Previous Seminar Listings

Monday, January 22
4:00 SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Empirical Insights from a Physicist’s Year as a Grunt in Iraq,” Daniel Freedman, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

Tuesday, January 23
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Multidimensional Microscale Separation for Proteomics Affinity Separations in Polymeric Microfluidic Devices Coupling with Mass Spectrometry,” Seung-min Park, Cornell University  Please feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served. For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/technology_platform.htm.

4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Calibration and Portfolio Optimization Issues in Asset Price Modeling Driven by Levy Processes,” Jose E. Figuercoa-Lopez, UC at Santa Barbara.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SEMINAR, B11 Kimball Hall, “Ex Vivo Tissue Test Systems:  Expanding the Domain of Regenerative Medicine,” Karen J. L. Burg, Clemson University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

Wednesday, January 24
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Structures in the Gauge/Gravity Duality with N=1 Supersymmetry,” Girma Hailu, Cornell University.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Dynamics, Motion, and Reliability Issues of MEMS and Microsystems,” Mohammad I. Younis, Binghamton University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

Thursday, January 25
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Precision Cosmology using Water Vapor Megamasers,” Jim Braatz, NRAO.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Optoelectronic Devices Based on a Semiconducting Polymer Homojunction,” Janelle Leger, University of Washington.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

Friday, January 26
12:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Monte Carlo Methods for High Dimensional Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equations,” Jianfeng Zhang, University of Southern California.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Dynamics and Stability of Coupled Capillary-Surfaces:  Adhesion Inspired by Nature,” Paul H. Steen, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.