Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, February 16
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Rotation with Zero Angular Momentum: Demonstrations of the Falling Cat Phenomenon Go Sour,” Andy Ruina, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 WEILL INSTITUTE FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Some Assembly Required:  Protein Architecture of the Eukaryotic Kinetochore,” Ajit P. Joglekar, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Refreshments at 3:30, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Single Molecules and Nanostructures,” Eric Potma, U of California - Irvine.

Tuesday, February 17
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Massless and Massive Electrons in Atomically-Thin Carbon,” Michael Fuhrer, U of Maryland. Refreshments at 4:15 p.m.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball, “Mechanical Property Evaluation at the Micro-Scale,” Michael Uchic, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, February 18
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Eternal Inflation, Bubble Collisions, and the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory,” Ben Freivogel, Berkeley and LBL.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Tectonic Evolution of the Mount Everest and Ama Drime Massifs, Tibet-Nepal,” Micah Jessup, U of Tennessee - Knoxville. Refreshments at 3:15, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Design Principles for Cytokine-Regulating Biomaterials,” Professor Newell R. Washburn, Carnegie Mellon University. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “The Story of a Mathematical Friendship,” Steve Strogatz, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15 pm, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Intravital Two-Photon NADH Imaging in the Mouse Cortex,” Karl Kasischke, U of Rochester. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, February 19
3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, B11 Kimball Hall, “TBA,” David Burns, NovaSterilis.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “An Update on KH 15D and Its Precessing, Protoplanetary Disk,” William Herbst, Wesleyan University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Predicting Fracture in Metals with Atomistic Simulation,” Derek Warner, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge - 260 Bard.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “New Early and Late Transition Metal Catalysts Supported by 3-Iminophosphine and Orthometallated Phenylimine Ancillary Ligands,” Joseph Schmidt, U of Toledo.

Friday, February 20

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Basis Enrichment in the Generalized Finite Element Method,” Wilkins Aquino, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB, 311 Newman Lab, “MiniBoone,” Richard Van de Water, LANL. Refreshments at 3:45.