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Brett Fadem, faculty fellow in physics at Colby College, will speak on “Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions” noon Thursday in Gagnon Lecture Hall, Hugel Science Center room 100.
The lecture is sponsored by the Physics Club, which will provide free pizza and drinks.
Fadem, whose courses at Colby include Nuclear and Particle Physics, received his B.A. from Grinnell College in 1995 and his Ph.D. in physics from Iowa State University in 2002. For his doctoral dissertation, he worked on an experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory measuring the production of antiprotons in the collision of high-energy proton beams with solid metal targets. The goal of these experiments is to learn about the environment of the nucleus of atoms under extreme conditions.
He plans to continue data analysis of nuclear experiments from Brookhaven and work on experiments involving quantum optics and quantum information.
The next Physics Club talk will feature Kimberly Coble, a professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at University of Chicago, speaking on “Mapping the Universe from Antarctica” noon Monday, Feb. 16, in Gagnon Lecture Hall.
In the most recent Physics Club talks, David Helfand, chair of the department of astronomy and astrophysics at Columbia University and former Sackler Distinguished Visiting Astronomer at Cambridge, spoke on “The Universal Timekeeper” and “The Cooling of Neutron Stars.”