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PHYSICS AND RELATED FIELDS
Cornell University

Bulletin No. 16: January 29 to February 2

MONDAY, January 29
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – KIEVAL LECTURE, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Searching for Warped Geometry at the LHC,” Lisa Randall, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  SPECIAL SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Engineering E. Coli for Production of an Effective Anti-Malarial Drug,” Michelle C.Y. Chang, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, January 30
4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Interacting Brownian Motions and the Distribution of Equity Capital,” Soumik Pal, Cornell University.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes Hall.

WEDNESDAY, January 31
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Allan Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “The Arms Race in the Fossil Record:  Effects of a Regional Extinction Event on the Escalation of Predator-Prey Interaction,” Greg Dietl, The Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY.  Refreshments at 3:15 in the Snee Hall Reading Room

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “What the Diffusion Equation Doesn’t Tell You:  The Small-Numbers Problem,” Ken Dill, UC at San Francisco.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Foam Rheology,” Isabelle Cantat, University of Rennes, France.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  CBI SEMINAR SERIES, 119 Baker Lab., “TBA.”  Refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, February 1
4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “High Energy Physics with Ultracold Atoms and Molecules:  Tabletop Searches for CP Violation and Extra Dimensions,” Dr. Aaron Leanhardt, University of Colorado.  Refreshments at 4:15.

FRIDAY, February 2
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “The Immune System – A Theoretician’s View,” Ramit Mehr, Bar-llan University, Israel & Karolinska Inst., Sweden.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

Submissions can be made via-email to hmd37@cornell.edu
Department of Physics 117 Clark Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-2501