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Suzanne Amador Kane, associate professor and chair of physics and astronomy at Haverford College, will speak on “Good Things in Small Packages: Biologically-inspired Nanostructures” noon Thursday in Gagnon Lecture Hall, Hugel Science Center room 100.
The event is sponsored by the Physics Club, which will provide free pizza and drinks.
The general field that sets the context for Kane’s specific topic is nanotechnology, in which electronic circuits and devices are built from single atoms and molecules. Nanotechnology holds promise for the advancement of medicine and materials science. Kane will talk about new biopolymers useful for constructing nanostructures. She is using a Packard Foundation grant to study how factors such as light or pH might change the properties of these materials.
In the next Physics Club event, physics majors Tim Bragdon ’04 (Rahway, N.J.) and Mindy Saia ’04 (Turnersville, N.J.) will discuss their honors thesis projects noon Friday, Nov. 14, in Gagnon Lecture Hall. Prior talks featured a curator of the American Museum of Natural History, a physics professor at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and three Lafayette students who conducted summer research.