Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 2
12:00 VLSI SEMINAR, Phillips Hall Lounge, “Radio Frequency Nonlinear Dynamical Circuits with Applications in Beam-Forming and Multi-Function Integrated Communication Systems,” Hossein Hashemi, University of Southern California.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – 2007 SALPETER LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Past, Present and Future of Methane of Titan,” Jonathan Lunine, University of Arizona. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  ORGANIC / ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Synthesis of Carbohydrate Immunostimulants and Bioactive Alkaloids,” David Gin, University of Illinois.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, April 3
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Multi-scale Approaches to Skeletal Tissue Engineering,” Lawrence Bonassar, Cornell University. For more information view: http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/seminar_series.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Turbulent Plumes and Jets with Time Dependent Sources,” Matthew M. Scase, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Meera Parish, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Engineering New Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease via Optimal Design and Physiologic Simulation,” Alison Marsden, Stanford University  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  WENTINK SYMPOSIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Talks will be given by Award Winners,” Ji Feng, Jing Jin, Seppe Kuehn, and Scott Warren, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Endothelial Cell Smooth Muscle Cell Interactions In Vitro and Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels,” George A. Truskey, Duke University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 128 Olin Hall.

WEDNESDAY, April 4
3:30 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Forearc Deformation along Erosive Convergent Margins:  Central America and Japan,” Don Fisher, Penn State University.  Refreshments at 3:15 in the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Dynamics of Lipid Bilayers,” Richard Pastor, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM – 2007 SALPETER LECTURE SERIES, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Origin of Earth’s Water from New Dynamical Simulations,” Jonathan Lunine, University of Arizona.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Mechanisms of Gating of Mechanosensitive Channels of Large Conductance (MscL),” Xi Chen, Columbia University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  CBI SEMINAR SERIES, 119 Baker Lab., “Crystal Structure of a Sulfur Carrying Protein Complex Found in the Cysteine Biosynthetic Pathway of Mycobacterium Turberculosis,” Chris Jurgenson, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, April 5
12:15 CNS SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Nanowire Building Blocks for Photonics & Electronics,” Peidong Yang, UC at Berkeley.  Pizza at Noon.

FRIDAY, April 6
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Semidefinite Optimization with Applications in Sparse Multivariate Statistics,” Alexandre d’Aspremont, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.