The Physics of Baseball

Eli Rosenberg

Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Eli Rosenberg is a professor of physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University. His research area is experimental high-energy physics, and he has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in reviewing programs at Argonne National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Rosenberg is the author or coauthor of over five hundred refereed scientific journal articles; is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; and is a past chair of the SLAC User's Organization, which represents over 1,300 U.S and international scientists. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the City College of New York and his master's and doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fall 2007 Dean's Lecture.

Cosponsored By:
  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

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