Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, April 6
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Interactions of Light with Atoms and Molecules in Photonic Crystal Fibers,” Alex Gaeta, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, ALBRECHT LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab, “Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites,” Edward Solomon, Stanford University.

Tuesday, April 7
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Granular Unsteadiness,” Douglas Durian, U of PA. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, B11 Kimball Hall, "Toward Numerical Simulations of Compressible Multiphase Flows: With Applications to Shock Wave Lithotripsy and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability," Eric Johnsen, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, April 8
3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Testing the True Polar Wander Hypothesis for Coincident Paleomagnetic, Isotopic and Sea Level Change in the Middle Neoproterozoic of Australia,” Adam Maloof, Princeton University. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND THE COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY, 226 Weill Hall, “Synthetic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering,” Antonios G. Mikos, Rice University. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “A Peek into Nano-World Using Numerical Force Microscope,” Binquan Luan, IBM Research at T. J. Watson. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “The Dynamic Structural Biology of Spliceosomal RNA,” Samuel Butcher, U of Wisconsin - Madison. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BAYER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab, “Branched Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Properties,” Jimmy Mays, U of Tennessee – Knoxville.

Thursday, April 9
3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, B11 Kimball Hall, “Medical Device Idea Generation,” Fred B. Dinger, III, ENTrigue Surgical, Inc. and C2M Medical, Inc.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “The Substellar Mass Function and Implications for Imaging Exoplanets,” Stan Metchev, Stony Brook. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, B11 Kimball Hall, "Synthetic Micro-Nanosystems for Rapid Biomolecula Analysis and Stem Cell Research," Jianping Fu, U of PA. Refreshments at 4:15, Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BAYER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab, “Novel Charged Polymers: From Mineralization to Fuel Cell Membranes,” Jimmy Mays, U of Tennessee – Knoxville.

Friday, April 10
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Dynamics of Sleep-Wake Cycles: Insights from Development,” Janet Best, Ohio State University. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Charm Semileptonic Decays at CLEO,” Laura Fields, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Chromosome Counting, Repression and Segregation,” Barbara Meyer, U of CA – Berkeley.