Posted 6:31 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The first tenured female professor of Rutgers College will be at UW-La Crosse Thursday and Friday, April 12 and 13, to talk about nuclear physics.
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Following a 4:30 p.m. reception Thursday, April 12, in 1400 Centennial Hall, Noted Nuclear Physicist Noémie Benczer Koller will present "How I Came to Love Nuclear Physics: Through War and Peace from 'I'ecole Communale' to Columbia University." The free public lecture begins at 5 p.m. and will be held in the Skogen Auditorium A in Centennial Hall.
Koller will also give a free physics seminar, "A Glimpse at the Internal Structure of Nuclei Through a Magnetic Looking Glass," at 3:20 p.m. Friday, April 13, in 100 Cowley Hall.
Koller was born in Vienna in 1933 and earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. She earned a master's of science degree in 1955 and a doctorate degree in 1958 at Columbia University in New York. In 1960, she joined the Rutgers Physics Department as the first female faculty member of Rutgers College. At the time, Rutgers College had an all-male student body. She received tenure in 1965 becoming the first woman to receive tenure at the college.
Koller has made important contributions to the fields of both nuclear physics and condensed-matter physics, She has authored or coauthored more than 100 refereed journal articles and has served on many national committees including chairing the American Physical Society Nuclear Physics Division (1993-94). She has also actively promoted physics and in 2010 was awarded the APS Nicholson Medal for human outreach and for her commitment to advocating freedom of scientists around the world and for leadership in fostering equal opportunities for women in science.
The events are sponsored by the UW-L Physics Department and the College of Science and Health. For more information contact Assistant Professor Shelly Lesher at slesher@uwlax.edu or 785.8401, or Professor Gubbi Sudhakaran at gsudhakaran@uwlax.edu or 785.8431, both Physics and Astronomy.
See the flier at http://www.uwlax.edu/universityrelations/images/2012/spring/KollerPoster.pdf for more details.
If you go—
Who: Nuclear Physicist Noémie Benczer Koller
What: Reception
When: 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12
Where: 1400 Centennial Hall
What: Public Lecture: "How I Came to Love Nuclear Physics: Through War and Peace from 'I'ecole Communale' to Columbia University"
When: 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12,
Where: Skogen Auditorium A, Centennial Hall
Cost: Free
What: Physics Seminar: "A Glimpse at the Internal Structure of Nuclei Through a Magnetic Looking Glass"
When: 3:20 p.m. Friday, April 13
Where: 100 Cowley Hall
Cost: Free
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Following a 4:30 p.m. reception Thursday, April 12, in 1400 Centennial Hall, Noted Nuclear Physicist Noémie Benczer Koller will present "How I Came to Love Nuclear Physics: Through War and Peace from 'I'ecole Communale' to Columbia University." The free public lecture begins at 5 p.m. and will be held in the Skogen Auditorium A in Centennial Hall.
Koller will also give a free physics seminar, "A Glimpse at the Internal Structure of Nuclei Through a Magnetic Looking Glass," at 3:20 p.m. Friday, April 13, in 100 Cowley Hall.
Koller was born in Vienna in 1933 and earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. She earned a master's of science degree in 1955 and a doctorate degree in 1958 at Columbia University in New York. In 1960, she joined the Rutgers Physics Department as the first female faculty member of Rutgers College. At the time, Rutgers College had an all-male student body. She received tenure in 1965 becoming the first woman to receive tenure at the college.
Koller has made important contributions to the fields of both nuclear physics and condensed-matter physics, She has authored or coauthored more than 100 refereed journal articles and has served on many national committees including chairing the American Physical Society Nuclear Physics Division (1993-94). She has also actively promoted physics and in 2010 was awarded the APS Nicholson Medal for human outreach and for her commitment to advocating freedom of scientists around the world and for leadership in fostering equal opportunities for women in science.
The events are sponsored by the UW-L Physics Department and the College of Science and Health. For more information contact Assistant Professor Shelly Lesher at slesher@uwlax.edu or 785.8401, or Professor Gubbi Sudhakaran at gsudhakaran@uwlax.edu or 785.8431, both Physics and Astronomy.
See the flier at http://www.uwlax.edu/universityrelations/images/2012/spring/KollerPoster.pdf for more details.
If you go—
Who: Nuclear Physicist Noémie Benczer Koller
What: Reception
When: 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12
Where: 1400 Centennial Hall
What: Public Lecture: "How I Came to Love Nuclear Physics: Through War and Peace from 'I'ecole Communale' to Columbia University"
When: 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12,
Where: Skogen Auditorium A, Centennial Hall
Cost: Free
What: Physics Seminar: "A Glimpse at the Internal Structure of Nuclei Through a Magnetic Looking Glass"
When: 3:20 p.m. Friday, April 13
Where: 100 Cowley Hall
Cost: Free