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Department of Meteorology
Penn State University
503 Walker Building
University Park PA 16802-5013
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All departmental colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.  in room 112 Walker Building unless otherwise noted.  Refreshments for Thursday seminars are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker). Previous semester schedules are listed at the bottom of the page. For Thesis Defenses visit: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/news/thesisdefense.html
FALL 2006	Last updated January 9, 2007

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
September 07	New Graduate Student Reception
September 14
September 21	Howard Barker Meteorological Service of Canada	"Validation and verification of atmospheric radiative transfer models"
September 28	Joshua Wurman Center for Severe Weather Research	"Low-Level Winds in Tornadoes and Potential Catastrophic Tornado Impacts in Urban Areas"
October 5
October 12	Anantha Aiyyer North Carlonia State University, Raliegh	"Madden Julian Oscillation and Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Gulf of Mexico and Northeast Pacific"
October 19	Pao K. Wang University of Wisconsin--Madison	"What processes are happening at the top of a thunderstorm?"
Wednesday October 25 4:00 p.m. 112 Walker Bldg.	Special Seminar: Dennis A. Newton 2006 Penn State Alumni Fellow	"December 32, 1980: The day the Lear Fan flew"
October 26	Hugh Willoughby Florida International University	"Hurricane Death and Destruction"
November 02	Paul Newman NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"The ozone hole and its recovery"
November 09	Terry C. and Carmen H. Tarbell Lecture in Meteorology John A. Dutton	"Buying Better Weather: Four Strategies for Managing Weather Risk"
November 16	George S. Young Penn State, Department of Meteorology	Going Nonlinear: Towards Automated Storm Chasing
November 23	THANKSGIVING
November 30
December 07	Jerry Stratka University of Oklahoma	"Do we know what causes mammatus?"
December 14	Jenni Evans Penn State, Department of Meteorology	"Hurricane Impacts on the Personal Scale: Meteorology Meets the Rest of the World"

Schedules from previous semesters:

[Fall 2005 schedule]	[Spring 2005 schedule]
[Fall 2004 schedule]	[Spring 2004 schedule]
[Fall 2003 schedule]	[Spring 2003 schedule]
[Fall 2002 schedule]