Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, March 26
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Superfluid Weak Links:  Physics and Applications,” Richard Packard, UC at Berkeley. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Synthetic Gene Circuits:  Design with Directed Evolution,” Eric Haseltine, California Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

TUESDAY, March 27
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Electrospun  Nanofibers  for  Bio-Applications:  From  Cellulose  Hydrolysis  to  Biofuel Cells,” Yong L. Joo, Cornell University. For more information view: http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/seminar_series.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Study of Vibrating Nanowires and Nanofiber Filters Using a Modified Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) Method,” Shriram Ramanathan, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SPECIAL SEMINAR, B14 Hollister Hall, “Energy Beyond Oil,” Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.  Refreshments at 4:00 outside B14 Hollister Hall.

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

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Deborah E. Leckband, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 128 Olin Hall.

WEDNESDAY, March 28
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Kaustubh Agashe, Syracuse University.

3:30 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Vertebrate Paleontology in the Mid Cretacaous of Montana:  Digging the Dinosaur that Lived to Dig,” David Varricchio, Montana State University.  Refreshments at 3:15 in the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Using Stereochemistry to Control Structure and Rheology:  Teaching Old Biomaterials New Tricks,” Surita R. Bhatia, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Actin’ Pushy and Pulling Springs:  Two Forms of Biological Motion,” Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

THURSDAY, March 29
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, “Small Moons Around Pluto-Charon and The Primordial Kuiper Belt,” Yanqin Wu, University of Toronto.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

FRIDAY, March 30
2:00 OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA – CORNELL STUDENT CHAPTER, 119 Baker Lab., “Optics and Magic,” Robert Fischer, Optics 1, Inc.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “High Performance Experimental Mathematics,” Jonathan M. Borwein, Dalhousie University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.