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Lutz Huwel, associate professor of physics at Wesleyan University, will speak on “Topics in Photophysics: Dissociative Ionization of Small Molecules” noon Friday in Gagnon Lecture Hall, Hugel Science Center room 100.
Free pizza will be provided at the event, which is sponsored by the Physics Club.
Photophysics produces highly reactive radicals, or species, which are visible in the upper levels of the atmosphere. This process is of interest for people involved in atmospheric chemistry, astrophysics, and those who seek to discover the physical and chemical properties of these radicals.
Huwel is involved in experimental research exploring basic photophysics processes. In his work, laser spectroscopy is an important tool to investigate details of the interaction of light with simple atoms and molecules as well as to analyze combustion-related systems.
The next Physics Club brown bag will feature S. James Gates, physics professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, who will speak on “Can Superstring/M-Theory be Seen in the Sky?” noon Wednesday, Nov. 10, at Gagnon Lecture Hall.
The Physics Club’s prior brown bag featured Wojciech Zurek, laboratory fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, speaking on “When Symmetry Breaks, How Big Are the Pieces?” Oct. 14.