Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, November 27
4:00        DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, Special Graduate Student Seminar, 165 Olin Hall, “Capillary Puddle Vibrations in Planar-Flow Melt Spinning,” Eric Theisen, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:00        GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Is Evolution Understood?  Quantitative Questions from a Statistical Mechanic,” Daniel Fisher, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:30        DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, Special Graduate Student Seminar, 165 Olin Hall, “Monitoring the Bending Stiffness of DNA,” Chongli Yuan, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.
    
TUESDAY, November 28
12:15      CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Liquid Foam Rheology,” Isabelle Cantat, Universite de Rennes.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:15        SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Lead Times, Allocation Rules, and the Value of Component Commonality,” Jeannette Song, Duke University.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30        DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Dr. Dan Hammer, University of Pennsylvania.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30        LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Glass Dynamics,” Daniel Fisher, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30        MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SEMINAR, B17 Upson Hall, “Disappearing Eddies – The Missing Link in Turbulence Theory?”  Julian Hunt, University College, London and Mary Upson Visiting Professor.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, November 29
1:30        PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Dual Gravity Approach to Near-Equilibrium Processes in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories,” Andrei Starinets, Perimeter Institute.

4:00        DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Some Uses of Magnetic Filaments,” Dr. Jerome Bibette, Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI).  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30        BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Life as a Lipid:  Rafts, Dynamics and Interactions,” Erin D. Sheets, Pennsylvania State University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30        DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Dense Granular Flow:  Phenomenological Constitutive Model and Experimental Investigation,” Diego Berzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.
      
THURSDAY, November 30
12:15      CENTER FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEMS (CNS) SEMINAR SERIES, 700 Clark Hall, “Electrical Soliton Modelocking – Taming Electrical Solitions,” Donhee Ham, Harvard University.  Pizza at Noon.

3:00        PEACE STUDIES PROGRAM TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY SEMINARS, 153 Uris Hall, “Recycling, Nuclear Waste:  Technical Difficulties and Proliferation Concerns,” Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists.  (The speaker is a 1992 Cornell Physics Ph.D.)

3:35        DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Peter Doerschuk, Cornell University.


FRIDAY, December 1
3:30        CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Developing Provably Converging and Practical Methods in Derivative Free Optimization,” Katya Scheinberg, IBM.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.