Events Next Week

Monday, November 9
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Fermi at 17 Months,” Steve Ritz, NASA. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:30 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES COLLOQUIUM, 374 Rockefeller Hall, “Biothreats and Bio-Logics: How the U.S. National Security Communities Assess the Risks of Biological Weapons,” Kathleen Vogel, Cornell University.  

Tuesday, November 10
4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Using Eigenvalue Techniques to Obtain Better Bounds for Convex Objective, Non-convex Optimization Problems,” Dan Bienstock, Columbia University. Refreshments at 3:45, 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Observation of Fractional States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4 by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry,” Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois.  Refreshments at 4:15.

Wednesday, November 11
3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Deciphering the Structure of Seismicity:  Implications for Plate Tectonic Processes,” Felix Waldhauser, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.  Refreshments at 3:00, the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Engineering Functional Human Tissues,” Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University.  Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Local Membrane Heating for Remote Control of Proteins, Cells and Organisms,” Arnd Pralle, University at Buffalo, SUNY. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, November 12
3:30 SPECIAL LASSP SEMINAR, 243 Clark Hall, “The Jamming Scenario and Packings of Ellipsoids:  What Does Density of State Tell Us?” Zorana Zeravcic, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University.

4:00 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “A Taste Star Formation in Galaxies: Lessons from the Local Universe,” Alberto Bolatto, University of Maryland. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Nanocrystal Solids: A Modular Approach to Materials Design,” Dmitri Talapin, University of Chicago.  Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

Friday,  November 13
12:30 LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “The Non-Relativistic Limit of AdS/CFT,” Arjun Bagchi, Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

1:00 CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Wilson Commons, Wilson Lab, “Structure from Solution. Biological Small-Angle X-ray Scattering,” Richard Gillilan, Cornell University. Refreshments will be served.  

1:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “Modeling Magneto-Mechanical Interactions in Deformable Solids,” Luis Dorfmann, Tufts University. Refreshments at 2:30, 206 Thurston Hall

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Reading the Thoughts of a
Mollusk: The Neural Origins of Seashell Structure and Pattern,” G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.