The Seminar Series of the School of Physical Sciences

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1997/1998

Highlights included the visits of Professor Ray Flannery (picture) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ray was the 1998 Will Ellis Prize winner of the American Physical Society (one of the most prestigious American Prizes in the field of atomic and molecular physics), and Professor Keith Burnett from Oxford University who made seminal contributions to the discovery of Bose Einstein Condensation.
The School of Physical Sciences contributed an impressive number of speakers with talks given by Eugene Kennedy, Vince Ruddy, Tom Leahey, Martin Henry, Tony Cafolla, Enda McGlynn and Mick Kennedy!
Many will also remember the stimulating talk given by our colleague Sean O'Nuallan from the School of Computer Applications about Philosophical issues in modern physics.

To view the full programme of the 1997/1998 seminar series
1998/1999
The Physics Seminar Series is not just about Physics! 
A  telecommunications engineer, a chemist, an astronomer, a mathematician and a medical physicist were among the invited speakers. 
Two ex-faculty of the School of Physical Sciences returned to DCU to give talks: Professor Daniel Heffernan (picture) who is now  at NUI Maynooth and Dr Wil van der Putten who is currently at University Hospital, Galway.
 

The 1998/1999 photo gallery has now been released for public viewing! 

To view the full programme of the 1998/1999 seminar series 

1999/2000

The seminar programme, information about the speakers and the abstracts of the talks are now available on a dedicated web page. The fractal appears for the first time as a background image. 
Again, an incredible variety of topics was covered, ranging from laser safety to the expansion of the universe and from medical electrodes to industrial plasmas.
Professor John Hurley of the DCU Business School gave a captivating account of  his research on the process of scientific discovery.

To view the full programme of the 1999/2000 seminar series


2000/2001
Yet again a really exciting programme!
Record attendance in N115 for the talk by Don Lind, the former US astronaut, who visited DCU on January 18th. (Click to see photographs)
To view the full programme of the 2000/2001 seminar series
The 2000/2001 photo gallery
Some talks are available for download as pdf files