Fridays at 3:45 in the Globe Room, Elvey Building (check the room on the abstracts below as some may be moved)
Note: Special lectures on the 8th and 9th of September (see abstracts for room and time)
Titles and abstracts tend to show up the week of the talk so check back if they are missing.
| Date |
Name - Affiliation |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 5 |
No Meeting this week |
No Meeting this week |
| Sept 8 | Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University | Is Quantum State Reduction an Objective Gravitational Effect? Some New Theory and Experiment (Special Physics Colloquium) |
| Sept 9 | Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University | Science and the Mind (for a general audience) |
| Sept. 12. |
John Olson, Geophysical Institute |
Infrasound Associated with the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska (in pdf format) |
| Sept. 19 |
No speaker this week |
No speaker this week |
| Sept. 26 |
Aimee W. Merkel, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Dynamical Analysis of Global Polar Mesospheric Cloud Measurements from the SNOE Spacecraft (in pdf format) |
| Oct. 3 |
Jeremy Nicoll, Technical Services Office - Alaska Satellite Facility |
An Intuitive View of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing (in pdf format) |
| Oct. 10 |
Scott Bailey, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept. |
Characteristics of Auroral Energy Deposition Discerned from Observations of Nitric Oxide in the Lower Thermosphere (in pdf format) |
| Oct.. 17 | No speaker this week | No speaker this week |
| Oct. 24 |
Martin Truffer, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept. |
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| Oct. 31 |
Bill Bristow, Geophysical Institute and EE Dept. |
On the observed variability of the cross-polar-cap potential |
| Nov. 7 |
No speaker this week |
No speaker this week |
| Nov 14 |
Peter Jenniskens, SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center |
The Leonid Meteor Storms Observed from 39,000 ft (in pdf format) |
| Nov. 21 |
Justin Carstens, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute |
Satellite observations and model predictions of Rayleigh scattered UV radiance (in pdf format) |
| Nov. 28 |
No speaker this week |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Dec. 5 |
Tom Baring, Vector Specialist, ARSC |
Supercomputing is Readily Available at UAF but: Is It Right For Me? (in PDF format) |
| Dec. 12 |
no speaker |
no speaker |
| Dec. 19 |
no speaker this week |
no speaker |
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Titles are linked to PDF and HTML versions of the Abstract.
Link to fall 2002 semesters talks
Link to spring 2002 semesters talks
Last updated 11 January, 2004