Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, April 13
2:00 Biological and Environmental Engineering, Center for a Sustainable Future, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 226 Weill Hall, “Water Isotopes in a GCM:  Implications for Paleoclimate,” Jung-Eun Lee, U of Chicago, Candidate for the Climate Change Science Position.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Age of Neutrino Physics: A Rapid Overview and Description of a New 10 Kiloton Instrument Called Hanohano,” John Learned, U of Hawaii. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

Tuesday, April 14
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors,” Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “Lagrangian Measurements of Inertial Particle Accelerations in Wind Tunnel Turbulence and Their Relation to the Formation of Water Droplets in Clouds,” Zellman Warhaft, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

Wednesday, April 15
12:15 CCMR IGERT / CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Nanoribbons,” Hongjie Dai, Stanford University. Pizza at noon.

2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Supersymmetry in Slow Motion,” Zackaria Chacko, U of Maryland.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Recent Insights into Cumulus Clouds and Implications for Climate Change,” Patrick Chuang, U of CA – Santa Cruz. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Robot Assembly: From Vibratory Manipulation to Self-Organization,” Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “The Role of Interfacial Line Tension in Phase Separation in DOPC/DSPC/Cholesterol Ternary Mixtures,” Juyang Huang, Texas Tech University. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, April 16
12:00 Biological and Environmental Engineering, Center for a Sustainable Future, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, G01 Biotech, “Snow Aging, Black Carbon, and Climate Warming:  A Darker Future,” Mark Flanner, NCAA-Boulder, CO, Candidate for the Climate Change Science Position.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Protoplanetary Disks: The Accretion/Outflow Connection,” Suzan Edwards, Smith College. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, jointly sponsored by Technology Entrepreneurship at Cornell, 140 Bard Hall, “Innovation Within Large Companies: Experiences from Life in a Corporate Innovation Center,” John Spoonhower, Cornell's JSM (Kodak Visiting Lecturer). Refreshments at 5:30, MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Exploring Electron Transfer: From Photochemistry to Energy Conversion,” Troy Van Voorhis, MIT.

Friday, April 17
1:00 CLASSE SEMINAR, third floor Wilson Commons, Wilson Laboratory, “Using X-Rays to Probe Light-Induced Conformational Changes of Proteins,” Lois Pollack, Cornell University. Refreshments served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups,” Iain D. Couzin, Princeton University. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “MINOS Results and NoVa Plans,” Dan Cronin-Hennessy, U of Minnesota. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Transcriptional Repression in Germline Blastomeres,” Reuling Lin, UT Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas.