Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, November 10
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Flow and Elastic Properties of Helium:  Is it a “Supersolid”? John Beamish, University of Alberta, Canada.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 226 Weill Hall, “Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications,” Hyeon Taeghwan, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 226 Weill Hall.

5:30 INNOVATION IN SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “A Review of Options for Autonomous Cislunar Navigation,” Dr. E. Glenn Lightsey, University of Texas at Austin.  Refreshments at 5:00 in the Upson Lounge.

TUESDAY, November 11
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Emergent Paramagnetic Phases in the Hyper-Kagome Quantum Antiferromagnet Na4lr3O8,” Michael Lawler, SUNY Binghamton and Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “TBA,” Rustom Bhiladvala, University of Victoria.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Hall Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, November 12
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Monika Blanke, TU, Munich.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES – FIRE AND ICE, 2146 Snee Hall, “Mantle Melting, Melt Extraction, and Mantle Deformation at Slow-Spreading Ridges,” James Gaherty, Columbia University.  Refreshments at 3:00 in Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “The Ribosome at Work,” Joachim Frank, Columbia University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Design of Safe Ski Jump Landing Surfaces,” Mont Hubbard, University of California, Davis.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, November 13
12:15 CENTER FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CAPES SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Perspectives on a Research Career at a National Laboratory – from the Point of View of Someone Who has Also Worked at an Industrial Laboratory and Research University,” Dr. Julia W.P. Hsu, Sandia National Laboratory.  Pizza served at noon.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Gravitational Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration,” Mark Trodden, Syracuse University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “DNA as a True Polymer,” Dan Luo, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Magnetic and Electroactive Polymeric Nanocomposites for Information Storage and Energy,” Jeffrey Pyun, University of Arizona.

FRIDAY, November 14
3:00 PM  CHESS JOURNAL CLUB, 374 Wilson Lab, "Optimized Anomalous Scattering at the ERL,"  Ken Finkelstein, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30   CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “The Chemostat:  A Lake in a Lab,” Gail Wolkowicz, McMaster University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB, 311 Newman Lab, “CDMS,” Jodi Cooley-Sekula, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 3:45.