Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, October 5
3:30  THE ANNUAL ROBERT L. HARRIS JUNIOR ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE LECTURE, 700 Clark Hall, "Gender Stereotypes: Negative Effects on Women's Career Progress," Madeline E. Heilman, New York University. Reception at 5:30.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Open Access: From Myth to Paradox,” Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:30 S&TS SEMINAR, 374 Rockefeller Hall, “Old and  New Net Wars Over Free Speech, Freedom and Secrecy or How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz Battle Against the Church of Scientology,” Gabriella Coleman,  New York University.

Tuesday, October 6
4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Constrained Factor Models: Parsimonious Estimation for Conditional Covariance Matrices and the Yield Curve,” David Matteson, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:45,  258 Rhodes Hall.

Wednesday, October 7
3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Seafloor Plumbing at the East Pacific Rise Inferred from Microearthquakes,” Maya Tolstoy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.  Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Theory of Microtubule Depolymerization by the Kinesin-8 Kip3p,” Meredith D. Betterton, University of Colorado at Boulder. Refreshments at 4:15.

Thursday, October 8
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences, “Asymmetric Explosion of Core Collapse Supernovae,” Thierry Foglizzo, CEA France.  Refreshments at 3:45.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Towards Broadband Plasmonics: Tuning Dispersion in Plasmonic Crystals,” Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University.  Refreshments at 4:00,  MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Bridged Advances in Olefin Block Copolymers: From Polydispersity Effects on Phase Behavior to Photonic Polyethylenes,” Phil Hustad, The Dow Chemical Company.

Friday,  October 9
1:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Leigh Phoenix, Cornell University. Refreshments at 2:30, 206 Thurston Hall.