Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, March 30
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “An Excursion into the Attouniverse: Probing New Physics at Very Short Distance Scales Through Rare Processes,” Andrzej Buras, Munich Technical University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

Tuesday, March 31
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Topological Insulators and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Solids,” Joel E. Moore, U of CA - Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball, “Analyzing Human Motion Using Computer Simulation and Experiments,” Allison Sheets, Stanford University. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, April 1
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Unhiggs,” Adam Falkowski, Rutgers.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “The Dominant Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature,” Amato Evan, U of Wisconsin – Madison. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Patterning Mineralization in Gels: Surfaces, Gradients, and Cells,” Lara A. Estroff, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Cracking During Cryopreservation of Biological Tissues: Modeling and Experiments,” Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Laboratory, “Seeking the Physical Principles of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling,” Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University. Refreshments served.

Thursday, April 2
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Direct Detection of Exoplanets,” James Graham, U of CA - Berkeley.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball, “Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Repair: Opportunities and Challenges,” Jame Iatridis, U of Vermont. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Towards Physical Modeling of Complex Biophysical Processes from Chromatin Folding to Cell Motility,” Garyk Papoian, U of NC - Chapel Hill.

Friday, April 3
1:00 CLASS SEMINAR, 3rd FL Wilson Commons, Wilson Laboratory, "How Best to Produce Hard Monochromatic X-rays from an Electron Beam," Richard Talman, Cornell University. Refreshments served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Dynamics of Visual Bistable Perception: e.g., the Necker Cube,” John Rinzel, NYU. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “The Search for Supersymmetry at CDF,” David Toback, UIUC. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Genetic Conflict: The Usual Suspects and Beyond,” Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.