2017-2018 Public Lectures 
This years Saturday Science @ LSU series of lectures for high school students, teachers, and the public will begin on September 16, 2017. We invite you to join us for, we think, an interesting and exciting series.
All the lectures will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM in 130 Nicholson Hall on the Saturday's listed below at LSU, Baton Rouge. We hope you will join us, and will look forward to seeing you and your students.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Param Singh • Physics and Astronomy • (225) 578-7513 • psingh@phys.lsu.edu
Dr. Ravi Rau • Physics and Astronomy • (225) 578-6841 • arau@phys.lsu.edu
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker-Department |
| September 16, 2017 | Robert R. Twilley, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science | |
| October 21, 2017 | “Solar eclipses are awesome, beautiful, and great science” | Bradley Schaefer, Physics and Astronomy |
| November 18, 2017 | “Hunting microbes upon the coastal sea” | Cameron Thrash, Biological Sciences |
| December 2, 2017 | A topic about floods | Carol Wicks, Geology and Geophysics |
| January 27, 2018 | “The underwater forest: a time capsule from the last ice age” | Kristina Launey, Physics and Astronomy |
| February 17, 2018 | A topic in metabolism and fat |
Nick Broskey, Pennington Biomedical Center |
| March 17, 2018 | “Using technology to understand mental illness” | Alex Cohen, Psychology |
| April 21, 2018 | A topic in polymer chemistry | Donghui Zhang, Chemistry |