nine Crazy Ideas" by Robert Ehrlich.
• Mar.30  Massively-parallel linear-scaling algorithms for electronic structure methods  with James LEWIS, BYU.
• Mar.23   Modelling of biological molecules with David BUSATH, BYU
• Mar.16   Spring Research Conference Preview with students
• Mar.9     The neutron prism with Branton CAMPBELL, BYU.
• Mar.2     Commutator Algorithms with Mark TRANSTRUM, BYU.
• Feb.24     The Stern-Gerlach Problem with Herman BATELAAN, UNL.
• Feb.10     Reconstructive Phase transitions with Harold STOKES, BYU.
• Feb. 3     Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics (VAN HUELE)
• Jan. 27     Cl;assical and quantum electrons in traps with Jason EVANS (BYU)
• Jan.20     Book selection and NG's Quantum foam (VAN HUELE).
• Jan.13     First meeting for Winter '04

  Fall 2003

• Dec.9 Statistical Mechanics of Hard Spheres  with Randy SHIRTS (BYU)
• Dec.2 Book Discussion: "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" by Lee Smolin
• Nov.18 Clifford Algebras in Physics with William BAYLIS (U Windsor)
• Nov 11: (Chad JUNKERMEIER)
• Nov.4: Specific Heat & Phonon Spectrum Inversion with Tom BUTLER (BYU)
• Oct.28: Four Corners Meeting Report (VAN HUELE)
• Oct.21: Semi-classical study of electron blurring (D.JAMES)
• Oct.14: Research Night Preparation
• Oct.7: Quantum Information with Charlene AHN (CALTECH)
• Sept.30: Distorted Oscillators (BERRONDO)
• Sept.23: Quantized Space-Time according to Hartland SNYDER
• Sept.16: Book and Papers Selection
• Sept.9: First Fall Meeting

        Winter 2003

• Apr.25 An analytic approach to critical gravitational collapse (HARRISON)
• Apr.8  Book Discussion: "In search of the ultimate building blocks" by Gerard 't Hooft
• Mar.25 Deterministic and stochastic oscillations of a flexible cylinder array of static tubes with Peter Plaschko (UNAM, Iztapalapa)
• Mar.18 The Casimir effect and other quantum field theoretic aspects of the cosmological constant (BERRONDO, VAN HUELE)
• Mar.11 The cosmological constant and gravity (HARRISON, HIRSCHMANN)
• Mar.4 SRC Preview with Michael Christenson, Jay Call, Jared Stenson, Jason Evans, and James Daniel
• Feb.25 Trapped-particle asymmetriy modes in Malmberg-Penning traps with Grant Mason (BYU)
• Feb.11 Gravitational collapse on braneworlds: Crazy in the head? (HIRSCHMANN)
• Feb.4  The quantum vacuum and the cosmological constant (BERRONDO, VAN HUELE)
• Jan. 28 The quantum vacuum and the cosmological constant (BERRONDO, VAN HUELE)
• Jan. 21 Directions in astronomy for the next decade: living with the LSST with J.Ward Moody (BYU)
• January 14 First meeting for Winter '03

  Fall 2002

• Dec.10 Measuring the time variation of the fine structure constant with Scott Bergeson (BYU) and Dallin Durfee (BYU)
• Dec.3 Book Discussion: "The Runaway Universe" by Donald Goldsmith
• Nov.19 Discussion of  astro-ph/9803165 (Webb et al.)
• Nov.12 The fine structure constant (wrap-up) (VAN HUELE)
• Nov.5 The fine structure constant (the sequel) (VAN HUELE)
• Oct.29 An informal discussion with Allan Franklin (U Colorado)
• Oct.22 The fine structure constant (VAN HUELE)
• Oct.15 Periodic orbits of N-body problems in celestial mechanics and computer simulation with Tiancheng Ouyang (BYU)
• Oct.8 Deviations from the Boltzmann distribution for small isolated classical systems: new results for hard sphere systems with Randy Shirts (BYU)
• Oct.1 Four Corners Meeting Preview with Steven Millward and Chad Junkermeier
• Sep.26 Reversible and irreversible processes in dispersive/dissipative media: electromagnetic free energy and heat production with Scott Glasgow (BYU)
• Sep.17 with Justin Peatross (BYU)
• Sep.10 first meeting for Fall '02

  Winter 2002

• Apr.16 Carbon nanotubes with Robert Davis (BYU)
• Apr.9 Book Discussion :" Do neutrinos really exist? by Allan Franklin
• Apr.2 Some Current Acoustics Research in the Physics Dept. with Tim Leishman (BYU)
• Mar.19 Fast High Order Techniques for Numerical Solution of the Helmholtz Equation with Steven Turley (BYU)
• Jan.29 Visit with Branton Campbell (BYU)
• Jan. 15 Aspects of axissymmetric gravitational collapse (HIRSCHMANN)

  
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