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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 11/21/09 | Sparks and Wiggles | Speaker: Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.
- SMP 11/14/09 | The Science of Music | Speaker: Jim Allen
- SMP 11/7/09 | Dynamics of Spinning, Rolling, and Skating | Speaker: Tony Bloch
- SMP 10/31/09 | Light of The Living Dead: The Remarkable Radiation from Neutron Stars | Speaker: Keith Riles
- SMP 10/24/09 | Protein, Fat, or Politics? Big-Game Hunting in Human Evolution | Speaker: John D. Speth
- SMP 10/17/09 | The Museum of Zoology: A Priceless Collection of Life | Speaker: William Fink
- SMP 10/10/09 | How Fast is Evolution? | Speaker: Phillip Gingerich
- SMP 10/3/09 | Mirrors, Anti-Matter, & the Left-Handed World | Speaker: Dan Amidei
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Saturday, November 21, 2009
12:00 AM
170 & 182 Dennison Building
Speaker: Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Physics (Kenyon College)
Professor Thomas Greenslade has made a career of examining the beautiful apparatus that our scientific ancestors used to study physics. He will talk about the apparatus used to demonstrate the phenomena of Electrostatics ("Sparks") and Oscillations and Waves ("Wiggles") in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The path from shocking and illuminating discoveries to modern physics will be explored, and he will look at a connection between physics and art.