Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, November 3
2:00 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 1150 Snee Hall, “P-Ink and Elast-INK Lab to Market,” Geoff Ozin, University of Toronto.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The CMS Experiment:  Meeting the LHC Challenge,” Anders Ryd, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00  SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 226 Weill Hall, “Robust System Identification and Control of Cellular Processes,”  Ann E. Rundell, Purdue. Refreshments at 3:45 in 226 Weill Hall.

TUESDAY, November 4
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Spectral Weight Transfer for Holstein Polarons,” Mona Berciu, University of British Columbia.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “Nano and Micromechanics of Biological Tissues,” Delphine Dean, Clemson University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Hall Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, November 5
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “The Dark Top,” David Poland, Harvard University.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES – FIRE AND ICE, 2146 Snee Hall, “Snow Albedo Feedback Triggered by Deposited Particles,” Mark Flanner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.  Refreshments at 3:00 in Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Adult Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine,” Dr. Charles A. Vacanti, Harvard Medical, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Refreshments at 3:45 outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Towards Quantitative Biochemistry of Energy Metabolism and Redox State of Living Cells,” Ahmed Heikal, Pennsylvania State University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Computing the Shape of a Pair of Concentric, Pre-Curved, Super-Elastic Tubes:  A Coordinate-Free Energy Formulation,” Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, November 6
4:00 PHYSICS, APPLIED AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS PRESENT:  CAROLYN BALDWIN MORRISON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES, 700 Clark Hall, “Nanoscopic Imaging of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues,” Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University.  Reception to follow.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Science Building, “Environmental Effects on Virgo Cluster Spiral Galaxies,” Jeffrey Kenney, Yale University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Harnessing Elastic Instability on Patterned Polymer Surfaces,” Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 260 Bard Hall.

FRIDAY, November 7
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Hadronization, Spin, and Lifetimes,” Itay Nachshon, Cornell University.  Pizza at noon.

3:00 CHESS JOURNAL CLUB, 374 Wilson Lab., “TBA,” Edwin Walker, Sourthern University and A&M College.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Design of Robust Dynamic Networks,” Andrzej Banaszuk, United Technologies Research Center.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB, 311 Newman Lab, “Photon-Photon Collider Higgs Factory as a Percursor to ILC,” Hirotaka Sugawara, KEK.  Refreshments at 3:45.