Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, November 17
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “CESR and CLEO:  Thirty Years Shaping the Standard Model,” Ronald Poling, University of Minnesota.  Refreshments from 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

TUESDAY, November 18
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Tailored Superconducting Channels for Controlling Vortex Dynamics,” Britton Plourde, Syracuse University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “Fuel Oxidation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Electrocatalyst to Integrated Systems,” Greg Jackson, University of Maryland.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Hall Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, November 19
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Dark Matter through the Axion Portal,” Jesse Thaler, UC at Berkeley.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES – FIRE AND ICE, 2146 Snee Hall, “Unlocking Secrets of Glacier Drainage and Snow Melt Floods Using Passive Microwave Satellites,” Joan Ramage, Lehigh University.  Refreshments at 3:00 in Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “"Regulation by lysine modification: Mechanisms of Sir2 deacetylation and polyubiquitin chain assembly"Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, November 20
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Joint LHC Experiment/Theory Meeting,”  Pizza at Noon.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Understanding Disk Galaxy Structure in a Cosmological Context,” Kristine Spekkens, Royal Military College of Canada.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Hard Drive Nano-Engineering:  Cheaper than Tennis Shoes,” David E. Fowler, Western Digital Corporation.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Controlled Coupling and Occupation of Silicon Atomic Quantum Dots at Room Temperature,” Robert Wolkow, University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada.

FRIDAY, November 21
3:30   CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Disassembly, Repair and Rebuilding of Music with Mathematics,” Kevin Short, University of New Hampshire.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB, 311 Newman Lab, “Results from PAMELA,” Mirko Boezio, INFN.  Refreshments at 3:45.