Vanderbilt University Physics & Astronomy Department

Agenda for Berea College Students visit

Tuesday February 28, 2017

9:00 10:00 am - Welcome. Don Pickert

9:10 10:00 am - Professor David Ernst - Theoretical Physics

10:00 11:00am Meet in 6301 SC - Tour of VINSE (Vanderbilt Institute of

Nanoscale Science & Engineering) with Research Assoc. Prof. Tony Hmelo
(walk to ESB)

11:00 11:30 am 6333 SC - Post-doc. Halina Krzyzanowska (Norman Tolk

Group) Condensed Matter Physics.

11:30 12:00 am 6333 SC - Post-doc Cody Covington, Grad Students Jorge

Salas and Daniel Kidd (Kalman Varga Group) CM Theoretical Physics

12:00 1:00 pm LUNCH 6501 SC - (Robert Scherrer, Erin Rericha, Tony

Hmelo, Cody Covington, Jorge Salas, Daniel Kidd, Kyle Godbey)

1:00 1:30 pm 6333 SC - Graduate Students Kent Hallman & Sam White
(Richard Haglund Group) - Condensed Matter Physics.

1:30 2:00 pm 6112 SC Shane Hutson Biological Physics

2:00 2:30 pm 6413B SC Graduate Student Chris Zackary (Joseph

Hamilton Group) - Nuclear Physics

2:30 3:00 pm - 6334 SC, CMS Center - Julia Velkovska, Dir. of Graduate
Studies - HE Nuclear Physics

3pm - depart
Physics & Astronomy Department Office:
6301 Stevenson Science Center
Phone: 615-322-2828 Fax: 615-343-7263
Don Pickert: (Office) 615-343-1026 (Cell) 615-336-8780

All rooms marked SC refer to Stevenson Center.

Physics is building 6 (first digit), second digit is floor #.
The ground floor of physics and astronomy is 3!
Stevenson Center is comprised of 7 different buildings.