Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, April 27
4:00 JOINT ASTRONOMY / PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Salpeter Lecture Series, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Recent Results in Exoplanet Formation, Structure and Evolution,” Gilles Chabrier, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 7900 SEMINAR SERIES, School of Chemical Engineering, 165 Olin Hall, “Block Copolymer-Based siRNA Delivery for RNAi Cancer Therapy,” You-Yeon Won, Purdue U. Refreshments at 3:45, 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Screw Dislocation Driven Nanowire Growth: Nanowire Trees, Helices, and Beyond,” Song Jin, U of Wisconsin -- Madison.

Tuesday, April 28
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Hae-Young Kee, U of Toronto. Refreshments at 4:15.

Wednesday, April 29
2:00 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Leptophilic Dark Matter,” Patrick Fox, Fermilab.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES, 2146 Snee Hall, “Mineralogical Co-evolution of the Geo- and Biosphere,” Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall’s first floor Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Statistical Mechanics of Biological Molecules and Materials,” C. Storm (Cornelis), Eindhoven U of Technology. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Mechanical Experiments on Single Molecules: Peeling and Stretching of DNA by Force Spectroscopy,” Dmitri Vezenov, Lehigh U. Refreshments at 4:15, 206 Thurston Hall.

Thursday, April 30
3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, B11 Kimball Hall, “TBA,” Jack Boehringer, President, Boehringer Laboratories, Inc.

4:00 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Using the Fabrication Technologies from the Microelectronics Industry to Address the Unmet Needs in Drug Delivery,” Joseph DeSimone, U of NC -- Chapel Hill. Refreshments at 3:30, MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “The History of the Dust-Enshrouded Universe: Sensitive Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Far-IR and Submillimeter,” C. M. Bradford, Caltech Submillimeter Astronomy. Refreshments at 4:15.

Friday, May 1
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Twist Duality for Flux Backgrounds of Type II and Heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry,” David Andriot,  LPTHE -- Paris.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “KamLAND Result,” Lindley Winslow, MIT. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Redundancy in Notch Signaling:  Quality or Quantity,” Raphael Kopan, Washington U -- St. Louis.