Refreshments follow talk. Leave replacement candidate Jennifer Birriel will give a talk on her astrophysics research. Refreshments follow talk. Join the department and 123 speaker Becky Roy for lunch and good company at Physics Table. Leave replacement candidate Ignacio Birriel will give a talk on his research in experimental nuclear physics.
Refreshments follow talk.
As a Program Director Dr. McBride manages grant programs that give money to projects for developing undergraduate courses and labs, and handles proposals to these programs in physics and astronomy. Dr. McBride talks with physics faculty about their good ideas, they write proposals to NSF, he manage peer review of the proposals, and makes decisions about which proposals receive money within the budget available. In addition, Dr. McBride spent last year in the laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, using a scanning probe microscope to look at detailed electronic structure in computer microprocessor and memory chips. The technique is conceptually simple and technologically elegant, and it also produces some striking pictures. He will discuss the technique and show some of the measurements.