Professional Talks
(seminars, colloquia, conferences)
Experimental Baseball Physics
Physics Colloquium, Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME, April 25, 2008.
Baseball and Physics: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too
Physics Colloquium, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, March 14, 2008.
How a Physicist Analyzes the Game of Baseball
Physics Colloquium, The Five Colleges (UMass, Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke)
Amherst, MA, October 1, 2007.
Physics and Baseball: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too
Physics Department Colloquium, Denison College
Granville, OH, April 9, 2007.
Baseball Aerodynamics: What do we know and how do we know it?
Talk presented before the St. Louis chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
St. Louis,October 19, 2006.
The Physics of Hitting a Home Run
Physics Department Colloquium, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
Vancouver BC, October 5-6, 2006.
The Physics of Hitting a Home Run
Invited talk for the Maine IEEE Electron Devices Society
Portland, August 3, 2006.
The Aerodynamics of a Spinning Baseball
Talk presented at the IMAC XXIV Meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
St. Louis, MO, January 30, 2006.
The Physics of Hitting a Home Run
Physics Department Colloquium, University of Washington
Seattle, WA, October 31, 2005.
Some Topics in the Physics of Baseball
Physics Department Colloquium, Florida State Unjiversity
Tallahassee, FL, September 1, 2005.
Physics of the Trampoline Effect
Invited Talk, International Conference on Sports Engineering (ISEA)
Davis, CA, September 15, 2004.
Did Sammy Sosa Take Physics 101?
Physics Department Colloquium, Georgetown University
Washington, DC, April 6, 2004.
How Does a Baseball Bat Work?
Invited Talk, Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Chemistry
Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire, June 19, 2003
When Ash Meets Cowhide: The Physics of the Ball-Bat Collision
Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, April 25, 2003
A Comparative Study of Wood and Aluminum Baseball Bats
Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, April 10, 2003
How Does a Baseball Bat Work?
The Physics of the Ball-Bat Collision
Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lowell, MA, March 12, 2003
The Physics of Hitting a Home Run
Physics Department Colloquium, St. Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 12, 2002
The Physics of Hitting a Home Run
Colloquium, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL, September 20, 2002
A Comparative Study of Wood and Aluminum Baseball Bats
Invited talk at meeting of American Association of Physics Teachers
Philadephia, PA, January 23, 2002
How Does a Baseball Bat Work?
The Physics of the Ball-Bat Collision
Physics Department Colloqium, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL, October 12, 2001
When Ash Meets Cowhide: The Physics of the Ball-Bat Collision
Physics Department Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, April 4, 2001
How Does a Baseball Bat Work: The Physics of the Ball-Bat Collision
Physics Department Colloquium, University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, October 12, 2000
Baseball: It's Not Nuclear Physics. Or Is It?!
Colloquium,Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois, July 12, 2000
The Physics of Baseball
Physics Department Colloquium, Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, March 31, 2000
How Would a Physicist Design a Bat?
Invited Talk, AAAS Symposium on The Science of Baseball
Washington, DC, February 18, 2000
Baseball: It's Not Nuclear Physics. Or Is It?!
Physics Department Colloquium, George Washington University
Washington, DC, October 21, 1999
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Outreach Talks
What Are We Learning from PITCHf/x
Talk presented at SABR38, the annual meeting of the Society of American Baseball Research
Cleveland, June 27, 2008.
Baseball & Physics: An Intersection of Passions
Public lecture presented at Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME, April 24, 2008.
Is the Gyroball a Miracle Pitch?
Talk presented at SABR37, the annual meeting of the Society of American Baseball Research
St. Louis, July 27, 2007.
Using Physics to Debunk Some Myths of Baseball
Saturday Physics Honors Lecture, University of Illinois
Urbana, September 23, 2006.
Baseball Aerodynamics: What do we know and how do we know it?
Talk presented at SABR36, the annual meeting of the Society of American Baseball Research
Seattle, June 29, 2006.
Some Topics in the Physics of Baseball
Talk presented at the annual meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)
Orlando FL, February 18, 2005.
Did Sammy Sosa Take Physics 101?
Invited Talk, Illinois Section of American Association of Physics Teachers
Urbana, IL, April 23, 2004.
The Trampoline Effect: What is it All About?
Technical presentation at the annual meeting of the Sporting Goods Manufacturers of America
Dallas, TX, October 2, 2003
Hitting Home Runs: How a Physicist Thinks About Baseball
Talk for the NYC Chapter of the University of Illinois Alumni Association
New York City, June 18, 2003
How Does a Baseball Bat Work?
Talk before the Champaign Rotary Club
Champaign, IL, April 17, 2002
Hitting Home Runs: How a Physicist Thinks About Baseball
Talk for the Jefferson Laboratory Science Series
Newport News, VA, March 28, 2002
Hitting Home Runs: How a Physicist Thinks About Baseball
Talk for the Orlando and Tampa Bay Chapters of the University of Illinois Alumni Association
Tampa and Orlando, FL, March 2002
Baseball and Bat Performance Standards
Talk before the NCAA Baseball Research Panel,
Omaha, NE, June 13, 2001
Baseball 101: A Primer on the Physics of Baseball
Saturday Physics Honors Lecture, University of Illinois
Urbana, October 21, 2000
The Physics of Baseball: Just How Did McGuire Hit 70?
Public Lecture, Parkland College,
Champaign, IL, February 5, 1999
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