Seminars

Spring 2013 Physics Seminars

• "Religion and Science in Modern America"
  Dr. Edward Davis, Professor of the History of Science, Messiah College.
  Friday, February 1st, 2013
• "Science, Faith and the Meaning of Life"
  Dr. Alister McGrath, Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture King’s College, London.
  Thursday, March 21, 2013.
• "Assessing Assumptions in Premixed Turbulent Combustion?"
  Brock Bobbit, Dept. of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology.
  Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

Fall 2012 Physics Seminars

• "The Discovery of the Higgs Boson: Does it Really Matter?"
  Dr. Mike Strauss, Physics Department, University of Olklahoma.
  Tuesday September 11, 2012
• "The Curiousity Rover on Mars"
  Dr. Roger Wiens, NASA/Jet Propolusion Laboratory/Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Monday, September 24th, 2012

Spring 2012 Physics Seminars

• "Teaching High School Physics?"
  Ryan Hall, Physics Teacher, Palatine High School
  Tuesday January 24, 2012
• "Self-organized Interlocking Complexity in Biology and Economics"
  Science Center Lecture Hall
  Dr. Loren Haarsma, Associate Professor  Physics/Astronomy Department, Calvin College.
  Thursday, February 16th, 2012
   4:15pm-5:15pm
• "False Dilemmas: Scientific Explanations and Divine Action
  in the Origins and Evolution of Life "
  Wheaton College Natural Sciences Department & Wheaton-Naperville Chapter of the American Scientific Affiliation
  Science Center Lecture Hall
  Dr. Loren Haarsma, Associate Professor  Physics/Astronomy Department, Calvin College.
  Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
  7:00pm

Fall 2011 Physics Seminars

• "Is God Extinct?" 
  Wheaton College Natural Sciences Department & Wheaton-Naperville Chapter of the American Scientific Affiliation
  Wheaton College
  Monday October 3, 2011
• "Monte Carlo Dose Calculations in Radiation Therapy"
  Reese Haywood, Ph.D., Mercy Health Partners, Johnson Family Center for Cancer Care
  Wednesday October 5, 2011
• "Student Research Symposium"
  Wheaton College Natural Sciences
  Wheaton College
  Thursday October 6, 2011
• "Extreme Makeover: Vascular Edition"
  Kevin W. Cassel, Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, IIT Chicago, IL
  Thursday October 20, 2011
• "Engineering Panel"
  Drew Bassi, Mary Freestone, Jeff Oslund, Jeff Oke, Josh Dortzbach
  Tuesday November 1, 2011, 7:00pm
• "Does Physical Cosmology Confirm Theistic Belief?"
  Hans Halvorson, Princeton University
  Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 7:00pm
• “The Challenge of First Wall Materials in Spherical Torus Magnetic Confinement Fusion”
  Bob Kaita, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
  Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:30pm

 Spring 2011 Physics Seminars

• “Overcoming Limitations: Narrowband Imaging in Light Polluted Skies”  
  William Suriano
  Wednesday February 2, 2011
• “Top Three Things Everyone Should Know About the Universe”
  Dr. Kim Coble, Lewis University
  Wednesday March 30, 2011
• “Emergence & Complexity: Science Versus the Manifest Image of the Soul”
  Dr. Michael Silberstein, Elizabethtown College
  Monday April 4, 2011
• “Science and the Question of God”
  Dr. Randy Isaac, Executive Director American Scientific Affiliation
  Thursday April 7, 2011
• “Physics and Thermodynamics of Information”
  Dr. Randy Isaac, Executive Director American Scientific Affiliation
  Thursday April 7, 2011 
• “Confining and Understanding a High Temperature Plasma”
  D.J. Den Hartog, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Tuesday April 12, 2011
• “The Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Crisis: Scientific, Cultural, and Spiritual Perspectives"
  Japan Symposium (Download: Part 1, Part 2) (Watch)
  Wheaton College
  Monday April 18, 2011
• “Solid State Nanospheres as Nanoscale Detectors”
  Dr. David P. Hoogerheide, Harvard University
  Wednesday April 27, 2011 
• “Life as an Apprentice Physicist & Ping Pong at the Edge of the Solar System”
  Joel Dahlin, Wheaton College '10
  Tuesday May 22, 2011