Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, October 26
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Increasing the Number of Physics Majors - How Do We Do It?” Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor, Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Engineered Strategies to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance in Solid Tumors,” Neil Forbes, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Refreshments at 3:45, 128 Olin.

Tuesday, October 27
4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Managing Customer Goodwill using Approximate Dynamic Programming,” Dan Adelman, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Refreshments at 3:45, 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “In situ Microscopy of an Atomic Mott Insulator,”  Nathan Gemelke, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago.  Refreshments at 4:15.

Wednesday, October 28
2:00  LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” David Shih, IAS.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 226 Weill Hall, “Explore Systems and Synthetic Biology Using Engineering Tools and Concepts,” Xiling Shen, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:45, outside 226 Weill Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “A Lipid's Hydrocarbon Chains Can Dictate Cholesterol's Location in Bilayers,” John Katsaras, Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council of Canada. Refreshments at 4:15.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Design of Femtosecond Pulse Sequences to Control Photochemical Reactions,” David Tannor, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Thursday, October 29
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Exoplanet Spectroscopy: A Bright Present, a Brilliant Future,” Mark Swain, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Refreshments at 3:45.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “How Did Pauli Miss It: A Fascinating New Formulation of Quantum Mechanics Based on Complex Trajectories,” David Tannor, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Friday,  October 30
12:30 LEPP SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Bret Underwood, McGill University.

1:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM, 205 Thurston Hall, “BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Robot - What's Done, What's Next?” Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamic. Refreshments at 2:30, 206 Thurston Hall.

2:00 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 1102 Bradfield Hall, “Evidence of Brewer-Dobson Circulation Changes in Last Three Decades:  Challenges to Modeling, Observations, and Our Understanding,” Qiang Fu, University of Washington.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 655 Rhodes Hall, “TBA,” Abe Stroock, Cornell University. Refreshments at 4:30, 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 PHYSICS DEPARTMENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTATIONS, 700 Clark Hall, Intended for Physics and other graduate students seeking graduate research assistantships in Physics. Refreshments provided.