Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, February 23
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, â€œE = mc^2: High Energy and Intensity Opens Windows on the World,” Young-Kee Kim, Fermilab. 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, “Self-Organization of the Yeast Mitotic Spindle,” Melissa Klein Gardner, U of Minnesota. Refreshments at 3:30, outside 226 Weill Hall.

Tuesday, February 24
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Nicholas Bigelow, U of Rochester. Refreshments at 4:15 p.m.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball, “Integration of Materials with Design and Manufacturing: A Grand Challenge,” Tresa M. Pollock, U of Michigan. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, February 25
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Breaking the Dark Force,” Andrey Katz, U of Maryland.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “From Phytoplankton to Mammals: Evolutionary Trajectories Linked Via the Carbon Cycle,” Mimi Katz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Regulation of Organogenesis by GATA Transcription Factors,” Todd R. Evans, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Dan Luo, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15 pm, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “The Mystery of the Fusion Pore - Mechanisms of Fusion and Transmitter Release,” Manfred Lindau, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, February 26
3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, B11 Kimball Hall, “What We, GE Global Research, Do Everyday to Make People Live Longer and Healthy,” Zhye Yin, GE Research.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “TBA,” Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Experimental Histories in Crystal Chiroptics,” Bart Kahr, U of Washington. Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge - 260 Bard.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, SPECIAL SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab, “The Quantum Chemistry of Strongly Correlated Electrons,” Garnet Chan, Cornell University.

Friday, February 27
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Leptogenesis with Composite Neutrinos,” Yuhsin Tsai, Cornell University.

1:00 CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Commons - Wilson Laboratory, “Making Porous Materials with Block Copolymers,” Suntao Wang, Cornell University. Refreshments served.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “PKA: Dynamic Scaffold for Catalysis and Docking,” Susan Taylor, U of California - San Diego.