The Mummy escaped with a cupcake today.
Don’t miss out.
The PASA bake sale continues until 5:30, Wednesday, October 31.
Location is the first floor north hallway that leads to the Physics and Astronomy commons.
Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and the stem serving as a game controller. Unbelievable!!! Happy Halloween
MRI medical physics graduate student Chad Harris (shown being tackled by three brutes), along with theoretical physics graduate student Chris Racknor, both play for London senior men’s rugby team, which made its first McCormick Cup final in 30 years.
The McCormick Cup is the ultimate prize of the men’s senior league of the Ontario Rugby Union, and the final game was held in Toronto on Saturday, October 27, 2012.
London succumbed to the Oakville Marauders 12-3 in the final, even though London was literally camped near the Oakville goal line for part of the game.
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MRI medical physics graduate student Chad Harris (shown being tackled by three brutes), along with theoretical physics graduate student Chris Racknor both play for the London mens rugby team, which made its first McCormick Cup final in 30 years.
The McCormick Cup is the ultimate prize of the men’s senior league of the Ontario Rugby Union.
London succumbed to their arch-rival Oakville 12-3 in the final, which was held in Toronto on October 27, 2012.
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This might be going back to far for you, but Steve Rehse was here at Western back in the day in Dick and Daves lab, back when it was in the basement and scary to go inside. He wanted to be a science prof and left for Wayne State originally about 4 years ago. Finding money hard to come by he moved to Windsor, and he is a prof there now in the esoteric field of Atomic Physics.
Windsor had a science fair, and came up with the idea of doing a sexy demonstartion to try and get the media attention they wanted. This clip shows the result on the Daily Planet, where Steve is in great form.
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/may-2012/daily-planet—may-08-…
I do no know what we would have to compete with this, but I am guessing Patrick Whippey might need to freeze something more jaw dropping than a banana.
Poster: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/colloquia/Colloquia%20Notices/2012_2013/NAIK%20Colloquium.pdf
Western University
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Date: Thursday, 8th November 2012
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Physics & Astronomy Seminar Room 100
Dr. Ratna Naik
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wayne State University
“Raman Spectroscopy for Biomedical Diagnostics: Cancer detection in pediatric tumors and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”
ABSTRACT
Recently, Raman spectroscopy has been used in the detection of a variety of cancers and other tissue abnormalities. Raman spectra can provide highly detailed chemical information about a tissue sample and its noninvasive nature makes it an attractive tool for in vivo applications in medicine. We have studied the archived tissues of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and frozen pediatric tumors (neuroblastoma and ganglioneuroma) using Raman spectroscopy. The effects of tissue preservation and processing on the Raman spectral characteristics and their utility in diagnosing the disease state of the tissues is investigated. The study shows that Raman spectroscopy in conjunction with multivariate statistical methods, such as principal component analysis and discriminant function analysis, can identify the disease state of the tissues that is consistent with the histopathological diagnosis. An overview of principles of Raman spectroscopy and its applications to biomolecules, as well as the details of our findings, will be presented.
Refreshments will be available.
