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  • "Physics and Music," - Fall Meeting of the New England Sections of the American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers, Bates College, October 3, 2003.
  • "Terror and Peace in the 21st century - A Panel on Scientific Responsibility and Ethics," with Frank Chessa, Chris Gray and Bonnie Shulman, Bates College, February 4, 2003.

  • "Physics Inside and Out," American Association of Physics Teachers meeting, Bates College, Nov. 3-4, 1995.

  • "The physics of musical acoustics," Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, April 28, 1995.

  • "Collisional and radiative properties of highly excited barium," Chemical Physics Colloquium, JILA, University of Colorado, October 14, 1994.

  • "Teaching at a liberal arts college," JILA, University of Colorado, September 13, 1994.

  • "Spectrum analysis in introductory musical acoustics," Maine Association of Physics Faculty Annual Meeting, Colby College, April 30, 1994.

  • "Mechanical oscillators: From regular to irregular motion ," New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education Introductory Physics Group Meeting II, Smith College, October 23, 1992.

  • "Mechanical oscillators: From regular to irregular motion," New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education Introductory Physics Group Meeting I, Bowdoin College, May 2, 1992.

  • "Time-resolved emission spectroscopy in the undergraduate curriculum," Maine Association of Physics Professors Annual Meeting, Orono, ME, 27 April, 1991.

  • "Laser studies of energy transfer in atomic collisions," Colby College, 5 May, 1991.

  • "Energy transfer in collisions of excited barium atoms," Physics department colloquium, Wesleyan University, 30 November .

  • "The physics curriculum at Bates College," New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education Meeting on Physics Curricula, Wellesley College, October 21, 1989.

  • "Energy transfer in barium - helium collisions," Bates College, Fall 1989.

  • "Laser studies of energy transfer in atomic collisions," Physics department colloquium, Amherst College, 26 April, 1989.

  • "Energy transfer in atomic collisions," Faculty Luncheon Seminar, Bates, October, 1988.

  • "Pounding the light out of atoms," Physics Department Colloquium, Bates College, September, 1987.

  • "Laser studies of photoprocesses in bromine," Physics Department Colloquium, Bates College, January 28, 1987

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