Fridays at 3:45 in the Globe Room, Elvey Building (check the room on the abstracts below as some may be moved)
Titles and abstracts tend to show up the week of the talk so check back if they are missing.
| Date |
Name - Affiliation |
Title |
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| Jan. 16 |
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Caltech |
The Physics of Snowflakes:
A Close Look at the Real Origins of Pattern |
| Jan. 23 | David Newman, Physics Dept and GI, UAF | The Northeast Blackout
of August 2003: The Anatomy of a Cascading Failure (Why the Official Post-mortem Misses Important Dynamics) (PDF version) |
| Jan. 30 | No Speaker | No Speaker |
| Feb. 6 |
Ryan Woodard, Physics Dept and GI, UAF |
Distinguishing Characteristics of SOC-like Systems as Related to the Sun-Earth System (PDF version) |
| Feb. 13 |
No Speaker |
No Speaker |
| Feb. 20 |
Kate Hedstrom, ARSC, UAF |
Ocean Modeling: the Gulf of Alaska and Simpler Problems (PDF version) |
| Feb. 27 |
No Speaker |
No Speaker |
| March 5 |
No Speaker |
No Speaker |
| March 12 | Don Hampton, Ball Aerospace Corp. | The NASA Deep Impact Mission (PDF version) |
| March 19 |
No Speaker this week |
Spring Break |
| March 26 |
John Hughes, Geophysical Institute,
UAF |
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| April 2 |
No Speaker this week |
No Speaker this week |
| April 9 |
No Speaker this week |
No Speaker this week |
| April 16 |
No Speaker this week |
No Speaker this week |
| April 23 |
John Walsh, President's Professor for Global Climate Change, IARC, UAF |
Arctic Climate:
Changes in Means and Extremes (PDF version) |
| April 30 |
TBD |
TBD |
| May 7 |
TBD |
TBD |
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Last updated 31 August, 2004