LSU Saturday Science

The Saturday Science @ LSU series of lectures is an exciting
series for high school students, school teachers, undergraduate and graduate
students and the public in the East Baton Rouge and neighboring parishes. One
Saturday, every month, we gather for a public lecture by one of the scientists
and engineers from Colleges of Science and Engineering at LSU. We invite you to join us. If you would lik

e to be added to the email list, which distributes a reminder with a description a few days before each talk, please send an email to:
[email protected]

Click here to visit the Saturday Science webpage: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/newwebsite/colloquia/saturdaysci.html

Feel free to check out the LSU Physics Department's page as well: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LSU-Department-of-Physics-and-Astronomy/301832242285


Schedule

Oct. 20
"We are all Stardust: The origin of elements in the cauldrons of the cosmos"
Catherine Deibel
LSU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Nov. 24
"Einstein's Legacy: Black holes and Gravitational waves"
Peter Diener
LSU Center for Computation and Technology (CCT)
and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Dec. 15
"The Mississippi River and Its importance to our Working Coast: Past, Present and Future"
Clinton Willon
LSU Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jan. 19
"Development of Asian Monsoon and its impact on the Rise of the Himalaya and the Early Human Civilizations"
Peter Clift
LSU Dept. of Geology and Geophysics

Feb. 16
"Nano Theater: Research Experiments with Scanning Probe Microscopy"
Jayne Garno
LSU Dept. of Chemistry

March 16
"Beyond Google: Searching for Music, DNAs and Emails"
Rahul Shah
LSU Dept. of Computer Science,
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci. April 20
"Gulf SERPENT: Partnering with industry to explore life in deep sea"
Mark Benfield
LSU Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

May 11
TBA