Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 23
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider, 1983-1993,” Michael Riordan, UC at Santa Cruz. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AREOSPACE ENGINEERING SEMINAR, B17 Upson Hall, “TBA,” Michael Sacks, University of Pittsburgh.  Refreshments at 4:10 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  ORGANIC / ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Controlled Radical Polymerization as a Tool for the Preparation of Nanomaterials,” Robert B. Grubbs, Dartmouth University.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, April 24
11:15 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  BAKER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Reactions at Solid Surfaces:  Dynamics of Gas/Surface Interactions,” Gerhard Ertl, Fritz Haber Institute.  Refreshments will be served.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “TBA,” Yang Liu, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B-17 Upson Hall, “The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems:  Universal Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities,” Dr. Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute.  Refreshments at 3:45 in the Upson Lounge.

4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Complete and Incomplete Financial Markets, Martingales, and Bubbles,” Philip Protter, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Quasicrystals – Some of Nature’s Most Intriguing Forms of Matter,” Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “TBA,” John Parker, James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 128 Olin Hall.

WEDNESDAY, April 25
4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, "Modeling Gene Expression in Yeast and Mammalian Cells," Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “A Plasticity Framework for Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics,” Alberto Salvadori, University of Brescia, Italy.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

THURSDAY, April 26
11:15 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  BAKER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Reactions at Solid Surfaces:  Electronic Excitations in Surface Reactions,” Gerhard Ertl, Fritz Haber Institute.  Refreshments will be served.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES PRESENT – THE MARYANNE SHELLEY JESSUP MACCONOCHIE COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “A Faster, Cheaper, Better Way of Classifying Meteorites – and Asteroids,” Guy Consalmagno, Fordham University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “TBA,” Boris Yakobson, Rice University.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

FRIDAY, April 27
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Factorization of Rational Polynomials,” Teresa Krick, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.