Instructor:            Professor Gerry Schnall
When:                   Monday, 9 April, 2007, 7:30 PM

Professor Gerry Schnall will deliver, with his usual flair, an introduction to how sound is generated and its connection to waves.
The lecture will cover how sound waves are produced, as well as the speed of sound, the Doppler Effect, Interference of waves, and standing waves. Demonstrations of interference and standing waves will be shown. Hearing aides not compulsory!

Paleontology And The Birth of Mythology

Instructor:         Professor Sean Tvelia
When:                Monday, 7 May 2007, 7:30 PM

Long Before human civilization, the Earth was inhabited by the largest animals to ever live. Many of these dinosaurs lived in Western Europe and North America.
Join Professor Tvelia as he traces the extinction of the great beasts to the origins of some of our most well known Native American and Greek mythologies.

All lectures are held at Suffolk’s Ammerman (Selden) Campus in the Smithtown Science Building, Room T-109. Plenty of parking is available. Immediately following the lecture and weather permitting, an observing session will be held using the department’s many telescopes.

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