Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, October 27
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Harnessing Attosecond Science for Coherent X-Ray Generation and Applications,” Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

TUESDAY, October 28
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Cooling and Detecting Nanomechanical Motion with a Microwave Cavity,” Cindy Regal, JILA, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Refreshments at 4:15.

WEDNESDAY, October 29
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “The f_{D_s} Puzzle,” Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES – FIRE AND ICE, 2146 Snee Hall, “Polar Mesospheric Radar Echoes and the Role of Charged Dust Particles,” Cesar La Hoz, University of Tromso, Norway.  Refreshments at 3:00 in Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, ACS Progress/Dreyfus Lecture, “Fluorescent-Magnet Nanoparticle Composites for Imaging, Cell Separation, and Cell Manipulation,” Jessica O. Winter, Ohio State University.  Refreshments at 3:45 outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Machines, Pathways, and Energies in Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signaling,” Harel Weinstein, Weill Cornell Medical College.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Ralph D. Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, October 30
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Science Building, “Sand, Wind, and Entropy,” Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Conjugated Polymers:  From Micro-Electronics to Genomics,” Mario Leclerc, Laval University.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  MOSES PASSER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “The Changing Nature of the Chemistry Enterprise:  Whither Chemists and the American Chemical Society,” Madeleine Jacobs, American Chemical Society.

FRIDAY, October 31
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Rachel Bean, Cornell University.  Pizza at noon.

3:30  CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Computational Methods for the Detection of Positive and Lineage-Specific Selection from Genomic Sequence Data,” Adam Siepel, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB, 311 Newman Lab, “LAr Detectors for Neutrino Physics,” Bonnie Fleming, Yale University.  Refreshments at 3:45.