Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, September 28
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Flight of the Fruit Fly,” Itai Cohen, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Designing Ion-Containing Polymers for Facile ion Transport,” Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University.   Refreshments at 3:45, 128 Olin.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis,” John L. Wood, Colorado State University.

Tuesday, September 29
4:15 OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Subsampling, Spectral Methods & Semidefinite Programming,” Alex d'Aspremont, Princeton.  Refreshments at 3:45, 258 Rhodes.

4:15 JOINT COLLOQUIUM HOSTED BY COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, B17 Upson Hall, “Programmable Matter with Self-reconfiguring Robots,” Daniela Rus, MIT. Refreshments at 3:45, Upson 4th Floor Atrium.

Wednesday, September 30
3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Geoengineering:  Is Counter-balancing Climate Change a Realistic Option,” Mike MacCracken, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Optical Nanoscopy: Breaking the Diffraction Limit,” Samuel T. Hess, University of Maine. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, G10 Biotech Bldg., “Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Discovery of Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Drug Delivery Systems and the Foundation of Tissue Engineering,” Robert S. Langer, MIT.  Refreshments  at 4:00, G10 Biotech Bldg.

Thursday, October 1
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Low Energy Dynamics of Spinor Condensates,” Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “The Mechanical Properties of Fibronectin Fibers Dictate Their Function,” Michael Smith, Boston University.  Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

Friday,  October 2
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “TBA,” Jane Wang, Cornell MAE. Refreshments following, 657 Rhodes.

3:30 PHILOSOPHY DISCUSSION CLUB, 142 Goldwin Smith, "The Structure of Classical Mechanics," Jill North, Yale University.

4:00 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS SEMINAR, G10 Biotechnology Building, “Dynamin-related GTPases and Membrane Remodeling,” Janet Shaw, University of Utah.