Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, February 19
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “New Era in UHE AstroParticle Physics,” Angela Olinto, University of Chicago and APC.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Fabrication of Polymeric Nanostructures by Template-Assisted Methods and Self-Assembly,” Margarita Herrera-Alonso, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “Achieving Sustainable Energy – Connecting Goals to Research Across Scales and Disciplines,” Jeff Tester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 4:15 outside of 255 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  ORGANIC / ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “TBA,” Stephen Craig, Duke University.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, February 20
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Looking at Metalloproteins on a Single-Molecule Basis,” Peng Chen, Cornell University. For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/technology_platform.htm.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Single Molecule Dynamics in Cell Division,” Daniel Needleman, Harvard University.    Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Junctional Regulation of Cell Mechanics,” Dr. Hayden Huang, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Affiliate of Harvard Medical School.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation,” John A. White, Boston University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 128 Olin Hall.

WEDNESDAY, February 21
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Do Quantum Excitations of the Inflaton Decay?”  Christian Armendariz-Picon, Syracuse University.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “ Obtaining Reaction Coordinates by Likelihood Maximization,” Baron G. Peters, Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire – ENS – Lyon.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Probing Carbohydrate Structure ON and OFF Bacteria,” Daron I. Freedberg, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Towards a Generative Model of Animal Locomotion,” Zoran Popovic, University of Michigan.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

THURSDAY, February 22
12:15 CNS SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Cold Molecules – The New Frontier in the Ultracold World,” Jun Ye, JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Pizza at Noon.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Studying Galaxy Formation with the Hubble, Spitzer and James Webb Space Telescopes,” Jonathan Gardner, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Numbers Matter:  From “Cloning” Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Massively Parallel Dip-Pen Nanolithography,” Dr. Yuhuang Wang, Northwestern University.  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., “Optically-Polarized NMR of GaAs:  A Probe of Electronic Properties by 69Ga and 71Ga Spins,” Sophia Hayes, Washington University.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, February 23

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