Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, September 14
1:00  CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Wilson Commons, Wilson Lab, “Low-Resolution Shape Determination of Large Multi-Subunit Complexes of the Restriction-Modification System EcoR124I,” James Taylor, University of Portsmouth, UK. Refreshments will be served.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Quantum Criticality: From Antiferromagnets to the Cuprate Superconductors” Subir Sachdev, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Modeling Proteins, Membranes, and Signal Transduction,” Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania.  Refreshments at 3:45, 128 Olin.

4:30 S&TS SEMINAR, 374 Rockefeller Hall, “Repairing Nuclear Weapons: Credibility in the Test Ban Era,” Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims, Colgate University and Statistical Sciences Group.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “New Methods for the Discovery and Synthesis of Antibiotics,” Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tuesday, September 15
1:00  CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Wilson Commons, Wilson Lab, “Electron Clouds: Their Diagnostics and Simulation of Their Effects,” Kiran Sonnad, University of Karlsruhe.  Refreshments will be served.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Where is the Quantum Critical Point in the Cuprate Superconductors?,” Subir Sachdev, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Singularities of Scattering Amplitudes in Nonabelian Gauge Theories,” Matthias Neubert, Mainz University.

Wednesday, September 16
2:00 LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Patrick Meade, Institute for Advanced Study.

3:00 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Opportunities to Improve Healthcare Through Applying Engineering Skills”, Robert G. Funari, Chairman and CEO, Crescent Healthcare.  Refreshments at 2:30, outside 226 Weill Hall.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Slip Slidin’ Away:  Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Water,” Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University.  Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Multiphoton Imaging Using Intrinsic Tissue Signatures in Six Human Organ Systems,” Sushmita Mukherjee, Weill Cornell Medical College. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, September 17
4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard
Hall, “Adventures in Metal Oxide Nanostructures,” Sarbajit Banerjee, SUNY Buffalo.  Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM,  119 Baker Lab, “Lasting Lessons from Landscapes:  Molecules are Fast, How can Liquidsand Glasses be Slow?,” Richard M. Stratt, Brown University.

Friday, September 18
12:30 THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Resonant Tunneling in QFT,” Daniel Wohns, Cornell University.  Pizza at noon.

1:00 CLASSE SEMINAR, 3rd Floor Wilson Commons, Wilson Lab, “TBA,” Nikolay Malitsky, Brookhaven National Lab.  Refreshments will be served.

1:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “Robotic Grasping and Single Image Depth Perception,” Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell University. Refreshments at 2:30, 206 Thurston Hall.

4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “Recent Results from HERA,” Sasha Glazov, DESY. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Selective Autophagy in Aging and Age-related Disorders,” Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, SPECIAL SEMINAR,  119 Baker Lab, “New Concepts in Chemical Bonding: Charge Shift Bonding and Its Manifestations in Chemistry,” Philippe Hiberty, U. Paris-Sud, Orsay.