June 2008. SC3: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, Arkadelphia, AR – G. Follo and S.P. Formica; The Transitions in Life are Hard: How Did Buffy, Willow, and Xander Do It?
April 2008. 19th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL – S.P. Formica; Significant Student Learning and Engagement through Non-traditional Interactive Teaching Strategies (Poster).
March 2008. GC&SU Physics Club Seminar, Milledgeville, GA – S.P. Formica; Tabletop X-ray Analysis Applications in Physics, Biology, Geology and Beyond.
August 2007. NGCSU New Faculty Orientation, Dahonega, GA - S.P. Formica; Teaching Introductory Physics... Just in Time!
August 2007. NGCSU Faculty Convocation Poster Session, Dahlonega, GA - S.P. Formica; Significant Learning at North Georgia.
March 2007. NGCSU Physics Senior Seminar, Dahlonega, GA - S.P. Formica; Teaching Introductory Physics... Just in Time!
February 2006. NGCSU Physics Senior Seminar, Dahlonega, GA - S.P. Formica; An in situ XRF system for composition mapping of thin film semiconductors.
April 2005. PASCAL '05 (Physics All-Student Conference at Albany), Albany, NY - S.P. Formica; An in situ XRF system for composition mapping of thin film semiconductors.
January 2005. SPIE - Photonics West, San Jose, CA - S.P. Formica, S.M. Lee; An in situ XRF system for composition mapping of thin film IR sensors.
November 2003. PASCAL '03 (Physics All-Student Conference at ALbany), Albany, NY - S.P. Formica; Antifreeze Proteins Helping to Preserve Time.
April 2003. Humanitech Graduate Student Conference, Albany, NY - S.P. Formica; Solar Cells to Replace Fossil Fuels: A Possibility with Ultra-fast X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
July 2002. SPIE Conference, Seattle, WA - S.P. Formica, S.M. Lee; Physical Analysis of High Intensity Focusing X-ray Optics: Doubly Curved Crystals vs. Highly Focusing Polycapillaries.
April 2002. University at Albany Physics Dept. Graduate Student Seminar, Albany, NY - S.P. Formica; Fundamentals of X-ray Optics for Diffraction and Fluorescence.
August 2001. Denver X-ray Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO - S.P. Formica, D.M. Gibson, S.M. Lee; Comparison of Standards of Performance for Monolithic Polycapillary Focusing Optics.