Events at Physics |
Events During the Week of November 21st through November 27th, 2010
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- How Drifting Continents Jumped From Fringe to Core
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Jim Blair, Milton College, Emeritus
- Abstract: How Continental Drift became Plate Tectonics and was elevated from a fringe idea in the company of Atlantis, ancient aliens & flying saucers, to become the Fundamental Core of Geology in the company of Evolution, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and the Big Bang.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
How I celebrated the Paradigm Shift.
How Uniformitarianism was ambushed by an asteroid and Punctuated Equilibrium. Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
- No events scheduled
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
- Thanksgiving Break
- Time: 8:00 am
Friday, November 26th, 2010
- Thanksgiving Break
- Time: 8:00 am
- UW Furlough Day
- Time: 8:00 am
- Physics Department Colloquium
- No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Break
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: none
- Speaker: none, none
- Host: Department