Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, February 12
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Accelerator Science at the LHC Frontier,” Steve Peggs, Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

TUESDAY, February 13
11:00 SPECIAL LASSP SEMINAR, 309 Clark Hall, “Colloids as a Model System to Explore Complex Matter,” Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Optical Molecular Imaging – An Industrial Perspective,” Paul O. McLaughlin, Eastman Kodak Co.  A lunch for NBTC students and postdocs will follow. For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/technology_platform.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Some Issues in the Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows,” Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “CMB Beyond the Acoustic Peaks,” Chao-Lin Kuo, California Institute of Technology.    Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Turbulent Jets in Crossflow,” Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota.  Refreshments at 1:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, February 14
12:15 CAPES SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Research Positions at the U.S. National Laboratories,” Debra Rolison, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.  Pizza at Noon.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Potentials of String Theory,” Johannes Walcher, Institute for Advanced Study.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “High and Low Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins:  Studies of Structure and Enzymatic Reactivity,” Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Miniscule Forces of No Little Importance,” Gerrit Huber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

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

THURSDAY, February 15
12:15 CNS SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Chirality-Resolved Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes,” Mark Hersam, Northwestern University.  Pizza at Noon.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity,” Scott Dodelson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconducting and Metallic Nanostructures,” Feng Wang, UC at Berkeley.     Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Controlling Nanoscale Structure in Functional Polymers,” Rachel Segalman, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Model Organisms, Small GT Pases and Biology 2.0,” Ruth Collins, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, February 16
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “MathWorld:  Communicating Mathematics on the Internet,” Eric Weisstein, Wolfram Research, Inc.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.