Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, March 9
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Planckian Dissipation,” Jan Zaanen, Leiden University, Netherlands. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CBI SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab, “Antimetabolites for Malaria: Full Cellular Considerations,” Pradipsinh K. Rathod, U of Washington.

Tuesday, March 10
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Quantum Nearly Adiabatic Dynamics in Closed Systems,” Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball, “Blistering and Delamination in High Temperature Polymer Matrix Composites Due to Rapid Heating,” Alan Zehnder, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, March 11
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Surprises in Dark Matter,” David Morrissey, Harvard University.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Cell and Tissue Engineering for Basic Cardiac Research and Therapeutic Applications,” Nenad Bursac, Duke University. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “2=1, Or Teaching the Gentle Art of Lying,” Sanjoy Mahajan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Quantitative Phosphoproteomic Dissection of Immunological Signaling Pathways Applied to Mast Cell and T Cell Signaling,” Arthur Salomon, Brown University. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, March 12
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “The Life-Cycle of Dust in Primordial Galaxies: Insights from the Small Magellanic Cloud,” Karin Sandstrom, Berkeley University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Two Dimensional Electron Gases at Oxide Interfaces,” Jochen Mannhart, U of Augsburg, Germany. Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge - 260 Bard.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Slow Dynamics and Cooperativity in Condensed Phase Systems,” Jeremy Schofield, U of Toronto.

Friday, March 13
1:00 CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Commons - Wilson Laboratory, “Nuts and Bolts of the Estrogen Factory,” Debashis Ghosh, Hauptman-Woodward Institute. Refreshments served.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “C. Elegans Fat and Feeding Regulatory Circuits,” Kaveh Ashrafi, UCSF.