Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, October 19
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster than a Classical Computer,” Edward Farhi, MIT Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Systems (Engineering) Medicine: Advancing Treatment for Cancer and Inflammation,” Robert S. Parker, University of Pittsburgh. Refreshments at 3:45, 128 Olin.

Tuesday, October 20
4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Map Matching for Better Ambulance Simulation and Re-Deployment with Siren,” Andrew Mason, University of Auckland. Refreshments at 3:45, 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 S&TS SEMINAR, 122 Rockefeller Hall, “When the Lights Went Out: A Cultural History of American Blackouts,” David Nye, University of Denmark.

Wednesday, October 21
2:00 LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “The Higgs in Non-Minimal Gauge Mediation,” John Mason, Harvard

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Earthquakes, Fluids and Strain Rate - Comparing Earthquakes From Diverse Tectonic Settings,” Rachel Abercrombie, Boston University.  Refreshments at 3:00, Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “The Role of GTPase-Dependent Membrane Coat Complexes in Vesicle Biogenesis and Regulated Protein Trafficking,” Chris Fromme, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CO-SPONSORED WITH WEILL INSTITUTE FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 226 Weill Hall, “Linking Quantitative Changes in PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling to Cell Fate Decisions,” John Albeck, Harvard Medical School. Refreshments at 4:00, outside 226 Weill Hall.

Thursday, October 22
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Magnetospheres Slacking Off: Accretion Through Instabilities,” Akshay Kulkarni, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Extracting Photogenerated Charges from Quantum-Confined Nanocrystals,” Tobias Hanrath, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:00, MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Quantum-Classical Correspondence of Response Functions,” Jianshu Cao, MIT.

Friday,  October 23
1:00 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Interpreting Seismic Anisotropy Direction Using High Resolution 3D Numerical Models of Subduction Zones,” Magali Billen, University of California at Santa Barbara.

1:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “iRobot Research and the Future of Robotic Systems,” Chris Jones, iRobot. Refreshments at 2:30, 206 Thurston Hall.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Quadrilateral Grids and Finite Volume Methods on the Sphere,” Randy LeVeque, University of Washington. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.