Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, April 20
12:00 Biological and Environmental Engineering, Center for a Sustainable Future, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 226 Weill Hall, “Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation Response to Global Warming,” Gang Chen, MIT, Candidate for the Climate Change Science Position.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Melting, Frustration and Aging in Temperature-Sensitive Colloids,” Arjun Yodh, U of PA. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SPECIAL GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR, 7900 Seminar Series, School of Chemical Engineering, 165 Olin Hall, “Using External Fields to Control the Location of Nanoparticles in Block Copolymers: Experiments and Simulations,” Vibha Kalra, Cornell University; “TBA,” Joseph Goose, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:45.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, ORGANIC / ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab, “N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis,” Christopher Bielawski, U of TX – Austin.

Tuesday, April 21
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Why Does Undoped FeSe become a High Tc Superconductor Under Pressure 77Se NMR Study,” Takashi Imai, McMaster University. Refreshments at 4:15.

Wednesday, April 22
12:00 Biological and Environmental Engineering, Center for a Sustainable Future, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, A106 Morrison Room, Corson-Mudd Hall, “Fire and Ice:  How Do Volcanic Ash and Desert Dust Plumes Trigger Ice Formation in Atmospheric Clouds,” Raymond Shaw, Michigan Technological University, Candidate for the Climate Change Science Position.

2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Non-Abelian Dark Sectors,” Matthew Baumgart, Harvard University.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Can a Large Earthquake in Another Country Cause One in Your Own Backyard,” Aaron Velasco, U of TX – El Paso. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND THE COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY Supported by the Morgan Tissue Engineering Program, 226 Weill Hall, “Bioengineering: 50 Years of Progress, But Still Only a Beginning,” Robert M. Nerem, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Tunnel Vision,” Carol Deutsch, U of PA School of Medicine. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, April 23
4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Self-Assembled Systems of Nanoparticles: Similarity with Biological Systems,” Nicholas Kotov, U of Michigan.  Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:30 ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM, Salpeter Lecture Series, 105 Space Sciences Building, "Star, Brown Dwarf Formation and Early Stages of Evolution. Theory of the Initial Mass Function," Gilles Chabrier, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Siderophore Stealth,” Kenneth Raymond, U of CA – Berkeley.

Friday, April 24
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation,” Matthew Kleban, NYU.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Polarization Puzzle in Quasi-Two-Body Decays at BaBar,” Yanyan Gao, Johns Hopkins University. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Evolution and the Impact of Segmental Duplications,” Evan Eichler, U of WA.