Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, February 26
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,” Carl M. Bender, Washington University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “C02 Mineral Sequestration and Particle Charge Effects in Carbon Energy Conversion Systems,” Alissa Ah-Hyung Park, Koffolt Laboratories.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  LAUGHLIN LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Nucleation of Crystalline Phases:  The Long Shadow of Ostwald, Gibbs and Van der Waals,” Daan Frenkel, University of Amsterdam.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, February 27
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Characterization of Movement and Biofilm Formation of the Bacterial Plant Pathogen Xylella Fastidiosa using Microfluidic Chambers,” Leonardo De La Fuente, Cornell University. For more information view:  http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/seminar_series.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Microfluidic Control in Tissue Engineering,” Nak Won Choi, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Holographic Optical Tweezers, Reaching into the Microscopic World,” Dr. Yael Roichman, New York University.    Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “TBA”.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  LAUGHLIN LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Nucleation of Crystalline Phases:  Can We Control It?” Daan Frenkel, University of Amsterdam.  Refreshments will be served.

WEDNESDAY, February 28
12:15 CAPES SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Leading a Life of Research in a U.S. Governmental (and Military) Laboratory,” Dr. Debra Rolison, U.S. Navel Research Laboratory.

12:15 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Nuh Gedik, California Institute of Technology.

12:15 SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 231 Phillips Hall, “The Limits of CMOS Scaling from a Power-Constrained Technology Optimization Perspective,” David Frank, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.  Refreshments will be served.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Dejan Stojkovic, Case Western Reserve University.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Alzheimer’s Disease and Multiphoton Microscopy,” Bradley T. Hyman, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Discovering the Dynamics of Mammalian Timekeeping,” Daniel Forger, University of Michigan.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

4:30 HENRI SACK MEMORIAL LECTURE, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, "The Art of Light-Based Precision Measurement, Dr. Jun Ye, JILA/University of Colorado. 

THURSDAY, March 1
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Four Short Stories About Accreting Black Holes,” David Rothstein, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Ferroelectric Memory Materials for 130nm 4Mb Non-Volatile Embedded Memory,” Scott Summerfelt, Texas Instruments.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Towards the Improvement of Bone:  Exploration of Bone Cell Mechanotransduction and Intercellular Interactions,” Dr. Erica Takai, Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, National Institute of Health.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “TBA,” Michael Green, Penn State University.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, March 2
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Matthew Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Creating a New Medical Diagnostic Tool by Imaging Shear Stiffness in Tissue,
 Joyce McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.